In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Saturday, February 28, 2026 12:18
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Friday, February 27, 2026 8:43 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

SIX you can't sue them. Lawsuits follow the "no harm, no foul" principle. And even if you suffered permanent harm with a monetary value attached, you'd have an incredibly hard time winning since Drs are allowed to make mistakes. It takes heaven and earth to prove malpractice.

You know what they say about the difference between doctors and engineers?
"Doctors bury their mistakes, engineers have to live with theirs".

Oh, here's another:
"Q: What's the difference between surgeons and God?
A: God doesn't think he's a surgeon!“

And, one about lawyers:
"Q: What do you call six lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start"

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Friday, February 27, 2026 8:45 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

BRENDA, I doubt you'll see this, but thanks for the explanation.

And, yeah ... it WAS a bad week!

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Friday, February 27, 2026 10:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

What do you call 6 doctors at the bottom of the ocean?

A good start.

We need to change their protections.

I've got CGM logs that prove what they did to me. Or at least what they would have done to me if I was as stupid as Ted or Second, anyhow. This isn't hearsay.

I'm writing logs on everything, and my old man will see it all first thing when he comes in the door a week from now when he's trying to call me about what day to come over and I'm not answering because my blood sugar went too low. Not saying that's going to happen, because I don't think it will, but if it does...

The doctor who made it very clear that it was extremely important that I got the X-Rays yesterday was not in today either, and I doubt very much she'll be in until at least Monday. Not a single other person has reached out to me to go over my X-Rays and tell me what the next step is or if I need to be on other meds, as she alluded I would be depending on the X-Ray results.

As of this morning, 23 hours after I got the X-Ray, they still hadn't gotten it. Not only that, but when I explained the high glucose situation and the fact that I'm now basically a Type I and Type II Diabetic at the same time because of these steroids, the girl working behind the computer had the gall to tell me "because of what you're telling me right now, I would recommend not taking anymore of the steroid". I told her "all due respect, but everything I've read about this drug says DO NOT STOP TAKING IT UNLESS A DOCTOR ORDERS YOU TO STOP TAKING IT".

So I called the facility where I got the X-Rays and they swore up and down that it was already sent to them. I told them that they told me that they never got it. So she sent me the X-Rays directly to my email. I'm glad I kept her on the phone, because it was in a password protected zip file. At least she had that. But then I opened it and it was a blank form that didn't say anything about me except for my name and my Sex. Everything pertinent was either "N/A" or "No information on file". So she said she was going to "try something else and send it to me again". She had no interest in staying on the phone while that happened, although she told me she would be resending it to the place where I got my scripts.

This time I got a real form with real results. Not any of the X-rays themselves, but a one page form with a bunch of doctor-speak about the results.

It has now been 2 full days and several hours since my initial visit. I still have not been contacted by anybody there. My only conversations have been with the desk jockeys, and that's only because I called them. Every time I've been told that a "provider" would be calling me back, whatever that means, but nobody has called me yet.

They have my phone number. They have my email. No contact whatsoever.

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Friday, February 27, 2026 10:36 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Trust me, SIX, you'll get nowhere bc you don't have a winnable case. We have “been there and done that“ with our daughter’s catastrophic birth, and lackadaisical followup and misdiagnosis for the first three years of her life and got nowhere.

Even if you were to die, your family couldn't prove malpractice. The best they could get would be "wrongful death".

Find something else to be pissed off about bc this will just eat a hole in your stomach.

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Saturday, February 28, 2026 12:39 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Trust me, SIX, you'll get nowhere bc you don't have a winnable case. We have “been there and done that“ with our daughter’s catastrophic birth, and lackadaisical followup and misdiagnosis for the first three years of her life and got nowhere.

Even if you were to die, your family couldn't prove malpractice. The best they could get would be "wrongful death".

Find something else to be pissed off about bc this will just eat a hole in your stomach.

Yeah... if the Methylprednisone or whatever it's called doesn't do that first. That's just one of the 30 or so super-dangerous side effects this drug can cause. Major stomach ulcerations and perforated colons and whatnot.

I used to crap every morning right when I woke up before I started taking it. Just occurred to me now that I haven't had a BM in 3 days now too.

This might really be the end this time.

Oh well... Had a good run.

Not really, but after a lifetime of chasing the truth, I think I'll allow myself that one little white lie.

I do have to say that I appreciate that Second hasn't been rubbing this one in my face. I can't imagine it's because he spent his time while this site was down growing a new soul from scratch, but I always hold out hope for everybody. It's not those two dipshits' faults that they're evil little pricks today. They're not the real enemy. The real enemy is the one that got us all talking this way at each other in the first place.

They know not what they do.

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Saturday, February 28, 2026 5:10 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Oh, it's not worth being a drama queen over, SIX. Just remember that if your blood sugar gets to 390, call 911. Make the medical professionals work for their money!

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Saturday, February 28, 2026 7:01 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I'm not one for melodrama.

Put the glucose stuff aside... I'm more worried about the report that said the X-Rays didn't show any signs of pneumonia and something along the lines of a differential showing that whatever the radiologist saw being either malignant or a vestigial infection, which is why they're recommending the CT scan. (I don't have it right in front of me now).

