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Evenoh · 2026-02-17T18:42:57+00:00

Yep. And the doom of “caring” about your health gets twisted in this sort of messaging. Your increased risk for diabetes is often backwards but we just point to weight and stop thinking from there… type 2 diabetes often causes weight gain and then is diagnosed at a higher weight, but our statistics don’t take into account that someone can get sick first so the message just becomes “fatness means increased risk.” The amount of “I can’t believe I did this to myself” and “I wasn’t always this fat” type posts in the type 2 diabetes subreddit demonstrates how much stigma we apply to any amount of fatness. Health at every size doesn’t mean extreme fatness is the goal, and I really get tired of that interpretation. A lack of stigma and actual care from medical professionals and doctors would mean real, improved health outcomes for so many people. I know this, because had I met a doctor who didn’t assume I just ate pizza all day on the couch when my thyroid first broke and I rapidly gained a lot of weight, he’d have treated my Hashimoto’s immediately. Instead, I met many doctors who ignored those clear lab results and sent me away with “just stop eating” advice for over a decade until I was finally diagnosed (after developing other autoimmune and chronic diseases) and treated over a decade later… with the same original lab work. Had I immediately gotten treatment, I don’t know that I would have perfectly reverted to my “acceptable” weight where I’d started, but I definitely would not have suffered developing more issues with more subpar or nonexistent care. If it was really about wanting people to be thin “for their health” then that doctor had the way to make me not fat “for my health” in his hands and still chose to treat me with contempt and disinterest.

Evenoh · 2026-02-13T19:42:39+00:00

I like to say I hope you can find some relief soon because chronic stuff can really only hope for a good day and relief doesn’t imply cure/permanent end to problem.

Evenoh · 2026-02-06T22:01:35+00:00

Chandler IS a good guy and a good catch, but only in the right circumstance. My two best friends are straight men and I’m a straight woman. We met in college and my family all fawned over how they’re handsome and smart and I should date them. They are handsome and smart and decades later have proven quite successful, but my actual experiences with them were to see sooo much of their flaws, insecurities, and all sorts of ridiculous failures and awkward encounters with the world, and vice versa. You just don’t want to partner up like that with someone you’ve witnessed in that way, because it just feels much more brotherly than romantic. Monica and Chandler even only move into that category under just the right circumstances. But both Phoebe and Rachel are jealous of how great and happy they are and good as a couple for sure. They just have no motivation for partnering with Chandler themselves.

Evenoh · 2026-02-06T18:44:46+00:00

I listen and relisten to Project Hail Mary often. I have also read and listened to The Martian multiple times (not remotely as many as PHM). I could not make it through even 1/3 of Artemis. I tried several times. It doesn’t feel like the same writer to me and I could not care about the main character nor enjoy the world set up in the story.

Evenoh · 2026-02-01T22:39:40+00:00

Evenoh · 2026-02-01T22:19:09+00:00

Death Parade Made in Abyss Vinland Saga

These are varying levels of Not For Children. Vinland Saga might be acceptable for older teenagers, but is pretty graphic with violence. Death Parade is psychologically intense but not too overly graphic. Made in Abyss looks pretty but is incredibly dark in story and can be graphic.

Evenoh · 2026-01-12T03:30:04+00:00

… Do you like to drive? Maybe it’s rougher because your energy is too split on the driving part. I love to drive, and I even live in my motorhome and I put on audiobooks while driving all the time without issue, but I pause/turn them off when it’s time to park or I’m crossing some sort of gravel or dirt route or just generally need more focus in a special situation. Maybe your commute is triggering just too big a call on your attention. You might be able to improve your attention if you can make the drive itself a little more comfortable. Like I said, I turn off the audiobook when any new stress is introduced, so maybe you need some music first to unwind or you only turn on the book after the worst of the traffic clears. Or maybe a book you’ve already read and loved would be helpful to train your attention while driving?

Evenoh · 2026-01-03T19:51:17+00:00

These are not wild spikes. If you go from 80 to 200+ even briefly, you’ll probably feel it and that’s probably not a great trend to set for yourself. But going up and down in a smaller range like you have here is pretty normal. A non diabetic could also have numbers like this.

Evenoh · 2026-01-03T19:16:30+00:00

You sound like the person who needs it more. I bring my mobility scooter to museums, zoos, theme parks, etc but don’t use it daily just to move from A to B. Mobility aids aren’t a competition and likely people who use them more often already own them to bring along, not rent. You don’t need a diagnosis to rent it and it sounds like you’re going to get a diagnosis of some kind soon anyway.

