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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Yes @Annb, we've come across this problem with EV batteries.

It looks as though the sole British manufacturer has hit the buffers and a Swedish company is in trouble, reportedly, so the cost of replacement is unlikely to come down despite the rapidly expanding market for EVs.
 
Thank you for sharing your holiday photos @Antje77. Have fun!
 
Lovely spot and it looks as though you are enjoying the swim. Good on you! Keep on having fun.

We all knew you could do that talk, Antje. You have the kind of personality that people want to listen to, and you have the knowledge to go with it. Well done you.
 
Breakfast was a RyVita and ham sandwich.

2nd meal depends on how I feel after going to town today. It may happen, it may not. It should be a kind of Mediterranean vegetable stew, but we shall see.

I finally get to see a doctor today - after 6 weeks or so of trying. It was a receptionist who sorted it out for me in the end. No idea why others that I contacted couldn't do that for me before this. Never mind. I have the appointment now. It's with a trainee GP, under supervision of a trained GP. I don't need to be physically examined, so I'm not use how much use I am for a trainee but, maybe just in how to talk to patients when you think they are wasting your time. I know there is something, but the usual response that I get from GPs is that it is all in my mind - appendicitis, migraine, food intolerances, diabetes, hypertension, even difficulties with my first pregnancy. I have, much of the time, had to self-diagnose and then go to a doctor and ask "Do I have this?" Then they check and confirm my suspicions.

Suddenly feeling a bit nauseous. I shall make a cup of tea and see if that helps.
 
Hope your appointment goes well and you have a good day.It really is a battle now to get through the system, I wonder how many people are slipping through the net because of the difficulties in negotiating the process. Must admit my heart sinks when I have to ring.
 
Interesting appointment with the student GP - no supervising GP after all. She gave me the results of the tests I've had and we had a little chat about where we go from here. Mostly nowhere but more tests to make sure.

It seems I have CKD - GPs have known this for some time (years) but never thought to follow up on it. Potassium too high. Sodium too low. Just checked on potassium rich foods to avoid or reduce and many of them are my staples. Many of the lower potassium foods are no no's because of the diabetes. Helpful!

I also have Chronic Progressive External Opthalmoplegia - just a fancy way of saying that the muscles around my eyes aren't working very well, making it difficult to see to the sides or above and causing serious weakness. Also a couple of cataracts, but they are small and nothing to be concerned about. Treatment? None, just keep an eye on it.

I also probably have Mitochondrial disease - makes my muscles weak and sore and causes difficulty walking, balancing or anything else for that matter as well as difficulties swallowing and probably affects my eyes and hearing as well. Treatment? None - just keep an eye on it. Blood tests, of course, to confirm, but the doctor couldn't get any blood out of me and gave up after 4 attempts and will ask the nurse to try on Thursday when I see her.

The thing is - they had all this information, these reports, for weeks and they were keeping it all to themselves. Well - there was no treatment for most of it anyway, so I suppose it just wasn't worth the bother for an almost 80 year old. Or maybe they just hadn't read them.
 
Wow, that's quite a list @Annb . Fingers crossed the next tests bring more clarity and a treatment plan.

Today I was mostly at a funeral (service then crem, then wake).
2 scrambled eggs for late breakfast.
2 boiled eggs lunch to fill me up to help resist the buffet. Mostly worked, just 4 mini samosas and tea to drink.
Dinner was chicken curry and courgettes. Half a scoop coffee ice cream.

Book club in the pub with 1 glass red wine.
 
sueh21 said:
It really is a battle now to get through the system, I wonder how many people are slipping through the net because of the difficulties in negotiating the process. Must admit my heart sinks when I have to ring.
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According to official figures @sueh21, GPs now have an average 17% more patients than before the two lockdowns. That may have something to do with it.

The maximum safe number of patients seen per day is said to be 24. Yet recent data shows GPs are seeing an average of 37 patients a day.
 
