Sars Cov 2 … the grinder continues to eat away at resources and humanity.

Riff, sorry I missed your question back there.

Yes, when my sugar drops, I DO get very shaky and off balance. You know what to do, right? Drink something sugar like a soda or OJ, or eat a LITTLE BIT of candy. Wait at least 15 minutes and retest. I always forget and eat that 1 piece too much.


ETA: I can get very sleepy after a meal. Doesn't always happen, but enough times.

One of my docs, a couple of years ago, told me to "Eat to live. Don't live to eat." Kind of hard to do sometimes. I used to love to cook new things. Now, not as much. I'm learning still.

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wave 4???? i am amazed at the wave counts everywhere. seem to b different from 1 place to another.

locally we went thru wave 1. 1 county to my west gave age breakdowns of those infected. those ages gave reason to belive we were on edge of going to wave 2. the wave 1 shown on any charts was induced by the governor with nursing homes. that wave never made it out into the public.

this is what bothers me with the sudden drop in case #'s. it too happened everywhere at the same time. that is not realistic. as i pointed out,we are all in diffe3rent levels of protection adn waves. as much as they try to say the whole world is connected,it is not. we are all different,acting different,and have different rules.

this virus defies logic. which leaves us with 2 answeres. less someone has a better 1 to add.

1> it is a hoax and the entire world is in on it. the only big news in the whole world i have is we changed presidents so #'s fell. no,i am not saying i believe that yet.

2> all thw world changed testing and reporting so #'s went down at the same time. this is a problem. if all countries are in on it see #1.

there is no way,convince me if u can plz, that this virus with all its mutations stopped infecting ppl everywhere at the same time as much as before. the odds is like it being 80 degrees everywhere at the same time of day. including Alaska and Brazil. BS

It is disturbing. My sister who is not a diabetic is having issues with acute hypoglycemia. An hour and a half after eating her blood glucose drops sometimes into the 40's with elevated heart rate, diaphoresis, weakness and shaking. Last week she had episodes of chest pain. She has been exposed to Covid twice in the last two months but has tested negative. She has an appointment with an endocrinologist in late March.

I have her taking Quercetin, zinc and D3, I couldn't get her on board to do a telemedicine appointment for Ivermectin. (We are both nurses. I am on the more natural end and she is a pure pharma girl.)

Yes, Raffette knows exactly what's going on and what to do when I say "I need sugar." Like I said, that used to be only once or twice a year.

Regarding stress, you probably all remember I was under considerable emotional and mental stress at my old job when the pandemic started because they somehow got themselves declared an "essential company" (I never knew that building swimming pools had such strategic value) and continued to send construction crews all over the country, including hot zones like NYC. This was the same time I began experiencing my sugar problems. I have been in some pretty bad situations in my life, but my stress level has never reached the levels it did with that company.

That stress is gone now, which makes me wonder if I should just maintain my dietary changes and start dialing back on the Metformin a little bit.

I would talk to your doc about the Metformin. I don't know your dosage and that's ok. Maybe he can prescribe a lower dosage. This is TOO important to your long term health to play with on your own. Stick with your diet, though. It's really hard to get back into the habit once you've eased up.

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CG, I know. All you can do is your best. Can't ask more than that and EVERYONE fails at one point or another. EVERYONE. Love you little bro. Because and in spite of!

Take care of yourself Sis

Tryin' darlin'. Just need some good old fashioned doctorin'. Not sure it's done any more. Docs don't seem to want to talk. Maybe they're just overworked these days? Idk.

Well, to be honest, probably 75% of my sugar intake was soda. I switched to Coke Zero Cherry and A&W Diet Root Beer because those two drinks do not taste like diet. I also increased my protein intake, which is just fine with me, since I'm a true carnivore.

I cut my A1C from 12 to 6 in just two weeks. I need to get another blood test and see how that's going.

WOW! That's really good! Vernor's Diet Ginger Ale is good, too.

I had to cut back on protein after the kidney fail. They couldn't process well. I really miss beef! Especially Rib Eye Steak.

Get another A1C, if it's time. You may not need Metformin anymore, with your diet changes. I was on insulin after the kidney fail because of the antibiotics I had to take. Can never take Metformin again. After about a month, I didn't need the insulin anymore. That last until last year. Pretty sure I was never positive, so I have no idea what the trigger is this time. GGGRRR!!