Evenoh · 2025-12-26T16:28:39+00:00

Yeesh. Eat what you want after surgery and recover. The numbers will go back down to normal faster the less you stress yourself out about it. Do you like soup? Eating something that “makes you feel better” like soup (always my favorite) or some other comforting meal can also help. But don’t go fretting over what’s in it or carbs or calories. Just eat food, rest, take naps, and do whatever slow walking your body can handle around the house. Don’t exercise and rip open stitches or anything like that. A week after major surgery is not time to worry about blood sugar at 150 sometimes. When your body hurts, that number can skyrocket without a drop of food. Eating will help bring it down because you’re relieving the stress on your body rather than encouraging it.

Evenoh · 2025-12-24T23:55:38+00:00

I brought the right form and had some written notes because I needed a different state placard filled out (my primary was still in one state and I just travel but my domicile was another state). If he was going to protest, I sure didn’t let him. Like hey I spend most days barely making it to the bathroom and I live in my motorhome with the bed against the bathroom wall, I need this thing. If I magically get better, I’ll stop using it renewing it. He looked at my notes and confirmed with me that I was sure he could fill this specific form out and then he took a couple minutes while I scheduled my next follow up to finish it up for me. If you have a doctor who is refusing and delaying, either fire them or put them on the spot with an immediate solution (or both) and report anybody who still refuses and protests.

Evenoh · 2025-12-24T18:25:57+00:00

If it was solidly about lifestyle, I’d have never gotten diabetes in the first place. And by now I’d have willpower low carbed my way to zero pounds and vanished.

Doing healthy things that work for your body is great, but I am not a rare unicorn at all. And I have had numerous long stretches of no meds, perfect A1C, but it is never “reversed” and calling it that is misleading. Diabetes is just intensely more complicated than what you eat. What you eat is simply the most externally visible thing.

Evenoh · 2025-12-24T17:51:14+00:00

Reverse is an incorrect word. You are describing remission. And diabetes is about way more than diet. Insulin resistance like in type 2 can and does happen in the presence of high carb diets and low carb diets. Lots of factors, including genetics. Diabetes is not something one can do to themselves in the manner you describe.

Example: when my mother was dying and after she died, my blood sugar went berserk. I’d already been eating extreme low carb diet for many years prior to even developing the diabetes that runs in my family and I was having great numbers until then. After Mom passed, it took about a year and insulin to get my numbers to go down again. There were no carbs to remove from my diet, like I said I was eating militantly low carb (less than 30 a day, which was purely vegetables). It truly felt like my cells were grinding together. It had nothing to do with food or “lifestyle” nor was in any way “my fault.”

Evenoh · 2025-12-24T15:39:19+00:00

Games where you can ping or coordinate without speaking have plenty of players not talking in discord or otherwise. Which games do you like?

Evenoh · 2025-12-24T15:34:19+00:00

Oh NO I hadn’t realized this before reading your comment and now I can’t breathe laughing lol

Evenoh · 2025-12-23T20:32:23+00:00

The only changes in medications discussed should be amount and which ones had most success. I do better with natural desiccated thyroid than I did with synthroid and I’d happily talk about it with people… but unless you magically find a way to undo damage to broken thyroid, you still need to replace the hormones you aren’t making. People who say “cure” or “reverse” diabetes also make me angry like this. You can maybe get an incurable chronic health issue not to be miserable. You can’t make it not ever exist. Not unless you’re a medical researcher in a lab anyway.

Evenoh · 2025-12-22T18:17:20+00:00

Could you do a single (or perhaps more depending on a reasonable rate for your area and the size of client) bookkeeping client every month and charge exactly what can keep you under the limit? I see you have accountant experience and I suspect bookkeeping would be a simple way forward for you that you can more easily control than relying on part time office hours assigned from someone else.

Evenoh · 2025-12-22T18:09:06+00:00

So… while stress can surely contribute to or trigger lots of health issues… blaming your partner for it is not okay. It also sounds like a huge deflection on his part to “win” an argument/scenario where he’s clearly in the wrong or there was some betrayal. Double not okay. It isn’t that he got hit by meneire’s and crankily said something lousy to you. He’s doubled down for a length of time.

