the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[General_Failure]

I don't like watching people fight, but the hitting each other with shoes was kinda funny.

[mussa]

exactly. most pathetic fight male or female, or shemale I have ever seen. 

[Sgt PSN]

I don't play Angry Birds, but I think some of you morons do.  So here you go:

[MMH]

On the other side of the Type I coin, there are some pretty big advancements in trying to mimic the function of the pancreas (well, as far as the islet cells are concerned). My kid has been participating in trials (as a subject, not a researcher) for the continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM) that communicates directly with her insulin pump. Pretty amazing technology. There are still a few bugs, but we're getting close to a real, closed-loop type of system.

That is pretty cool.  But it still doesn't avoid the problem of local tox.  Your kid has to move the injection site periodically, no, to avoid the skin getting all scaly?  That's a direct result of hyperplasia from the insulin.  That's what our oral form was supposed to avoid.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Yep, but she's pretty good about it, and there are plenty of good sites to use. It's pretty amazing, too, just how many kids use pumps these days. It's more the rule than the exception.

[PhillyGirl]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41787410/ns/health-addictions/?fb_ref=story_header&fb_source=home_oneline

[PhillyPhreak54]

One of my vendors from work had a heart attack the other night

What should I send him in the hospital?

Alcohol, food, coffee - probably not wise to send.

[Susquehanna Birder]

A get well card, maybe?

[Tomahawk]

What do you get for somebody who you haven't seen since college and is in a coma from an OD? I don't know what he ODed on

[Diomedes]

One word answer to both of you:

Nothing.

You aren't that important.  Leave the poor bastich alone.

[Diomedes]

for you fat ass sugar addict diabetics:

Roche recalls some insulin delivery systems:

http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/article_10ea79b6-40f3-11e0-8ee8-001cc4c03286.html

[Susquehanna Birder]

I think that's generally for Type I people who use an insulin pump.

[Yeti]

What do you get for somebody who you haven't seen since college and is in a coma from an OD?

A doctor.

[SunMo]

speaking of caring for people you haven't seen in years


my g/f's sister is in deep mourning for a girl who just killed herself.  this girl was her very best friend through high school, and they hadn't seen each other in years, except for 6 months ago when the dead girl happened to be stripping at a strip club that the sister and boyfriend went into. 

but now, you would've thought that this girl had another sister who died, multiple facebook updates, constant crying.  i mean, it all seems self-indulgent to me.  if you cared about the girl that much you would've talked to her more than once (by accident) in six years.

[Diomedes]

holy crap, doesn't your girlfriend have someone to talk to about this shtein other than you?

i don't wanna hear it.