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caseydog said:
That's borderline sidewall. I assume you don't do a lot of long-distance highway driving, so a patch should be okay. 10mm further outside and that would require a new tire. You got lucky.

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At the present time, "long distance driving" to us is 200km and that is very rare. Maximum speed? Probably 100km/hr.
 
Just found out that my young nephew was rushed into hospital yesterday after collapsing. He's 8 years old and has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. :( The family have a pretty healthy diet luckily; mum is a primary school headmistress and vegetarian, father, like my husband is a good cook as well, so they should manage it OK once they get their head around the changes they'll need to make. They are hoping to have him home for Christmas, by a day, but the hospital are keeping him in for now. They are already talking about an insulin pump for him. He has an uncle (on father's side) with type 1 and another with type 2, and I know there is glaucoma in the family as well...

Not what was needed or wanted for Christmas. It nearly killed his uncle before he was diagnosed. I don't know how bad it got for him to be admitted but I can guess.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Just found out that my young nephew was rushed into hospital yesterday after collapsing. He's 8 years old and has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. :( The family have a pretty healthy diet luckily; mum is a primary school headmistress and vegetarian, father, like my husband is a good cook as well, so they should manage it OK once they get their head around the changes they'll need to make. They are hoping to have him home for Christmas, by a day, but the hospital are keeping him in for now. They are already talking about an insulin pump for him. He has an uncle (on father's side) with type 1 and another with type 2, and I know there is glaucoma in the family as well...

Not what was needed or wanted for Christmas. It nearly killed his uncle before he was diagnosed. I don't know how bad it got for him to be admitted but I can guess.
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A very good friend of mine has type one diabetes. He is my age (60-ish) and he lives a very good life. With type one diabetes, it takes more than diet to keep it under control. I hope he has a good doctor. My friend has this automatic insulin testing thing with an insulin pump. It works well, although it is a bit of a PITA. It is way better than what he had to do 20 years ago. He doesn't have to go to the men's room and stick himself with a needle anymore.

If your nephew gets on a good treatment plan, it may be annoying, but he'll be fine. BTW, my fiend has a very positive attitude, and that helps a lot.

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caseydog said:
A very good friend of mine has type one diabetes. He is my age (60-ish) and he lives a very good life. With type one diabetes, it takes more than diet to keep it under control. I hope he has a good doctor. My friend has this automatic insulin testing thing with an insulin pump. It works well, although it is a bit of a PITA. It is way better than what he had to do 20 years ago. He doesn't have to go to the men's room and stick himself with a needle anymore.

If your nephew gets on a good treatment plan, it may be annoying, but he'll be fine. BTW, my fiend has a very positive attitude, and that helps a lot.

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We know the routine very well sadly. I've known my BIL since before he was diagnosed as an adult with type 1. It very nearly killed him before diagnosis and not just because he collapsed into the path of an oncoming vehicle before being rushed into hospital in a coma.

So we've 2 family members with type 1, and 3 with type 2 diabetes, plus 1 with glaucoma. Plus I can present as type 1 when I'm ill but am not actually diabetic. It's the 2ndary Addison's I have that means my body can't always cope because I don't produce cortisol at all (so my body doesn't know to adjust when I'm ill), so i sometimes end up on insulin whilst I'm recovering from whatever made me ill in the first place. It's not uncommon for my blood sugar reading to be 3.0mmol/L (54 mg/dL) or lower first thing in the morning. I'm often badly hypokalaemic as well just to add to the 'fun'. It's all part of Addison's disease.

My BIL for some reason though still tests and injects but he's never bothered going to the men's room, he just gets on with it at the table.

Our nephew will be OK further down the line. He'll adjust better than an adult would because it will be part of his life and become 'normal' for him in the long term. He's just got to adjust first and learn to handle/control/understand the condition as have his parents and that's the hard part.
 
TastyReuben said:
Cold one today, it’s currently 17F/-8C with a windchill of 11C/-11C. 🥶
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That arctic air mass is on its way here. Only 25F/-4C on Friday.

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caseydog said:
That arctic air mass is on its way here. Only 25F/-4C on Friday.
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Yeah, they're all over the local news predicting Coldmageddon or Coldpocolypse, or whatever they end up calling it, predicting wind gusts of 40-50mph, with flash freeze warnings, because the temps are supposed to drop significantly and rapidly, starting around Thursday night. They're saying not to be surprised if we see windchill temps in the -20F/-29C on Friday with blowing snow.

My only concern, because I don't plan to be outside after Thursday morning (dentist), is if we lose power. If that happens, we're in for a rough day.
 
TastyReuben said:
Yeah, they're all over the local news predicting Coldmageddon or Coldpocolypse, or whatever they end up calling it, predicting wind gusts of 40-50mph, with flash freeze warnings, because the temps are supposed to drop significantly and rapidly, starting around Thursday night. They're saying not to be surprised if we see windchill temps in the -20F/-29C on Friday with blowing snow.

My only concern, because I don't plan to be outside after Thursday morning (dentist), is if we lose power. If that happens, we're in for a rough day.
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I think power will be okay here. It is not supposed to get as cold as the Big Freeze of two years ago.

I am flying to Houston on Friday, so it will be VERY cold when I leave for the airport -- about 15F/-9C.

It will be cold in Houston, too. It won't be the usual tee-shirt and shorts Christmas this year. :laugh:

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