gennepher
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- Type of diabetes
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- Tablets (oral)
Hugs @Krystyna230405.5 this morning.
Poppy isn't well. Waiting for the vet to open. She was sick yesterday and improved during the day, but is worse this.
I am glad the coffee was on par @dunelmGood morning everyone on a sunny yet frosty start to bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Magpies scuttling about in the garden catching a bit of sun and scaring off the other, smaller birds. Tyres - must remember to add air to the tyres today - a warning light came on yesterday. Mrs Miggins has gone to take The Girl In The Bubble to school and then for a dental check up. We plan to have a walk into town in the pale sunshine after she returns and scoop some vit D (is walking in the sunshine classed as multi-tasking?). Art bit - a frosty field. I cannot control what external events may develop today but I can control my opinion of those events. My first opinion is that this koffy is quite on par.
Thank you in advance @ianpspurs ... I am about to share now...Morning all from a distinctly chilly L.A. as opposed to the real one which is ablaze. If this is a wonderful world I've misunderstood the meaning of wonderful, which is very possible, fallen seems much more on point. The now we see darkly theme is only added too by the posts I've read so far,. @Annb with your pain, @JohnEGreen with the over reaction to warfarin., @Lamont D with the weather stopping the use of the new rollator and @Krystyna23040 with Poppy being poorly. The little Epihanies in all that? The pain killers, the doctor reducing the dose, the rollator actually being there and assembled, the vet being open and able to help. All very now but not (quite) yet. I'm not given to citing Churchill positively but KBO seems to be today's thought for the day herein, but then isn't it always?. @dunelm thank you for the splendidly realised frosty field. @gennepher thanks in advance for sharing your skilful work. Busy day here which will cause a problem - not life threatening so chill your beans Winstons and park any hugs somewhere else - however it turns out. Yes young Bedingfield, how very true.
The stars are amazing outside tonight..... I seem to have the same sky as you @Lamont DOnce again the temperature has not got above freezing.
More snow overnight.
More really low temperatures again tonight.
But the stars should be bright.
Keep warm, keep safe.
Glad Poppy is going to be okay @Krystyna23040You are right. I rang at 8.30am and saw the vet at 9.30am.
They don't make things easy do they @SlimLizzySo: to recap
On the 7th three men turned up in two vans to shift the furniture to the storage units previously booked. MrSlim accompanied the removal men to help unload and secure the units when full. Unexpectedly when they arrived at the "Box" one of our units was occupied by someone else.
Getting no reply from the Box manager, they unloaded into a vacant box.
Next morning the irate manager is on the phone insisting we have to move all our stuff, from box 26 to our designated boxes 19 and 20. Box 19 is still locked.
Box 20 is smaller than box 26, which is full and stacked high.
Somehow with the help of some wonderful friends we managed to get everything except some garden furniture, which can be stored elsewhere into box 20. We won't be paying for box 19.
However this extra task has set us back.
There are tasks outstanding now and only a couple of days to get them done.
And that's as it should be @gennepher .This made for a much easier health appointment for me. It is as it should be for anyone with a disability.
She bought some portable tech items with her! My couch was the examination table...And that's as it should be @gennepher .
At a certain age, and deffo with certain conditions, we all benefit from those more able coming to visit us rather than the other way around .
Obviously some tech items require us to visit them, but I say where possible enjoy one of the few perks being an elder ststesman/stateswoman brings .
So pleased for you how well it went
Our local hospitals are very close to being full or as it has been, overflowing, no beds!
Mostly flu, but also far to many patients for the staff.
My DiL has already since New Year worked two extra shifts.
Congratulations to Judith @JohnEGreenI hope you don’t think I am in some way decrying those who work in NHS I was thinking of the people who have to wait weeks for an appointment with their GP my GP’s surgery is brilliant but this is not the case for every one.
Judith got her 10 years certificate the other day at Kingsmill Hospital where she works
My main problem with my GP’s surgery is I’m getting a little sick of the sight of the place I have bloods booked for Diabetic review tomorrow oh no I mean this morning and dressing appointment in the afternoon I think this will make four appointments this week I know all the staff by first name now.
