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just capitalism.
Americanisation.
multi nationals search for profit.
And governments allowing it. And selling their countries.
 
Oh no @SlimLizzy that is really dreadful but thank goodness no one was seriously injured.
Hope your daughter 's husband is ok.
 
What an awful awful Asthma Nurse @gennepher.

Luckily I deleted my original post about her or I may have been banned from this forum if I had posted it.
 
In some respects I believe you are lucky.
I cannot have the majority of my favourite food growing up.
We eat similar proteins and fresh food as salads but it is not a veg based diet.
No dairy, no sugars, no carbs.
I cartoon in the peanut butter debate, the olive oil debate, the coffee debate, no cakes, no sweets, not a lot I can eat.
But I do thrive on my diet.
Lots of eggs, fresh cooked meats, fish, fresh salad. Gammon and eggs!
Home made curry, home made omelette with onion, mushrooms, tomatoes. The odd stew, the ribs, shanks, belly pork, pork shoulder, chicken roasted. Then as a treat, steak from the kebab shop, grilled.
And
Fresh fruit,
I don't miss my favourites, honestly.

I don't really trust our manufactured food industry. For many reasons.
The most important is the epidemic of T2 diabetes. Which in the majority of cases, is because of the unhealthy options we have more of in the last half century.
 
Your diet looks really good and tasty. I agree that our manufactured food industry is a real problem because of the unhealthy options.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Your diet looks really good and tasty. I agree that our manufactured food industry is a real problem because of the unhealthy options.
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I just wish, when I feel low, a chip butty would cheer me up no end!
And when I had my break down, comfort food was a problem.
So, I do know what I was doing, but I couldn't help it.
will power is my middle name.
 
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Hug for the nightmare asthma review. Winner for the kaleidoscope and if wanted the weight loss. Can what was entered on computer be accessible online or printed off? Don't take offence but the whole episode sounds like a naff version of this.
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I have no idea if anything could be printed off @ianpspurs
But this surgery do not print things off, and in the past I have had to go through the practice manger and make an application through him, and then an appointment through him, and be there (he also was there) when the info was printed. That is what happened before.
You may have the freedom to access your records, but actually getting to that point is rather protracted.

No offence taken Ian

I have been sleeping again, because I have had enough of all this disrespecting...other people can do it without it taking one extra moment out of their day. I get more respect and kindness from the ordinary person in the street, and at shop tills. They read my red badge saying I need you to face me so I can lipread, and give me that extra consideration, one till worker in Iceland signs to me, and I can't even flipping sign, so I leant a few words (so I could respond) which made her very happy...

I am trying to find a photo I took of my badge, and card when I made them.

Thanks...
 
Thank you @Annb for loving my fern kaleidoscope
She was beyond the pale, she ranks among the worst that I have been treated.
I am a very good lip reader, had to be, to be where I am today, but sometimes people refuse to deal with me once they know I am profoundly deaf.
I handed her this card, that I made 10 years ago, and by and large it helped to make a difference at any appointment, and she didn't read it, but slung it to the side of the table. It is postcard sized, folded over as a card....it was a humorous attempt in 2014...I intend to redo this...it will not be a lighthearted humorous attempt this time.

 
I was not near enough to even make bodily contact with her. But I did keep interrupting her @Lamont D when I thought she was talking to me. If someone faces away from me when talking, I have no idea they are talking to me, I hear noises, but not the full words.

Most of my 'hearing' is guesswork, based on the part of the noises of the word I can hear, the syllables in the word, and then lipreading which should then give me the whole word. But imagine me with that level of hearing, trying to take in a whole conversation or appointment or a group of people talking (that last one is impossible). Imagine how tired I feel.

And then despite me giving them adequate info which would contribute to me having a good conversation with them (because I am receiving the info), and reminding them, 'they', like the asthma nurse of today keep looking totally away from me as they talk. There is no flow for me, I cannot follow anything because there is too much missing.

This is not quite them same as a hearing person missing bits and saying pardon can you repeat. I do not hear full words, ever, not even with the cochlear sound processor, which by the way is very prominent on the side of my head, because my hair is tied up.

Oh and also today I had the cochlear hospital letter which describes some of my limitations. And I offered her this when she carried on ignoring me saying that I needed her to face me. But she did not read that.

I was pushy, I was demanding, I couldn't have done any more at this appointment. I was exhausted before it was finished with the amount of work my brain needed to do, to try and follow.

Oh, by the way, I wear a sunflower lanyard which is for people, in particular with hidden disabilities.

