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Muddy Cyclist said:
Went to sons for an evening meal, daughter was also there so got to spend time with all three of my granddaughters, magical. My sons cottage faces west and the sunset tonight was dark and foreboding, there is a mighty Oak with huge limbs that were silhouetted. I had my paints in Wilfrid my VW camper so did a quick Plein Air watercolour sketch, I may decide to do a painting from it. A4 sketch about 10 minutes as Grandchildren wanted bed time stories.....
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i do like these sketches of yours, a finished piece of art in it’s own right. The sunset sky works very well, silhouetting that mighty tree
 
Good morning everyone from morning of great prospects in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of roasted cod with a big blob of dill ladened buttery sauce came it at 4.7 this am

Shoe shopping. Mrs Miggins taking Little Miss Pamplemousse into town to buy school shoes - Year 1 this time round. Meanwhile I will be taking the twins into the park to feed ducks and go on an explore.

More tree practice but I decided to bunch them into a landscape.

Hope everybody has a good day today, best get some more koffy.
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Muddy Cyclist said:
I agree, understand the science, Mrs MC did a masters degree in biochemistry and I have a close niece who works with bugs and such with her Doctorate in Oxford (not Covid though), yet with all this knowledge and understanding my humanity and need for social contact drives me to play what I think is a controlled game of Russian Roulette, knowing deep down that there is no such animal, it makes me afraid but the need for social contact can be likened to a drug addiction, just one more, doing it safely, taking precautions and then BOOM it all goes wrong.
So I have to choose the worst of two evils, the guilt of not being socially active or Covid, catching or spreading which equally amounts to being antisocial. You are right only time will tell.
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I can only imagine the heartache of not being with those you are socially attached to, and I'd hate to be making those choices.

Such friends as I have tend to be like me and on the spectrum so we have never had a desire to physically meet. Apart from her ladyship and my commitment to helping her, I don't have to involve myself in socialising. What was once regarded as a weird trait is now a saving grace I guess.

Bloods have dropped back to 6.2 so its bacon and eggs time ;)
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from morning of great prospects in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of roasted cod with a big blob of dill ladened buttery sauce came it at 4.7 this am

Shoe shopping. Mrs Miggins taking Little Miss Pamplemousse into town to buy school shoes - Year 1 this time round. Meanwhile I will be taking the twins into the park to feed ducks and go on an explore.

More tree practice but I decided to bunch them into a landscape.

Hope everybody has a good day today, best get some more koffy.
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Like this very much @dunelm
A lot of work in it.

I notice in the Garden book is there seem to be loads of ideas how to present the different tree leaves, which suggest the type of tree. It will be good for conventional western painting as well.
 
I have just noticed that my elderflower tree 'green man' has gone. I used to look at it every morning from my bed. It was there yesterday morning. But the son of the deceased woman next door (due to Covid-19), was cutting the lawn yesterday. My green man was on my property. Someone (him?) has cut my elderflower tree down, a lot. He had to reach over to do it. People don't like elderflower trees.

I am sad.
 
gennepher said:
The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is e
It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.
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OMG I know that I am stating the obvious but that is horrendous ! not sure if you should have had another pessary till things healed .anyway sending u a virtual hug.
 
lindisfel said:
hey couldn't get my INR above 1.6 on Warfarin and I was on over 12mg per day
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My INR has been problematical doses ranged from 17mgs now down to 12mgs so like you I must be a super rat too!...its difficult to control the levels I find it far more difficult to control the INR than my T2...I have thought about using one of the others but concerns about the side effects & more importantly the antidotes for bleeding...feeling a little human today off to the anti-coagulant clinic this morning hoping for a good number but suspect after Mondays events that will be unlikely...but fingers crossed.
 
8.2 this am not what I was hoping for but in the great scheme of things not so bad . Back to the gym today after 8 months so maybe that will help ( if I survive lol )
 
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geefull said:
so glad you're home and things are settling down for you. You have my sympathy, I ended up in A+E with an extended nose bleed about 5 years ago, it's horrible and so stressful
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Thanks geefull it was I should have gone earlier knowing the Warfarin makes it difficult to stop any bleed but we learn a lesson all the time.
 
gennepher said:
Like this very much @dunelm
A lot of work in it.

