I had several eye surgeries related to my congenital cataracts as a kid, including one where I had to wear an eye patch bandage for a few weeks. I remember being given a Mickey Mouse doll with a circular band-aid over the same eye, similar to my own. I peeled it off right away. Maybe I was a cynical kid.
Because there's a push for insulin affordability, and they look really really really terrible when someone brings up a chart of the rise in the price of insulin over the past few decades.
They fear a Congressional inquiry and federal price caps. Normally, you'd expect a new medicine entering the market to get cheaper as the production ramps up, yet it's gone the opposite direction, even after the patent has expired.
But the patent on this, insulin aspart (humalog is insulin lispro, the competitor), is now expired, so the patent isn't a factor in the cost. The fact it costs 10x more than it did when it was introduced to the market in the mid-90's is just absolutely crazy.
I still remember one particular game in the mid-90s where there was basically a corporation of several "evil" players vs. me and another "good" player. We eventually played to a stalemate where neither side was going to get a clear victory.
Most type 1 diabetics take 2 types of insulin (except for people on pumps). One is your bolus insulin, which is faster acting, usually used before meals or to bring down high blood sugar more quickly. The other is your basal insulin, which is slower acting, typically taken once or twice a day, which provides insulin for your body's background metabolic processes. People on pumps typically just use the bolus type insulin, since the pump can continuously supply small doses every few minutes, which allows for finer tuning more quickly.
Until about 25 years ago, the normal bolus insulin was Regular insulin, which is just like what your body makes. However, injecting it into fat makes it work more slowly, so you'd take it a half hour before eating, and it would peak a couple hours later. Currently bolus insulins are a genetically tweaked version that allows the body to absorb it more quickly, within a few minutes, with a peak in an hour or so. In the human body, there's an even faster phase 1 insulin response, but to get it as a type 1, you'd need to inject insulin into a vein. It can be done, but it is considered extremely dangerous.
Basal insulins are generally regular insulin mixed with something to delay action or modified to do the same. Older ones like NPH needed to be taken roughly every 12 hours, but had a relatively high peak, which sometimes meant you needed to time a snack to deal with that. Newer ones offer a much flatter action curve, and can often be taken just once a day.
As a type 1 diabetic, I feel this. It sure seems like there's a lot more money to be made from me selling insulin, testing supplies, pumps, etc, that I'll need to use for life (29 years and counting) than in finding a cure, which perhaps they can sell me once, or maybe yearly. I know there are people working hard to find a cure, but I also know that they struggle with getting funding.
I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC, then I was able to convert those to Ogg Vorbis at the time for my portable player. Later I converted the FLACs to mp3s, and used Apple's iTunes Match, so I have access to them on various devices for $25/year.
What we need is an oil barrel subscription service. For just $20/mo, they'll deliver a barrel of oil to your house or business. For $25/mo, they'll throw in a bucket of coal. Makes a great holiday gift.
The first time I put them on, I was in a room with a fan, and I thought it'd lost power because I didn't hear it. Took me a second to realize, nope, it was the noise cancellation.
For the content creator, Google's Takeout service will give you an archive of your videos, so if you know you're shutting down, you can get them before then.
It's just really really blurry. I can see colors fine, and if I zoom OSX all the way on my external screen, I can read text. If I only had that vision, I'd probably be able to move around in the world, ie walk to the store, but I'd have a hard time doing many things I take for granted.
I was born with cataracts in both eyes. One was removed when I was a toddler (including the lens), and the other (with better vision) was left alone until I was a teenager at which point I got an artificial lens implant. I can't see ultraviolet out of my eye without a lens as far as I can tell (or maybe I can and just never noticed).
I found out my mom died while I was at work, age 37, after a short illness (I was going to see her the next week), and although I generally kept it together that day, at one point, while talking to one of my staff on the phone, I just completely lost it. I think I cried in a way I hadn't ever before (maybe I've had a fortunate life). What was oddest to me was that I couldn't control it at all, but I was still able to think and even had a conversation with them over Slack while this was happening.