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Diabetics R Us

Yes, it was a nice store and my coworkers were nice. But none of us spoke French.

I think that's what woke me up!
 
I think you can get away with quite a few languages in the cities of the Netherlands, they are very good at welcoming everyone. I used to go to Amsterdam and Rotterdam regularly in the 80s and loved the place. I used to say that if ever I was to emigrate then Netherlands would be my first choice.

Good morning everyone, it is still dark but I don't think it is quite as cold as it has been just lately, these old bones do not like winter, no no.
 
Made heavenly chocolate truffles yesterday, pretty low carb too, ate a couple in bed and woke up to an overnight flatline on my Libre between 5 and 5.5. Have to try again tonight to see if there's a pattern and perhaps a future filled with chocolaty goodness to help manage my diabetes :)
 
Good morning everyone. Not good here today. It is blowing a right hooley. Very unpleasant, but at least it isn't raining .... yet.

Yesterday I went to the garden centre for some indoor plants and new pots. It was a last minute decision to go because I have a hacking cough, so I just threw my big coat and bobble hat on. The coat was mainly to hide the scruffy slobby clothes I was wearing, and the hat was to hide my untidy hair. I was bending down looking at something when I heard someone behind me shout my name. I was trying to be incognito because I looked like a cross between a bag lady and a witch. Horror upon horror, it was none other than my diabetes nurse. I told her I was sad she had recognised me looking like I did. What a lovely person she is. She told me she is still trying to sort out the problems with my HbA1c being done in two labs from the same blood draw - it worked the first time last June but did not work the second time in December. She said she hadn't forgotten me and is determined to sort it all out. I said it might be better now to wait until my next blood draw in June this year, so she told me to book an appointment with her personally, she would do the blood draw and make sure all the paper work was as it should be rather than see the normal health care assistant. I only usually see the nurse once a year in December for my face to face review. I call that excellent service. She is a star.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Good morning everyone. Not good here today. It is blowing a right hooley. Very unpleasant, but at least it isn't raining .... yet.

Yesterday I went to the garden centre for some indoor plants and new pots. It was a last minute decision to go because I have a hacking cough, so I just threw my big coat and bobble hat on. The coat was mainly to hide the scruffy slobby clothes I was wearing, and the hat was to hide my untidy hair. I was bending down looking at something when I heard someone behind me shout my name. I was trying to be incognito because I looked like a cross between a bag lady and a witch. Horror upon horror, it was none other than my diabetes nurse. I told her I was sad she had recognised me looking like I did. What a lovely person she is. She told me she is still trying to sort out the problems with my HbA1c being done in two labs from the same blood draw - it worked the first time last June but did not work the second time in December. She said she hadn't forgotten me and is determined to sort it all out. I said it might be better now to wait until my next blood draw in June this year, so she told me to book an appointment with her personally, she would do the blood draw and make sure all the paper work was as it should be rather than see the normal health care assistant. I only usually see the nurse once a year in December for my face to face review. I call that excellent service. She is a star.
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This is encouragement to me to not put off going shopping just because I haven't been awake long and my hair is a mess. I put on a warm coat and my tassel hat and go buy what I need (usually cat food) but so far I have not had any chance meetings that made me glad I did. ;)

@Guzzler, one of the coolest things I ever experienced when traveling was speaking German with a bank teller in Paris back in the early '70s. She tried French, and when I could not respond other than to say "I don't speak French," (I did know that much), she switched to German. I could manage that.

At the horse barns here I learned enough Spanish to say things like "I am cleaning the red horse's bridle," but then my friends expected me to be able to give directions such as "Don't turn out the Swedish Warmblood mare tonight because she is a little off in her off hind and we think she might have a touch of navicular and the vet is coming in the morning."
 
Ah well, I have been known to go to the corner shop in my jimjams with a heavy coat on and a car rug over my legs. I thought it was only me! I feel better now.
 
My niece used to come over to my mother's house in the evenings to check on her, driving over in her pajamas with a sweatshirt on top. I used to think that was one of the perks of having a car you could rely on not to break down and leave you stranded by the roadside in your pajamas!

I still know people who run out to their backyard barns at the crack of dawn to feed their horses in their pajamas before going back to bed. I don't mind cat hairs in my sheets at all, and I love horses, but still ... I don't want stray oats and wisps of hay and shavings on my sheets, not to mention other horsey deposits!
 
I don't wear any nightwear and don't possess any but I did once forget to pick my 2 grandchildren up from primary school. I got an annoyed phone call from the secretary to say they were with her in the office. I just dashed out as I was, in my childish novelty pig slippers. Fortunately the children and the secretary laughed out loud and all was forgiven. Goodness knows how I managed to drive in them. :arghh:
 
SaskiaKC said:
This is encouragement to me to not put off going shopping just because I haven't been awake long and my hair is a mess. I put on a warm coat and my tassel hat and go buy what I need (usually cat food) but so far I have not had any chance meetings that made me glad I did. ;)

@Guzzler, one of the coolest things I ever experienced when traveling was speaking German with a bank teller in Paris back in the early '70s. She tried French, and when I could not respond other than to say "I don't speak French," (I did know that much), she switched to German. I could manage that.

At the horse barns here I learned enough Spanish to say things like "I am cleaning the red horse's bridle," but then my friends expected me to be able to give directions such as "Don't turn out the Swedish Warmblood mare tonight because she is a little off in her off hind and we think she might have a touch of navicular and the vet is coming in the morning."
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I remember once being in my mother's front room when my step aunt and some of her friends visitors from Europe came round one couple spoke German but not English some one else spoke French and Italian but not German or English I just speak English and that not well but a smattering of a few other languages my step aunt though spoke about 13 languages so had to interpret for every one she her self was Italian and a professor of English. Licia not only was fluent in all 13 languages she could read and write in all of them.
 
JohnEGreen said:
I remember once being in my mother's front room when my step aunt and some of her friends visitors from Europe came round one couple spoke German but not English some one else spoke French and Italian but not German or English I just speak English and that not well but a smattering of a few other languages my step aunt though spoke about 13 languages so had to interpret for every one she her self was Italian and a professor of English. Licia not only was fluent in all 13 languages she could read and write in all of them.
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Poor Licia didn't get a chance to speak to anyone herself because she was so busy translating...
 
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