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

gennepher said:

I received a jury summons today, and it requires me to attend in December.
No way would I be able to do that because of my disabilities, mainly my deafness. Also, apparently you cannot go to the toilet during the jury session. There's absolutely no way I could last that long. When I need a wee, I need to go NOW. And so I have been writing explaining my disabilities. But they certainly do not fit in the 1 and 1/2 by 6 inch box, unless maybe if I use a very fine mapping pen...

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I did jury service one time @gennepher .

First week I just sat in a room as spare before getting sent home.

Week 2 was on a case.

All paid for and an interesting insight into its workings .

Kinda glad I did it.

I do suspect you can email someone.

In your case, I think your lack of hearing would preclude you immediately.

Easy to say don't worry, but I don't think it's a problem as long as you try to inform them.

"I am profoundly deaf and will be unable to follow proceedings well enough to be of service"

After all no one there will be aware of your super human power of 'reading peoples minds from a distance '....aka 'lip reading '

Of use, if you haven't already looked ?

jjraak said:

Sounds like you had an ok day.

Best wishes for a peaceful ish night, and good luck with the binning of the green stuff .

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The foliage is stacking up against the wrong bin....!
Very windy across the footie pitches, any weak fencing will defo suffer.
Stars are out.
Just finishing my latest trekkie dvd.
So, not a bad day.
Have a peaceful night.

@gennepher .

While knowing how savvy you are .

I took the liberty of searching out this.

I know after all your techie issues you've probably used up a good portion of your saved energies

I thought I'd do what you could have done, while you rested .
If you haven't already done so.

Hope you don't mind .

Interesting points....mmhh.

BBC News - Sick pay timebomb that risks a lost generation of workers - BBC News

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a so far so good start to the day here an hour into the future. Yesterday was taken up with shopping and cleaning up the remaining mezzanine. Mum was delighted to be handed piles of rice paper in a variety of sizes and textures as well as several watercolour pads - probably enough of each to open a shop! She plans to use the watercolour pads at least, over the winter months, once she has finished all the knitting and crocheting requests that are still on the cards. Soup making this morning - some for later today and some for portioning up and freezing. Journeying home tomorrow and I still have not made much of a dent in dad’s wine stash - mum is quite disappointed in what she called our amateurish attempts. Astonishing then that a number of glass receptacles were taken to the bottle bank yesterday. Also, how does she know? She doesn’t drink anything other than for medicinal purposes and then it’s probably only lemon juice and honey in hot water. Still, my brother will be here next month so it will be his turn to have a go. Art bit - a smidge of green again. Hope your day pans out well for you. Best have some koffy and get the soup on the go.

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Imaginative artwork with imposing scenery @dunelm. Thank you for sharing.

Sunday's FBG 4.7 mmol/l on waking at 6.00 am.

Annb said:

There's another spider in my bedroom - right up where I can't reach it with the spider catcher. Neil's gone to bed - probably asleep by now; Hugo has been confined to the back porch after disgracing himself last night in the hallway; I was going to bed, but now I can't. It's not as big as the last one, but big enough so, once again, I am giving my bedroom over to the spider until Neil is available to catch it.

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Afraid it's that time of year @Annb when the little chaps leave their webs to go in search of a girlfriend. Courtship behaviour will be in full swing in a room near you.

Wishing you a decent night's rest tonight. You need your beauty sleep!


Sunday's FBG 4.7 mmol/l on waking at 6.00 am.

6.4 at 04.30 am.

jjraak said:

I did jury service one time @gennepher .

First week I just sat in a room as spare before getting sent home.

Week 2 was on a case.

All paid for and an interesting insight into its workings .

Kinda glad I did it.

I do suspect you can email someone.

In your case, I think your lack of hearing would preclude you immediately.

Easy to say don't worry, but I don't think it's a problem as long as you try to inform them.

"I am profoundly deaf and will be unable to follow proceedings well enough to be of service"

After all no one there will be aware of your super human power of 'reading peoples minds from a distance '....aka 'lip reading '

Of use, if you haven't already looked ?

Can a deaf person serve on a jury? | Mortons Solicitors

Can a deaf person serve on a jury? If a sign-language interpreter is needed then this would be a "13th" person in the jury room. How does it work?

www.mortons-solicitors.co.uk

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jjraak said:

@gennepher .

