Seriously.

I'll give you $1,000

Whats your minimum?

Seems pretty useless, plus it prolly would make a good conversation stater, especially if you made up a cool story about what happened to it.

Villian,

probably $250K

Oh yeah, don't you rock climb and go hiking a lot? That probably adds to the personal value of your big toe.

Villian, how's your eyesight? That's the real diabetes nightmare scenario for me. Apart from a heart attack or ketosis obv.

yeah, would be super hard to climb without a big toe. Otherwise it probably wouldn't be that big a deal.

Plus it's a great way to dodge the WW3 draft.

can't toe the line

I have always had pretty terrible eyesight and my vision has gotten worse but I'm not sure if that's just age or the diabetes. I'm only 33 though, so yeah

Allo looks alright but alright isn't good enough.

It's separate from Duo? Seriously? How do you **** this up? Duo is the video messaging app they have very similar to FaceTime. The way it handles texting is pretty bad, unlike signal which is completely seamless. Still it can actually handle texting unlike telegram or Whatsapp so I guess there's that. The encryption is nice and frankly mandatory but that Google Assistant thing is pretty creepy and I'm not entirely convinced Google has no interest in my conversations. I downloaded it and we'll use it over texting for sure but I'm not going to bother anymore people when WhatsApp and Signal work just as well or better

Do they not scan your eyes regularly?

Not that I know of. I just see an eye doctor whenever I'm told to.

This whole diibedus thing is very new. It was brought to my attention because of a nasty cut I got on my shin a little over a year ago. I took Tryactin. (try acting like a man, get it?)

Bad idea. Foot swelled hard in Hilton head, ended up getting some crazy **** pumped into me in Charleston that my reg Doc thought was odd but his stuff didn't work. He told me to check back in a couple weeks if it didn't heal up. I didn't. I took some more Tryactin.

I'm not a very good patient. Get me in there and you can do whatever but getting me there is the problem.

For example, I didn't know about the diabetes until my foot was number for at least 2 weeks, my toenail was black and just ****ed up looking and my shin was still black.

I can post some pre-op pics. I guarantee I would win any ugly shin/foot contest.

Damn, Vill, that sucks, man. I have a cousin with diabetes who's pushing 50 and she's lost a few toes and a kidney and been in the hospital on the regular for as long as I can remember. I don't think she takes optimum care of herself, though, so that probably plays a big part. Pretty sure that at some point she's going to end up losing a leg because her circulation is so bad. Take care of yourself and hopefully you won't end up like her. I can't even imagine what her medical debt looks like. Do you at least have good insurance?

Chase,

I put a huge edit into my post after you replied.

I'm sorry about your cousin. That sucks. From what I've been told from friends is they just keep chopping **** off. I'm new to this world. I think lifestyle has a lot to do with it. I've always been quasi athletic but also enjoy a beer or ten after the game. I've also eaten like crap most of my life. My kidneys are solid. Pancreas and liver, meh.

I am under my "whatever you wanna call her's" insurance which I personally pay about $600 a month for good insurance. Imputed something or other increases the price.

I have no idea how much chopping a toe off costs but I'm hoping it's covered. I wear clean socks a lot so I'm hoping it's covered.

You could get a fake toe and set kids up to think they cut it off somehow. I'm really jealous.

I'm going to wait until ocTOEbir to look into that. Could be fun for Halloween.

Edit...

It's a toe and a foot though. A missing pinky and hand would probably be more fun.

Man, the big toe kinda sucks.

I'd almost rather just lose the leg and have a boomerang below the knee or whatever. I could use it to defend myself and run like the wind. A big toe is kinda lame.

You're losing a foot???

Nah. Just the left big toe.

I meant with regards to a missing digit, a missing digit on a hand >>>>>>>> missing digit on foot when it comes to Halloween.

Lucky

Villian,

Sorry to hear about the foot.

Definitely get your eyes checked. You can do that at your local Costco or Walmart optometrist, just ask for a fundus photography exam, they don't even have to dilate you. I work on this area and can tell you that many people have no idea their eyes are going to **** until it's too late. If you catch diabetic eye disease early it is manageable, if you catch it late (like, when you already see black dots in your vision) then it's expensive to treat and a pain to manage.

El Timon,

Thank you for the advice. I've had black dots (2 total, one is bigger than the other) for awhile. It's usually when I wake up or am trying to go to sleep and only happens in my one eye. I'll be seeing my local optometrist on Monday because of your post. I need new glasses anyway.

The optometrist is billing the fundus test under medical but also billing the vision insurance. Standard?


Lol. Sometimes I feel like a cat trying to catch the dot by shifting my eyes.

Your vision insurance usually covers glasses, contacts, and some eye exams, but probably not the diabetic eye examination which has its own particular billing code. That's where the medical insurance comes in. They can also bill the photography as an out of pocket expense, but if you are a diagnosed diabetic the medical insurance should cover it.

My dad was Type 1 diabetic for most of his life. Nothing was ever cut off and he had no major eye issues. He followed all medical advice including lifestyle and diet recommendations. Diabetes is nasty if untreated but needs to be continuously treated in all ways.

In college I had a friend who lost one of his big toes in a lawnmower accident. He would wear sandals everywhere and the missing toe was a huge conversation starter... so there's that.

Sorry to hear about it though

El Timon,

I guess my vision coverage isn't the best because I usually have to pay for the glasses (I get the bendy frames) out of pocket but they've always paid for any exams. This was the first time the optometrist asked for medical insurance info. He usually just uses the vision and I pay for sweet rims on my lenses (I think the lenses are covered depending on what kind I get). I just asked my primary doc to send a referral over to the eye doctor. Hopefully that helps.

Thanks again for stressing the importance of getting my eyes checked. I'm accustomed to poor vision so I don't always think about it.

Edit... I guess I should look into which eye doctors my medical ins approves. My MO has always been to pick docs that accept the "premier plus plan" instead of the standard "premier plan" if that makes any sense.