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Again let me speak as if I knew something. Most Type 1 diabetics find that they get their blood sugar "under control" and have good results for the first several years after diagnosis (the "honeymoon period") and then a couple years later they suddenly find that the stuff they were doing before no longer keeps their blood sugar under control. I had this happen too and am still dealing with it. They think the "honeymoon period" is when there's still some residual insulin production happening in the pancreas that supplements the initial basal insuling your doctor is prescribing, and when the period ends you usually have to dramatically increase your basal insulin. Your doctor needs to prescribe a great deal more insulin. You should never "go without"--you need the basal insulin to live. I still think there's hope for you!

kutulu I would totally bend you over man. I'm serious.

Hey Toadsprocket. I think you should probably get a lawyer.

I changed my mind. The point of the board is love.

When I first came down with diabetes my blood sugar was 662. It's been up in the 400's a couple times since then. Do you wear an insulin pump? The "therapy" for high blood sugar is basically just a huge shot of insulin right away, and then you check your blood sugar every hour or so to make sure it's working, and give yourself more insulin if it isn't coming down. Having blood sugar that high is not a good thing at all, and over the long term you're going to start seeing complications quicker than you normally would, but I don't think you're going to die from blood sugar at 500, unless you actually kill yourself by driving or operating heavy machinery or shooting yourself in the head with a gun.

I think the point of the board is to have some fun!

But I love you.

Yes I would agree the American health care system is totally so simple that we can identify, measure and correct the "problems" with it through the sharing of anecdotes!

That's just a list of fast food places with a brief synopsis of your opinions about them.

Beyonce, Halo Remember those walls I built? Baby they're tumblin down They didn't even put up a fight They didn't even make a sound

I was at the Dolphins-Chargers 41-38 playoff game in the Orange Bowl in 1982 (the Kellen Winslow game).

Hi Jerry! So, how's life?

This joke is baaaaaaaaa-d!

Left the law firm a year ago and went in-house at a hospital. So my self-definition improved a great deal since in theory I'm now saving lives instead of just billing big companies for my time. Not as fun as hunting dead sharks but then again what is. Hope all's well with you and yours.

We're defined by what we do. If we spend two-thirds of our waking hours at our jobs, then obviously as a matter of simple math our jobs are a major part of what defines us. It's natural to want to think otherwise, but that's crap.

But I really thought it was funny, what you said.

I will turn you on with my smile! You have a boner now.

That's right jerryskids, because you probably work at a fast food restaurant!

I'm so happy for you!

I like saying "it is what it is" because it helps people who are inclined to wish or believe that it's something else.

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH!@ pf chang's is good. it's not their fault that you're stupid. i like their spare ribs with the spice rub so much i could eat some of them right now.

the point of a multi-payer system is so that risk can be spread and payers can compete on efficiency in managing costs and care and reward the providers who do the best job of working within that system. a single-payer system eliminates the incentive to manage costs (to illustrate, the government pays whatever it wants under Medicare/Medicaid, doesn't have to negotiate, and therefore Medicare and Medicaid rates tend not to cover even the most efficient providers' actual costs) and takes away any ability that providers have to ensure that costs and payments are tied to the actual needs of the populations they serve. the argument over administrative waste from multiple payers and billing systems is overblown. billing systems are largely standardized across payers (with the only differences being the rates payers pay for various services) and dictated by Medicare. i would agree that insurance companies are so powerful that their profit margins could be part of the overall cost crisis in healthcare.

Great post Bert. The question shouldn't be "do we want universal health care?" the question should be "how much health care do we want to guarantee to everyone, given that the more we guarantee the more it will cost in money, quality and access for everyone?"

Again, the smoke monster is a manifestation of the island's ability to "correct" anything that happens on the island that may affect or shift the functioning of time outside of the island. Daniel Faraday: You can't change the future. So, if the island is a force field within which people can shift their consciousness through time, there has to be a countervailing force that ensures that the future doesn't change. That countervailing force is the smoke monster. QED

I had it done 5 years ago, and 4 years later had to go back to wearing glasses. It was fun while it lasted because my eyes are devastating and make me irresistible to women, and men.