RB#1: Debuffs and DPS goal

Current Progression Goal:    Raid Boss: T1D (considered defeated when A1C<9)

 Raid leader: Jason  ::  Tank: Veronica  ::  Healer: Cindy  ::  DPS: Anthony, David, Gregory

Raid Leader's Input:

“If you do not change direction,

you may end up where you are heading.”

- Lao Tzu

Boys,

Raid progression is a funny thing. When you have the same group of people focusing on their own unique job and you keep pulling the boss with a good strat, eventually it clicks and all of a sudden the boss is accidentally dead.

It is inevitable that we will defeat this T1D boss.

The only thing that will stop us is if we quit trying.

For this raid, we are using the following for our Raid Boss Guide: "Nurse's Guide to Teaching Diabetes Self-Management" by Rita Girouard Mertig. There are 12 chapters, but not all will be relevant to us. We will start with the last entitled, "Client Noncompliance (Nonadherence)".

Warriors can't heal.

For the benefit of those of us who find it obligatory to list the exception to every rule I will state that there has actually been at least one boss fight where the healing done from some weird rage thing that the warrior tank had a special talent in did indeed make the difference between us living and wiping. That said, warriors still aren't healers and that one time something weird happened IRL doesn't change generalities about T1D. It would still be silly of us to bring along a warrior as a healer.

There are RL T1D Debuffs that make it harder to down this boss and we have to be prepared for all of them. Some debuffs are "can't" while others are "won't". "Won't" is kinda like standing in fire. It just doesn't matter what others do, you are at the keyboard and we can't "heal through stupid". "Can't" is kinda like tweaking your gear. Yo Mama thought it was cool to wear a tiara and spiked heels so you wore it to raid and now we have to make you go change clothes for battle.

" C a n ' t " Financial considerations Physical limitations Deficient knowledge Literacy Culture Religious constraints Insufficient support system

" W o n ' t " Denial Anger and frustration Depression Stress and excessive fear Fatalism Diabetes burnout Self-determination

When having difficulty with diabetes control, it is important to clarify values and to understand the consequences of each action or inaction.

Is it harder to ignore high BGs when we know the damage it will do to our body? It should be! Unfortunately, while ignorance is bliss, it doesn't change the consequences of inaction.

Page 259 reads, "The real proof of control is whether a 2-hour postprandial blood sugar stays under 140 mg/dl." You know how I'm having you test throughout the day to see if you are 'sober'? (sober = of sound mind) For our T1D Raid we are considering 80-199 as 'in range' and each reading, regardless of when you ate, outside of that range makes you 'not sober'. Will you live if you stay in the 200s or 300s? Yes! But, you are doing damage to your body that cannot be undone and that WILL affect the quality of your life in a manner which you are not capable of understanding at this time. 

We now have two more important bits of information about this boss. We have a list of known debuffs and we have our quantifiable DPS goal of BGs between 80 and 199.

Now, which debuffs can YOU counter?

GAMBATTE!

-mom