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

Krystyna23040 said:

5.8 this morning.
Chilly but brilliant sunshine here in Central Norfolk. It must have really rained overnight as the park was waterlogged and quite muddy.

At the entrance there was a huge puddle (about 8ft wide) which was ideal to clean my boots in.

Had an enjoyable splash around in it - on the pretext that I wanted to make sure my boots were really clean.

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What colour are your wellies ( boots)? Bet they are pink!
#8 is in your band of splashers in his car pictured wellies.

6.6 and a really bad day today with Mrs L.

Likely isn't but worth checking

Any uptick in Mrs L's behaviour could be a water infection .

Edited to add link .

Very common.

Mum when suffering had a much more extreme version of her symptoms .

Easily sorted once medicated for to get her back down to her more average level.

One to bear in mind, my friend.

Hug for the hard day .

Hope the night & coming day is easier on you .

ianpspurs said:

Very Peppa Pig. Never too old for splashing in puddles. Our #1 grandson called them Muddy Cuddles (much better than the real title) as he splashed and rolled around in them (JKP bought him a dinosaur waterproof suit for that very purpose after the first time) The best puddles were near heaven: an old ruined Church and graveyard in the village in which we will be taking tea today. We were about 200 yards from where his great, great, great grandparents lived, showed him photos but he was too young really. He and we, probably more, loved those dog walks - we crossed the Meridian line and the Troll Bridge which required feeding it sweets as a toll. That walk was the last walk of both our last two dogs - they loved that walk. Nostalgia ain't wot it used to be.

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Hope today went well @ianpspurs.
Lovely memories of walks with #1 grandson and your last two dogs.

Lamont D said:

What colour are your wellies ( boots)? Bet they are pink!
#8 is in your band of splashers in his car pictured wellies.

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Sadly my boots are not pink @Lamont D

Lamont D said:

6.6 and a really bad day today with Mrs L.

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Hope you have a good night's sleep @Lamont D and a better day tomorrow.

Good morning everyone on a blissfully quiet start to a festive second bin day for the week before Christmas. Today is really next Thursday according to the recycling bins - brought forwards due to bin lorry cavalcade members having a whole day off! Crazy or what? Unsupervised for part of the day as Mrs Miggins and her twin are taking their oldest sister out for lunch - a wheel chair push to a nearby eatery. I have several jobs that will keep me employed - mainly ignoring them apart from collecting logs and filling the coal bucket. Oh, and doing some dinner. There is a red cabbage lurking in the fridge so I might do a red cabbage in the Viennese fashion, less the muscavado entry. Art bit - house on a cliff. May your day be agreeable and as pain free as you can stand it. Now where is that koffy.

jjraak said:

Mmmhh.

I like how you did that @gennepher .
Very effective.

But I think you're spot on re digital

Be interesting to see if there is only a small note on the screen regarding your deafness ?
Or even if it's on a secondary information page?

One that might easily be overlooked ?


Of course you'll have considered the option to simple repeat the card BUT carry it with you to every appointment & present it at first opportunity to who ever is in charge of your procedure / appointment.

A nuisance indeed, but the best work around to increase the chances your next appointments go smoother for you .

Though why caring for the patient seems so secondary is beyond my understanding.

Good on you for posting in about your shoddy treatment.

It may not change much but it MIGHT point out the current flaws in the system AND please god even if it doesn't help you, it may at some point help someone like you , which I think also makes the effort of reporting it worthwhile.

Well done
Best wishes for a more restful day.

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Thanks @jjraak

Sorry I didn't respond more quickly, I am trying to get back on track to normal everyday things...

You are right, the deafness information could have been on a secondary page. Which is just useless for me, and is useless for anyone with a disability that should be flagged up when someone opens the screen. In today's digital age it could easily be that something could come up on the screen for five seconds giving a medical information and going to a small button on the corner of the screen in case someone needs to touch it again.

Actually I still carry my old cards from 2004 I printed loads. But more recently, especially the nurses in my so called GP practice, one of them just tossed it aside without reading and the other one just waved her hand & didn't read it. And I tried to do a workaround for them the next time I visited it. The workaround worked with one nurse but not with the other.

I think some of my problems on Tuesday were with me wanting to get my phone mid eye exam to get to the cochlear app (on my phone) to readjust my programming on my cochlear processor because of the (silly stupid) student nurse who actually took it off to put my glasses back on because I took them off to cleaning them because they had steamed up mid eye exam.

