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[-] justaman123@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

And here I thought I was special with my AuDHD

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

You are. My wife is. It's extra fun.

The two times I've been officially diagnosed the provider has told me that I am the most severe case they have ever seen.

With my first diagnosis, my wife had been investigating the idea because her friend told her that she thought I should get checked out. And then once she agreed to that the friend said, oh and by the way, you should also get checked out.

So when she got her diagnosis that provider said she was the most severe he had ever seen until he met me and then it changed to me. LOL

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

isn't that just classic trade mongering though.

Every electrician I've ever had has come to me ashen faced after taking a look at the electrics and decrying the mortal feat of engineering that almost cost them their lives.

Every builder I've every had has told me how the last guy was such a cowboy for skirting around unwritten compliance codes that every builder should know.

Drama queens, all of them, all to drum up business

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

It makes sense why you guys were attracted to each other.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Very very much so :)

[-] justaman123@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Oh man, hope you're surviving the declining empire capitalist hellscape

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

The bad news is that I definitely am not. In brief, when I was diagnosed with diabetes back in 2007, that was about the same time. I got my ADHD diagnosis and I didn't have health insurance because I struggled to keep work.

When I got that diabetes diagnosis, they put me on metformin and when that didn't kick things down they've increased the dosage. But that didn't work, because when you're poor, you eat carbs and well. I need to cut out sugar. I didn't know about carbs, they said well. I'm sorry that's what you can afford.

So I went unmanaged for a decade, till I had a saddle pulmonary embolism in 2017. We had been stuck in a small town where I absolutely could not find work, so I convinced my wife I had to look. So moved from Florida to Virginia because I found work up here, got insurance. I've been working on getting my health under control and doing pretty well with that these days except.

Because of all that damage from 10 years of unmanaged diabetes, I've had seven heart attacks, my kidneys have failed, so I'm on dialysis, and have had a bologna amputation on my left leg. Among other lesser medical issues. LOL. I'm a wheelchair user these days as well.

So I definitely have much less life expectancy thanks to this fucking country and these fucking fascists who keep us as the only developed Nation out of 33 who doesn't have some form of universal healthcare.

I'm a little bitter. LOL

So will last, I'm not surviving all that well. Although, considering all these issues I've had, I'm doing relatively well health-wise. Although I'm writing this from the hospital where I've just had to have a procedural on my leg because I was having some blood flow issues there. Thanks to all of the damage. And I really can't afford to lose that leg because I've already lost part of one.

But in case you think I'm trying to ask for sympathy, I'm not. Everyday. I'm glad to be here. I'll take whatever days I have left. I still try and have a positive attitude, and make people smile when I can. It's just life.

Well I'm disappointed in Neil gaiman and his choices be icky towards women, I still love the sandmam series and the character of death. When a character in that series died, and asked death, is this all I get? Death replied. You get the same as everyone else, one lifetime.

I get one lifetime. You get one lifetime. We all get one lifetime. So make of it what you will