This mold was made and then broken years ago by Ultima Online. And it's been done and re-done since. Gamers don't like seeing their own faults so glaringly. They want it to be easy.... so they've made it easy, and as we all know. That's boring.
I played that game a little toooo much:) In the early years I enjoyed every aspect of it. Once things started going Item-based though, it kind of ruined it for me. And there is always the Fel vs. Tram debate.
I did the house camping thing, the tamer/bard thing, the warrior thing, the craftsman thing, the thief thing (forEVER) and even a little treasure hunting/lockpicking for a while. Only pure class I never played was a mage. In fact, most of my thieves used scrolls to recall everywhere. I still remember carrying a single rune (to the BANK, not your house newb!!!) and a single stack of 11-25 recall scrolls to get around.:) You only get your house robbed once before you learn, luckily I learned early!:)
Crazy Joe & Co. were a great inspiration to us thieves! There was another lady who was a famous looter, can't remember her name though. She was a tamer, name started with a B... dangit, gonna have to go dig up all my old links again!:)
I had the priveledge of watching him (CJ) work over a tamer once while cross-sharding with a buddy of mine. And he really was like that, (this time at least), not just cheesing it up for the "camera" so-to-speak.:)
Hmmmmm. I wonder if the uo.stratics boards are still alive and kicking... hehe
UO it is for me as well. I played this game for 4 years and have many many fond memories and friends from it to this day.
The first time our guild survived the Lich Room in Deceit (with most of our stuff too!) The first time we took a dragon with only 3 dexxers cross healing. The first time I tamed a dragon. My first Fight Night in Oasis... wow.
But by far were the moments playing my thief. I still remember stealing my first item. An agility potion outside of the bank in Vesper. There is nothing that compares with the fear of player vs. player reprisal!:) And the first time I placed a Tower!!! Holy crap, I almost broke my computer desk when that Tower solidified in front of me and died laughing (literally) when the other angry campers all converged on me in frustration!:)
Man, that was the greatest game ever made. Sonoma for life!
The last time I went to the endo, he told me to eat the same exact thing for each meal for two weeks and test my blood sugar 8 times a day. Send him those results and he'd set up a perfect care plan for me.... So I did it. That was 6 months ago. Still haven't heard from him. I honestly don't believe he expected me to follow through with his utterly ludicrous plan. The problem is that I've been to a TON of endo's and diabetic care "specialists". They only agree on one thing. That they can't agree on anything.
As a 25yr Type I diabetic I'm going to disagree here. Maintaining relatively "normal" blood sugar levels is anything but easy. It's very difficult for people who attempt to live normal lives, with families, jobs, children and other responsibilities.
Yes, there are points in life where you "figure it out" and for a while it stabilizes. Then your body changes, or something changes, and suddenly you're not re-acting to your meds the same way. Or your body isn't reacting the same way to the foods you normally eat. Or god forbid your boss wants you to work late on short notice and you didn't bring extra insulin.
"As for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) leading to diabetic coma, this is easily avoided by any diabetic with even "rough" control due to the fact that they will readily feel blood sugar levels dropping far in advance of danger"....
You know, I used to rail at my sister this exact same thing. Until about a year ago when suddenly my reactions to lows changed, drasticly. For 4 months I had no warning of lows, just *poof* and I was waking up to the paramedics. I had to change insulin regimin's, tons of doctor appointments, dietary changes, etc.. until I started to pick up on them again.
The truth about this disease is that it affects everyone who has it differently. It can be treated, but no one knows how effective the treatments really are. Even with near-perfect control many many diabetics still end up with very serious complications later in life. According to my doctor's, and my experience, you have a 50-50 shot of living a normal, healthy life and dieing at a ripe old age. Or losing your vision, going on dialisis and being miserable for a long long time.
Just for the record. I'm 30 years old and have had very little control of my diabetes for the first 25 years of my life. I have advanced aggressive retinopathy, kidney problems, circulation problems and a host of other crap. And my son was diagnosed with Type I a little over a year ago. My sister, on the other hand, has taken near perfect control of her diabetes. She's 4 years younger than me and was just diagnosed with retinopathy herself. The circulation in her hands and feet hasn't been good for years either.
Just remember, because it is one way for you doesn't make it that way for us. I'm glad you find it trivial to take care of your diabetes. I wish it were the same for myself and my family.
This happens to me with pool ALL the time. I find myself plotting how to run this rack only to wake up and realize I'm half-way through a three hour meeting and the 9-ball keeps moving around the white board....
I understand your questioning of my statement here... and not knowing where you come from or how long you've had this lovely disease and to what degree it effects you, I can't speak for you, only me. Personally, I get sick of every doctor I talk to telling me the "right" way to treat myself. When I see 10 a year and they all swear by different treatments/methods. I get sick of those same doctors telling me how ignorant or stubborn I am for not doing this, or insisting on doing this. (Usually things another doctor suggested that I try.)
