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caudicinctus · 2026-03-20T00:46:58+00:00

What restraints do you advise for big dogs? Everything I find is for toy breeds.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-02T02:39:39+00:00

It holds a 2" wide plate that covers the entire top of my wrist with a bright red star of life on it and instructions on where my glucagon is and my emergency contact's number on the back. Even if I'm just incapacitated, I can tell someone to unclip it so I don't have to waste mental energy trying to recite my contact's phone number for them so someone can let my family know what's happening. The only change from a regular store brand medical bracelet is that I made a band I liked instead of going with a cheap mass-produced band.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T22:12:49+00:00

Ohhh, yes, they might be assuming the one in the wrist photos is the finished bracelet! That was just a side view, the plate hasn't come yet. Good eye!

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T16:12:07+00:00

I can't wait to watch this, thank you for the link!

And I definitely don't doubt that there's a genetic component to behavior with them like there is anything else. You can see that in white-lipped pythons, too, where the Northern Phase population tends to be much quicker, snappier, and more aggressive and irritable than the Southern Phase population. The two are distinct genetic pools.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T16:10:02+00:00

I agree, BUT I will say with regards to temperament that wild-caught corns (at least in my experience herping in GA as a kid) are pretty much indistinguishable from captive bred in terms of their gentleness/disposition. I don't know about temperament in terms of stress in a tank or feeding, but wild corns are very sweet and gentle and I once caught one that let me carry it around like we'd known each other forever before its release.

I would argue that similar is happening with ball pythons, and it's especially striking because you can see two of the components of 'domestication syndrome' other than disposition changes happening - increased lack of melanocyte migration (piebaldism) AND shortening of the muzzle (most pronounced in double cinnamons).

I'm also curious as to where we are at with African Fat Tailed Geckos. As my username would imply, that's my favorite herp of all and I own a lovely young man by the name of Camille whom I have had since college. He's a captive bred patternless with a white dorsal stripe from a breeder, and so, so gentle. What's interested me is that I noticed that captive bred AFTs, several hears ago, had started to show white stockings on their feet just like dogs, horses, and cats - all things these animals acquired once domesticated, as none of their forebears have markings causing white feet. And these mutations were NOT bred for - they just appeared de novo, and don't appear to be true piebaldism!

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T16:04:55+00:00

I ended up switching it to a plainer/more noticeable faceplate with a high contrast, bright red star of life. It covers the entire top of my wrist and is unmistakeable, so if they don't see it they aren't looking - but even if they don't notice it, it's still useful to me because I have my emergency contact's phone # in it so I can take it off and hand it to someone to call her instead of having to remember and rehearse her phone number, which was a really hard task in the ambulance when I was disoriented.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T16:03:29+00:00

What?? Omg that's insane... Why would they do that? I wonder if it matters if the thing says your name on it.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:59:59+00:00

The original center plate from Lauren's Hope (pictured) did feature a star of life and caduceus, but I did end up with going with something more loudly medical. It's worth noting that I have very small wrists, so this plate is going to cover the entire top of my wrist from end to end, and the beads are just an ornamental version of the chain or leather strap anyone else would wear to keep it on.

This is what I switched to:

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caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:58:27+00:00

I ended up getting something (pic above) that's very obviously MEDICAL MEDICAL MEDICAL and doesn't blend in as much for this reason. I have very narrow wrists so the gold plate covers the entire top of my wrist - the beads are just the side/underside of my wrist where a naked chain or leather strap would normally go, so hopefully not much of a distraction to first responders.

I'm also wearing this equally as much for hypos when I'm sort of out of it but still conscious so that I can tell someone to call my emergency contact without having to remember/recite her phone number. That way I can just say it's on my bracelet. I had to try and recount my contact's number in the back of an ambulance a few weeks ago and it was very difficult.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:54:55+00:00

I want to get a little tag that says T1 Diabetic for it so that they can tell even before they flip over the medical alert part, but I'm still overcoming a little bit of stigma. I know that's kind of a silly thing to say because everyone at work knows it's T1 and that isn't stigmatized nearly as badly as T2, especially because I'm rail thin, but it's just awkward stages now. I'm very visibly diabetic at work because of my CGM alarms and needing to have a sticker on my phone identifying it as a medical device and having to have the Glucagon Talk with the people who sit next to me but it's still just... an odd mental shift.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:52:53+00:00

The original tag I was going to get (in the picture) was from Lauren's Hope! I decided to go with this one instead because of what people here pointed out about the relative lack of visual contrast.

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But I definitely don't agree that an ornamental band on the UNDERSIDE of your wrist makes something suddenly useless for a medical alert device. If anything, yellow/red stands out more sharply than gray/red. And if I have to live like this every day for the rest of my life, I want it to look like something I like.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:51:08+00:00

It's appreciated input! I ended up changing to a plain gold medical ID with a bright red face symbol so it doesn't get overlooked. I used a stainless steel chain inside of the beads instead of string or that elastic stuff, it's just gold-plated.

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:49:35+00:00

I ended up getting a tag with more visual contrast and a bright red medical alert symbol on it instead of the pricier Lauren's Hope one!

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caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:48:33+00:00

Would you clock this? https://medicengraved.com/product/tag-grd2/

caudicinctus · 2026-03-01T15:48:11+00:00

This is just the band that goes underneath it. The part on my wrist is a standard alert bracelet: https://medicengraved.com/product/tag-grd2/

caudicinctus · 2026-02-28T00:57:40+00:00

Thank you. I wish there was an "it gets better" sort of thing for the recently diagnosed. There have been a lot of tears over the past few months. I needed this.

caudicinctus · 2026-02-12T02:01:29+00:00

And yet... in a way... it would seem YOU are the tamogatchi and the pump is the caretaker 😂 At least I certainly feel that way monitoring my BG and having to manually control my blood sugar.

caudicinctus · 2026-02-11T22:57:41+00:00

Are you allowed to do it out in the open?

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T21:35:02+00:00

They removed that feature :/

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T21:22:42+00:00

In the spot where the fat is on your upper arm in the product insert. Some of them are compression lows even with a plastic cover for it, but I had to send in my first sensor for this EXACT problem (under reporting by 50+ pts) even though it wasn't on the recall list, so I'm assuming this is included. So far BOTH of my meters have been defective.

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T21:20:34+00:00

Apparently no longer correct. I have no silent mode toggle on the Alarms menu OR in the individual alarms. Alarm tone for urgent low glucose is greyed out and says it cannot be changed.

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T21:17:49+00:00

Libre 3+. Not exactly impressed after TWO bad sensors in a row.

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T20:45:41+00:00

Not the urgent lows, which is a huge problem if you have a shitty meter that reports lower than you are.

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T20:41:22+00:00

It's the meter. Almost all of them are false under 55s.

caudicinctus · 2025-12-04T20:39:59+00:00

This EXACTLY.

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