Food funeral grief — need advice

lisa_labSD said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Reporting back.

Closing this out. What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and worth saying anyway.

MariaRD said:

What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and…

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale.

MariaRD said:

What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and…

Coming at MariaRD’s question from a different direction. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

Happy to go further on any of that.