Any way I’m going to take some co codamol and hope for some sleep tonight.
Thank you for your lovely comments @gennepher - I have opened a new tube of Paynes Grey.I am glad the coffee was on par @dunelm
I really love this black and white art bit series.... they are paintings I could very easily put on my wall
A good visit and the bonus of a wee bit of a spring clean including mental and physical exercises. My mum follows the teachings of Quinten Crisp when it comes to tidy - it all looks the same after two years! - and then completely disregards that advice by having a cleaner!!! Lovely, bright and cheerful kaleidoscopeFbg 7.4
I did mention a few weeks ago that I had an unexpected appointment at home when I had always had my appointments in the health Centre or local Hospital up to now, the last 20 odd years.
I have never yet had any health checkup appointment at home (I had not asked for this appointment at home), this one has always taken place in a clinical setting, and it made me feel very vulnerable it being at home.
However, given road conditions, and the weather yesterday, and recently,, I was grateful I did not have to travel or go on the A55 which has many crashes in these bad weather conditions near me. It is almost impossible not to use or cross the A55 even for a local journey.
An experience 45 years ago, with someone who used the (my personal stuff) contents of the room I talked to them in, against me. I was shocked when he boasted how he did it..... and since then I have always been cautious of what I keep or use the room for, that I have to invite strangers into.
Since 2020 with Covid and lockdowns and no one particularly coming into my personal space, I used the front room for all kinds of personal stuff. I realised with this appointment, how much stuff about myself I was giving away....
So this last couple of weeks, I have been reorganising the bungalow (it needed the organisation anyway), so that the personal stuff wpas out of the way in the two back rooms. I don't like people touching some of my personal stuff and collections.
Well, this was a far bigger task than I had realised, and this is taking all my mental and physical stamina to actually do. The front room is how I need it to be now. But the other two rooms are a big mess. Until I can organise it properly, but it makes me a lot happier the stuff out of the way from other people.
In fact, when the health visitor came in, I noticed she did a surreptitious look around, and her face looks slightly puzzled, like she couldn't perhaps glean any information about me from it. There is information about me but it's in the drawers etc and will always easily be put away in future. So I was glad that all my work was successful.. and I will now have to keep the place tidy in future. Keeping tidy is not one of my best natural qualities.....
Anyway, the nurse was an hour early, which caught me on the hop....but I was already prepared.
She is the first person in the NHS that has done her research before she met me. And she had done it thoroughly. In addition she knew I was deaf, and everything I have said in the past to anyone in the Welsh health service about my deafness and the cards I have given out, she knew all of that.
This made for a much easier health appointment for me. It is as it should be for anyone with a disability.
The whole appointment went well, and I will be having another home visit in e year's time....
Having the home visit made life so much easier for me, whereas having to actually physically go for an appointment, and park in impossible hospital car parks, and all that comes with it, to be honest, I'm finding this kind of stuff a little bit too hard work to do on my own now.
Wildlife video
A Fox investigates & a Badger looks for food
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DElhz8CIds6/?igsh=YXBnendzMnRqcXFs
And the same vid on TikTok
but TikTok would not let me have a link for this video will nearly 24 hours, saying that they were reviewing it because of my previous video which they said breached community guidelines and they took it off. TikTok were however letting people view this video, and said if I wanted more views I would have to pay, something like £8 or £9 I think it was, for another 99 views... cue naughty words from me... anyway they've just released letting me have a link for it... the days of the free Internet are just about over....
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdB3GWBo/
Creative... it is a kaleidoscope of some plastic/silk forsythia flowers I have, which are going in the garden... they look quite effective among natural greenery.... my back garden gets no sun in winter, and I would like it to look cheery and spring like...
Sweet dreams...
Take care
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I do hope so @gennepher. Yesterday she slept all day after the injections but still not right and wouldn't eat.Glad Poppy is going to be okay @Krystyna23040
Best wishes for a rejuvenated poppy asapI do hope so @gennepher. Yesterday she slept all day after the injections but still not right and wouldn't eat.
This morning she has bought up a load of clear fluid so will be ringing our vet at 8.30am. She is sleeping peacefully on her bed by the radiator at the moment.
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