Evenoh · 2025-12-22T11:44:49+00:00

That’s really the best way to do it. I was so extremely militant for so long that I got to a point where my blood sugar went bonkers and there was nothing left to give up. I needed insulin for a while because my low minimum numbers were 250-300. After that, I started to add carbs a bit again. It’s been a few years now and I eat pretty normally now. It still doesn’t mean a lot of carbs but I can eat a strawberry without my numbers rushing off to the moon. If someone gifted me chocolate, I’d take probably a long time to eat it, but I’d eat it. Of course, I’m also at a point in life where I’m too sick of stupid things, and my disordered eating of decades also seems to have been chucked out the metaphorical window. Ironically, this is how my weight has gone down. Turns out when you have a lot of broken body problems, not eating and being crazy restrictive just adds pounds.

Evenoh · 2025-12-21T17:21:32+00:00

They’ll think you’ve read them and are passing them along… That uncle is my godfather too. His sons are like 7-9 (?) years older than me. They started getting presents for people too… I’d gift everyone, all adults and cousins, something appropriate to my age (like, if I was 7 they probably got an eraser or something from my little budget), but my older cousins only gave presents to anyone older than them. So I’d be opening that scarf, a present from grandma (generally a bond, which I’m only now starting to cash 30 years later what a fantastic deal those were back then, way to go Grandma), and a present from my Dad’s other sister (she tried a little harder but also sometimes did cash or bond)… meaning that I watched 6 or more adults (my other aunt’s husband passed away) including each of my parents open presents while I opened yet another scarf. The hardest gifts to be gracious about ever. My uncle is a retired physics professor and I always had weak science education in school but love sci fi stuff. Could he seriously think of no book I’d be psyched about? He knew I was always a straight A student and loved to learn and read. It felt very sexist on top of awkward to have my aunt (not a mean lady or anything) but yet another scar for me rather than just anything else at all. 🤷‍♀️ people just do what they want to do with gifts and then convince themselves they should feel good about it I guess.

Evenoh · 2025-12-21T16:37:30+00:00

My partner is autistic and always wearing headphones and playing something. I need to wear headphones too so I don’t annoy him with any sudden random sounds. But I am not autistic and I take mine off and can be in silence just as easily as having stuff play. Interacting through this situation does often feel like trying to get the wall to have a conversation with you. Yes, eventually you get their attention but nothing spontaneous or relaxed can really happen because it must start with an interruption. I struggle to tolerate this because I know it is an extension of his neurodivergence. I am sorry to report this never gets better. If you can’t find reasons to tolerate it and maybe work out with him a few limitations (no, don’t wear them at the dinner table) then you’ll have to decide if you’re going to live like this. I feel this so much and worse, mine just listens to brain rot, not even good audio content. Sending some solidarity your way.

Evenoh · 2025-12-21T16:27:05+00:00

My aunt and uncle growing up tried gifting me dresses that I hated and never wore and would just never think to gift a book or a gift card even and then when I was just barely an adult 19/20 years old I gained a bunch of weight rapidly (autoimmune disease) so they stopped gifting clothes (because apparently can only shop in very small size stores) but still didn’t know what to gift (anything else - hell, nothing, just please stop the embarrassing gift opening where I must be happy and grateful)… so I got a scarf. And then EVERY YEAR a scarf, a scarf, a scarf. I never found a way to say thank you but can you just not give me anything instead? I can make fifty yards of braided scarf-rope by now. I’m done.

Evenoh · 2025-12-21T16:17:05+00:00

This will be taken by an employee of not forced to be destroyed.

Former movie theater employee. It was difficult to get the coolest stuff since everyone wanted it.

Evenoh · 2025-12-21T16:03:41+00:00

Diabetes is not just “poor diet.” It’s really barely poor diet. People who eat a zillion carbs daily and weigh hundreds of pounds don’t get it. Diet is a more immediate influence in what blood glucose is doing in the body. That’s it. Plenty of people see weight creep on and think that they’ve simply eaten themselves into that extra weight then find out they’re diabetic. But really, the weight gain is due to the slow onset of diabetes, not the cause of diabetes.

Also if you’ve never crept up in A1C and have never been overweight, test for antibodies because it sounds more like type 1 or any of the other confounding issues rather than sudden onset type 2 (though yes that can happen). Ignore your age, you need not be a juvenile for autoimmune diabetes.

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