Forgot my supplies at home and am currently out of town ... What to do on a Sunday?

Edit: I wanted to let everyone know I made it home and got more supplies and insulin going. I ended up cutting carbs out pretty significantly during the day and we left earlier than initially intended. I want to say thanks for the support and thoughts on how to get by and especially say thanks to the people who volunteered their own supplies and insulin. I really appreciate. I have already tucked some supplies into my truck so if something like this happens again, I would just need to get a vial of insulin and be back in business. But... I have a feeling for the next few years when my wife and I head out, she will be sure to ask if I have it all with me haha

Hi everyone, I am currently a few hours from home at my inlaws. We are in commerce township, MI. I am newer to a pump (started the mobi in April and had not had a pump prior to that). Somehow when I was packing up my bag for being away, I completely forgot to get my mobi supplies and insulin. We are going home this evening so I am trying to get by until we get home.

I am trying to figure out what to do. I called tandem and they weren't a ton of help with being able to track things down. My supplies comes from a medical supply company in ohio. My insulin is from Costco. I'd really like to avoid having to buy a 10 pack of cartridges to get my by.

I read online that you can refill a cartridge but I don't have the adapter or the plunger with me so that is out.

Anyone have any thoughts? If I need to, I could potentially buy a vial of insulin and syringes and just give my boluses to myself that way and use the pump to do my basil but obviously if someone has a better way to get out of this jam, I'd love to hear it

First thing I'm doing when I get home tonight is putting some supplies in my car so I at least have that covered if it ever happens again. Usually I take a ton of extra supplies but somehow this time I completely overlooked it

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u/titanhockey02 — 4 days ago
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Best way to install brick on the back of this house?

Hi all, I am a home builder and I want to get some more opinions on how you'd handle the brick install on the back of this house. I have been talking with my structural engineer, roofer and masons and I am not really getting where I'd like to be with the thoughts on it.
I have a brick ledge on the poured foundation wall. The first floor brick will rest on the ledge. How would you handle the brick above the porch?
a) leave openings in the wood framing of the porch roof so that brick can continue from the brick ledge, up through the porch roof framing and up the second story wall? or
b) Install the brick from the brick ledge up to the underside of the porch roof framing and then bolt a steel shelf above the rear porch roof and use that for supporting/carrying the brick?

The porch roof will be a flat roof with rubber roofing on it. Right now, the ceiling joists/rafters are planned to run front to back. If they run front to back, there's not much space to run the brick up the back wall continuously (option a). I could engineer the roof so the joists/rafters run side to side which would allow for enough space for the brick to run up continuously.

I like the thought of the brick running continuously for the structural standpoint. I also think if the rubber roof wraps up the face of the brick and is flashed and counter flashed properly, it then makes for the roofing to be replaced a lot easier. If I go route b, I would think the rubber roof would go on first and then the steel shelf would be installed over top of the rubber (with an air gap between the rubber and steel) and the brick runs up from there. This would make a lot of work when the rubber gets replaced years down the road.

What do you all think would be the best way to do this?

u/titanhockey02 — 1 month ago
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Advice on how to film a video of stationary structure

Hi all, I have a DJI Air 3s. I have been messing around with it (it's my first drone) and taking pictures and videos. I am trying to figure out how to do a specific style of video. I'll explain:

What I would like to do is pan across the front of my house at a slow/controlled speed. As I near the corner, I'd like the drone to pick up speed and fly around the corner quickly to the next area I'd like to focus on. Maybe the drone would back away from the house and zip around the corner and then fly back in to be closer to the house. When it gets to the next spot I want to focus on, it would slow down and have a controlled speed as it hovers past that area. Then it would transition to a faster flight to the next focal area. Maybe it would have 5 or do focal areas and then the filler in between.

I have tried to do a flight path thing where I saved the flight path and did the hyperlapse setting to take pictures in one area and then move but that's not really what I am looking for. I'd like it to have actual video in an area rather than a series of images. The other issue I had is I saved my flight path and when I tried to fly it again, the drone kept coming lower out of the sky ... Almost like it thought it needed to be 20' closer to the ground which was not the case. I set up within about 10' of each location and it was +/- 1' difference in grade between the 2 locations

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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u/titanhockey02 — 3 months ago

Brother in law in need of prayers

Hi everyone, asking for prayers for my brother in law. After feeling ill and with a worsening headache, he went to urgent care. I am not sure of the whole story but something there made the doctors say he needed to go to the hospital. It appears there are spots in/on his brain and they are going to run tests to see if it could be an infection, cancer or something else. We don't know more at this point but asking for prayers of healing for him, Irving, and for comfort for them. Also safe travels for my in laws as they are driving a few states to be with my sister in law and brother in law

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u/titanhockey02 — 3 months ago

Mobi and dexcom location question

I have been on the mobi for close to a month. It's the first pump I have ever been on (38 yo, diagnosed T1 about 6 years ago). The nurse who did my training told me I always need to have the mobi and my dexcom sensor on the same side of my body. I like my dexcom on the back of my arm and my mobi on my stomach. I am fairly fit (6', 163 pounds) and am running into times where I either need to end my dexcom early or keep trying to go with my mobi on whatever side they are both on and try to get the dates aligned where I can switch both (in order to keep both on the same side)

Is it really that sensitive to need them both on the same side? I am assuming this is because of signal loss but is it that weak of signal?

I am sure it's possible to have them on opposite sides for a few days but can anyone give me their thoughts and experiences? I would rather end my dexcom early and have them on matching sides if it makes the pump connection a lot more flakey.

Thanks!

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u/titanhockey02 — 3 months ago