While knowing how savvy you are .

I took the liberty of searching out this.

I know after all your techie issues you've probably used up a good portion of your saved energies

I thought I'd do what you could have done, while you rested .
If you haven't already done so.

Hope you don't mind .

Reply to a jury summons

Reply to a jury summons online

www.gov.uk

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Thank you so very much @jjraak
I needed this.
And I really do appreciate this.

My brain is flatlining with this extra issue, on top of all the other technological issues at the moment.
I don't have any spare capacity to figure this one out.
I have written a load of disjointed statements to try and put something together.
I don't mind at all.


EDITED TO ADD:
I have been in a courtroom quite a few times for a case I was instigating. My solicitor didn't understand that I needed help in the courtroom. "You can hear me perfectly well in my solicitor's room, you'll be fine in the courtroom he said".

Well, I wasn't all right in the courtroom. It was so busy, and confusing, and I hadn't a clue what was going on. The judge got cross with me because I wasn't following directions. An official kept coming up to me, also cross with me. He would 'bark' some instructions to me, none of which I had a clue what he said. I couldn't follow one thing in my court case. It was terrifying for a profoundly deaf person.

People don't understand that I can lip read in a one to one situation (but only if conditions are right for me, eg no beard, no bright clothes, no hand or pen in front of the face as they talk, no turning away as they talk, no heavy accents which a lot of people have etc. And above all, I need context for each new person speaking, to be able to even start to do the guesswork I need to do to make up/use guesswork to fill in the gaps on the about 1/3 of the bit I can lip read.
All the above goes to pot once you put me in a situation where there are many people, and I have no idea where a voice is coming from, or even if someone is indeed speaking. Within minutes in that kind of situation I end up with a visual migraine. Which is why I avoid groups of people type situations.

Thanks
gennepher

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"having looked up online for advice, I noted the profoundly deaf require an interpreter .

I don't think my sign language / lip reading skills would allow me to follow proceedings effectively enough to be practical or useful in the extreme.

Making my attendance a massive hindrance to me and a huge distraction to the courts proceedings itself "

British Sign Language interpreter can currently assist a juror in the courtroom, but cannot enter the deliberation room where the jurors decide. This means that any deaf juror has to be able to lipread, or they would be unable to participate effectively

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Or alternatively, turn up day one, play the fool shouting "WHAT,... SPEAK UP man". every few minutes..

Job jobbed .

(Respectfully added & Very very tongue in cheek @gennepher & very Fawlty towers hanging gardens of Babylon scene )

@jjraak
I have just added a bit to my reply to add context.

Me too .

jjraak said:

"having looked up online for advice, I noted the profoundly deaf require an interpreter .

I don't think my sign language / lip reading skills would allow me to follow proceedings well enough to be practical "

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Thank you again @jjraak
That is more concise than I am am capable of...
I don't know how exactly to explain my situation, because it seems to others I am okay in one to one situations, but they don't understand all that goes to pot in busy every day situations.

And by the way I don't know BSL.
So in situations in the past when I have needed hearing help, I have been allocated a notetaker.
A notetaker cannot take notes for me to read to follow the situation in situ fast enough for the situation.. and consequently a notetaker paraphrases a lot, and misses out an awful lot, and I am constantly asking a notetaker what did she mean by that? But the conversation has gone on around us and she's trying to do the next bit and I can't follow what she's written down for the previous bit because it does not make sense in the situation. I have used note takers many times. But they are only more adequate in a one-to-one situation., but useless in a busy courtroom or learning situation.
I need something called a Palantype operator. She writes things down on a computer, but only what the other person has said., not what I have said, so I have always found the Palantype operator situation to be very disjointed and understanding what was going on. I have used one of those quite a few times.. but this is a big but, these people who are interpreting for me can only do it for 20 minutes at a time, and then they need a rest for 20 minutes. That is the law for them when they work in this interpreting situation. So in the case of a court, I would need several Palantype operators. And there would never be several Palantype type operators available for one person for one situation, as in the courtroom.


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I wouldn't be able to follow the deliberation process in that case...

