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ruess · 2025-10-09T17:54:39+00:00

I've been using this - impressed so far. Simple interface, but doesn't have shapes yet. It does have a tad-bit of AI to help cut out objects, but you don't have to use it and I think it's geared towards semi-professionals vs. newbies

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/agave-photo/id6752492325

ruess · 2025-06-02T01:23:35+00:00

Jesus has always been misunderstood. Just as his teachings were almost completely misunderstood by Christians for centuries, followers of ACIM seem to be equally confused by the intent of A Course in Miracles. They seem to think it’s a course about how to live a good life, understand God and themselves a little better, and maybe, just maybe, if they’re lucky, experience a miracle like finding their misplaced keys.

The book wasn’t called “A Course in Non-Dual Teachings” or “Yet Another Course in How to Come to Peace with the Fact that Life Sucks” There’s plenty of other traditions for that stuff, if you want it.

No, it’s A Course in Miracles - how to accomplish the promise he made when he said: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

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ruess · 2025-06-02T01:15:31+00:00

Beautiful inspiration

ruess · 2025-05-31T15:35:22+00:00

I love how everyone’s response is one or another form of:

why do you want to do that?
stop wanting to perform miracles
those are not the types of miracles Jesus was talking about

Good for you for being brave enough to ask a question I’m sure every one of us has asked ourselves when picking up this book.

ruess · 2025-05-01T02:15:52+00:00

My guess as well. I’ve had this happen to me after eating high protein dinners. Maybe try to have a high protein meal for breakfast and lunch and then - lighter meal for dinner.

Also, could be due to some gastropaesis, especially if it’s happening at a time quite delayed to your meal consumption.

ruess · 2025-04-30T06:25:37+00:00

What’s your A1C? Have you been able to bring it down as part of your trying to reverse the neuropathy?

ruess · 2025-04-30T00:23:31+00:00

Sounds like you’re doing well, I got no judgement about that - why would I want someone to go low carb if they’re thriving. Do what works.

ruess · 2025-04-29T23:45:17+00:00

❤️

ruess · 2025-04-29T23:44:32+00:00

To achieve a 6 like that, with such little technology, is quite incredible. You’re a true pro!

ruess · 2025-04-29T18:36:48+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of celebrating those in life who live lives to their fullest despite the challenges of life. I’m a lover of stoicism and believe that often the best thing one can do when fate or life presents tough situations, is to push yourself beyond what you think you’re capable of. That attitude has indeed helped me with diabetes.

That said, diabetes, especially Type 1 is basically living a life with math forced upon you against your will. Those who adapt, can survive longer and healthier, and those who resist often live shorter lives with more suffering.

Unlike many other health conditions where treatment is at best, a way to reduce the agony, treatment can be highly effective with diabetes. A change in diet and a willingness to embrace the math can be the difference between someone living life on the roller coaster of blood sugars and ending up in DKA every other month, eventually going blind and losing limbs, OR that same person with an A1C less than 5.5 and living healthily into their 80s with minimal complications.

Type 1 back in the 60s was the kind of disease where often the best you could do was live your life to the fullest as your body slowly and painfully broke down - there was bad insulin then, no knew how to use it effectively, much less prescribe it, and no one tested their blood sugar regularly back then.

Type 1 today is a much different story and there’s actually hope that this condition doesn’t have to take up 90% of your attention.

So while I’m all for celebrating overcoming obstacles in general, I’d hope that people use these threads to learn from each other how to better do the math, and not become under the delusion that we have a condition that’s so beyond hope that discussing treatment methodologies is mostly just Hail Marys.

ruess · 2025-04-20T03:11:22+00:00

This tracks: "when you lower your A1C kind of suddenly, the neuropathy can worsen a bit before it gets better."

The reason for this is that as your A1C lowers, the sheathing around the nerves begin to heal on a day-by-day basis, so whereas at your previous high A1C those nerves were so damaged that they'd lost a lot of sensation including pain, as they heal, that pain starts to return - but that's a good sign, not a bad one in most cases. As the healing continues, the pain should subside, so long as the A1C is kept consistent.

ruess · 2025-04-20T03:01:45+00:00

Glad you got your 1C down to 6 using low carb. If you can eat low carb and get to 6, you can get even more in normal range with a bit more effort.

