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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Always nice when friends step in and help with transport and hope that all your medical appointments go to plan.
 
Busy and stressful time for you, Marjorie and your girls but all very important so rest under his wings. Also helps to have the support of a good lady, family and friends. Shalom.
 
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Reminds me of the old joke about a horse that walked into a pub.
The landlord behind the bar ask him! "Why the long face?"
D.
 
You mention problems for the disabled finding it difficult in hospitals. There is the problem of getting increasing throughput, but staff are ebbing away to other jobs due to underfunding with no intention to help recruitment of staff by paying them properly.
This is the problem with doctors surgeries many doctors who went to medical school with Helen have already retired. They find their jobs too hard to keep up the pace.
D.
 
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According to Jeremy they are too busy playing golf to rescue the economy he and his mates have spent 13 years trashing. Many also have elderly parents and childcare responsibilities because of austerity.
 
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The French system sounds amazing. Nothing remotely like that here.

Pre-covid there were porters that would wheel you to the department. And I made use of those. But that has all gone now.

I just checked on the hospital I was talking about that I had all that walking to do, and there's nothing you can book. I am just thinking maybe I should contact PALS and bring it up with them?
 
I hope you enjoyed that sunshine...

I am liking this new sketch...
 
Thank you for the compliments Ian.

I hope you all survived the madness of yesterday....
 
A lot of digging! The fruit trees and bushes sound good...

I need to start planting as well...
 
7.3 this morning. 18hr fast yesterday, 12g carbs, 1200 calories, 14K steps plus resistance exercises. It is proving really hard work to get back to normal for me blood sugars. Hopefully l will see some progress soon.
 
Morening all. I hope all is well and fellow posters, painters and close ones are coping with trials and tribulations.

Blood sugars yesterday were 5.7 and today 6.2

Here in Tilehurst Towers time has run away along with what was left of my sanity and I must now depart and stand in that indoor rain box then prepare for another full on day.

Stay safe all and hopefully tomorrow, national bin day will be less of a full on day.
 
Morning team D.

FBG was in the style of that Liverpool FC lamp, a week or so back.
6.4

Perfect, IF you're looking for something middle of the table,
...very ho hum.

As for PorterGate: MIA.

I was lucky enough to not need porters during my many hospital visits
(Dept location almost first entrance inside hospital)

But I did obviously need for leaving hospital both times.

First time may point to understaffing.

Dec 24.
Hospital filling up with new covid patients
I was in a 4 berth HDU, the coughing coming from neighboring wards was constant.

I was getting as dressed as possible & was sat in chair, ready to go by 9am, as told porter on way.

At around 12:30 I was back on bed, being served lunch.

I had queried it, and told porters can take a while & waits for transports can be long.

So best eat now while you can, who knows when you'll eat next, sort of thing....so ok, I order.

Bit of an ordeal, getting back on bed but the chair just proved too uncomfortable after an hour or so..but I manage eventually.

As I'm sat starting to eat, porter enters ward & asks for me, and comes to bed all business like.

I point & explain food has just arrived, will I have time to eat it ?

Without a moment's pause, he rolls his eyes, turns and flaunts away, muttering about waiting etc.

Nurse comes over moments later, ask what happened.

I explain the hissy fit (I was annoyed & frustrated )

Same porter eventually returned, as I got myself tidied up to exit straight away off bed

An awkward moment as he's clearly annoyed being ordered back.

Deciding it's just a bad day for him, I apologise for earlier, explain what nurses said about delays getting home.

He explains how busy they are, not enough of them.

Honours even, we both agree it was just a bad moment & let it go.


Deposited in transport lounge, (think large classroom size waiting room.)
I was offered tea & biscuit.

And after many hours
(I was the only one & there was some issue because it would take two people to get me home)

I was kindly offered a sandwich by the lady in charge

I arrived home sometime before 10 pm...(which then became another epic saga )

So, from my limited experience.

It's too few of them, trying to move more people then the system was geared up to, pre covid.

And on a side note, the transports home, I believe were private companies (Falcke for definite the first journey, the second, some sort of minibus )

Perhaps pointing to where PFI & privatising segments, has undermined the NHS, as the balance once private becomes more profit over patient ?
 
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Fbg I have not taken it this morning because I was really hungry at midnight… A long story, I'll tell you in a minute.

Wildlife trail camera...
Badgers and the Fox

Badger KissyKissy, and a pair of badgers were in the garden pretty much all night, and Foxy Loxy as well who is very nervous that there are no cats on the swing all night.

I have no idea why, because there is pretty much always a cat on the swing most of the night. But the cats are not eating the cat biscuits here either during the night, although as soon as daylight came, the cats were queuing up to eat the same cat biscuits!

Foxy Loxy kept finding one of the badgers, KissyKissy, bumping into him, and he kept having to move out of the way very quickly.




