The thing should arrive tomorrow, will let you know if I can find any bp at all
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Three months to work it out. What do you think, will I find someone if I put an add in the local newspaper? Wanted: play-doctor to take blood pressure.
I'm sure you'd receive, erm,....... "interesting" responses.
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The thing should arrive tomorrow, will let you know if I can find any bp at all
You should be able to manage a rreading on your own, but your posture won't be rright, due to all the angles you'll have to create to do it.
Assuming you're right handed, use the cuff on your left arm, and use your right hand to find your pulse in the crook of your elbow. Pump the bulb with your left hand, until the pulse stops (note the number), then your leeft had rreleases the valve on the bulb with you listening for the pulse in your arm restarting. The stopping and starting of your pulse are your two readings.
Using your left hand will likely impact your readings, and maybe quite a bit, but you'll have fun.
That's what I read on the google. By the time I manage to get any reading at all I can always ask a friend to do the left handed part and compare the readings with when I do it myself. That should tell me if it works
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That's what I read on the google. By the time I manage to get any reading at all I can always ask a friend to do the left handed part and compare the readings with when I do it myself. That should tell me if it works
TBH, if you're asking a fried, ask then to manage the valve and steady the stethoscope head for you, once find your pulse, and you have the stethoscope, then you are actually making the reading, rather then depend on them catching the stop/start points.
I predict you will soon be very familar with doggie heart beats and chest noises.
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My dad used to have a manual monitor and stethoscope - put the cuff on insert scope under then pump. You can hear the two readings or if you get really good you sort of see a blip in the liquid.
Don't I love my (somewhat chaotic) friends! Im sitting here getting ready for bed (past 11 around here), in the lovely and steady 4's, which makes for a nice snack before sleeping. Just got a text from my best friend, who happens to be the girlfriend of my neighbour, telling me I need to come over with a bottle of booze in a gift paper at exactly 12 o'clock because she just found out it will be her boyfriends birthday.
So I'm having a somewhat more carby snack right now, and will go find some gift paper after to make a nice package of warm booze, as the only bottle I have has been sitting in the car and it has been 30 degrees Celsius (Do you do Fahrenheit in the UK? if so, it's 86 degrees).
Goodbye perfect overnight bg, hello spontaneous midnight party!
So I'm having a somewhat more carby snack right now, and will go find some gift paper after to make a nice package of warm booze, as the only bottle I have has been sitting in the car and it has been 30 degrees Celsius (Do you do Fahrenheit in the UK? if so, it's 86 degrees).
Goodbye perfect overnight bg, hello spontaneous midnight party!
Love it! I think I'll go find the 'blip in the liquid' at my neighours' first, though
And who needs sleep anyway!
Thanks for the advice but it didn't work. We've tried to find the blip in the liquid but instead found the bottom of the bottle of warm booze between the three of us. Now 4:40am and in bed with a snack and amazed I can't find any typo's in above text.
See you guys tomorrow somewhere in the late afternoon, love you!
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My suggestion is to look on line for a contortionist to teach you now to work your new toy !!
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I will be signing off some time today for a few days. Big move day tomorrow, no Wifi from some time today and my phone has a small screen and small keyboard that make typing difficult. BT has promised to have it all up and running by Thursday, but we shall see. Busy, busy, busy.
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Hope all goes well.
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Good luck with the move and come back soon.
By the way, I find delegating is really, really good for my bg levels
Goodluck with the move hope its not too stressful and i hope you will be very happy in your new home
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I did almost buy a Aneroid Sphygmomanometer but I knew if I did I'd never get the stethoscope back off my grandson.Too late now! I get to play with the stethoscope
