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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - it, like all the others, is now in the hands of Mrs Miggins, professional art critic and archivist.
Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - it, like all the others, is now in the hands of Mrs Miggins, professional art critic and archivist.And it turned into a masterpiece, I like the effect you have managed to achieve by averting a potential disaster. Would hand that on a wall.
Hugs for baffling technology does make one think about their sanity.
Exact attitude of the doctor who is the Diabetic Expert at my Health Centre. I don't know for certain but I suspect drug money is involved somewhere along the line.I know a few people with that same attitude. There are shockingly a lot of people who do that - and when I think about the 'advice' I was given by my diagnosing GP (basically shut the hell up and take all the tablets I want to give you) it really doesn't surprise me.
HIS view was... "I will dose you up on Metformin, you don't need to manage your BGs with anything, just come back in six months" ... he was FURIOUS when I got my bloods down with LC and monitoring with a Libre and I had to plead with him to sign a Libre statement to take on flights along with spares. He told me to my face I was "wasting my money" to which I retorted it was my money to waste.
With attitudes like that in the healthcare profession, is it any wonder there are people out there who think metformin is a miracle tablet that lets them eat whatever the hell they want?
Oh yes, well, that’s OK then. What a sad state of affairs.Thanks, interestingly we asked what happens when MILs money runs out, family top ups was the answer paying the difference from what the state puts in. No real figure given but anything between 200 and 500 per week was casually mentioned as though it's nothing.
This is beautiful @Muddy CyclistMiddle Grandaughters birthday. Mrs MC made all our Grandaughters doll nightie cases this is the final one which we will give her with a set of Roller SKates...
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Very effective @dunelmgood morning everyone on a morning of mystery and anticipation here in the dark and dangerous north.
The wonder wheel of home made burger with a cauliflower and parmesan colcannon came in at 4.7 this am. (Blimey - just typed that without looking. Only one transposition and no keys locking - oh, that’s a four banked Imperial).
A new TV - or is it now an entertainment station or something - whatever, all this new fandangled electronic super smart tech takes forever to set up and even needs your mobile number so that it can send you codes and then you have to have your brain scanned and your eyeballs engraved with mystic symbols before answering the riddle of the Sphinx, ticking the squares containing traffic lights and swearing that you are in fact not related to Deep Blue.
Yesterday I was playing about with marbling on rice paper using ink -Mrs Miggins was not impressed with the kitchen sink but hey, that’s what bleach is for. Anyhow, some worked, some didn’t and some worked and then Mr Sausage fingers ruined them. Never mind. This one didn’t come out very well at all but I used the sooty smudge to do a quick (don’t think about the brush strokes) pair of wading birds. Hope that everyone has a most pleasant Thursday - I am now slurping koffy.
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Totally agree. Even having changed to a much more progressive GP who sees the value of testing regularly for a T2 - his insistence I take Metformin to cure everything (his latest thing is to prevent heart disease) I draw the line at taking meds and extra ones at that just for the hell of it.Exact attitude of the doctor who is the Diabetic Expert at my Health Centre. I don't know for certain but I suspect drug money is involved somewhere along the line.
I think you are right about the risks of having blood clots with Covid 19 are much higher than the risks of having blood clots with the AZ vaccine.Hi,
The better half gets her second A.Z. this am with mixed feelings.
The story seems to be coming out in dribs and drabs and I am not sure we have had an accurate assessment of the probabilities yet? However, I am sure they are much better than having Covid in ones 70s and 80s.
5.8 this am.
Have good day all
D.
That is a really shocking attitude from your GP. I cannot believe that a GP would give such wrong advice.I know a few people with that same attitude. There are shockingly a lot of people who do that - and when I think about the 'advice' I was given by my diagnosing GP (basically shut the hell up and take all the tablets I want to give you) it really doesn't surprise me.
HIS view was... "I will dose you up on Metformin, you don't need to manage your BGs with anything, just come back in six months" ... he was FURIOUS when I got my bloods down with LC and monitoring with a Libre and I had to plead with him to sign a Libre statement to take on flights along with spares. He told me to my face I was "wasting my money" to which I retorted it was my money to waste.
With attitudes like that in the healthcare profession, is it any wonder there are people out there who think metformin is a miracle tablet that lets them eat whatever the hell they want?
Thank you @gennepher. A cousin of mine mentioned that she could see a face so I explained to her that it is The God of Small Things and that the birds are the fraternal twins - I don’t think that she has read anything by Arundhati Roy. Wholly untrue of course - the ink is random - our brains of course are programmed to find faces in everything that we see.Very effective @dunelm
I love it. I can almost see a blue Buddha in the hills...
Mine seems to be programmed by someone with a very different spelling of faces. Works amazingly well for press conferences.our brains of course are programmed to find faces in everything that we see.
It reminded me of a Hospital Doctor who told me that I was deluding myself if I thought I could stay off insulin and maintain remission with a low carb diet. He got angry when I gave him some stats and shouted back at me that T2 Diabetes was a progressive degenerative disease. I am afraid I did struggle a little to stay calm and polite during the consultation. I desperately wanted to say that it was only a progressive degenerative disease if I carried on eating the high carb diet, but I don't like being shouted at so I didn't say it.
Thank you @jjraak . You wouldn't believe how much I wanted to see that doctor again and say stuff like 'another year has passed and I am still in remission. What have you got to say to that?'An obvious hug for their attitude & demeanour* ..
A HUGE agree with the reasoning.
A WIN for remaining SO composed
And a HIGH 5 for having the last laugh over their pompous attitude, and if not proving them wrong entirely, certainly derailing their obnoxious timetable for their railway of death.
<* Insert your own expletives>
Thank you, I will.This is beautiful @Muddy Cyclist
Tell MrsMC that it is stunning!
Thank you @jjraak . You wouldn't believe how much I wanted to see that doctor again and say stuff like 'another year has passed and I am still in remission. What have you got to say to that?'
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I never saw him again.
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