That and the fact that my heartbeat is around 135bpm right now (I'm always high, even when healthy... usually around the 90-95 range, but I've never been up to anything over 120, even when I was working out, busting ass at a job that had a bpm machine, etc., and this appears to just be my "resting" heartbeat now.). Strangely enough my blood pressure is fine in the meantime, which boggles my mind because there are times where I can literally feel/hear my heartbeat in my right ear cavity.

At least I've cut down my smoking to about 6-7 cigarettes a day right now. Maybe I'll ask for the patch and try that out if I can get a scrip for them. Probably doesn't matter if I'm type 4 already. I just watched my friend's dad die of this, and my uncle maybe 8 years ago. They both shrivled up and looked like Jesus on the cross before they died, and spend the last week pissing and shitting themselves before they went.

I won't be doing any of that. If that's the case I'm going to get a shit ton of weed gummies from my friend, fire up my car in my garage with some good tunes on and go to sleep one last time.

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Saturday, February 28, 2026 12:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Well.. I think I can say one thing for all of the illicit drugs, alcohol, nicotine and caffeine I've ingested over the years. I think my body absorbs new stuff quite a bit better than most other folk.

Not going to say that managing this steroid is "easy" or that it's not still having an effect on my insulin resistance still, but the 2nd 24 hour period which is over in a few more hours has been significantly easier to manage than the first. I'll chalk some of that up to being armed with knowledge going into the 5-pill day, over complete ignorance of the first 6-pill day, but I only went over 200 once in the 2nd 24 hour period, and it wasn't by much and not for long either. Unfortunately, I did probably have about 12 glucose tabs because of going too low while I was sleeping and being woke by the blaring alarm, or just being awake and catching myself in the 75 and falling range. I actually did take advantage of those times and eat some legitimate carbs too, with peanut butter since that has carbs too but does a great job of spreading out whatever other carbs you eat with it over time rather than allowing for hard spikes all at once. I never took a single direct bolus shot, and managed everything with the very heavy basal drip.

Way better than spending 3/5ths of the day over 300 and not being able to bring it back down no matter what I did, that's for sure.

It's strange that I only had a 30 unit basal from the pen right before I took the 2nd batch of pills too, despite using way less insulin from my current pod. I know that this pod will be thrown away well before 3 days even with the full 200 units put in, but I'm surprised at how well I was able to manage the 2nd day when I did all of that reading on reddit where people were saying they went into keto-acidosis or were just resigned to be over 300 the entire time they were on the drug.

Knowing this, I'd better really be careful on day 3, now that I'll only be taking 4 pills. I think I might up the pen to 50 basal units today after taking the pills, and lowering my hourly intake from 7 to only 3 and putting a percentage multiplier UP or down on that instead of only using DOWN multipliers on the 7 and outright pausing the insulin delivery for hours at a time when I would go low.

I've only ever taken steroids one other time in my life, when I was a teenager and suffered a Poison Oak outbreak that forced me to quarantine myself from my friends the last few weeks of summer of Junior Year with head to toe nastiness, and Aveeno baths. So I'm kind of surprised to see how well my body has adjusted to it already given everything I've read and the experiences other people have had while on the drug.

The cough is still there for sure, but I'm due for another inhaler and whatever anti-coughing pill they gave me. It's not a cough I can't control though.. more of a light wheeze after holding it back.

Unfortunately, when I do get something up it still tastes pretty vile and looks just as bad as ever, but the amount of lung bits that come up are about 1%-2% of what was coming up before I was put on any of the drugs.

Still feel weak and shitty, but part of that is probably that I haven't had any coffee for 2 days now, and the few days before that my coffee intake was only about 1/2 of usual. I'm surprised my head isn't just throbbing right now due to caffeine withdrawals. I haven't had any ibuprofen for a few days now, come to think of it.

Getting tons of sleep and drinking tons of water. Peeing a ton, even when the blood sugar is low, so that's annoying to have to keep waking up to take care of that business. Still no urge to BM after 4 days, but I know I haven't been eating as much as I usually do.

I don't think I've actually been hungry now for about 2 weeks, but I've never felt I needed to force food down. I didn't eat last night before going to sleep, which is odd for me, but I have been eating during the day before taking the pills, and like I said, yesterday I had peanut butter and dry cereal several times during low sugar events, so I probably ate as much as I usually do, but it was spread out over time instead of before I go to sleep. I'm sure being sick helped with being able to fall asleep easy, but last night was the first night in a long time where I had no problem sleeping without eating beforehand. Quite a feat for a person who's suffered insomnia for more than 4 decades now.

I'm really hoping that whatever I cough up today starts looking more like something that humans should be coughing up now that we're getting into day 3. I only have 3 more Z-Pack pills left, and I've only got 4 more days of the steroid. Hoping for some dark green crap and not fleshy colored poison puss when something comes up today.

Low energy for sure right now, but I probably do feel better than I have in weeks right now.

I like the way everything is trending. I'm just afraid that after I'm off the meaningful drugs that I'll just immediately backslide into where I was 3 days ago.

Finger's crossed.

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