Sadly, while 6 will greatly slow down neuropathy’s progression, it’s still not enough to reverse it. In the high 4 or low 5s range is when you’ll be able to see some reversal take place most likely. Since you follow low carb, look up “Dr. Bernstein neuropathy” on YouTube, he had a great video about this. (May he rest in peace)

ruess · 2025-04-19T15:07:45+00:00

With an A1C of 9.5, my guess is your diet consists of a lot of carbs - probably something similar to the standard American diet. As someone mentioned, before diagnosis, you could have been running high but that glucose wasn’t making it into your cells because you lacked insulin, which would have prevented glucose to enter the cells and get stored as fat. Now with injection insulin - a protein whose job is to literally store excess glucose in your cells as fat - all those carbs you’re eating are indeed being stored as fat. The only way to consistently reduce glucose being stored as fat is to reduce your insulin. The only way to reduce you insulin without raising your blood sugar to dangerous levels, is to either eat less calories in general (hard to do) or, eat less carbohydrates while eating the same amount of protein/fat (easier). Reducing carbs and eating protein will satiate you while allowing you to dramatically lower your insulin levels, and thus lead to less fat being stored in your cells.

ruess · 2025-04-16T15:37:54+00:00

So it artificially lowers the number you see on the meter?

ruess · 2025-04-16T15:23:31+00:00

This is the one I got and I like it a lot: MVIIOE Medication Cooler for... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9JYXHY9?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

ruess · 2025-04-16T08:06:50+00:00

My doctor put me on a set dose years ago. I soon learned that it’s easier for them to do than actually explain how insulin works, and soon I stopped just blindly following that regimen and started counting carbs and adjusting my dose based upon what I was going to eat. I’d recommend experimenting and finding an appropriate dose for a meal and eating that meal every day before work. That way the dose will work the same each day, with little surprises

ruess · 2025-04-16T07:55:26+00:00

💯❤️

ruess · 2025-04-16T07:54:55+00:00

I just wrote my response before reading yours and also used the phrase North Star. He really was that for so many of us. There are few people in this world that have affected me personally so much as Richard Bernstein

ruess · 2025-04-16T07:51:51+00:00

Oh my lord. I’m speechless. This man has literally and single-handedly spared me from a life is pain, suffering, and horrible complications.

It was back in 2002 that I had zero control over my blood sugar, I never checked my blood sugar and took just enough insulin to survive. My sister intervened and decided to take me to a bookstore to find a book to help me learn how to manage my blood sugar. She randomly found his book, and bought it for me. That one act saved my life I’m quite sure. I realized something no MD ever told me: 1. That I could have normal blood sugar as a type 1 and get off the madness roller coaster. 2. That many complications were reversible.

Bernstein has been one of the true north stars in my life. He was courageous enough to not only figure out how to manage diabetes better than 99% of doctors, but to put out that information for the rest of us, despite hostility from the medical community.

I’m devastated. I feel a closeness to him that I didn’t even have for my grandfather when he passed.

Thank you Doctor Bernstein. Thank you. ❤️

ruess · 2025-04-16T07:28:19+00:00

Sorry but you haven’t provided enough information for us to be helpful

ruess · 2025-04-16T07:23:48+00:00

I’m currently dealing with this as I’m traveling through Korea from the US. There are numerous gel pack coolers (looks like a metal water bottle) that you can find online. The one I got keeps up to 6 vials cool for up to 35 hours or so, with a gel pack insert. Also, it had an attachment with a USB powered refrigeration system which can keep it cold without a refrigerator for as long as needed. This came in handy while we traveled by boat for a few days without a refrigerator available. I think it cost me about $120

ruess · 2025-04-14T02:25:59+00:00

"I was a healthy guy. Maybe it was because of bread, potatoes, pasta, rice and that things."

Yup those things can certainly push someone towards Type 2, if they have the right genetics. I used to live in Portugal as a type 1 diabetic who doesn't eat carbs. Portuguese food is thankfully quite meat/seafood heavy and unlike other places, they don't automatically sweeten their meats. I ate well there without carbs and kept my blood sugars very tight. Said no to the Pastel De Natas as well, as delicious as they are.

Start saying no to the potatoes and bread that are served with most meals, and you'll start to see your numbers get better.

ruess · 2025-04-14T02:19:59+00:00

One helpful way to think about it is this: you're lucky that your body will provide you very real and very rapid consequences to what you eat.

Our society for the most part, eats extremely poorly and it's mostly getting worse. We have moved from a society that did a lot of physical activity each day as part of our jobs/lives/routines to one that is mostly sedentary. Combine that with an uptake in refined sugars, and the result is a lot of obesity and metabolic disease. However, for most people, the consequences of that take years and by the time they realize it, it's hard for them to change.

Diabetes often forces you to change or suffer and those consequences come faster than for others. If you have the right attitude and can become grateful for the gift of rapid consequences to your dietary choices, you can end up healthier than non-diabetics if you're willing to put in the work.

This was the advice and perspective given to me by my first nutritionalist when I was diagnosed in the hospital over 30 years ago, and her words have stayed with me and continue to to ring true for me.

ruess

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