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

[gennepher]

Afternoon all. @gennepher and @jjraak hugs for AI issues and the stress they cause. @dunelm wonderful account of life with grandchildren and thank you for sharing the splendid art. @SlimLizzy hug for the stress of trying to confine Kiki but better news on the new home being in sight. Here, my CT scan is done, now the wait - Valentine's Day. DVLA tell me I can now drive.

Thank you @ianpspurs

 

[gennepher]

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, there I’ve started typing so I might finish typing.

My fasting blood sugars recently have been on the low for me side which has been causing a slight inconvenience, but this morning were 6.5 . A nice, number for me, me’s and myself.

@gennepher and @jjraak .
I totally agree and sympathise with you over the business of apps, complexity of forms and other such nonsense. Please include me in your little gang.

I won’t mention the Welsh rugby score.

Now I do hope you all have a great day, while me, me’s and myself will ponder over lots of scientific posts that have been appearing in my feed which are trying to prove that the fundamental laws physics as we know them are flawed. Who knows? I don’t.

We will @alf_Josiah

 

[gennepher]

Fbg not taken it cos I don't want to know

Wildlife videos...well they cause me a bit of stress partly because of the amount of footage I have to watch to see the new Badger family and fox that arrive because they only visit for a short time each night, I won't be looking at them for a bit or posting them unless I'm on a day where I feel like doing it. So that might be a bit haphazard at the moment.

My HRV was high this morning, And the app told me I had to rest and pace myself today. And as the sun was out I have been sitting in my front window on the daybed doing nothing. Just feeling nice and warm. But the sky has gone hazy and it's going cold now so I think it's time for lunch....

I'm disappointed my friend can't meet me on Wednesday because I wanted to pick her brains a bit about the cataract operation. She has another funeral to attend...

An internet friend has just emailed me telling me about Dr Doctor, And explaining that I can only access it through a portal... I immediately think of "Stargate".... she has sent me a link to access the portal... But something tells me I am going to be disappointed...

Sigh....

The new to me iPad has arrived and is sitting on my desk... and I have just been looking at it this last hour... But that is not going to get it up and running...

I think food is a priority. It is nearly 2:00 p.m. And it's time for lunch....

My creative for today is some photographs I took off the very tiny sliver of a moon last night, but it is so fine that there's no way my phone is going to pick that up. However, I have some fun with the reflections in the window.... It is a bit of an abstract with reflections in the window...

Have a wonderful day....

 

[ianpspurs]

A cup of tea, anyone....

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Teabags not leaf tea, not Assam either. If PG Tips is 2nd it is obviously an AI generated spoof. Must try harder.

 

[Annb]

Afternoon all. @gennepher and @jjraak hugs for AI issues and the stress they cause. @dunelm wonderful account of life with grandchildren and thank you for sharing the splendid art. @SlimLizzy hug for the stress of trying to confine Kiki but better news on the new home being in sight. Here, my CT scan is done, now the wait - Valentine's Day. DVLA tell me I can now drive.

Glad to hear your scan is now done and it's just a matter of waiting patiently (not so easy, for me at least) but Valentine's Day is only 13 days away. Good that the DVLA are letting you drive again.

 

[gennepher]

I hit hit a hiccup almost immediately setting up this new to me, iPad mini. My backup was obviously on a later iOS then what this iPad Minnie (spell check behave yourself, actually I might call it that ) has and so it could not complete the backup, it wouldn't even start the backup. I hadn't a clue what to do because I had no way of going anywhere with this on the new iPad Minnie.

Consequently, the headless chicken is running around like mad in the crazy room.

Finally after answering questions differently and trying several ways of getting in, suddenly Minnie decides to download the iOS update it needed, in order to start the backup from the cloud. The headless chicken asked me now if it can stop running around and I said no because this is telling me that this downloading of the update is going to take 13 hours.

And now, I am camped out on the daybed in the front room for the night, because all thiis is set up on my desk and I am not leaving it unattended....

 

[ianpspurs]

Glad to hear your scan is now done and it's just a matter of waiting patiently (not so easy, for me at least) but Valentine's Day is only 13 days away. Good that the DVLA are letting you drive again.

Thank you @Annb If the last two scans are any guide the full report may not be available by Valentine's day. Being able to drive means JKP doesn't have to drive everywhere or ask one of the boys if she has hospital appointments which mean she can't drive afterwards. @gennepher hug for Minnie but winner for the atmospheric creative.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Very busy busy day. Did non-stop teaching from 9.45am to 3.15pm then clear the hall and dash home for the Zoom class - finishing at 6pm.

One thing I am really pleased with is that I have streamlined my system for sending out the info for the monthly blocks of classes. It now only takes me a quarter of the time it took before.

I have lots of posts to catch up - so it is lovely that I will have the time to catch up over the weekend - as long as Bonnie is a good girl.

