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Post by thekindaguyiyam on Apr 14, 2018 12:57:33 GMT -5
Digger, You could improve your bedside manners, IMHO. I would think it would matter a great deal when a person with this disease shares her triumph with family, friends and diabetic brothers and sisters, then receives such a cold blooded reply questioning her integrity. :-( I'm not questioning any one person's integrity. It's just almost every day I'm reading about how the social media is being used to manipulate people. It's the integrity of the social media overall that I've come to doubt. In fact, my own twitter account was hacked a couple of years ago; I practically never used it, but when I happened to check it one morning I found out that at some point I had changed my name to "Charlene" and I had been busy encouraging bachelors to find wives in Malaysia. Hey Charlene; while I wouldn't dis-miss the idea that Malaysian women might make good wives; you might consider too that everything you communicate by way of google or purchase on amazon will profile you as well.
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Post by babaoriley on Apr 14, 2018 15:41:53 GMT -5
No more questions are being taken, they’re being sorted, summarized and sent off on Monday:-) Sports, did you include my question about the lunch spots? It's important to me. And, as you well know, people only do what is in their best interests! Also, will the Yellow Brick Road to the meeting be clearly marked so that everyone that wants to go, gets there (on time)? You know how people get lost in LA so easily - especially people from the Midwest, you know, when there's a hill in their way, they get confused. Fortunately for some, lakes are flat.
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Post by liane on Apr 14, 2018 15:45:02 GMT -5
Fortunately for some, lakes are flat. They walk on water?
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Post by mnholdem on Apr 14, 2018 17:59:07 GMT -5
Midwesterners are resourceful people, baba. They'll show up with a fishing pole or golf clubs (or both) in the trunk, along with a tent and a pair of binoculars to look for the area with the most oak trees. After all, Thousand Oaks didn't get its name by accident! They won't go hungry if they get lost because midwesterners usually pack a cooler with food and drink whenever traveling. Californians freak out when they miss an exit or slow traffic causes them to miss Happy Hour. We bring our Happy Hour with us. I've also informed my fellow midwesterners that if it gets dark and they are still lost, to simply get out of the car and scan the horizon with their binoculars. If they see lightning flashes over a hill, they should drive in that direction. It won't be a thunderstorm they see, but the camera flashes of 20-40 guys taking photos of Sports. If all else fails, break out the tent and grab the beer cooler, Jack Daniels and bags of beef jerky. Have a sampler bottle of tequila on hand, because you'll only need to make one marguerita and Sports will find you (her entourage in tow). Pack up immediately, because when Sports realizes that you only have enough tequila for one drink, she'll immediately head back to the hotel in Thousand Oaks. Just follow and you'll arrive in Thousand Oaks via the shortest possible route. If you lose her car on the way back, just wait patiently. It won't be long before Sports returns to the hotel and you start seeing the lightning flashes again.
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Post by sportsrancho on Apr 14, 2018 18:08:21 GMT -5
Oh my goodness! You too are drinking already:-))
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Post by babaoriley on Apr 14, 2018 18:17:38 GMT -5
Midwesterners are resourceful people, baba. They'll show up with a fishing pole or golf clubs (or both) in the trunk, along with a tent and a pair of binoculars to look for the area with the most oak trees. After all, Thousand Oaks didn't get its name by accident! They won't go hungry if they get lost because midwesterners usually pack a cooler with food and drink whenever traveling. Californians freak out when they miss an exit or slow traffic causes them to miss Happy Hour. We bring our Happy Hour with us. I've also informed my fellow midwesterners that if it gets dark and they are still lost, to simply get out of the car and scan the horizon with their binoculars. If they see lightning flashes over a hill, they should drive in that direction. It won't be a thunderstorm they see, but the camera flashes of 20-40 guys taking photos of Sports. If all else fails, break out the tent and grab the beer cooler, Jack Daniels and bags of beef jerky. Have a sampler bottle of tequila on hand, because you'll only need to make one marguerita and Sports will find you (her entourage in tow). Pack up immediately, because when Sports realizes that you only have enough tequila for one drink, she'll immediately head back to the hotel in Thousand Oaks. Just follow and you'll arrive in Thousand Oaks via the shortest possible route. If you lose her car on the way back, just wait patiently. It won't be long before Sports returns to the hotel and you start seeing the lightning flashes again. Who let the dog(s) out, woof, woof, woof!!!