I notice in the Garden book is there seem to be loads of ideas how to present the different tree leaves, which suggest the type of tree. It will be good for conventional western painting as well.
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Yes, the different leaf ideas would make for an interesting treeline.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who remember today is national bin day.

A 5.5 on the meter of mystery and naughtiness this morning.

A busy, stressfull day for both of us today, but for different reasons. We have run out of tea and koffy. Sympathy not required, I know where to find it in the dictionary.
Sorry must go shopping for koffy, Mrs J can source her own tea.
 
Morning...rushing this morning off to anti-coagulant clinic & up late last night with work...although it's virtual it still can be exhausting protests all over London so likely to be busy again today...no FBG not likely to be a great result until things settle down...keep safe everyone.
 
Fbg this morning was 4.4 bedtime last night bg was 3.9 so I'll take that as a win.

Was out and about to the local park yesterday was playing about with the camera a bit and took some photos again.

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dunelm said:
i do like these sketches of yours, a finished piece of art in it’s own right. The sunset sky works very well, silhouetting that mighty tree
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Thank you.

Great landscape/treescape you have given us today. Enjoy your fun outing.
 
Alien Aspie said:
I can only imagine the heartache of not being with those you are socially attached to, and I'd hate to be making those choices.

Such friends as I have tend to be like me and on the spectrum so we have never had a desire to physically meet. Apart from her ladyship and my commitment to helping her, I don't have to involve myself in socialising. What was once regarded as a weird trait is now a saving grace I guess.

Bloods have dropped back to 6.2 so its bacon and eggs time ;)
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Thank you, it is also made worse by the guilt. Knowing the risks, wanting to be sociably responsible, wanting to see family and friends, constantly analysing and worrying, exhausting.
The one thing we can't and wont consider is our group activities indoors, singing, choirs, folk band, recorder quartet all a step to far, sad.
Good your BG readings are going the right way.
 
I am completely gobsmacked.

After research, I find my GP practice runs through eConsult. Any info I give here is specific to my GP practice.

There are no doctors in my GP practice. It is nurse led. That is the nurse who who made an appallingly mess of my pessary change yesterday. And another nurse who I haven't yet seen.

So, there are various boxes and many many many lists to go into. It is a badly worked out site, you cannot go back one page, you have to find your starting place all over again. I have wasted a lot of time on this site this morning, and I imagine most people will give up.

Just one example on the site, because of the disastrous pessary change yesterday which caused excessive bleeding (it is stopping but I am in pain with it, I am staying in bed for safety's sake until tomorrow at least), I looked up the section for 'blood urine for women'.

This gives me 2 boxes
1. I want to help myself (which shows online videos for you to watch, and info, and how to sort something yourself)
2. I want treatment and advice from my GP (but that is a fallacy because there are no GP's at this (my) surgery, this is just a personalisation set of words to assure you your GP is there, but he/she is not). If you tick this box, then it refers you to an alternative location than your GP surgery, and this can be anywhere, where supposedly you can get treatment. (You need to be, or have, a driver and have your own vehicle to be able to do this, because you will asked to go nearly 13 miles to the hospital which has horrendous parking, and I would need to lift my mobility scooter out of my car, which I am currently in no condition to be able to do so, as I cannot walk that far into the hospital. I pulled out of this site at this point. I was just seeing what would happen for my current bleeding problem that the practice nurse caused by her inadequate pessary change and she was okay for me to go home with and medicate myself. She was not allowed to prescribe me anything yesterday (there is no doctor on site in my GP surgery to sign prescriptions), but she told me to buy some paracetamol for the pain.

Also, according to this site, Health Reviews are now done online at my surgery now, by ticking a series of boxes, not by attending my GP practice.

And more stuff, like if you need a blood pressure reading it is not done at my GP practice any more, and you need go yourself round your pharmacies, to find a pharmacy that can give you one.

