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My mum made me laugh. I told her more about my ailments and she said she had the same until it came to diabetes. She hasnt definitely got that. She'd be broken if she got diagnosed. Or she would see my diabetes as exaggerated as she would be pre-diabetic. Some people just don't get it. I hope and pray she doesn't have too.
 
ickihun said:
Some people just don't get it. I hope and pray she doesn't have too.
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So very true Vicky and I find that when I am out and about in town or shopping with people behind you being held up because of how slow on my feet I am most just mutter under there breath or make a dash round when a small gap appears you get the odd polite ones that ask to pass but most are so ignorant and I just think I hope you don't have to go through what I do every day
 
eldergarth said:
So very true Vicky and I find that when I am out and about in town or shopping with people behind you being held up because of how slow on my feet I am most just mutter under there breath or make a dash round when a small gap appears you get the odd polite ones that ask to pass but most are so ignorant and I just think I hope you don't have to go through what I do every day
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My mum had a big man block her way yesterday. I told her next time use her stick into his cockles or on his foot when she was forced to walk around him. He obstructed her movement deliberately. If she'd fell I would have hunted him down. Horrible man.
I hope they don't do that to you. It's humiliating.
I feel like I'm dragging my body along. Lower body. Still getting numb leg and foot but I've put it down to scatica. This year has been a mobility nightmare.
I still think it will just one way go but I'm not sure. Walking in spits and spirts. Hubby now just walks ahead, ashamed probables. I walk slower than toddler now. Humf!
 
ickihun said:
My mum had a big man block her way yesterday. I told her next time use her stick into his cockles or on his foot when she was forced to walk around him. He obstructed her movement deliberately. If she'd fell I would have hunted him down. Horrible man.
I hope they don't do that to you. It's humiliating.
I feel like I'm dragging my body along. Lower body. Still getting numb leg and foot but I've put it down to scatica. This year has been a mobility nightmare.
I still think it will just one way go but I'm not sure. Walking in spits and spirts. Hubby now just walks ahead, ashamed probables. I walk slower than toddler now. Humf!
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The more they huff and puff the slower I go. If people cant be bothered to say excuse me they ain't getting pass me. The next time someone does it to Ron then watch me go.
 
tina_marie said:
The more they huff and puff the slower I go. If people cant be bothered to say excuse me they ain't getting pass me. The next time someone does it to Ron then watch me go.
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Some people are horrible human beings. Alot of it is they haven't had a hug from us lot. Ha ha Or a crush from me. Ha ha
 
Morning T2's. Dark and chilly here. Wound is a bit tender still, getting a check up today at the hospital. The district nurses took care of it at home but stitches are out now. FBG 5.1 mmol/l. Avoiding carbohydrates a lot more now. Insulin and brekkie at 7am for me today. Have a fab day !:)
 
eddie1968 said:
Morning T2's. Dark and chilly here. Wound is a bit tender still, getting a check up today at the hospital. The district nurses took care of it at home but stitches are out now. FBG 5.1 mmol/l. Avoiding carbohydrates a lot more now. Insulin and brekkie at 7am for me today. Have a fab day !:)
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Be kind to yourself for a few weeks. Lower carbs are the best medicine.
Had to restart my insulin. High for a day and a half with no lowering bgs, just increasing. Blood pressure was up and now lergies. I'm sure insulin will kick it into touch.
I must get a c-peptide test. I'm betting I have low natural insulin but insulin resistant due to excess weight.
 
tina_marie said:
The more they huff and puff the slower I go. If people cant be bothered to say excuse me they ain't getting pass me. The next time someone does it to Ron then watch me go.
ickihun said:
Some people are horrible human beings. Alot of it is they haven't had a hug from us lot. Ha ha Or a crush from me. Ha ha
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I think this could cause some problems if we ever cross our paths. As exercise I walk to work an to buy groceries instead of take the bus or the car or using the push bike. The result is that my walking speed is slowly rising and now is became a bit faster than the average.

Saying excuse me doesn't work when you have two youngsters or worse two elderly people walking slowly watching the shop windows and the phone an blocking the walkway.
The elderly people are worse because they if you ask excuse me to pass they look you bad anyway.
I prefer to route around the problem if it's possible going in the road.
I try to be polite and mind my own business and not being aggressive with others but simply routing around them. I try to be always calm outside because I've learnt that being aggressive or worse passive-aggressive won't work and makes you unhappy.
 
MikeTurin said:
I think this could cause some problems if we ever cross our paths. As exercise I walk to work an to buy groceries instead of take the bus or the car or using the push bike. The result is that my walking speed is slowly rising and now is became a bit faster than the average.

Saying excuse me doesn't work when you have two youngsters or worse two elderly people walking slowly watching the shop windows and the phone an blocking the walkway.
The elderly people are worse because they if you ask excuse me to pass they look you bad anyway.
I prefer to route around the problem if it's possible going in the road.
I try to be polite and mind my own business and not being aggressive with others but simply routing around them. I try to be always calm outside because I've learnt that being aggressive or worse passive-aggressive won't work and makes you unhappy.
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I wish everyone was like you but they aren't. I refuse to walk in the road with my kids for anyone (giving my kids bad habits) and have to exercise patience and tolerance.
Common decency and respect is a dying trait nowadays.
Some people are vile.
 
Hi all was a very interesting visit to the QMC it's amazing what can happen when you go to a hospital that cares
Unfortunately don't get the results for about 4 weeks but I can't praise the docs and nurses enough from start to finish all that mattered was me and my care and making sure I get the answers I've been waiting so long for the docs face when we told him how long this has been going on for .
It was noticed that the swelling in my legs is getting worse and doc said it feels like build up of fluids ??? .
While testing below the knee's there was little response from the tests but above the knee all responses looked normal
 
Forgot to say have also received the referral for pain clinic but have to wait till end November
 
eldergarth said:
Forgot to say have also received the referral for pain clinic but have to wait till end November
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Ahh, that's ok then - I'm sure your pain will be prepared to hold off until then before savaging you and destroying your will to live!!!!! Oh, these bl**dy clinics and their waiting lists make me SO angry!! :mad:
 
eldergarth said:
@debrasue Thanks Debs only took me over half hour to do a 10min walk today soon be breaking the land speed record
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You would laugh if you saw me today. I start off doing the first few yards in a sprint with a crutch then the pain kicks in and I quickly turn into a snails pace until I can sit down for a recharge of pain relief then i go again. I've found which neighbours garden walls have no railings on top to take refuge. Only trouble now is they are wet walls. :(
 
ickihun said:
You would laugh if you saw me today. I start off doing the first few yards in a sprint with a crutch then the pain kicks in and I quickly turn into a snails pace until I can sit down for a recharge of pain relief then i go again. I've found which neighbours garden walls have no railings on top to take refuge. Only trouble now is they are wet walls. :(
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That's my problem Vicky I have to keep stopping for a breather and my body wants to go left all the time even if there's a wall in the way

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