Q: Inflammation and infection can cause you to lose albumin, especially while you’re receiving dialysis treatments.  Infections in your gums can be especially problematic. Ensure you’re not losing albumin through a mouth infection by visiting your dentist every six months for a cleaning and checkup. Note that dietary changes may be insufficient to raise your albumin levels if you have an oral infection such as peritonitis and are receiving dialysis. Especially if you have health complication such as kidney disease that puts you at risk of low albumin, it’s important to recognize signs and symptoms that your levels have dropped. These include persistent swelling, tiredness, feelings of weakness, prolonged infections, slow-healing wounds, and whiteness in your nails. Bring these symptoms to the attention of your medical team. If you are receiving dialysis treatments, it’s important to keep your treatment schedule. This is partly because failing to do so may hinder your ability to maintain healthy albumin levels. If you tend not to eat a lot, it’s especially important that you make sure to get at least one full meal every day, in addition to any smaller meals you regularly eat. If there is a certain part of the day where your appetite is stronger, such as the morning, make sure to eat a full meal at that time everyday. Changes to your albumin levels won’t happen overnight. In fact, it will likely take at least three weeks for your albumin levels to rise, as proteins build up slowly in your blood.  Stick to any plans you’ve developed with your dietitian, however, and your efforts will start to pay off.
A: See a dentist regularly. Recognize signs of low albumin. Avoid skipping dialysis treatments. Eat when you’re hungry. Stick with it.

Q: Use a measuring tape or ruler to measure out and mark 2 17 in (43 cm) lengths of 2 by 4 in (5.1 by 10.2 cm). Use a hand or electric saw to cut the 2 pieces to length, keeping the cuts as straight as possible.  Use a clamp to hold the wood perfectly still as you cut it. Make sure that the 2 pieces of wood are the same length. To make this easier, cut and measure 1 piece of wood to use as a guide when cutting the second length. Turn one of the stands towards your body, with the sides of the upright exposed. Place 1 piece of wood on either side of the upright, pressing it right into the corner between the upright and the base. Make sure the 2 pieces of wood sit flush against the side of the base and the bottom of the stand. Coat the side and end of both pieces of wood with a thin layer of wood glue and press them back into place. Use an electric drill to drill 2 3 in (7.6 cm) wood screws through each piece of wood and into the upright. Drill the 2 screws into the wood on a diagonal from each other. To make sure you don't hit 1 screw with another from the other side, use the opposite diagonal for the other side. Position the other stand so the upright is parallel with the upright on the other stand. Move the second stand into place between the 2 pieces of wood so that it is identical to the first stand. Use the same method as the first stand to glue and screw the base together.  The upright should fit perfectly between the 2 pieces of wood. This should create a single seesaw base. The fulcrum with the seesaw board will sit between the 2 uprights.
A: Cut 2 pieces of 2 by 4 in (5.1 by 10.2 cm) wood to connect the stands. Place the 2 pieces of wood you've just cut on either side of one upright. Glue and screw the wood into the uprights. Connect the loose end of the wood to the other upright.

Q: If this is your first time attempting to create an ambigram then choosing a word on the shorter side is a good idea. If you want to try something more advanced, pick a longer word.  Longer words pose more challenges as there are simply more letters that need to be made to look like each other. For example, a nice simple word to choose might be "BOOK" as it is only 4 letters. A more difficult word might be "TELEVISION" as it has 10 letters. Often, people will choose their name if they’re designing an ambigram for personal reasons so this is also an option. Just do this on a piece of paper with a pencil or use a word flipper. Write it so that the one spelling of the word is directly above the other spelling of the word. This will make it easier to analyze the word later on.  For example, if your word was ‘great’, write it out on a piece of paper and then directly below it write ‘ʇɐǝɹƃ’ lined up letter-for-letter with the normal spelling. It’s also a good idea to write the word in cursive and upper case. This lets you look at what letters may transform well into other letters. This process is the same regardless of whether you are creating a reversal ambigram or an upside-down ambigram as at the moment, you are just getting clear on which letters must transform into each other. One spelling of the word (right side up or up side down) should be on top of the other to make this much easier.  Make sure you are drawing lines down connecting letters from the regularly spelled word to the up side down spelled word.  You want to pair up the letters, ideally combine multiple into one. For example, for the word “great” you would connect ‘gr’ with ‘t’ with a straight line, then ‘e’ with ‘a’, then ‘a’ with ‘e’. Doing this allows you to pair up the letters and have a visual aid to what each letter needs to transform into when you look at the word from a different perspective. Combining letters is a way to make the ambigram more artistic but also much more difficult. Stick with just pairing individual letters up together if you want to keep it simple.  An example of how this works is that in the word ‘great’ the letter ‘g’ pairs up with ‘t’ (as these are the first and last letters). However, if you wanted to combine the letters, you might make it so the letter ‘g’ pairs up with the letters ‘a’ and ‘t’. This would mean that the letter ‘g’ will turn into ‘at’ when viewed from the alternative angle because you have combined the 'a' and the 't'. Combining letters is a bit more complicated so if you're just starting out, stick to just transforming 1 letter at a time.
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Choose a word you want to turn into an ambigram. Write your word out normally, in capitals and upside down. Line up the two spellings of the word and connect the letters with lines. Decide whether any letters need to be combined into one.