Here are my photos of my badge, I wear the middle one. And photos of my Godard, which I am now definitely going to rewrite.

But before I put them up, I have read your post earlier, and it seems to me that you need to lock, or hide whatever you cook that gammon in, from Mrs L. Sorry if I am being forward. But it might be safer...hugs for that scare.

 
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Krystyna23040 said:
What an awful awful Asthma Nurse @gennepher.

Luckily I deleted my original post about her or I may have been banned from this forum if I had posted it.
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I have had to be careful what I wanted to say and felt.
She is the worst, most unprofessional one I have had recently.
Thank you @Krystyna23040
 
A lovely piece of art @dunelm. I sense the scent of decomposing Autumn leaves. Thanks for sharing.

I hope the oil of wintergreen has worked its magic.
Have a good holiday, Norway is a stunningly beautiful country.


Monday's FBG, 4.4 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Thank you @LivingLightly - we do like Norway
 
20.08
5.45am FBG 5.9
Little bit of clearing up done in the kitchen, some veg prep for freezing or eating. After two frantic days washing, cleaning and tidying still a couple of rooms needing attention. Should be dashing about cleaning and tidying for the impending house viewing, but too tired. If they don't like the house as it is - cleaning a few windows won't help.
Rain isn't helpful either.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
Fbg 5.5 today.
@gennepher there is an app for Android phones called live transcribe that will convert speech to text in real time it can show a textual display of what a person is saying as they speak on your phone.
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Thank you @JohnEGreen
I have used Live Transcribe in a friends situation, when I am talking to friends.

But there has been difficulty in a medical situation where they don't like you using your phone to hear with, and they say no, you can't use it. And in a sense you are recording them, and they refuse that. It is not allowed.

There is also the problem of signal.
If the signal is low at the Surgery, I cannot use it, because it only functions on a good signal. And the signal is low or non existent on the phone in the surgery.

BUT, you have reminded me of some technology I had with an older cochlear sound processor. I need to find this equipment in my cochlear box of stuff, see if it can charge up, I cannot remember if it was battery, or rechargeable. Or if it is indeed compatible with my latest cochlear sound processor.
And them I still have to pair the device with my current cochlear processor, if I can do this. It needed a hospital technician to pair it years ago with my older processor (of about 10 years ago). I may not be able to do this.

It still doesn't help me completely...but, if I say you need to be next to this device for me to receive your words (which you do), then she will be facing me, and I will be able to lipread her....
Thanks for jogging my memory @JohnEGreen

Failing that, I will ask for an interpreter, which for me has to be a notetaker or a palantype operator. But last time I asked for this kind of help, then the appointment got delayed while the surgery sorted it, however a BSL sign interpreter was sent out. I don't know BSL. So appointment cancelled, and rearranged, but no one turned up this time. Again, appointment cancelled and rearranged, but this time an interpreter for the blind turned up. I'm sorry, but I don't know braille (I burst out hysterically laughing on that one). Appointment was cancelled yet again and rearranged, and finally a palantype operator was sent out...bliss...I could actually have every word of what the nurse was saying, right on the screen in front of me, and I wasn't dog tired trying to work out all the words. So, it was months later, 4 or 5 months before I got the appropriate interpreter. And by the way the palantype operator needs a break every 15 or 20 mins, so the appointment has to be suspended until the operator has had her break and can legally start again. Impractical in an appointment situation. And you have no idea the amount of times I have begged the palantype operator, just a few more minutes, just a few more minutes....

This happened in the eye hospital also, and the nurse came to the waiting room, sorry no interpreter turned up, we'll have to cancel. And this was after travelling from Wales to Liverpool. So, I said please may I speak with the specialist when he has a moment. The specialist came out. Look, I am a good lip reader, I told him, I need you to face me at all times, no hands in front of your mouth, no talking to your computer....he laughed...just face me and we'll get along fine. He agreed, and we got on like a house on fire with him making jokes... the in between people doing the tests were a little more problematic, but it was only the end guy I needed to hear.


EDIT: just remembered something.
Soon after I had my cochlear implant, I told the surgery and asked them if they could have something compatible for hearing aids, all the different types, and for cochlear implants, all the different types. I was quoting the disability discrimination act, for them to make hearing accessible for all different kinds of deafness devices. They came up with The Conversor Pro. It was big and heavy then. I was excited to try it. But it was dead as a doornail when I got in the appointment room....they hadn't charged it. Each time I went in, they had not charged it, so it ended up consigned to the back of a cupboard.

It was a very useful pice of equipment when charged in other situations when I came across it.
 
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