I had explained before I took my glasses off I said my eyes had steamed up I cannot see the eye chart, the main nurse kept saying put them back on, put them back on, taking no notice that I needed to clean the condensation off. And the student nurse came over to put my glasses back on and took them out of my hands while I am still cleaning the condensation off to put them back on my head, but the cochlear processor was in the way so she took it off and disconnected it from the magnet in my head. And I'm saying to the student nurse... don't don't... it is going to need reprogramming... It was total chaos.

I am trying to connect my cochlear processor at the same time as trying to take my glasses back off again because they've steamed up again. And all the while the main nurse was getting crosser and crosser with me.

But I'm explaining if the magnet has been off my head too long and it needs reprogramming and I need my phone out of my bag, & the main nurse went ballistic saying I can't use my phone or whatever she was saying (because I could not hear a blooming thing because the processor was disconnected) and I am trying to explain that the cochlear processor remote is in my phone and I have no way of connecting the processor to the right levels to hear without the remote on my phone...no one understood a thing... they just saw a batty old lady who was determined to use her phone to make a call in the middle of an eye exam.

And I think that was what was reported to the specialist doctor who came in furious at the end literally expelling me from his clinic.

I cannot think of any other reason for his absolute horrendous behavior to me.

So I need a completely different kind of information card. I have never been in this situation with absolutely no understanding what so ever and blatant disregard for what I am trying to tell them, they just saw what they wanted to see a batty old lady wanting to make a phone call halfway through her eye exam, and told the specialist eye doctor that. He would have no reason to disbelieve them and expelled me from his clinic.

I have to make sure this situation never arises again. Also depending on the reply from PALS/PACT I might escalate this to a formal complaint. I didn't intend to, but writing in detail the above experience with the nurse and the student nurse, it is absolutely appalling. I was trying to forget it.

So while I am writing this I am thinking that the cover picture for the card includes 'my cochlear processor and magnet and an arrow to my mobile phone and an arrow back from my mobile phone to the cochlear processor' as a visual thing to explain that the mobile phone is integral to the cochlear processor.

I am also thinking just now, of writing to the head of the cochlear implant team, because I think there will be a black mark on my medical result records of this total misunderstanding of events which puts me in a very bad light.

This was only meant to be a short reply but I was thinking and working out stuff in my head as I'm replying to you.


You said "Though why caring for the patient seems so secondary is beyond my understanding". I completely agree.


I hope you have a good day.

gennepher said:

This was only meant to be a short reply but I was thinking and working out stuff in my head as I'm replying to you.

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Exactly

And the very essence of sharing our tales on here.

Those Q & A's as we explain away the moments, opening & expanding other channels.... invaluable.

I now see clearer how that must have looked to both sides.

The ASSUMPTION from the team of what they THOUGHT you were doing, leading from the very moment they failed miserably to read or acknowledge you MIGHT have a disability that needed THEM to make reasonable adjustments...as did one of them.

I think your infographic is the best way to go.

If I may suggest

Based on that scenario.
One card also that's says STOP.
with a short explanation the mobile IS the controller of the cochlear implant
(Though it might have another title, controller might make more immediate sense ? )

Just for those moments when people read & nod at the first card without actually taking the information in ..

Good to read between the lines, that despite the battering your emotions took that day,
You seem to be recovering & getting back up on your feet, saying "is THAT the best you got"

As you move forward once more into battle.

Beating the hilt of your sword against your shield as you march towards the battle lines

(Ooh, got a little carried away there, but it paints a better picture, right ...lol )

Great plan.
Great resilience
Go Genn

Lamont D said:

Yeah, that is the way I would have gone. The old tunnel, we don't call them Kingsway or Queensway. It's easier to remember Birkenhead or Wallasey. And from the old tunnel along the start of the A41 at most times especially peak hour, it is stop, start, stop, traffic lights galore even getting towards Eastham to the motorway by Vauxhall, it is so busy.
Did you know that the A41, goes all the way to central London? I wouldn't like to travel on down that way!
The motorway usually doesn't hold you up much.
And in the original plans, just before Vauxhall, when it goes down to two lanes, there was gonna be a turnoff right, going towards the Dee, and a new bridge over to N.Wales. It didn't happen!

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Hi @Lamont D
I used to have a 2CV in 1971, and it used to terrify me driving through the four lane tunnel, it still does. I am terrified of tunnels, goes back to the days when my parents drove through the old Blackwall Tunnel (London way) in the 1950s with water pouring down those white tiles, and the policeman with white gloves (which used to direct traffic because only one lane could go through on a bend) who wore wellies because the water more than covered his feet.
My parents got fed up with me screaming the entire way through the tunnel. Absolutely nothing could calm me. And they ended up using the rickety wooden ferry over the water to get to the other side.