A bit of several issues. I would send you to mine because he caught me at my lowest when I was in tears because it felt like no one was listening.

He didn’t judge me. He listened for an hour the first day and I went back, two weeks later.... he had a list of steps that we were going to do:

Together!

My silly art is still on his bookshelf.... he showed little man, at the last telehealth appt.... it is beyond amazing what one good doctor can do for your health and your peace of mind.

I love me some weekend numbers....

Iowa

382 confirmed cases in past 24 hours

And a smidge increase of hospitalizations.

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I really think he's overworked, overstressed, over.....
from covid. He's just outside of Detroit, so they've been overwhelmed. It seems better the last 2 times we've been, but don't know. All of his patients and the staff we've talked to all but worship the guy. I don't know why we're different. Maybe it was just end of day stuff? Dunno.

Little Man Report.....

Well it was bath day for both littles. So everyone is clean. And we had junk food for lunch.... cheesey poofs with an Old Wisconsin beef stick.

He is currently reading his new Highlights STEAM workbook 1st grade. And asked for two of his second grade workbooks...the next time that I get up.

Yesterday.....We decorated for St. Patrick’s Day (I am second generation off the boat) and Easter. Including all the ridiculously cute window clings.

And I am getting the mommy jitters because my little guy starts 2nd grade.... in just one more month. Ahhhhhhhh.

Dogdog is currently pouting from her Wingback princess chair .... at her current smell level of damp dog.

Much love, CG.

TB....

ACK....Detroit Metro.... yeah, that dude has seen some shit this year.

I know. Even though he's on the south side. The clinic had to open a separate side for covid patients and brought in an infectious disease specialist one or two days a week last year.

Poor guy.

When we first started going there, they were starting to build it into a really nice, large clinic. Then covid hit. Seems some of the plans have been put on hold. I DO feel bad for him, but sheesh.

Well, I DO feel awful for y’all, too.

This sucks all around.

hey guys, what do you know?

we have this marvelous path out of lockdown and all is going to be over by June 21st.

And then tonight dah-dum - the've discovered a new variant which spreads ultra quickly and is virtually immune to vaccines.

In other news I've had a message from a guy I dated 40 years ago.LOL.He's sorry we lost touch.

That’s a roller coaster.......

I wonder if the poor guy recently lost some folks.... lost connections are felt more intensely.

Hope the rest of your day was at least pleasant.

TB, hope you feel really well soon.

I don't know, it seems like there have been one too many variants that are ten times more transmissible.

The original mutation that happened sometime around the first Italy outbreak was supposedly 10 times more transmissible.

Then the UK variant was 10x more transmissible.

Now another one that's 10x more transmissible?

Yet, it seems the R number remains about the same. Shouldn't it be R1000 by now?

I don't think those are cumulative, just compared to the original...

But that would mean that all the variants after Wuhan are the same amount of transmissible despite scary headlines.

Which is kinda what I suspected all along.

It’s really a clusterfuck of weirdness. But yah.... Riff summed up the transmission statements better, but they still aren’t catching all the cases.

:)

But that has been the point since the beginning.... after reading all the modeling research plus the the anecdotes from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo.....

Most models agree.... the US is between 30% to 40% infected. That doesn’t account for reinfections.

Why The Pandemic Is 10 Times Worse Than You Think


Less than 50%

The model has not been published or peer-reviewed yet, but lead researcher, Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University, shared the data exclusively with NPR. Here are more of the startling takeaways.

One-third of the U.S. population has already been infected.

The sustained periods of high transmission in the U.S. also mean that by now, quite a large share of the U.S. population has been infected beyond what the tallies of reported cases would indicate. Nationwide, Shaman estimates that about 120 million people have now been infected, just over a third of the U.S. population.

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“This method that Voth has developed will allow us and others to simulate over the longer time scales that are needed to actually simulate the virus infecting a cell.” Pretty cool!

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Stairs are a lot easier with properly adjusted crutches. I actually found it easiest using just one crutch on the same side as the twisted knee (I found some videos saying different--ignored them).

That has been happening to me too. Four posts never posted.

Have they named this variant yet?