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I sometimes get truly annoyed by the sheer insensitivity and stupidity I encounter... Today, while working on the latest batch of mandatory online learning material for my job- a national finance operation, BTW- I found myself staring at the term "lifestyle diabetes". No type II, no...

You know, I could very easily lose all faith in pharmacies... A week or so back, Rowlands Pharmacy told me that they had no Glibenclamide in stock but if they filled the rest of my prescription I could come back and get the final item. Today, they blithely inform me that they "might" get more...

What a ridiculous life- first diabetes, then retinopathy, then chest troubles, and now a ruddy kidney stone... Emergency admission 2 Feb, CAT scan showed a large stone in the right ureter- then on a trolley the whole of Tuesday, in the ward finally, and operated on Thursday- only to find it was...

Hi all Well, fun- to add to the retinopathy, now I'm off for a CAT scan for chest troubles- "mild bilateral crepitation", been coughing a year or two now and had severe bronchitis back in September last year. Anyone else had any experience like this? Gawd knows it took long enough to get my...

Hi friends. Well, another session of laser just gone by- this time, Fibrosis diagnosed for the first time. Hi ho, at lesat they spotted it and are working to at least slow things down a tad. My whinge? That even my sainted mother has fallen for the popular myth that all our problems as...

Fed up, friends, utterly fed up: In bed, my body can be too hot to the point of sweating, and still my feet are blocks of blessed ice. I'm actually having to wear ruddy socks in bed some nights, just to get to sleep. Yeeeeeesh.