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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe clinic is especially quiet today.
If anyone wants anecdotal evidence, at least, of that 5.9% unemployment rate, and a decrease in the homeless population, this is it.
Yesterday was an odd one, too. The morning was slammed, and the afternoon was slow.
Hey, if I had to pack up and leave because there were no more homeless to treat, I'd be fine with that.
Thank you, President Obama!...
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Don't work yourself out of a job, buddy.
Aristus
(66,465 posts)I work there every Friday when the homeless clinic is closed.
They're always slammed over there...
elleng
(131,129 posts)OK. 'doc,' what's 'good,' normal, average blood sugar #? Had blood drawn yesterday for my doc, for various reasons, and while I didn't get the #, they/he says 'slightly high, so watch carbs + exrercise etc.') Tested today after lunch with one of those finger things my friend has, and it was 116. Will I survive???
Same crowd at my doc's lab yesterday as you, slammed in the morning so I returned later when the wait (for blood draw) was only a few minutes.
Aristus
(66,465 posts)If so, then 116 is normal (70-120 is optimal for diabetic patients).
If not, then it's a little elevated. Non-diabetic patients should have a blood sugar around 100 or so...
elleng
(131,129 posts)He may consider me 'pre-diabetic,' whatever that means,so I'm trying to understand this.
Aristus
(66,465 posts)they now call 'Impaired Fasting Glucose'.
Did you undergo a lab test called Hemoglobin A1C? Normal is a reading of 5.5% or below. 6.5% is full-blown diabetes. 5.6% to 6.4% is Impaired Fasting Glucose.
elleng
(131,129 posts)don't have the order with me, and didn't ask the person who phoned me what the numbers were. I was fasting.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)ACA IS WORKING! Thanks to those people how could not get Medicaid type help and could not afford health care, now can. And thanks to the other things Repukes are *blaming* him for, we are now seeing them come into play!
So PLEASE keeping *blaming him and pointing out all the Democrats that supported it. We will have a pure blue government yet!