theFlu
Hunter
That sounds awesome, keep it up!
And A1C, well it's basically a three-month average - so three days won't fix it, but if you stick to those levels for three months ...
How far have you gone this playthrough?
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And A1C, well it's basically a three-month average - so three days won't fix it, but if you stick to those levels for three months ...
WarMongerian
Scavenger
My doc said it was a 6 month average, and that mine was 11. My blood sugars have been down since at least Monday, April 27th. When I went back to the ER, it was 105 in the ambulance, 80 later that night, and in the morning, after a turkey sandwich, it went back up to 93.That sounds awesome, keep it up!
And A1C, well it's basically a three-month average - so three days won't fix it, but if you stick to those levels for three months ...
I don't expect a miracle, but I do look forward to the first of many A1C readings that will get down lower and lower, till I bottom out at a sane level.
When I think about all the warnings I ignored...
I'm just glad I have a chance to get better.
WarMongerian
Scavenger
From my latest HN, a demonstration of my bad aim, lol.
3 zombies are closing in, and there is one yellow loot bag on the ground.
I swing and miss, or rather, I jab and miss, but...
I managed to miss the Jerry's Kid I was aiming at, but killed the Fast Attack Grandma right behind him, got a second yellow loot bag, and the Died Without a Name fat chick is still inbound.
3 zombies are closing in, and there is one yellow loot bag on the ground.
I swing and miss, or rather, I jab and miss, but...
I managed to miss the Jerry's Kid I was aiming at, but killed the Fast Attack Grandma right behind him, got a second yellow loot bag, and the Died Without a Name fat chick is still inbound.
theFlu
Hunter
Heh, you nerd sniped* me ... did some "maths". Starting with an 11, spending14 days at about 100, =>
- A1C-90-day-avg predicts 10.08,
- A1C-180-day-avg predicts 10.54
No idea how accurate the measurements are in practice, the difference between 10 and 10.5 is 5%..
But let's root for a 10.5 at most!
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Nerd Sniping
When I went to the ER back in October (lost all my toes on my left foot), my A1C was 12.4. When I had it checked about 6 weeks ago, it was down to 5.7, so it's certainly possible to get it down. Just keep on top of your insulin and what you eat. I know it can be difficult. bit it's definitely worth it. Lord knows I feel much better now than I used to.
Good luck!
WarMongerian
Scavenger
Gangrene! I hope they got it all, and in a couple months, I hope to be back up and around.
yup, gangrene and sepsis. It wasn't pretty, but I seem to be all better now. A bit annoyed I need to always wear shoes in order to walk, but other than that I'm pretty much better than I was before.
WarMongerian
Scavenger
I hope all continues to go well for you!
I thought that I had a particularly stubborn, long lasting blister.
It wasn't.
It's good to hear from folks that have also suffered amputations, and are once again leading lives without re-infection. I'm due to get my A1C checked on the 19th, but that's still just 1 month after, so I don't expect that it will have gone down by much, November's numbers are where I'm looking for it to really change.
Crosses fingers.
Thanks!
Yeah, I had a wound on my foot that was just taking months to heal, all of a sudden it started oozing, then I got sick (thought it was just a flu or something, was vomiting every time I changed position), then I spent a night on the bathroom floor because I was too weak to move, then had an ambulance come for me.
The doctor only took my big toe at first, hoping to save my other toes, but when I had a checkup a couple days before I was supposed to go home from the skilled nursing facility, she sent me back to the hospital and took the rest of the toes (which had all gotten broken somehow, and had infection in the bone.)
Given that A1C is an average over a period of time, it'll definitely take a few months before it really gets down. But it definitely can be done.
Good luck to you!
bobrpggamer
Survivor
You can count me too. Mine was a blood clot in my right leg around about my knee area, and then to my right foot, got stuck and a few days later I have only 1 foot.
I choose to look at it like this: Well why couldn't it have been my left foot so I could drive a normal car. Well then there are guys with above knee amputations (which is much worse than below knee believe me). Then there's the guys who lost both feet, and then guys who have both above knee amputations.
I always know there are lots of guys out there who have it worse than me. Which keeps me somewhat humble at times when my prosthesis gets on my nerves, or when I get phantom pain, or when I remember if I get a new car I have to have a left foot gas pedal adapter. Then again, why DID it have to be my RIGHT foot!
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WarMongerian
Scavenger
Mine was the right foot as well, but just the outer two toes (so far, at least), but at least you can still drive, so there is that. How well can you get around? Can you shop and get to doctors appointments and such?
I hope you are doing well.
murky water
Refugee
i have ulner nerve damage and super twitchy fingers so i have lots of trouble with reloading too, i know it might not help but just in case it could keeping a loaded duplicate gun has been useful whenever i've remembered to do it. gives me a little bit of "space" if my hands can't do the function of a reload fast enoughYeah, I'd like to make something clear.
