I don't care about my ipod, but you stole my glucometer and diabetes log...

The BBQ Pit
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…I don’t know where to start.

I took my son to a local eat-in/carry-out dive. We went in planning to grab something and go. I didn’t lock my car and left my bookbag. As we were standing in line we decided to eat there. I thought , hmm, better lock the car..

Now I know it was stupid. My bad. But we were parked righ by the door and it isn’t a bad neighborhood. But yeah, still dumb.

So what did they get? My ipod… That sucks. But I have all my songs on my computer and could resync it with a replacement.

The only thing else they got…my diabetic testing meter and my log. My doc will probably give me a new one for free. But the log? I was diagnosed with diabetes about 7 weeks ago and I have logged everything I have eaten so I can track what makes my blood sugar spike. I can’t replace that. Ir-refrickin’-placeable. It breaks my heart.

As a follower of Jesus, I am supposed to forgive the thief. In fact, I am supposed to give him my shirt if he steals my coat. But WTF am I supposed to do when he steals my glucose log? You want my Metformin script too? Sure, have it.

I am bummed. I just got the backpack. I can’t afford a new ipod. I have to start from scratch tracking my diabetes.

That is what really has me mad. The way I dealt with the shock of having diabetes was by taking charge of it and tracking what I ate and how it impacted my sugar. I tested every morning and then 2 hours after every meal. I have an appointment to see how am doingin a few weeks. That log was my road map of where I wanted to go and where I had been.

Now it is gone.

FUCK!

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He may be covetous of your sweet sweet pee.
You could save up a bunch of that and give it to him.
A Mason jar with a ribbon makes quite a nice container for such offerings. :wink:

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Is that a haiku?

:wink:

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Give him your Metformin script, too. And then you ask ME (a godless heathen if ever there was one) to hope that he has the same reaction to it as I do…which is uncontrollable diarrhea.

Seriously, that sucks. Keeping a diet log is a PAIN. Have you gone back to the neighborhood and looked around to see if maybe the thief dumped the log and meter? He’s gonna want to get rid of them, as he really can’t sell the log, at least, and I doubt he’d get much for the meter.

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God works in mysterious ways, don’t he?

Maybe your glucose log will find its way into the hands of a brilliant but homeless scientist who will use it to discover the cure for the lack of toilet paper (or perhaps diabetes). In any event, this is all part of god’s plan for your life, so no biggie, right?

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howso?

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I wish you would just go away.

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Usually I don’t speak out about stuff like this, but ye gods! Why don’t you just shut up a lot? You have to be one of the snarkiest a-holes going, and you seem to be unable to differentiate between hardline self-sufficiency and sheer, perverse unsympathetic claptrap. Was a dig at God really necessary? Did it contribute anything? If the OP hadn’t included “fuck,” this might have been suitable for MPSIMS - would you have responded the same way there?

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You do believe there is a god and that god has a plan for your life, right?

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Wow, you really are a dick.

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Seems like some toilet paper is needed right here to clean up after this posting. :rolleyes:

(oh, and newcrasher - sorry about the theft. Thieves don’t give a flying fuck about the trouble their actions cause.).

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The answer is abvious. Smite him.

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Is “don’t be a jerk” still a rule?

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Funny, I just recently ranted something similar to this; granted, it was over something that happened several years ago and wasn’t as serious, but the principle is the same. But seriously, I don’t get it.

Sure, you break into my car, steal my wallet, my MP3 player, my radio, whatever, I’ll be upset, but I can at least understand why you’d take it because it has real value to other people. I can even understand possibly taking stuff that looks valuable when you’re in a rush to grab stuff and go, like a backpack that you’re not willing to open. But it’s that much more frustrating when something that is valueless to someone else but has a lot of value to the victim that I’d wish that, even though the person is enough of an asshole to be stealing from you, would at least have some shred of decency and leave behind.

And to give a serious answer to the question Rand Rover addressed, it could be any number of things. For me, at least, I think it was more a lesson in that it’s easy to forgive someone if they took something that’s replaceable. It’s much easier to forgive someone for stealing your wallet that has $200 in it (even if you really can’t afford to lose it) than it is for someone if they took something like your diabetic log or, in my case, poetry, music, photos, and other effects of personal sentiment.

For me, I was very upset for a while but, once I got back to it, I was able to recreate a lot of the music and poetry and even make some improvements along the way. In your case, yeah, you’re set back seven weeks, but you still have a few weeks from now to begin a log again, and you may even still remember some foods that made you spike even without the log. You may not have quite as much information as you’d have liked to have had, but chances are, you’ll still turn out okay. So, what are you suppose to do? Forgive him when you can.

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Let’s find out.

Reported.

I’ve never announced that before, as I tend to feel that it drifts into junior modding. If so, I think I’ll accept the ding on my record.

Rand Rover, please take a break from the boards for a couple of days, and practice not being a douche.

Newcrasher, I agree that the situation you’ve been placed in sucks noodles. OTOH, if you have actually been keeping the log for seven weeks, I have two observations to offer: first, you have displayed an awesome level of self discipline, and you have my kudos for that.

Second, after seven weeks of following this behavior regimen, it’s pretty much second nature by now. Really, the loss of seven weeks of data amounts to a mere inconvenience. Get back on the horse and start a new one. I suspect that you might even be able to reconstruct the past day or two from memory, so you won’t have to start from scratch.

Good luck, and keep taking care of yourself.

ETA: Sorry for stepping on your last paragraph, Blaster Master.

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Being a believer hopefully you know that, God will work this for the good. Nothing is irreplaceable when it comes to God, but perhaps He didn’t want you to have that log. He has taken much from me, some things that I wouldn’t want to let go of, He took by force. Trust that He knows what he is doing.

Perhaps something will come to you that you won’t need to log our info.

Peace

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Yes it is. I want to be clear that I’m not issuing a warning here. That said, attacking the OP just because the OP mentions religion strays pretty close to the jerk line. Please take a giant step back.
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Your insight is correct there. You’ll get no ding on your record for it from me, but if you could avoid it in the future, I’d appreciate it.

It passes without comment in spam threads because the thread gets disappeared along with any moderator note. But I don’t encourage it in other cases.

We now return you to the thread, already in progress.

Gfactor
Pit Moderator

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This is good advice and worth repeating. If you have not taken a quick look in every trash can in a four block radius of your local eatery, you should. Also check the nearest freeway on-ramps, as people dump stuff there too.

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This Jesus guy sounds like a real dickhead.

So does the guy who stole your stuff.