Meat Poll

[Painted Calls]

@DavidReaves and @Overo Mare I am sorry you both had to go through so much. I am reading your posts and it breaks my heart. It takes a lot of strength and bravery to face those things.

Thanks Jed.

It was a long hard journey in the end. He wound up losing both legs and most fingers to the calciphylaxis. Then it started to kill his bowels. I made the decision to feed him via TPN. We were in ICU for 9 months. I stayed by his side the entire time. He was my world.

My advice is to pay attention to your health and do everything preventatively to avoid having to go through that type of crap. It's not just hard on your own body. It's hard on the family as well.

 

[azurbanclucker]

How I like it?

"scare it with a match"

How I have to eat it?
Med rare to medium.

My stomach just can't handle it unless it's cooked a bit more. my gut flora is... funky.

 

[Kiki]

I don't know of anything that will help. In the 20s, kids still have a sense of immortality. I did see people in dialysis from both types of diabetes and the related hypertension. Many were missing a foot, or a leg, or both. Some were blind. Others had heart disease that was caused, or made worse, by diabetes.

If they'd listen, I would say do something now. Don't wait until it is too late to decide to do something. I don't that they'll listen, though. I was in the dialysis center 2 times a week with a 30 year old man that was blind. He wouldn't control his type 1 diabetes. It killed his kidneys, his eyes, and based on his attitude has long since killed him. He just didn't care.

I'd like to choke to death the people that don't care.
Like actually choke them.
I don't understand it. I think it is extremely stupid.

 

[JedJackson]

Thanks Jed.

It was a long hard journey in the end. He would up losing both legs and most fingers to the calciphylaxis. Then it started to kill his bowels. I made the decision to feed him via TPN. We were in ICU for 9 months. I stayed by his side the entire time. He was my world.

My advice is to pay attention to your health and do everything preventatively to avoid having to go through that type of crap. It's not just hard on your own body. It's hard on the family as well.

It's a good reminder for us all to take care of ourselves. And to live every day to the fullest. I wish things had been different for you and your husband.

 

[NanaK]

My advice is to pay attention to your health and do everything preventatively to avoid having to go through that type of crap. It's not just hard on your own body. It's hard on the family as well.

So very well said. I had 2 transplants in my family. My father had a heart transplant and was then diagnosed with cancer. His baby brother had a kidney transplant.
I was my father's main care giver and his doctors were almost 3 hours away. Lots of biopsies and nights in the hospital and driving. You do what you have to. I learned to do a lot of medical things I never dreamed I could do. The nurses were wonderful. All this time I was also raising a small child. Family made it possible. They are both in heaven now.
The uncles kidney transplant was in the 1970's. The immunosuppressants over time destroyed his heart and joints. But he and wife raised 2 kids. He had a great outlook.
Dad did good for a while with the heart but the cancer was tough being immunosuppressed.
@DavidReaves and Mare I wish you both the very best!

 

[CatLoverLu]

Still mooing.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Medium is fine for me. Medium rare I can do but I have to be really hongry. Kind of like eating yard bird.