My eyes are bad, nothing new there, right. I have problems with depth perception, and so can often 'miss' a zombie because they are actually too far away.
Let's talk about the hands and fingers. I have arthritis, my fingers, on both hands, are stiff and hard to work with, when if flares up.
Of my 4 strokes, 3 destroyed brain cells that were being used to control my fingers' movements, as well as brain cells that control my speech centers.
I have neuropathy, which makes my fingers numb, on top of being stiff and twitchy.
My right hand is my best hand, and if my eyes worked a bit better, I could probably miss less often.
My left hand, is not so good. I cannot always go forward/back, because my finger slips off the key. I cannot sidestep at all. I can mostly (NOT all the time) avoid hitting the darn windows key when trying to run, but not uncommonly, I crouch down instead of running, so there is that.
If i had to fumble around trying to reload/unjam a firearm, I would most likely end up unarmed in the middle of a zombie pack, and probably not be able to find the "W" key quickly, and end up dying.
I try not to dwell on what I cannot physically do anymore, and hope this puts paid to folks thinking I'm "just being stubborn", and not taking their well intentioned advice to try exceeding my physical limitations.
Anyway, I got through my 3rd Horde Night in a row last night, and managed to net 2 red loot bags.
as for slippy keys you might ask your brother to get you some textured stickers(nail stickers often have a texture to them) and have him stick them to the keys that are the worst. it helps to slow the slip if there is traction(though if you are a hunt n' peck typer like i am you want them to be semi-clear so you can still see the writing on the keys XD )
WarMongerian
Scavenger
Sorry to hear that. Strage, we both have problems, and we both like Mt Dew.
I won't even try it during Horde Night, LOL. Last time I played, I had to have my Magic Jack on (I was playing during the business day), and the first two times I suddenly couldn't move, my curser had moved to the wrong monitor. Never, ever, again, LOL. It wasn't until i almost died that second time, that I actually figured out what the problem was.
That sounds like a good idea, hopefully it works for you.
I don't actually have slippery keys, it's my fingers that are to blame, but maybe there is something to marking, in a tactile way, which keys are important. visually, I have an illuminated keyboard, and cannot read the keys at all, and have to go by muscle memory.
Not great, but mostly worls.
murky water
Refugee
lololol i would not go so far as to say "like" mountain dew so much as it has haunted my life like a spectre with gps x'''D
i know it isnt the keys that are slippery, it is the motion of the hand that does it. that is why it can't be a smooth sticker because it has to "grip the tip" so to speak and reduce the speed of the slippage so you can better recover
here is the (admittedly old and a bit natty) one i use on the right side of my spacebar for when my finger goes "out of bounds" it is raised enough that once the finger hits it there is automatic slow-down and i often can get control back before i reach the alt key(unless multiple fingers go then i am just sliding right to that numpad and shooting the nearest cactus)
bobrpggamer
Survivor
Surprisingly it has become second nature using a left foot gas pedal. Its just that I have had that left foot gas pedal since 2007 and I had it installed, so If I get another car I will have to use a portable left foot gas pedal and I am afraid of doing that because I have gotten used to the one I have now. So I will drive the truck I have now until it stops working or explodes.
When I had my first car, around 1987 I would drive around like a an imbecile, going 90 mile an hour just for the heck of it. Since I had my truck in 2007, I drive like a person with a brain. Amazing what 6 1/2 years of being locked up in a state hospital will do for you.
How I learned how to drive is kind of funny. Me and a guy were driving somewhere and he stopped and said "drive the rest of the way". I was like "I don't know how to drive" and he said "drive anyway #$#$%@". So I proceeded to drive the rest of the way somehow (I do not remember how I did it). His car was really old and it would stall if you stopped, so I had to put it in neutral and keep giving it gas at a stoplight.
One day me and another guy were borrowing the car and it started smoking under the hood, so we opened the hood to have a look and the carburetor was flaming. So the guy I was with (who may have been even dumber than me) decided to put dirt from the side of the road into the carburetor to stop the fire. I still member the look on my friends face while he was in the apartment trying to fix the carburetor that we destroyed.
Wait, wasn't this forum about 7 Days to Die?
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WarMongerian
Scavenger
For comparison, my last functional car quit working back in 2007, lol. I still drove, but as a cab driver.
bobrpggamer
Survivor
I drove a cab to for about 6 months back in 1990. I have to tell you, since 1985 when I turned 18 and got out of the group homes, until about 1994, I do not know if I really owned a brain or I was under some state of psychosis, because the way I lived was beyond brainless. This is an actual fact, I may have been lobotomized back then and they did not tell me.
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