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@Viss @cR0w Its not so much a retirement account, so much as its some hedge manager at a big financial company fucking me, and having zero responsibility when I get fucked.

@cR0w me, making the mistake of checking my retirement accounts this week

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@cR0w not a member of the executive branch AD group.

^{but I can be bought.}

to be honest, I have no idea why I'm subject to corruption training. I'm not customer-facing, nor am I a salesdroid.

its become in internal meme that accepting a pen from a partner company is corruption/bribery. So we all offer each other pens.

@cR0w

why do you wear that stupid shitposting suit?

why do you wear that stupid "I'm not a bullet-proof host, I'm just a malware CDN that protects nazis" suit?

@chillybot @mattblaze seriously it is fucking hard. Especially for most fast food meals.

can't do queso
can't do deli meat
can't do sausage
can't do soup
can't do ramen

Have to be extremely picky, and check out the nutrition values for everything and make good choices.

@Mustardfacial Oh yeah, and I have to avoid most soup, any sausages, any deli meats, all forms of queso, but it is entirely doable.

@Mustardfacial (removed matt because I don't want to spam him) yeah, I'm discovering that for myself as well. Its doable, but it requires effort and documenting everything that I'm putting in my mouth, or will eat a given day.

Before about a month or so ago, I had been giving little notion to my sodium intake. Now? Everything that I can do that has "no salt added" or can be prepared with as little sodium is possible is what I use.

No salt added tomato sauce, No salted added diced tomatoes, fresh, frozen or no salt added vegetables, lean proteins, no salt seasonings, or very light sodium seasonings (e.g. montreal steak seasoning, just the tiniest 1/8th teaspoon of seasoning salt, or the salt/pepper/garlic spice mix from kender) I've been able to consistently stay under 2300mg of sodium per day.

It just takes a lot of prep, and the discipline to stay the course.

@arrjay this packet of paperwork had been sitting on my desk for a month. Nobody had mentioned "get this shit done now, and schedule the bloodwork inside immediately."

@mattblaze according to internet resources, the biggest thing I have to do aside from already managing calories, sugar, and fat to help improve my A1C and Cholesterol numbers, is managing sodium, phosphates, and excessive potassium. Sodium is the biggest hurdle, requiring a lot of preparation and planning to get no salt added variants of things that I enjoy eating.

@mattblaze life sucks, I didn't know how bad it was, but I'm more well-informed now. At last check, it was at stage 3 (stage 5 is full kidney failure, and requires dialysis). Which means the damage is manageable with extremely close control of diet, and in general being healthier.

I've lost 56 lbs since December, and have taking a much more active role in eating healthier things. So, I'm on the right track, and just hoping it isn't too little too late.

@arrjay my usual routine is on check-up with the doc, assume that I'll be doing blood work and stop eating around 8pm the previous day, for my appointment the next morning. Which is fine, that's become my routine to stop eating past 8pm.

@arrjay I can't speak for every CKD practice, but the one I use to went to does not require fasting for a blood panel and urine analysis.

Now, for a full spectrum blood test your primary care physician would give you, yeah, I have to fast for those.

the last kidney doctor I went to was like:

"How you feeling?"

me: "alright, I guess."

doctor:"Good, give me blood and urine. See you in six months."

This is the same dude who I had been seeing before my primary care physician got acess to their lab work and discovered I was in the middle of CKD in December, nearly a full year after I started seeing this dude.

good thing I opened that packet of paperwork before my doctor's appointment next week. Apparently I was supposed to get bloodwork done before showing up. Guess who's leaving for a 1:40pm blood draw today.

In more recent good news, I have a Cheshire.A hoodie that I got from a drawing on Twitter some years back. I think it was 3x/4x, and for the longest time, it didn't fit anymore.

Well, its slightly tight right now, but it fits again.

@Viss @scottwilson I don't know about laptops, but my ali-express chinesium pfSense router can.