Morning all! Bit soggy here so maybe the gardening I was thinking about won't happen. Or the next stage of fixing the slowly rotting shed door frame enough to last until a carpenter type person can come to make a new one. It's an old brick outhouse, with wooden door frame and door. It makes a great place to keep my gardening stuff, such as it is.
The other task for today is sorting through some old t-shirts to make myself some sensible washable face coverings since it's going to be necessary for public transport use and general out in public enclosed spaces. That need for public transport use on my part has been considered the highest risk part of me possibly returning to work in the near future! I know I walk a lot and will continue to do so but, as I pointed out, if my bloods indicate walking would be a bad idea I will have to get a bus. This advice to avoid public transport is all very well, and I've used it very little in the last 3 months, but I've not been able to completely avoid using it especially when sticking strictly to 1 shopping session a week. The walk home from the nearest supermarket is just under 2 miles and mostly uphill. The walk home from favourite supermarket is 3 miles and even more uphill then along a very narrow section of pavement by a road I will not walk on if the pavement is busy as it's a favourite road for speed merchants of all variety of vehicles.
Also considering re-reading my extremely copious personal risk assessment for that possible return to work. But, I'll leave that until Monday I think. I am utterly bemused by the diabetes generic part of it - including the emphasis on thrush resulting from high blood sugars?!?!. I've, personally, never suffered from thrush in my life even pre-T2 misdiagnosis in the run-up to the initial Hba1c of 144. I think I possibly confused the H&S person doing these with a far too technical explanation of LADA and he left it all in. I knew I should just have said T1 and left it at that!! Poor soul has hundreds of these to do and I know he's no medical expert. But, to be honest, I'm not that convinced our medical staff quite get the subtle differences between diabetes types even though they've known me all through this process! (I do recognise who wrote the generic diabetes risk assessment bit so probably should not be bemused!)
But, I think, as I understand it. my personal bit basically says what it's always said "Japes' knows what she's doing and will keep us informed.". Quite why they have emphasised there will be a fridge in whichever building I work in is the other mystery. when it is well-known I keep everything with me in the Japes' Meds Bag at all times and the insulin always is in a Frio pouch. anyway, and my lunch/snacks don't need a fridge. Still, they tried and I have promised my poor stressed favourite line manager of my current line manager cake on any return or some way of smuggling cake in with someone who has already returned to work!