Morning all. There are 5 doctors and 2 nurse practitioners at my surgery. Yet if I ring at 8 when they open, I can't get a morning appointment because they are full so have to ring at 12. How are they full? When they have just opened and you are not allowed to make any appointments for the next day? Yet the waiting room rarely has more than 2 patients and more often than not.. none. You could be dead before you can see anyone!! You could say go to A & E but the waiting times there are horrendous. You could say ring for an ambulance but they take ages to come and you won't be seen at A & E any earlier. I do wonder what has happened to our country.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
I do hope you are soon feeling better Ann and they soon do their job and sort you out. You have so much to contend with. Sending you a great big hug.
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Thanks Rosemary. At least it's not what they thought it might have been, which was Myasthenia Gravis. There is treatment for that, but it usually involves steroids and I'd really rather not take those. The potential diagnosis would explain a lot and Neil says that not much work has been done on Mitochondrial disease until recently, so maybe it was just because I saw this fairly newly qualified doctor that it was recognised as a possibility. Explanation isn't much help when there is no treatment, but it is one more piece to fill in the puzzle. I'm not all that ill, just very, very tired and sore most of the time. I shouldn't complain, and I try not to. Others are far worse off than me.
 
Had another RyVita/ham/cucumber "sandwich" for breakfast. That's the last of the ham - it was past its use by date and although it was still OK, I wanted to get it used up.

2nd meal may be cabbage with some bacon fried and mixed through it; maybe some onion as well. Easy to do, as long as I can muster the energy. Used a lot of energy this morning, stripping and remaking my bed. I make it in the simplest way possible these days, but it still takes me about an hour and several rests to do it.
 
First food at 11.
Half a chicken breast with some hm coleslaw . Stilton cheese on 2 seedy crackers. Yoghurt with extra cream and chia seeds.

Made some lc brownies to keep in the freezer, but the granulated sweetner I use had gone hard. Tried melting it in the microwave which showed me just how unlike sugar it is. It set really hard and I nearly had to throw the dish out, but I let it soak for several hours and it finally dissolved. Then I forgot to add the cocoa powder so it baked really fragile and didn't hold together. Luckily I spotted my mistake, added the cocoa and some extra coconut flour, baked again and its edible, if flat. Might just rename it something like Chocolate Sensation , who'd ever know it's not brownie?

D: steak and egg stir fry. 3 teaspoons of baked apple and blackberries with single cream. A Scotch.
 
Sooo glad it wasn't Myasthenia Gravis.
 
I question what has become of our public services sector certainly @RosemaryJackson.
 
No breakfast yet, although I should do something about it soon. It will be bacon and egg. First though, I'm trying to get plenty of fluids in me so that the nurse will be more able to find some blood for the blood test the doctor wanted. Also shan't take fluid pills or BP pills until I get home (about 12.30).

I did have my cabbage and bacon yesterday evening. Added some slices of apple and a sliced onion to the mix and kind of braised it all in butter - the bacon was not very fatty, so I figured it needed a bit more fat - and the juices that came out of the vegetables. Worked very well and I probably ate too much of it. BG very good overnight and this morning though, but I've put on almost a full kilo in weight this week.

For the 2nd meal today, I'll have to wait and see what is available in the shops when Neil goes shopping for me. Apparently salmon is high in potassium, so I shouldn't be having that, but it is supposed to be a healthy fish, being oily. Can't decide whether to ask Neil to get salmon, if he can, or to try to get some white fish, which, I presume is not so high in potassium.
 
Didn't have time, after all, to have my bacon and egg. By the time I got back, it was almost time for my cleaner to come, so I didn't have it then either. It's almost 16.00 and I've gone beyond hunger, but will have to do something about food - BG is quite low.

I asked Neil to get some braising steak when he went shopping but he didn't know what that was and came back with a rib-eye steak. Maybe I should just have that instead of the bacon and egg. I just decided to ask him to get salmon after all. Reducing potassium doesn't mean cutting it out entirely. That's for tomorrow.
 
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