Reevaluating my economic directions
Ron Knights
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I've been dealing with my diabetes over the past year. In that time I've encountered bad customer service and incompetence on the part of a taxi company and the pharmacy of a major grocery store chain. Each time I went out for a prescription refill or a doctor's appointment, I encountered a harrowing ordeal. The last instance was enough to give me a panic attack which has lasted several days.
I finally decided I deserve better than that. I cut ties with the taxi company and the grocery store. And I'm making other drastic changes.
I don't visit the forums all that much. I try to behave. Now I will visit even less. And I deleted my Wishlist.
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Hi Ron,
Ugh, that doesn't sound good. Do take some time to de-compress, as stress can really jack with blood glucose levels. Ironically, I'm on a CGM(Continuous Glucose Monitor) as certain foods have been causing me issues lately. I was in a stressful meeting the other day, and my blood glucose actually spiked about 30 points during that meeting and took about 2.5 hours to get back to baseline(I'm finding out that coffee is spiking me too). I agree that it seems like customer service is some relic from the past. I've had to "self automate" several bill pay things, even after setting up for auto-pay, for it to fail. The stress of trying to pay the bills before additional charges has caused my blood pressure to boil, so I can understand your situation. We'll be here for you!
Thanks, -David
Starkdog (David) Thanks for sharing your experience. By all means, take care of yourself. I confess I had bought massive quantities of my favorite hard candies. I check my blood sugar levels every morning. Finally I had to admit I was the one causing myself damage! That's the thing about "sweets" for me. They bring me such pleasure, but cause me so much damage. Now I'm looking at sugar free candy maybe.
My experience with DAZ goes back to their early days. I began with Poser, but switched to DAZ Studio in their early days. After over 20 years I still feel like a bungling beginner. Once upon a time, in the earlly days I rose in popularity only to shoot myself in the foot. For most of the 20+ years I remained outside of the artistic communities. I've done lots of soul searching, and matured. But I still often feel like an outsider. I want to "make art," but can't really feel confident in my abilities.
Ron,
Im assuming your a Type 2? Sorry to hear about you bad pharmacy experience.. I'm a Type 1 - on intensive insulin therapy, 3, possibly 4 shots per day , two differing insulins, Still alive in my 70's so it's working. Today I called my local pharmacy to re-fill some insulin prescriptions (and yep, its a large chain). Told them who I was, and was greeted with a "Hello my friend, how are you doing and what do you need?" ordered in 2 boxes of each insulin, and had anice discussion about wheterh I wanted cartridges or pre-loaded pens now that they are covered. A totally painless experience. They asked if I neede test strips or pen needles, as well, and when would I like to pick them up. Last thing was a say hello to your wife for us..
Keep at it. Diabetes is a progresive disease, and it will throw you a curveball every once in a while - couple years back I was in hospital for 3 days due to ketoacidosis - it was touch and go the fisrt day , could have died..
Good Luck to you in all this!
hacsart, yes, I am type 2. In my previous experience with my local chain, they didn't bother to help me put together what i needed to get the needles along with the Tujeo and also my Ozempic. And they didn't even notice I was not getting the proper dosage of Ozempic. I would have needed to make two trips in one week. I spend $30 on taxi fare each time I go out. And the taxi company kept doing "no shows" on me. Then the pharmacy gave me enough for 3 months, instead of one.
The new pharmacy made several calls and noticed I wasn't given the proper prescribed dosage of Ozempic. They got it right and delivered it to me on a Saturday.
hacsart, take care of yourself, my friend.
Ron, I hope you can find a happy median in the life style changes you need to make.
Some things I learned since my health revelation in 2018.
If you need to sweeten coffee (I don't like bitternees in coffee) or tea and not effect your blood glucose level try a combo of Stevia and Xylitol. Stevia is super sweet but gives the coffee a taste, so the Xylitol lessens that taste. Xylitol does not add much a sweetness in flavour. I figured this out because some candies and cough drops I bought were using combinations of sweeteners.
Years a go a friend of mine gave me some sage advice. I was single and complaining of how much food veggies/fruit I tossed out because I can't eat the bulk it is sold in fast enough. He said go gourmet. :-)
By that he meant buy a few hand picked premium veggies/fruit, throw-out nothing, and enjoy the best. It was a mind stretch for me but it makes sense when you evaluate it the economics of it for a single person. I have been mindful of that advice to this day in all my purchases and it has served me well.
So applying that advice pay more for less of premium diabetic friendly candies and chocolates. One, because they cost you an arm and a leg hopefully you will eat them mindfully and two, you will give your glucose levels a break.
I have great sympathy for the struggle between eating well and eating happy.
Oh and one other thing, if you can get a used stationary bike and park it in front of a screen, then peddle your little heart away for atleast 20 minutes a day, I promise your cravings will decrease, your psychological endurance will improve, and you will sleep better.
Feel free to private message me here and I will send my cell number if you want to talk. Take care.
hjake, thanks for sharing your experience and advice. Thanks for your offer of direct communicaton (phone). I will politely decline at this time. I have been totally overwhelmed for years. I have forced myself to eat lunch with my friends in our communal dining room. I've never had such an opportunity before. At this point, it's all I can handle. After lunch I usually take a nap, then watch tv and read Kindle books on my computer.
My apartment is currently full to the max. I barely have room to park my walker when I am not using it. I don't have room to use the walker as I walk through the apartment.
hjake I very much appreciate hearing from you. You can count on that.
Oh, you have it easy dude! I have had an unremitting, unwavering, nonstop panic attack since 13 Feb 2009. I didn't think such a thing was possible but here I am.
I refuse to take prescription drugs, drink, or take recreational drugs to try and quell it. My only respite from it is sleep. I am constantly exhausted from all the tightly wound self control that i always have to do to continue to function. I have put myself on total lockdown. You learn, you alter, you ignore, and 14 years later you find yourself surprised such adaptations were possible and are actually starting make you more effective than you were before the nonstop panic attack started. A surprise.
May dignity, compassion, and hope, find you. That they renew your strength to endure and overcome your trials.
nonesuch00 you have my sympathy. I think I felt good for a month or two in 1980, or maybe between 1980-1983. I had dug myself out of a crisis, and begun exercising. I lost 50 pounds or so. Then I got hung up over a woman. The relationship was a disaster. I lost myself, stopped exercising, gained weight. I lost a great job, and several jobs after that. I have only begun to feel good with and about myself recently.
hjake, thanks!
Just keep at it. The right kind of food, exercise, and enough sleep do much more then we believe. Getting outside and moving, even in circles around a publicly funded track (I know those have been harder and harder to find in the US since the 2000s, it's very anti-social and strange lockout of all these publicly funded athletic facilities formally available for the general public to use - meaning no athletic facilities or the general public unless they are paying their private money to use private business atheletic facilities, if they exist at all or at a price you can afford). That makes it even harder on we in the general public to stay fit. It's not good, except of course for the medical industry and private athletics industry.
I know I am late replying here, I don't cruise the forums much as I used to. You have my sympathy too. Here in Southern CA there are a few pharmacies that will deliver for free, smaller ones, with that taxi fare you might try looking for one of those. Amazon has some kind of a thing like that too now but they charge.
Try not to believe that your popularity has changed, chances are if you get out there and start talking again, people will respond. A lot of times it's our beliefs like that get in the way. Hang in there.