I'm 29 years old, my kidneys are showing problems now, I have advanced, aggressive retinopathy and the circulation in my hands and feet is really really poor. My sister is 27 years old, was diagnosed with diabetes the same DAY I was, has followed the same regimen as I did until I was about 25 and started losing my sight. Praise God that she has absolutely no problems what so ever.
The short and sweet answer is that they have no friggin clue sir. They'll tell you that too if you put it to them. "It's a 50/50 shot that taking excellent control of your blood sugars will result in good health...."
There is no benefit for Lilly, Accu-Check or any of the rest of them to actually cure this disease. None, whatsover. They can't get/stay rich if people stop buying insulin and test strips. We are the PERFECT market. We are so scared of horrible things happening to us that we RUSH to the store to buy any new thing that hits and then we keep using it for YEARS even if it doesn't noticably help us. And we'll keep doing it too. That's the sad thing. We all want to live with as little pain and turmoil as possible.:"(
I've gotta go pick up my humongous insulin pens and my 7yr old's test strips now. He hasn't started yet, but the one time I won't get mad at him for lying to me will be when I catch him telling me that "I already took it Daddy, it was ummmmm 89!..."
I'm assuming by "fetal blood gas" sample your refering to a blood gas from an unborn fetus? Man, I wouldn't wish that test done on my worst enemy. The third time they missed that sucker was the last time they've ever run that "test" on me. That is the most god awful pain in the world... and then "oops, missed, we gotta try again." Talk about being an unwilling "beta tester".
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I'd agree with the above poster who said Diabetics are mostly pathological liars, we are. Believe it or not, testing your blood sugar SUCKS. It hurts, I don't care if it's your finger or your arm. (By the way, 20 minutes ago isn't good enough for Humalog insulin, so arm testing is risky at best.)
If you have a tester with an IR port, there IS software that will read and input the data, but you might need an M.D. to get it. My doctor has some really nice software for the Accu-Check, but as a "user" I'm only able to get a really really dumbed down version of it for 50 bucks from the manufacturer. >:(
I don't like implants, which is why I don't pump. But if you can give me a way to test my sugar that doesn't hurt all the friggin' time, I'd use it. I like feeling good as much as the next guy, but being in pain my entire life just isn't worth it, to me.
That's what I care about. With the technology and resources available today, there has got to be some way to remove the pain from treating this damn disease. At least until we can convince the Bible belt to allow continued research in stem-cell technology... But I think we'll have to destroy a lot of drug and equipment manufacturer's before that'll ever come about.:(
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This mold was made and then broken years ago by Ultima Online. And it's been done and re-done since. Gamers don't like seeing their own faults so glaringly. They want it to be easy.... so they've made it easy, and as we all know. That's boring.
I played that game a little toooo much :) In the early years I enjoyed every aspect of it. Once things started going Item-based though, it kind of ruined it for me. And there is always the Fel vs. Tram debate.
I did the house camping thing, the tamer/bard thing, the warrior thing, the craftsman thing, the thief thing (forEVER) and even a little treasure hunting/lockpicking for a while. Only pure class I never played was a mage. In fact, most of my thieves used scrolls to recall everywhere. I still remember carrying a single rune (to the BANK, not your house newb!!!) and a single stack of 11-25 recall scrolls to get around. :) You only get your house robbed once before you learn, luckily I learned early! :)
Crazy Joe & Co. were a great inspiration to us thieves! There was another lady who was a famous looter, can't remember her name though. She was a tamer, name started with a B... dangit, gonna have to go dig up all my old links again! :)
I had the priveledge of watching him (CJ) work over a tamer once while cross-sharding with a buddy of mine. And he really was like that, (this time at least), not just cheesing it up for the "camera" so-to-speak. :)
Hmmmmm. I wonder if the uo.stratics boards are still alive and kicking... hehe
hehehe a smart thief only dies to that once, after that, I stuck to bags and left he boxes alone! :)
UO it is for me as well. I played this game for 4 years and have many many fond memories and friends from it to this day. The first time our guild survived the Lich Room in Deceit (with most of our stuff too!) The first time we took a dragon with only 3 dexxers cross healing. The first time I tamed a dragon. My first Fight Night in Oasis... wow. But by far were the moments playing my thief. I still remember stealing my first item. An agility potion outside of the bank in Vesper. There is nothing that compares with the fear of player vs. player reprisal! :) And the first time I placed a Tower!!! Holy crap, I almost broke my computer desk when that Tower solidified in front of me and died laughing (literally) when the other angry campers all converged on me in frustration! :)
Man, that was the greatest game ever made. Sonoma for life!
The last time I went to the endo, he told me to eat the same exact thing for each meal for two weeks and test my blood sugar 8 times a day. Send him those results and he'd set up a perfect care plan for me.... So I did it. That was 6 months ago. Still haven't heard from him. I honestly don't believe he expected me to follow through with his utterly ludicrous plan. The problem is that I've been to a TON of endo's and diabetic care "specialists". They only agree on one thing. That they can't agree on anything.