The whole thing is a badly managed complicated site, not intuitive friendly. And certainly not for old people who don't have the internet.

I have lost the will to live.


I also tried looking online at the local community hospital, about 10 miles away, which I have used in the past. It is a minor injury hospital. I have gone through its site, and it is more restrictive on who it sees than it used to be. And it is nurse led. There are no doctors in attendance any more when the hospital is open. It doesn't help with my current problem of bleeding due to pessary change.

Where are all the doctors?
 
Hi jj,
The Queen has dauggs and they will be grand, so I suppose she can have grandauggters as well? :)
D.

jjraak said:
You had me at
"son, daughter & 3 grandauggters"

Magical, indeed.

Especially given how much we have all sacrificed and missed out on, these last months.

Quite brought a tear to my eye.

Love it ❤️
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Alien Aspie said:
This is where understanding covid at large becomes grey.

What you are actually seeing is no deaths from covid rather than no-one has caught it. The virus is primarily asymptomatic and so is not easily recognisable, also the death rate (42k) is small in comparison to the known infection rate (337k although the actual figure is probably much higher).

For most of the country that 42k death rate is acceptable in terms of 'business as usual', whereas we personally know (from being in the high-risk/at-risk category) that 42k is worrying indeed.

As people yearn for normality in social contact we should be aware that for those at risk it will be a game of Russian Roulette that only time will answer.

edit to add fbg at 9.0 Don't you just love steroids
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For some of us AA, a one in six chance would probably be better odds! :)
D.
 
gennepher said:
I am completely gobsmacked.

After research, I find my GP practice runs through eConsult. Any info I give here is specific to my GP practice.

There are no doctors in my GP practice. It is nurse led. That is the nurse who who made an appallingly mess of my pessary change yesterday. And another nurse who I haven't yet seen.

So, there are various boxes and many many many lists to go into. It is a badly worked out site, you cannot go back one page, you have to find your starting place all over again. I have wasted a lot of time on this site this morning, and I imagine most people will give up.

Just one example on the site, because of the disastrous pessary change yesterday which caused excessive bleeding (it is stopping but I am in pain with it, I am staying in bed for safety's sake until tomorrow at least), I looked up the section for 'blood urine for women'.

This gives me 2 boxes
1. I want to help myself (which shows online videos for you to watch, and info, and how to sort something yourself)
2. I want treatment and advice from my GP (but that is a fallacy because there are no GP's at this (my) surgery, this is just a personalisation set of words to assure you your GP is there, but he/she is not). If you tick this box, then it refers you to an alternative location than your GP surgery, and this can be anywhere, where supposedly you can get treatment. (You need to be, or have, a driver and have your own vehicle to be able to do this, because you will asked to go nearly 13 miles to the hospital which has horrendous parking, and I would need to lift my mobility scooter out of my car, which I am currently in no condition to be able to do so, as I cannot walk that far into the hospital. I pulled out of this site at this point. I was just seeing what would happen for my current bleeding problem that the practice nurse caused by her inadequate pessary change and she was okay for me to go home with and medicate myself. She was not allowed to prescribe me anything yesterday (there is no doctor on site in my GP surgery to sign prescriptions), but she told me to buy some paracetamol for the pain.

Also, according to this site, Health Reviews are now done online at my surgery now, by ticking a series of boxes, not by attending my GP practice.

And more stuff, like if you need a blood pressure reading it is not done at my GP practice any more, and you need go yourself round your pharmacies, to find a pharmacy that can give you one.

The whole thing is a badly managed complicated site, not intuitive friendly. And certainly not for old people who don't have the internet.

I have lost the will to live.


I also tried looking online at the local community hospital, about 10 miles away, which I have used in the past. It is a minor injury hospital. I have gone through its site, and it is more restrictive on who it sees than it used to be. And it is nurse led. There are no doctors in attendance any more when the hospital is open. It doesn't help with my current problem of bleeding due to pessary change.

Where are all the doctors?
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Sounds to have been privatised, is that a conservative led area?
Next time I speak to my eldest I will ask her what's happening.
D.
 
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