 

[Krystyna23040]

The whole of the Psalm is very apt at the moment, don't you think? Not that I'm unhappy with where I live - apart from the woeful infrastructure.

Now that I come to think of it, even that's not so bad compared to where my SIL lives, in Ayrshire. She had a fall a few weeks ago but carers who found her weren't allowed to lift her, so she was stuck between her bed and the wall, face down with her weight on her dodgy knee for a couple of hours while they waited for someone with a lifting thing (a kind of balloon) to be brought from a distant village. When it arrived, it had no charge left in the battery, so she had to wait while they charged it and only then was she released. Then they sent for an ambulance, which took another 4 hours to arrive. Since then, she has been in Crosshouse hospital, on her own, in bed. The nurses can't get her out of bed because there's not a single hoist in the hospital that works! That has led to all sorts of extra issues.

She was hoping to be discharged to a nursing home but she doesn't meet the council criteria to get a place in one (in other words she doesn't own a house from which they can claim funding for her keep). So she has to go home to her little flat. The bedroom is not big enough to take a hospital bed and a hoist, so her house has had to be emptied to get the bed into the living room.

Her daughter was told that a hospital bed and hoist would be provided this week, but when she phoned to check the man there said he had no order for a bed to be delivered. It will be another couple of weeks before that can happen. She asked about the hoist that had to come with it. "What hoist? No mention here of a hoist." Without the hoist, she can't go home, because, as before, the carers can't lift her. So there she is, blocking a bed. The council seems incapable of getting their act together and the hospital seems to be incapable of servicing their equipment. Apparently it all comes down to money.

This is no way to treat a 90 year old lady. No - we're not so bad here after all.

I agree @Annb - that is an appalling way to treat a 90 year old lady.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thank you @ianpspurs

He looks a stunning fox with a magnificent tail.

Unfortunately, the paperwork just gives me a phone number to call to resolve the matter.
I have a friend who goes on WhatsApp and I go on WhatsApp, and she telephones a number for me and we're sending each other WhatsApp messages for me to say what I want her to reply. This is quite lengthy, especially if the other end does not answer straight away, et cetera and this takes up a lot of my friend's time.. and mine as well. We both thought we had resolved this issue last time. But yet again, they have completely ignored the fact that I cannot make a phone call. It is the NHS and it is in Wales.
So I'm not asking my friend this time. I'm working out a bit of a strategy, but is it giving me a bit of a tummy ache. And I am making a complaint this time, (because it was set up last time and the time before and the time before that) for them to give me a contact means other than expecting me to reply back with a telephone call eg email & text. And another problem is when someone rings up on my behalf, they automatically take off my mobile phone number, and put on the mobile phone number of the person who is ringing on my behalf as my actual mobile phone number.. this causes a lot of complications, especially when I am being sent reminders for my appointment because my friend gets them, and my friend ends up getting the phone calls but she hasn't got a clue what they are about as a result of this. And they NHS won't change it back to my mobile number, unless I can actually physically get hold of a person in that department, but where from, a physical person who would actually change it on the system back to my number. So as you can guess my friend is not very keen on ringing up for me anymore.


There isn't specific address as such to reply to or email, but just the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health board.

And I am also going to send a complaint to PALS (which it is still called in Wales).

Botheration... I am turning this over to my friendly AI, asking him/her/it if they can come up with a solution of addresses, et cetera and they can write the blooming complaint letter for me...

Then I am having a long nap....oh no I can't... I am waiting for some medical supplies to be delivered today and they've not arrived yet so I might be in quite a mood by tonight because I am going to be overtired....

What a complete nightmare @gennepher. This is absolutely not acceptable. They are totally incompetent.

 

[gennepher]

Thank you @Annb If the last two scans are any guide the full report may not be available by Valentine's day. Being able to drive means JKP doesn't have to drive everywhere or ask one of the boys if she has hospital appointments which mean she can't drive afterwards. @gennepher hug for Minnie but winner for the atmospheric creative.

Thank you @ianpspurs
Minnie has just finally updated the iOS software, and I have just clicked download the apps... This is going to take about 3 hours and I'm making a cup of tea and going back to sleep and waking up just after midnight. I need to get a few apps and the video app up and running before I talk to my daughter in Australia tomorrow morning at 5 am... I have no way of videoing my daughter otherwise. My phone is far too small for me to be able to see any captions on live teams.

That is good you being able to drive again. I am glad

 

[gennepher]

Very busy busy day. Did non-stop teaching from 9.45am to 3.15pm then clear the hall and dash home for the Zoom class - finishing at 6pm.

One thing I am really pleased with is that I have streamlined my system for sending out the info for the monthly blocks of classes. It now only takes me a quarter of the time it took before.

I have lots of posts to catch up - so it is lovely that I will have the time to catch up over the weekend - as long as Bonnie is a good girl.

You are very very busy. Make sure the secretary factors in lots of rest this weekend @Krystyna23040
Bonnie will be a good girl!!!