Creative is another digital sheep painting in Procreate. I fell asleep half way through doing it, and luckily it was still here when I woke up, with the iPad still firmly grasped in my hands...

Right. My problem late last night was that an order for some eye drops had not arrived when it should've. Midnight had insisted last night that I go to bed early, at 7:30 and he wouldn't let me use any of my devices and sat firmly under my chin until I fell asleep. Consequently, I had been asleep a few hours when I woke up just before the time of midnight. Midnight, the cat, had obviously gone outside, and so I picked up my iPad. There was a message from Amazon saying they were really sorry about my eyedrops order, but also in the same message, said I had to contact the healthcare firm myself to sort it , because it hadn't been dispatched by Amazon, and it said I could not do that until Saturday and also said I had to give the firm another two days to sort it out.

I was furious for several reasons. And I needed that particular eyedrop because my prescription eyedrops are aggravating my eyes badly at the moment, and are unusable to me. I tried to do something about it there and then on Amazon, but the system wouldn't let me it was all automated for this and automated for that. But what I did find out when I went to the actual healthcare provider of my eyedrops order, was that in the last couple of days, there was a complaint after complaint after complaint by people who had not received the eyedrops. It went on and on. So something was up.

Also, when I went to the actual page of the same eye product and health care firm on Amazon, it had increased in price by three times, in just a few days. That was one heck of an increase on what I had originally paid for it.
So at that instance, I thought I'm writing this off for the moment, I'll pursue it next week sometime, and I'll go to eBay to see what I can find in this same eyedrop. Because I badly need them and they really do soothe my eyes.

On eBay, I found the same thing, the exact same make of eyedrop had increased by three times what it was a few days ago. Then I found two suppliers who are selling them for only double the price, and guaranteed that the expiry date was 2025, so I ordered a batch of drops from each one to make sure I have some.

I was stressed, but once I've done that I thought well I can relax now, but I was absolutely starving, so I had my breakfast in the very early hours. I couldn't wind down..

I was awake most of the night and fell asleep at first light. And then just before 9 o'clock, I had another email off Amazon saying that I was still getting my eyedrops at the original price, but it was from another healthcare supplier and that it was being dispatched today and I should get it in the next few days, and there was a proper tracking number with this one, whereas the tracking number with the eyecare firm that let me down led to nowhere.

I think Amazon had realised, that the original healthcare care company had gone rogue and were taking the money and not sending anything out, so Amazon sorted something for their customers.

I had paid for a whole year's supply, the firm had sold them as a years supply worth, so that was one heck of a relief.

So that was my hectic frantic night to get hold of my important eyedrops.

Can I have a day of rest today please, and without my cochlear ear again...

It is pouring with rain out there, but the sky is clearing, and maybe if I go out in the back garden, the sun might come and shine on me...

Have your best possible day!!!

I need some cuppas...

 
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Something had those badgers very animated last night .

I wonder if whatever that was influenced the cats behaviour ?

Hug for the eye drop saga

Is a 'fair play' to Amazon applicable, for seeming to sort it despite the poor supplier ?

Either way, good that you seem to be sorted for the time being.
 
Yes @jjraak
There were always too few porters, even before Covid. But they were there. And I did have to wait even then. And I was grateful for them, they were overworked.

It was good you and the porter agreed it was a bad moment. It is always good if you can do that. So my hat off to you in a difficult situation...

I have waited a long time in those transport lounges as well! A depressing, place, full of people who had dementia, Alzheimer's, and just had hospital gowns on, they're being sent home in hospital gowns, it was freezing in that transport lounge... and I was offered a sandwich as well!
 
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Those badgers were far too lively. KissyKissy was really mithering that poor fox, who didn't know which way to look...

Must've affected the cats behaviour in someway. Maybe the female badger was in heat, or is it mating season, whatever it was, they're letting some kind of scent (I presume) that was a warning alarm to other animals @jjraak

Yup, Amazon came up trumps there, and pretty quickly. I will believe it is properly sorted once I get those eyedrops in my hand from Amazon!!!

There must've been a lot of people affected for Amazon to react that quickly.

Thanks.
 
FBG (8 am) 11.9. Bad night. Up and down all night. My body was clearly trying to get rid of something even though my BG wasn't too bad for me. Kept having to get up and then went back to bed again so, eventually I stayed in bed until 8 am. That's thrown me out for the day - not that I have any schedule to stick to - other than 3 pm when Em comes in from school.

Been having trouble with our landline recently and decided it was actually the handset in the kitchen that was causing it so Neil bought a new one - much more complicated than the old one and has fixed it on the kitchen wall. Now I'll have to be shown how to use the basic functions. That's all I'll use no doubt and also no doubt, it will take me ages to remember how to work it.
 
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