I was not a very popular child.

I might be a grown girl now, but I still mentally scream the entire way through any tunnel. I prefer the two lane tunnel. Else it is driving the wrong way from home and going over the Runcorn bridge... Driving through Warrington....

It was the first thing I ever learnt about the tunnels, their actual names, in 1971, and not the actual town names. And that is the info that always sticks with me, whatever different you tell me later. I have to do a mental photo picture of the town on the other end of the tunnel for me to go through the right tunnel. I will go through Kingsway Wallasey tunnel rather than Queensway, Birkenhead Tunnel, and come back over the Four Bridges to get back to the A41...if needed...

Have a great day...

jjraak said:

Exactly

And the very essence of sharing our tales on here.

Those Q & A's as we explain away the moments, opening & expanding other channels.... invaluable.

I now see clearer how that must have looked to both sides.

The ASSUMPTION from the team of what they THOUGHT you were doing, leading from the very moment they failed miserably to read or acknowledge you MIGHT have a disability that needed THEM to make reasonable adjustments...as did one of them.

I think your infographic is the best way to go.

If I may suggest

Based on that scenario.
One card also that's says STOP.
with a short explanation the mobile IS the controller of the cochlear implant
(Though it might have another title, controller might make more immediate sense ? )

Just for those moments when people read & nod at the first card without actually taking the information in ..

Good to read between the lines, that despite the battering your emotions took that day,
You seem to be recovering & getting back up on your feet, saying "is THAT the best you got"

As you move forward once more into battle.

Beating
the hilt of your sword against your shield as you march towards the battle lines



(Ooh, got a little carried away there, but it paints a better picture, right ...lol )


Great plan.
Great resilience
Go Genn

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Oh brilliant!!!!

Thank you for your suggestions.
I am very grateful for the feedback.
It helps me greatly.

Yes the word 'controller' makes immediate sense. Any official explanation I can write of what the remote does is too long winded for someone to read and take him immediately.

So I still have in my head, the picture I am going to do on the front of the credit card size info, that is the cochlear processor and the phone like I described before. Now the back instead of being blank, will have the word 'STOP' as you suggested in bold letters.

This credit card thing opens up to, like foldable card, to a piece of paper which is the size of two credit cards. Any additional information I want to impart has to go in there, it is a small space and I am going to have to think about that carefully. But you are most certainly right about 'STOP'...

There is nothing to stop me making a second credit card with further information if needed but it is not something I would need to show immediately.

I am probability going to make lots of ideas on cards to see how it would work, how the information would need to get over immediately, what information, do I need two cards, STOP will definitely be on the back of each card whatever the design.

I thank you when the bottom of my heart for this because you've got my creative stuff working, and it's a little bit in abeyance at the moment...

"As you move forward once more into battle.

Beating
the hilt of your sword against your shield as you march towards the battle lines



(Ooh, got a little carried away there, but it paints a better picture, right ...lol )"

Love this...no you didn't get carried away..

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a blissfully quiet start to a festive second bin day for the week before Christmas. Today is really next Thursday according to the recycling bins - brought forwards due to bin lorry cavalcade members having a whole day off! Crazy or what? Unsupervised for part of the day as Mrs Miggins and her twin are taking their oldest sister out for lunch - a wheel chair push to a nearby eatery. I have several jobs that will keep me employed - mainly ignoring them apart from collecting logs and filling the coal bucket. Oh, and doing some dinner. There is a red cabbage lurking in the fridge so I might do a red cabbage in the Viennese fashion, less the muscavado entry. Art bit - house on a cliff. May your day be agreeable and as pain free as you can stand it. Now where is that koffy.

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Enjoy that red cabbage, and your coffee when you find it @dunelm

Love the red roof house on the cliff....

jjraak said:

Exactly

And the very essence of sharing our tales on here.

Those Q & A's as we explain away the moments, opening & expanding other channels.... invaluable.

I now see clearer how that must have looked to both sides.

The ASSUMPTION from the team of what they THOUGHT you were doing, leading from the very moment they failed miserably to read or acknowledge you MIGHT have a disability that needed THEM to make reasonable adjustments...as did one of them.

I think your infographic is the best way to go.

If I may suggest

Based on that scenario.
One card also that's says STOP.
with a short explanation the mobile IS the controller of the cochlear implant
(Though it might have another title, controller might make more immediate sense ? )

Just for those moments when people read & nod at the first card without actually taking the information in ..

