California. 62. Been driving a manual for over 40 years. Most recently a six-speed.

Being treated like shit.

What did this dumb shit expect?

Were you able to get out of it? That’s an obscene charge.

Aetna pulled out of my county for five months. I ended up in a ICU for three days, which is about a $50,000 bill.

So now I’m on the hook for an $8,000 out of network deductible.

Fuck U.S. health insurance.

Good point.

Asshole.

Hang in!

Ive had diabetic ketoacidosis a few times. Once it starts coming on you can’t eat Anything. For a couple days or more.

Then the treatment is ice chips and IV insulin for a few days.

Coming out of it, your stomach is the size of a walnut and the thought of eating makes you want to make you puke.

My roads back to eating:

Broth from ramen cups. Liquid meal replacements. If you have a soy allergy, take a close look at the ingredients. Miso broth.

Drinkable yogurt.

Bland pasta with just olive oil.

Granola bars.

My experience is that I eventually get hungry again.

Best of luck dealing with your situation.

Edit: per others, chicken soup (I can get the broth down) and Pedialyte or Gatorlyte. Getting dehydrated does not help.

That’s what I heard too. But it turned out to be great. I haven’t had it since, sadly.

Bear stew.

My landlord shot it and cooked it.

I thought it would be awful … But it was delicious!

Mostly sticking with ham these days.

Similar situation here. There’s two of us and my SOs veg kids. It doesn’t make sense to make a lot of anything.

Turkey is bland anyway, and I don’t want to be eating one for two weeks.

Frankly, I’d rather live under a freeway overpass. Or just die.

I am immunocompromised from cancer.

You have no idea how much these absolute morons piss me off.

Damn – sorry!.

I ended up with a dermatologist who prescribed a steroid cream called triamcinoclone. But that was for diagnosed ectopic dermatitis.

I must say though, that diagnosis kind of covers anything that itches.

I had horrible skin problems after getting pneumonia.

Short term solution: Gold Bond makes a liquid with 2% lidocaine. It helped me get through some spikes in itchiness.

Good luck!

You really need a Vegas odds maker and and epigenetics expert to figure the over and under.

I’m 62 I’m hoping to work to 65-70 to get as much as I can before I kick the bucket.

You can start at 62 but you get twice as much if you wait until 70.

What a gamble.

Fraud.

93% according to the article.