I am always the silent one in a group of friends/people in a coffee shop because I cannot follow the to and fro and bursts of conversation .

One to one is okay as long as the infernal coffee machine doesn't burst into life, causing the cochlear sound processor to dampen down the sound to pretty much nil, and the sound processor doesn't restore sound until a few minutes later, so I have missed a huge chunk the other person was saying...
they don't understand when I try to explain this, not even my friend D, and she keeps talking and I ask her to stop until the sound processor restores the sound, but it is not a concept she understands and so she keeps talking...

jjraak said:

Or alternatively, turn up day one, play the fool shouting "WHAT,... SPEAK UP man". every few minutes..

Job jobbed .

(Respectfully added & Very very tongue in cheek @gennepher & very Fawlty towers hanging gardens of Babylon scene )

"Fawlty Towers" Communication Problems (TV Episode 1979) - Quotes - IMDb

"Fawlty Towers" Communication Problems (TV Episode 1979) - * Basil Fawlty: If you give us any more trouble I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress!

m.imdb.com

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Appreciate that @jjraak !!!!
I was trying to find an emoji for that, but couldn't find one!!!


Your research/suggestions are very helpful to me to try and narrow down/refine what I need to say to the jury summons.

jjraak said:

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"having looked up online for advice, I noted the profoundly deaf require an interpreter .

I don't think my sign language / lip reading skills would allow me to follow proceedings effectively enough to be practical or useful in the extreme.

Making my attendance a massive hindrance to me and a huge distraction to the courts proceedings itself "

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That is a brilliant statement @jjraak
Thanks

They can ask for further information regarding that, and I have reams to explain...

LivingLightly said:

Afraid it's that time of year @Annb when the little chaps leave their webs to go in search of a girlfriend. Courtship behaviour will be in full swing in a room near you.

Wishing you a decent night's rest tonight. You need your beauty sleep!


Sunday's FBG 4.7 mmol/l on waking at 6.00 am.

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Sleep I need. Beauty? It's a bit late for that!

9.4 at 04.30 today. Made some chocolate chip cookies yesterday evening for expected visitors today. New recipe and there were offcuts (I made them as slices rather than individual cookies) do, Of course, I had to try them - the offcuts. BG didn't go very high but stayed high overnight.

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and mating spiders!

Blood sugars were 4.7, corrective measures have been taken along with bowel cleansing koffy.

Jury service
Luckily I was never called, but I knew a few who were called. These days I think my appearance would be enough to me get discharged, let alone my medical conditions.

This is tempting fate, but at long last the effects of my radiotherapy and associated medication seem to be slowly easing blood tests and multiple follow up appointments are lined up.

Now it is time to dash, may you all have a good day and smile after all it is a wonderful life. Cue film.

Morning fellow boomers who almost certainly also weren't aware of the winter arc - see attached from Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. in Forbes magazine. If Kemi is reading, calm down babe. I was alerted to this whole "thang" by this piece which initially seemed a humorous lambasting of Gen Z until I realised people who live in Elsie Keto houses should never throw stones. Since we are about to change the clocks this also seemed likely to match how many will feel for a few months. Despite it being fairly mild hereabouts folks are already wandering around looking morose, clad in ankle length duvets (many bizarrely sans arms) so that seems appropriate. Now back to business with - insert guru of choice. @gennepher hug for the added stress of jury service notice. @jjraak sharing the helpful information is a measure of you as a man - kudos Sir. Oh, my fbg is a known unknown but then managing T2 is probably #3 or 4 on my list of medical issues and using diet to do so is very possibly inimical to the higher order problems. Have a great/good/ok/well I got through it, tomorrow's another day Monday. I'll leave y'all with some essential rules for this season - yes, I do have a black hoodie - are you down wiv the yout?

5.5 this morning.
Both of us are still testing positive but the symptoms are much milder day by day.

A class member, who is also a friend, rang and we had a lovely chat. Both her and her husband had Covid over the summer break last year and they were positive for 13 days. Hopefully we are not that long.

Took Poppy out for a very short walk yesterday. Legs very wobbly but I felt ok afterwards.

We both took Poppy out this morning for a very slow and gentle walk to the park. Keeping well away from everyone. Felt wobbly again but ok afterwards.

Am resting now with a coffee