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You can set it to VIBRATE and that way you can feel it if it rings while you're holding it. You may be able to see it vibrate if it's on a table. My old flip phone can vibrate itself right off the table onto the floor!
 
You can set it to VIBRATE and that way you can feel it if it rings while you're holding it. You may be able to see it vibrate if it's on a table. My old flip phone can vibrate itself right off the table onto the floor!

Most newish ones can also be set to flash, when calls are incoming
 
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Good afternoon all. I've been off-grid, (and off diet), cruising N.France on my boat. Glad to report no sign of any anti-British sentiments, other than the declining exchange rate. Sampled forbidden foods like "pain au chocolat" and had to have proper baguette and wine with "les fromages et la charcuterie".

Weight gain 1 kg.

BG just now, 1 hour pp, 7.3 mmo/lt. Got to be a good boy now for a few months.

Footie season about to start. Bring it on!
 

Ooh.Aunt Pengy...So not nice to hear.

glad you seem to be making some sort of recovery..

sit back, chill , and as @Saskia says, nurse daisy is on the case, so
you'll be well looked after on the love and affection front

god speed a quick recovery.
 
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Hi @True Blue

wow sounds fantastic.

and back just in time for the Football..good timing.

nice to see your well.

soon be back in the swing of things.

and ONLY 1kg..blooming marvellous ( as richard van dyke would have said in mary poppins.. )
 
5.7 today. Keeping it brief. Time for ABRs

FYI today is CAB re BIL asking for HELP ASAP he has T2D and other health conditions causing AGRO. I took list of FAQs and IMHO it's a case of DIY research. I said RSVP wont you but they said N/A and sent me packing! THX!!! OMG!!! ***. all I can say is TGIF except its only HUMP day! Feeling GGGRRRR.

Anyway abbreviations have timed out LOL.

Off to Wales now (on motorway and its lashing it down) to meet up with our daughter and family on Campsite. Same one we took her to when she was the same age as our granddaughter (2) We had bad weather. A hurricane in fact! Ended up sleeping on the cinema floor with my mum, sister, hubby and daughter. I queued to get money back so we could go elsewhere. Glass in pool as roof caved in, trees uprooted, boats overturned, frightening. Anyway got a text from her last night. Shocking weather:

'It was until the place just flooded! been told restaurant closed and cakerry and pizza place and soft play and arcade! Roof 'caving in' apparently! ‍ xxxx'

History repeating itself! I certainly hope not!
 
I do hope that you a are beginning to feel a lot better now. It's so horrible having a sore tum.
 

How awful for you. I hope it’s sorted very soon. Hugs for quick recovery PenguinMum.
 
Most newish ones can also be set to flash, when calls are incoming

I have a flasher too, but I told her to close the curtains of a morning as she was scaring the wildlife.

(Glad she doesn't read what I type on here.)
 
Thanks EVERYONE for your good wishes which meant a lot. I am feeling better though still got a sore tum. Hoping for a good nights sleep tonight. Need to get on that plane to Dublin to see son on Friday. Havent tested BG today, didnt see the point. Hopefully a normal day tomo.
 

Sorry to bump this back up, but I think Central Serous Retinopathy is what my optician has recently told me I have, he didn’t say it by name, just said I had fluid behind my eye and as it is close to the optic nerve it’s causing the slight distortion, he didn’t seem overly concerned by it and said the fluid behind my eye would most like be reabsorbed by itself. I have the wavy lines when I look at things close up with my right eye and my vision is ever so slightly darker, however when I have my specs on and use both eyes I am grand! I know everyone is different but can I ask what your experience of it was? I am driving myself crazy with Dr Google and putting the fear of God in myself!
 
@PenguinMum I’ve only just popped back in here after my morning post. I’m so sorry to read of your horrible night and morning. It must have been so scary. That sort of pain, which is so intense it makes you physically sick is the most terrible thing. I’m not surprised you felt so washed out afterwards. It sounds like you had very good care. Hope you have a restful, comfortable night tonight.
 
@ChrissiStar I think the doctor who diagnosed the central serous retinopathy wanted me to have surgery, but I didn't. I was not quite 40 at the time. That was about 28 years ago -- I don't know what, if anything, doctors want to do about it nowadays.

It's in my left eye, and usually nowadays if I look directly at an object with my left eye, the object is blurred. Sometimes I can see the object a little more clearly out of the corner of my eye, but I'm so nearsighted (plus have astigmatism) that it really doesn't help that much. I don't notice it when I'm looking at something with both eyes, because it's been a long time since I've had that scary "black dot" effect blocking my vision.
 
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