As a 25yr Type I diabetic I'm going to disagree here. Maintaining relatively "normal" blood sugar levels is anything but easy. It's very difficult for people who attempt to live normal lives, with families, jobs, children and other responsibilities.
Yes, there are points in life where you "figure it out" and for a while it stabilizes. Then your body changes, or something changes, and suddenly you're not re-acting to your meds the same way. Or your body isn't reacting the same way to the foods you normally eat. Or god forbid your boss wants you to work late on short notice and you didn't bring extra insulin.
"As for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) leading to diabetic coma, this is easily avoided by any diabetic with even "rough" control due to the fact that they will readily feel blood sugar levels dropping far in advance of danger"....
You know, I used to rail at my sister this exact same thing. Until about a year ago when suddenly my reactions to lows changed, drasticly. For 4 months I had no warning of lows, just *poof* and I was waking up to the paramedics. I had to change insulin regimin's, tons of doctor appointments, dietary changes, etc.. until I started to pick up on them again.
The truth about this disease is that it affects everyone who has it differently. It can be treated, but no one knows how effective the treatments really are. Even with near-perfect control many many diabetics still end up with very serious complications later in life. According to my doctor's, and my experience, you have a 50-50 shot of living a normal, healthy life and dieing at a ripe old age. Or losing your vision, going on dialisis and being miserable for a long long time.
Just for the record. I'm 30 years old and have had very little control of my diabetes for the first 25 years of my life. I have advanced aggressive retinopathy, kidney problems, circulation problems and a host of other crap. And my son was diagnosed with Type I a little over a year ago. My sister, on the other hand, has taken near perfect control of her diabetes. She's 4 years younger than me and was just diagnosed with retinopathy herself. The circulation in her hands and feet hasn't been good for years either.
Just remember, because it is one way for you doesn't make it that way for us. I'm glad you find it trivial to take care of your diabetes. I wish it were the same for myself and my family.
This happens to me with pool ALL the time. I find myself plotting how to run this rack only to wake up and realize I'm half-way through a three hour meeting and the 9-ball keeps moving around the white board....
I understand your questioning of my statement here... and not knowing where you come from or how long you've had this lovely disease and to what degree it effects you, I can't speak for you, only me. Personally, I get sick of every doctor I talk to telling me the "right" way to treat myself. When I see 10 a year and they all swear by different treatments/methods. I get sick of those same doctors telling me how ignorant or stubborn I am for not doing this, or insisting on doing this. (Usually things another doctor suggested that I try.) I'm 29 years old, my kidneys are showing problems now, I have advanced, aggressive retinopathy and the circulation in my hands and feet is really really poor. My sister is 27 years old, was diagnosed with diabetes the same DAY I was, has followed the same regimen as I did until I was about 25 and started losing my sight. Praise God that she has absolutely no problems what so ever. The short and sweet answer is that they have no friggin clue sir. They'll tell you that too if you put it to them. "It's a 50/50 shot that taking excellent control of your blood sugars will result in good health...." There is no benefit for Lilly, Accu-Check or any of the rest of them to actually cure this disease. None, whatsover. They can't get/stay rich if people stop buying insulin and test strips. We are the PERFECT market. We are so scared of horrible things happening to us that we RUSH to the store to buy any new thing that hits and then we keep using it for YEARS even if it doesn't noticably help us. And we'll keep doing it too. That's the sad thing. We all want to live with as little pain and turmoil as possible. :"(
I've gotta go pick up my humongous insulin pens and my 7yr old's test strips now. He hasn't started yet, but the one time I won't get mad at him for lying to me will be when I catch him telling me that "I already took it Daddy, it was ummmmm 89!..."
I'm assuming by "fetal blood gas" sample your refering to a blood gas from an unborn fetus? Man, I wouldn't wish that test done on my worst enemy. The third time they missed that sucker was the last time they've ever run that "test" on me. That is the most god awful pain in the world... and then "oops, missed, we gotta try again." Talk about being an unwilling "beta tester".
I'd agree with the above poster who said Diabetics are mostly pathological liars, we are. Believe it or not, testing your blood sugar SUCKS. It hurts, I don't care if it's your finger or your arm. (By the way, 20 minutes ago isn't good enough for Humalog insulin, so arm testing is risky at best.) If you have a tester with an IR port, there IS software that will read and input the data, but you might need an M.D. to get it. My doctor has some really nice software for the Accu-Check, but as a "user" I'm only able to get a really really dumbed down version of it for 50 bucks from the manufacturer. >:( I don't like implants, which is why I don't pump. But if you can give me a way to test my sugar that doesn't hurt all the friggin' time, I'd use it. I like feeling good as much as the next guy, but being in pain my entire life just isn't worth it, to me. That's what I care about. With the technology and resources available today, there has got to be some way to remove the pain from treating this damn disease. At least until we can convince the Bible belt to allow continued research in stem-cell technology... But I think we'll have to destroy a lot of drug and equipment manufacturer's before that'll ever come about. :(