Good to read between the lines, that despite the battering your emotions took that day,
You seem to be recovering & getting back up on your feet, saying "is THAT the best you got"

As you move forward once more into battle.

Beating the hilt of your sword against your shield as you march towards the battle lines

(Ooh, got a little carried away there, but it paints a better picture, right ...lol )

Great plan.
Great resilience
Go Genn

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I now have this picture in my head of @gennepher going into battle like Boudicca

5.9 this morning. Am relaxing and reading with an album of Don Mclean playing in the background.

The park was not so muddy this morning and the puddles are much smaller. Beautiful sunrise - absolutely stunning colours.

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.6

Here in Tilehurst Towers it is day 2 of total rest up. Strict instructions to do nothing today. Who am I to disagree.

Lazy or just lazy. Your call.

Mrs J is into day two of the cemetery runs, it has been explained to me that if I joined her I would be an unwelcome liability. Two word are rattling around my cranium “ yes dear “…….

Krystyna23040 said:

I now have this picture in my head of @gennepher going into battle like Boudicca

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Thanks @Krystyna23040

Morning all in my virtual caring, sharing community where we probably need some entertainment from the youngsters like @jjraak for our OAPs Christmas party. No carbs or UPFs in the food please. Fitbit told me my readiness score was high this morning which is testament to the crack in Science and technology, as was the need for metal arm bands when using the first sprout stalk strippers Wreath laying and Aunt visiting went well which undoubtedly accounted for the good sleep score, vital signs and high readiness. Unlikely to have been a cheese salad which was entirely spiffing. Here is yesterday's sonnet - join the dots yourself.
Philip Larkin on post war England:

Something is pushing them

To the side of their own lives

And that was before the internet and social media - lines five and six of the sonnet are powerful imho. There is also a play on the two meanings of virtue and the irony of using virtual for the online world. @dunelm thank you for yet another in the series of wonderful red pieces, including the red cabbage idea. @Krystyna23040 enjoy the rest and DMs Sister Fatima - lyrics. Two grandchildren here today, Suoer Mario paused for Cupcake making: when will the butter be soft Nanny, we've washed our hands. Enjoy Friday, Moonpig and Amazon will still keep you in the game - no 42000 candle torches here

gennepher said:

Enjoy that red cabbage, and your coffee when you find it @dunelm

Love the red roof house on the cliff....

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Thank you @gennepher

7.9 at 05.00 today. Since painkillers haven't been much help recently anyway, I decided to take just paracemol this morning - my brother tells me he just takes half of one tablet and that's enough for him. I took the full dose though. However, it didn't work either so later I added in some codeine. It hasn't done much either but I have to remember that this is Friday. Friday being the day after my Thursday foray into town for my leggy session. I don't suppose walking into the butcher's shop and standing at the counter for a few minutes helped either. Never mind, at least I got a decent piece of beef (and then some) plus some of the butcher's own make of sausages and a couple of really nice pork chops.

The beef I'd ordered was a fore rib and I made a bit of a mistake when I ordered it. I wanted there to be quite a lot of meat to have lots of left-overs so ordered a 4 rib piece (4 fore-ribs) It's huge! Weighs in at about 41/2 kg. I daresay the bones are a large part of that but there's a lot of meat there. Never mind, I will use it with the aid of the freezer.

Annb said:

7.9 at 05.00 today. Since painkillers haven't been much help recently anyway, I decided to take just paracemol this morning - my brother tells me he just takes half of one tablet and that's enough for him. I took the full dose though. However, it didn't work either so later I added in some codeine. It hasn't done much either but I have to remember that this is Friday. Friday being the day after my Thursday foray into town for my leggy session. I don't suppose walking into the butcher's shop and standing at the counter for a few minutes helped either. Never mind, at least I got a decent piece of beef (and then some) plus some of the butcher's own make of sausages and a couple of really nice pork chops.

The beef I'd ordered was a fore rib and I made a bit of a mistake when I ordered it. I wanted there to be quite a lot of meat to have lots of left-overs so ordered a 4 rib piece (4 fore-ribs) It's huge! Weighs in at about 41/2 kg. I daresay the bones are a large part of that but there's a lot of meat there. Never mind, I will use it with the aid of the freezer.

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Hug for the pain but winner for the piece of beef which sounds like the kind of piece we needed for Boxing Day when all the boys, partners and assorted hung over friends were around. Roasts need Yorkshire pudding in our boys' worldview. One simply can't have Turkey two days running and what kind of Barbarian has Yorkshire pudding with Turkey? The beef bones? dogs loved Christmas. Take care.