Gonk's Daily Dose of Wisdom

[ZippityDooDah]

Put some damn socks on your feet!

It's wonderful and encouraging to see people achieving their weight loss goals, even small victories are still a victory! But damn, if you're going to post a scale picture that includes your feet, do the world a favor and put some damn socks on first! Most feet are simply not presentable in pictures, and whether they are just goofy looking or you have gnarly toenails, nobody needs to see that!

Don't feel bad about it. None of us are models. Since I've been perusing GLP-1 content across various media more frequently lately, it seems like every other picture is someone's ugly ass feet on a scale and it's not nice (it does tend to help with appetite suppression however so there's that...). I don't understand foot fetishes either.

 

[ZippityDooDah]

Autoinjector pens are stupid

While there may be a small percentage of the population whose only and best option is to use an autoinjector pen, for the other 90+% it's an enormous waste of time and money. I've been watching from the sidelines for 2+ years while people spend piles of money trying to find that perfect pen and all the accoutrements to go with it and all the other hoops they have to jump through just to use a pen and wonder when the madness is going to stop. Again, I understand that there are certain people like the elderly and disabled for whom an autoinjector pen is the best solution, but that's a small portion of the community and everyone else just seems to be looking for ways to make simple things complicated.

 

[ZippityDooDah]

Pre-filling syringes is also stupid

(You get a two-fer today since I was busy helping a neighbor finish a deck yesterday.)

People say that they're "saving time" by pre-filling syringes in advance instead of just drawing their dose when it's time to administer it. Those people are liars. They're lying to themselves, and to the rest of us. Putting aside the fact that consumer insulin syringes are not designed or intended for storing fluid for more than the minute or two it takes to draw and inject and that most regular syringes aren't either, there are more concerning potential issues of the plastics and other materials used in the construction of the syringe leaching into and contaminating the fluid within over time, plus the more common problem of the contents simply leaking out.

It takes the exact same amount of time to draw a dose in advance that it does to draw it at time of use. The process of drawing doses in advance to store them is always going to take longer because now you have to put the syringes into "storage", presumably mark/label them to identify what's inside, etc., organize and then later take them out of "storage" to administer, hoping that nothing went wrong.

Many things that people convince themselves are "saving" time are actually doing the exact opposite, and pre-filling syringes is one of those things.