I'm 38 now. I have been on the pump/CGM (MM670G) for just under three years. I was on pills for 2-3 years, at first the metformin and glimiperide were enough and I got my A1C back to the sixes; but I maxed those out and it was climing agian. Then maxed out Onglyza, then maxed out Invokana at which point I switched to the pens.
The problem with the pens is that I would need 25 units of basal insulin and 25 units of the rapid acting insulin. You can't "undo" your 24 hour basal injection; so if you don't eat enough carbs or exercise too much you can go low. The pens are also not nearly as precise as a pump for delivering the rapid insulin.
After my A1C climbed back, my endocrinologist prescribed the pump and CGM closed loop system. We did a blood test that showed I was T1, which was enough for United Healthcare to pay for the CGM and not just the pump.
I was diagnosed when I was 30 (A1C of 13). After maxing out pills (7 a day between Metformin, Glimperide, Onglyza, Invokana), I went to multiple daily injections, and then a pump with CGM. The pump is life changing as far as getting better control. It still isn't perfect (latest A1C of 7.5), but it makes a big positive difference.
You are totally right about furniture, though if you enjoy it; it can certainly be worth while. With practice you can save money over higher end places like Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn that might have more interesting design than Ikea. Any furniture you build should be because you enjoy the process, saving money can be elusive.
For things like the railing the original poster mentioned, that really falls under home improvement. For those things which are generally site built by a carpenter, you can absolutely save money even factoring in a few tools.
If 'we' forgive the rent owed to landlords, what about the property taxes that can be just as large as the mortgage. NYS has an eviction moratorium, but they still want their taxes.
If you are going to invest the effort in a set of dining chairs, I would recommend watching the Wood Whisperer guild dining chair videos. I have made a Hank chair and high chairs, but have never made a dining char. I did buy the class and found how Marc Spagnuolo broke it down interesting and informative.
It would have been a second home, so centralized fire monitoring and flood sensors would have potentially been useful for us. Things like the panel being hardwired instead of cellular, etc. shouldn't be given out over the phone.
Lots of the comments don't trust Google, but I'm not sure I would trust ADT. I was looking to buy a house, which had an ADT system installed. I just called them up, asked about the address, how much monitoring would cost, etc. and they told me what kind of panel, sensors, etc. were installed at the house. No verification at all. Clearly this would help with their sales, but from the perspective of someone who owns the system; I would not want them to give out details of my security system to anyone.
Yes, but neither is the rent for an in-store experience. Having the item of the price subsidize the shipping vs. pay the merchant's rent is not all that different.
I'll counter that I went to SUNY Stony Brook and have not felt that I was shut out of any interviewing at any company because of it. At this point, my degree from 14 years ago is not nearly as important as the connections I've made with co-workers since.
The majority of US consumer grade ratchet/wrench sets have both US and metric sizes. There are enough metric nuts and bolts in random things that you really do need both.
I unfortunately know more than I would like about dog eyes, because my 4 year old GSD had cataracts. Some of the differences the vet told me are interesting.
Dogs vision is about 20/200 in general, and they can only use their lens to focus 1-2 diopters (compared to about 6 for people).
Dogs can track movement and see in low light better than we can. The way that he did an eye test was simply to drop a cotton ball, the difference before surgery and 2 days after surgery was stark. He would ignore it before, and afterwards his head followed it.
Metal detectors and bag searches are not the norm in American suburbs. Post school shootings, the changes made in my district were that the front door is locked by default and you need to ring the bell and be buzzed in.
Festool has started sponsoring TOH, but they used the tools before that. The track saw, domino, sanders, and dust extractors are very well built tools. The amount of dust from my Dewalt 5" ROS was night and day compared to the 125mm Rotex. The domino makes joinery much faster, and has become an essential part of my workflow.
My beef with TOH is now that all the houses are so expensive and the work is so custom or complicated that it is not relatable.
A minimax bandsaw costs about $2-3000. A sawstop around $3000. A jointer/planer combo another $5000. So you're all in for a complete woodworking setup for $10,000. But then you need a couple hundred square feet to put them in with sufficient room around them to store wood, maneuver and perform assembly. At $100/sf for a garage area, you are hitting $20,000. You generally can't just add 200 or 500 sf to your house, and moving is expensive. The space is more expensive than the actual tools that fill it.
When a car breaks down or gets into an accident, gently pushing it to the side lets traffic flow without causing damage to the motorist's car or police cruiser.
Sweden is not all roses in terms of personal liberty either. You must send your children to public schools, at the risk of losing them; even during a pandemic. In the United States, home schooling is an option if you do not want to send your children to public schools.
There are likely deaths that are collateral damage. Fewer people are going to hospitals for heart attacks and strokes. It seems unlikely that we actually have fewer heart attacks, but people are scared of the hospital - so don't go and are more likely to die.
I am in the end the lockdown camp; but even if we allow businesses to open, many people will still be legitimately worried or scared and stay home even when it is something important like medical care.
In suburban NY you don't have ubiquitous natural gas. Some, but not all, new developments are natural gas, but many existing ones are heating oil. Propane is also a possibility, but much more expensive so is not used as often as oil except for cooking.
The "choice between being alive and being jobless" is a matter of probabilities, which people are not great at. If you are not elderly, you likely have a higher chance of being unemployed than dying of COVID-19. So the choice is not between being alive and being jobless, it is an abstract unknown person getting sick and dying vs. you personally losing your income.
"Would that apply in this situation where most medical experts would agree that the quarantine is necessary for saving lives? Or is the thinking that this is too far removed — like telling people they can’t protest seat-belts."
Medical experts and scientists can provide data that helps inform people. Just because medical experts say something will "save lives" does not mean we should blindly follow that as policy. There is unfortunately a dearth of data that would allow us to make well-informed policy choices.
"A CPAP machines costs about 10x as much as it should, and a part of that is insurance companies wanting to make sure they are not paying for a device you are not using."
If you look just at BOM, I am sure my insulin pump must seem the same way (about $3500); but the technical support from Medtronic is top notch and the devices are not mass market; probably only about 100,000 of them each year (just based on a 4 year warranty period, which is when your insurance covers them, and a quick google showing about 350,000 on them).
I do think there is a bit of a razor blade model here though, given that the consumables will cost nearly as much as the pump over the course of a year.
If I watch hockey on an SD channel vs. the HD equivalent channel it isn't a different recording, but it is very clearly worse than HD. The graphics in particular are fuzzier and it can be hard to read the clock/score vs. on the HD channel. The graphics are certainly be optimized for HD now; and maybe we would just have bigger overlays in the past to reflect the poor resolution (but with smaller screens, maybe not). Also, a CRT has a different amount of "fuzz" to it than a new LCD TV; so some details which look ugly now might not have mattered as much.
I don't live in a rural area (~1000 people/sq. mile), 40 miles away from NYC. At least as of a year ago, T-Mobile's coverage map of my area was "occasional service outdoors".
The work toilet paper is more likely to be 1-ply recycled toilet paper in large rolls than what people would buy for a home. The factories that produce commercial TP may not be able to convert to the preferred residential products quickly.
If you buy a futures contract, you are required to accept delivery of some fixed amount. You don't have to take "all the oil party B produces", just what you agreed to ahead of time. This protects you from upward price trends, and the producer from downward price trends.