The clinic is especially quiet today.

[Aristus]

If anyone wants anecdotal evidence, at least, of that 5.9% unemployment rate, and a decrease in the homeless population, this is it.

Yesterday was an odd one, too. The morning was slammed, and the afternoon was slow.

Hey, if I had to pack up and leave because there were no more homeless to treat, I'd be fine with that.

Thank you, President Obama!...

[Callmecrazy]

1. Yeah , but then YOU'D be unemployed...

Don't work yourself out of a job, buddy.

[Aristus]

2. No. I'd just go to work over at our mainstream clinic.

I work there every Friday when the homeless clinic is closed.

They're always slammed over there...

[elleng]

3. Sounds good.

OK. 'doc,' what's 'good,' normal, average blood sugar #? Had blood drawn yesterday for my doc, for various reasons, and while I didn't get the #, they/he says 'slightly high, so watch carbs + exrercise etc.') Tested today after lunch with one of those finger things my friend has, and it was 116. Will I survive???

Same crowd at my doc's lab yesterday as you, slammed in the morning so I returned later when the wait (for blood draw) was only a few minutes.

[Aristus]

4. Do you have diabetes?

If so, then 116 is normal (70-120 is optimal for diabetic patients).

If not, then it's a little elevated. Non-diabetic patients should have a blood sugar around 100 or so...

[elleng]

5. No, I don't.

He may consider me 'pre-diabetic,' whatever that means,so I'm trying to understand this.

[Aristus]

6. What they used to call 'pre-diabetes' or 'borderline diabetes',

they now call 'Impaired Fasting Glucose'.

Did you undergo a lab test called Hemoglobin A1C? Normal is a reading of 5.5% or below. 6.5% is full-blown diabetes. 5.6% to 6.4% is Impaired Fasting Glucose.

[elleng]

7. Thanks. I don't recall the name of the test,

don't have the order with me, and didn't ask the person who phoned me what the numbers were. I was fasting.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

8. Yep!

ACA IS WORKING! Thanks to those people how could not get Medicaid type help and could not afford health care, now can. And thanks to the other things Repukes are *blaming* him for, we are now seeing them come into play!

So PLEASE keeping *blaming him and pointing out all the Democrats that supported it. We will have a pure blue government yet!