The day before yesterday I rang my surgery to book my blood draw and review with the Health Care Assistant prior to my annual review with my DN. I was gobsmacked when the receptionist booked me in for yesterday afternoon at 2-15. I was so taken aback (expecting it to be at least a week away) that I took little notice of the time. 2-15pm and I have to fast!!!! So, yesterday I fasted, skipping breakfast and lunch apart from 3 cups of tea with hardly any skimmed milk and plenty of water. She did the usual stuff, blood pressure, pulse, weighing and blood draw. She then took my HbA1c vial down to my DN who organised for it to be tested twice at the 2 different labs as per my GP's instructions a year or two ago. It was almost 3pm by this time.
Imagine my shock when I looked on-line earlier today to find all the results showing, having been entered by my DN sometime this morning. That was quick work!! The HbA1c from the second lab isn't back yet.
That is quick work!
I used to love visiting various county courthouses to look up family history records, and looking at Census records online. I worked on mostly my father's family because no one in his family had kept any records other than one family Bible. Luckily the courthouses with his family records are very close to the old family church with several of the ancestors' graves. I know that clerks and Census takers can misspell names and things but at least I feel I'm getting the most accurate info available.
Two of my mother's sisters did a lot of their family history research at cemeteries and courthouses, years before the Internet existed. The records they compiled, added to the family stories my parents told me, really got me interested in doing more research.
One of the two towns I am thinking of moving to is not far from the home of my father's paternal ancestors. The old homestead is long gone, and the graves were moved years ago to a municipal cemetery, but there is still a church there, and I'm told the local library has a good genealogy department.
I can't decide whether to move there, and be able to do the research as well as be close to large-town amenities, or move to a much smaller town where I have no family history at all but which seems to offer rural amenities and peace going forward. ...