# Someone stole my friend's insulin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451 "2005-02-17T00:33:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/21 "2005-02-17T01:28:38Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > **elanorigby** , if you hunt around at the SDMB, you can find what my name means. Its A Riddle Wrapped In a Mystery Inside an Enigma. A neutronium-plated Enigma! 😃 How did you know I was one of those nurses who can’t resist a challenge? 🙂 the search is on! Is the Esophilic fasciitis the same as necrotizing fasciitis? If so, I have seen that twice. Gruesome as hell. Never heard of the other one, though. We had a pt awhile back who was injecting herself with insulin(“OD’ing” while hospitalized for something else)–suicidal ideation etc. It was discovered via the endocrinologist by running an endogenous insulin test (IIRC)…she had a breakdown when confronted and off to the mental health facility went she. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/22 "2005-02-17T01:28:50Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Oh yeah, no problem, his daughter drove up and brought some more insulin for him. R.R. will be fine. Whoever’s got 3 syringes of insulin, well, hopefully the brain damage won’t be permanent. Too late! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/23 "2005-02-17T01:30:42Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > **elanorigby** , if you hunt around at the SDMB, you can find what my name means. Its A Riddle Wrapped In a Mystery Inside an Enigma. A neutronium-plated Enigma! 😃 You’re Greta Garbo! 😃 (sorry, couldn’t reisist–and now, back to thread!) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/24 "2005-02-17T01:32:29Z")
[Eosinophilic fasciitis](http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic686.htm). Saw one case once, as a med student. The poor woman’s skin looked and felt like she’d been covered in shellac. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/25 "2005-02-17T01:34:27Z")
OOPS! Let me 'splain the Greta Garbo post–before all of you think I have lost what little mind I have left. The mystery wrapped inside an enigma quote I got–Churchill on Russia (USSR-whatever). But David Niven in one of his books, used it to describe Greta Garbo–hence my mental linkage here… perhaps I need medication. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/26 "2005-02-17T01:37:26Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > perhaps I need medication. The lobotomies mostly ended where I work once thorazine was invented. Just sayin… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/27 "2005-02-17T01:38:18Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > [Eosinophilic fasciitis](http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic686.htm). > > Saw one case once, as a med student. The poor woman’s skin looked and felt like she’d been covered in shellac. Nope, haven’t seen it. I have had 2 pts with scleroderma, fairly advanced. One had lost all her digits (from the distal knuckle) and was to be tubed shortly d/t pulmonary compromise. She died at the age of 38. Her chest wall was exactly like leather–horrible. Is it related to lupus, d’ya think? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/28 "2005-02-17T01:41:31Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Is it related to lupus, d’ya think? How high is up? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Is the Pope Catholic? There are just some things that we don’t know. But it sure is a collagen-vascular disease! Check out the pics at the end of the link. These people shine! Not leathery at all. More like a vase! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/29 "2005-02-17T01:41:51Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > The lobotomies mostly ended where I work once thorazine was invented. > > Just sayin… 😉 Huh. Think Thorazine could hold me? As if! I’m wavering between a propofol drip or a boatload of Versed–just to get me thru… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/30 "2005-02-17T01:44:52Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Huh. Think Thorazine could hold me? As if! > > I’m wavering between a propofol drip or a boatload of Versed–just to get me thru… Versed! Hah! I rub versed on my face in the morning to get me going! (It’s shameless the way we flirt!) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/31 "2005-02-17T01:47:23Z")
How awful! And it’s not known if it’s a pathogen (toxin) or auto-immune? It looks painful. Does it recur (I dont’ remember seeing that in the article?). Let’s hope it’s never more than rare. ---
**Author:** ![ninetypercent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de0a6/32.png) [@ninetypercent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninetypercent)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/32 "2005-02-17T01:49:50Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Not rare. … I guess we are using different definition of rare. Insulin overdose is common, death from insulin overdose is rare. Stupid thief. Or intelligent heroin addict? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/33 "2005-02-17T01:50:06Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Versed! Hah! I rub versed on my face in the morning to get me going! > > (It’s shameless the way we flirt!) I’m having fun! Versed is God’s gift to all healthcare, IMO. Gotta love a drug that causes amnesia. Having had it once, it is weird to lost time like that. I’ve had pts wake up from their procedures and yell at me b/c they don’t believe that they’ve had them…work is hard, but never dull! So, are you a psychiatrist or do you hang around mental institutions for the variety? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/34 "2005-02-17T02:23:41Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > So, are you a psychiatrist or do you hang around mental institutions for the variety? He’s fallen into bad company, surrounded by hardened criminals every day… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/35 "2005-02-17T02:23:50Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > . Also the guy who inspired “Psycho”, “Silence of the Lambs”, and “The Texas Chain Saw Massecre”'s old room.) Ed Gein’s room? COOL!!! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/36 "2005-02-17T02:24:43Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > …surrounded by hardened criminals every day… And that’s just the scleroderma patients! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/37 "2005-02-17T02:32:06Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > And that’s just the scleroderma patients! Good one, **jayjay**. You induced a humorous, snorky-type noise out of me. No pshrink I, rather do I deal with the physical foibles of the incorrigible incarcerates. Dabbling in diabetes, assisting asthmatics, hectoring Hepatitis C, badgering B, lowering lipids while counseling cardiac cath candidates and incising infections and bracing broken bones. Not to mention Mr. Bagel Dog penis, but that was a whole 'nuther thread. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272224](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272224) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/38 "2005-02-17T02:32:43Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > And that’s just the scleroderma patients! Boo! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/39 "2005-02-17T02:33:51Z")
Oops, **that** wasn’t the Mr. Bagel Dog thread! They’ve got it mislabeled in threadspotting!! > **[My patient's bizarre penis](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273825)** > > One of our new inmates was seen by my Physician Assistant last week for a general physical. During the exam, my assistant was surprised and consternated (despite 20 years of practice in the field) by the patient’s penis. So he referred him to me. ... ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451/40 "2005-02-17T04:51:14Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Good one, **jayjay**. You induced a humorous, snorky-type noise out of me. > > No pshrink I, rather do I deal with the physical foibles of the incorrigible incarcerates. Dabbling in diabetes, assisting asthmatics, hectoring Hepatitis C, badgering B, lowering lipids while counseling cardiac cath candidates and incising infections and bracing broken bones. > > Not to mention Mr. Bagel Dog penis, but that was a whole 'nuther thread. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272224](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272224) Wow! How interesting and varied! Are you interested in alliteration, also? Um-the less I hear about Mr, Bagel Dog’s penis, the better, I think! **jay=jay** -that was laugh out loud to me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-stole-my-friends-insulin/290451.md?page=3)