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Post by mnholdem on Apr 14, 2018 18:34:04 GMT -5
I should have been golfing today (like last year at this time) or at Target field watching the Minnesota Twins spanking another baseball team, but Mother Nature saw fit to dump 12" of snow (with another 24 hours to go). Today, I've weight lifted three times in my home gym, fixed a leaking air duct and watched The Last Jedi. It was only after 4pm CDT that I broke into my winter survival kit and poured a stiff drink (I really miss my Saint Benards). I noticed you wrote "too", Sports. I imagine that you are poolside with a marguerita in hand. Well, all I can say is...CHEERS!
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Post by sportsrancho on Apr 14, 2018 19:06:32 GMT -5
I should have been golfing today (like last year at this time) or at Target field watching the Minnesota Twins spanking another baseball team, but Mother Nature saw fit to dump 12" of snow (with another 24 hours to go). Today, I've weight lifted three times in my home gym, fixed a leaking air duct and watched The Last Jedi. It was only after 4pm CDT that I broke into my winter survival kit and poured a stiff drink (I really miss my Saint Benards). I noticed you wrote "too", Sports. I imagine that you are poolside with a marguerita in hand. Well, all I can say is...CHEERS! Lol, cheers to you both!
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Post by babaoriley on Apr 14, 2018 19:13:54 GMT -5
It's going to be an interesting AGM! Hope you can come out, Holdem, and maybe have a drink or two right before the meeting, Bloody Mary's should do the trick. Mike will have to hire extra security! It's shaping up to be like the gold rush or Oklahoma land grab out here!
As far as your day, well what a coincidence, 85 degrees - way too hot to be outdoors (so I feel your pain), took my wife to breakfast at a trendy spot in the new, revitalized downtown LA. Went to the office for a short time, came home, polished up my High School Chess Team medal (4 year Letterman and Sports says she can't stop thinking of me ever since I told her that 15 minutes after meeting her). Just finished my first drink of the evening, an ice water and cranberry juice, heading out to dinner soon at an old fashioned Italian restaurant, red leather booths and all, and likely will down a couple of Arnold Palmers there! May get into a fight or something there, it's a rough crowd of octogenarians, who can down the hard liquor!
Just another day in SoCal!
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Post by digger on Apr 14, 2018 21:09:26 GMT -5
I'm not questioning any one person's integrity. It's just almost every day I'm reading about how the social media is being used to manipulate people. It's the integrity of the social media overall that I've come to doubt. In fact, my own twitter account was hacked a couple of years ago; I practically never used it, but when I happened to check it one morning I found out that at some point I had changed my name to "Charlene" and I had been busy encouraging bachelors to find wives in Malaysia. Hey Charlene; while I wouldn't dis-miss the idea that Malaysian women might make good wives; you might consider too that everything you communicate by way of google or purchase on amazon will profile you as well. Tell me about it. I look up any product on Amazon and I'm guaranteed to see ads for that product popping up on every web page I open thereafter. The odd thing is that afrezza is about the only product that I can google and not see a single solitary ad about it afterwards.
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Post by digger on Apr 14, 2018 21:44:45 GMT -5
It says the FDA has required "a five-year, randomized, controlled trial in 8,000-10,000 patients with type 2 diabetes to assess the potential serious risk of pulmonary malignancy with AFREZZA use ."
The study I knew about but I wasn't aware it was restricted to type 2 diabetics. Is that correct?
Given current standards of care, accumulating 8-10 thousand type 2 patients could take quite a long time. Is there a deadline for completion of the study?
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Post by thekindaguyiyam on Apr 14, 2018 22:26:16 GMT -5
Hey Charlene; while I wouldn't dis-miss the idea that Malaysian women might make good wives; you might consider too that everything you communicate by way of google or purchase on amazon will profile you as well. Tell me about it. I look up any product on Amazon and I'm guaranteed to see ads for that product popping up on every web page I open thereafter. The odd thing is that afrezza is about the only product that I can google and not see a single solitary ad about it afterwards. We agree on that point. If MNKD spent some of those advertising bucks on popup advertisement re: anything to do with Diabetes and especially ALL FIASP News Stories; getting aggressive with our competition capturing their audience showing the superiority of Afrezza comparison to Fiasp would be a positive thing to do. here's the reference to the profiling I've mentioned by Google and Amazon: mashable.com/2018/04/14/google-amazon-facebook-cambridge-analytica/#gwIEjW36pPqu
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