 

[gennepher]

What a complete nightmare @gennepher. This is absolutely not acceptable. They are totally incompetent.

Thanks @Krystyna23040
I sent the Wales PALS an email to see if they could cancel the appointment, but I got an automated reply saying they had a 14 day, at least, backlog, before they could read and respond. This is too late.
So I asked my friendly AI bot to find me an email for my so-called local GP surgery. I know they have not had one since before covid, since before the original main GP was sacked around 2 018-19. My AI bot had to report failure, he could not find any email address for my so-called GP surgery. And suggested me writing a letter. Which I'd obviously already thought of doing so. I'm not wasting my energy going in to ask them for help in this. Because it expends a lot of my energy and I have to park the car a distance away, and by the time I've managed to walk in, which is too far for me, and get to it and then explain my need, and then get back to my car. I am totally exhausted for the rest of the day. And I absolutely refuse to do this when I am trying to have a chill-out week before my operation.

It certainly appears that Wales specialises in incommunication or is it uncommunication...

You make good use of your chill out time tomorrow....

 

[Krystyna23040]

Just had my hospital date. 10 Feb.

It took me ages and ages working through the their security online to be able to accept their operation. I am just dealing with AI.

it was all by text and to accept/confirm, I had to go online which is where the text took me to, and I had to prove who I was, and then online says sorry you can't confirm this operation. You haven't proved you're you, and so this went round and round. And then it says let's try something different. Let's do it this way and then you'll be able to confirm that you want the operation. Well it didn't work that way either, so then it has me go into something else, and again it said nope your details are wrong. You're not the same person, but I am the person and my details are not wrong....

Finally it lets me in. It decides I am the person who is supposed to have the operation. Then I had to go through some more rigmarole, all AI kind of stuff then it says you have to do this thing to fully confirm you want this operation, and I have to register on a site called Doctor Doctor, some mythical AI doctor who is checking out that I am me again and then it makes me register again and again and then I go back to the beginning again and I can't tell if I've accepted the operation or not at this point, even though I have pressed the confirm button, then Doctor Doctor does some more more verification of me.

Finally I get acceptance from this Doctor Doctor that I am confirmed for the operation. It really is called Doctor Doctor....the person/team who created Doctor Doctor must have had a total brain lapse that day.

The whole thing took a very long time....

I would still prefer to see paper verification rather than get passed on from AI to AI to AI. None of them which appear to be communicating properly with each other.... Or understand what each other was asking...

The Royal Liverpool site says I have to deal with Doctor Doctor now, and I will get any further information from that.

But how do I get back into Doctor Doctor?? It wasn't like an app, I just got sent to it by the text from the Royal Liverpool telling me the date of my op... And it was not a page on my browser....

Anyway, I check again the Doctor Doctor's site, I left the whole thing open, and at the top of the page it says I am confirmed for my operation.....

All this new stuff and I haven't a clue what to do....

Edit: It is now some hours later, But before I went to sleep, I went through the settings in Doctor Doctor, And I found I could add my email, And it told me that all messages from Doctor Doctor would now additionally appear in my email box... Good job I did because it's vanished off my screen now...

All that talk about AI being a threat to the human race because it is much cleverer than us doesn't seem to be true - if this is the sort of mess it makes of what should have been a simple task @gennepher.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Might be an uncooperative liver dumping glycogen as soon as you wake.

@Madfarmerswife I agree with @dunelm that it is highly likely to be a liver dump. This also happened to me at the beginning.

 

[Krystyna23040]

You are very very busy. Make sure the secretary factors in lots of rest this weekend @Krystyna23040
Bonnie will be a good girl!!!

Thank you @gennepher .
Bonnie can be the most gentle and good little girl. Hopefully that's what she will be like tomorrow.

 

[dunelm]

The whole of the Psalm is very apt at the moment, don't you think? Not that I'm unhappy with where I live - apart from the woeful infrastructure.

Now that I come to think of it, even that's not so bad compared to where my SIL lives, in Ayrshire. She had a fall a few weeks ago but carers who found her weren't allowed to lift her, so she was stuck between her bed and the wall, face down with her weight on her dodgy knee for a couple of hours while they waited for someone with a lifting thing (a kind of balloon) to be brought from a distant village. When it arrived, it had no charge left in the battery, so she had to wait while they charged it and only then was she released. Then they sent for an ambulance, which took another 4 hours to arrive. Since then, she has been in Crosshouse hospital, on her own, in bed. The nurses can't get her out of bed because there's not a single hoist in the hospital that works! That has led to all sorts of extra issues.

She was hoping to be discharged to a nursing home but she doesn't meet the council criteria to get a place in one (in other words she doesn't own a house from which they can claim funding for her keep). So she has to go home to her little flat. The bedroom is not big enough to take a hospital bed and a hoist, so her house has had to be emptied to get the bed into the living room.

Her daughter was told that a hospital bed and hoist would be provided this week, but when she phoned to check the man there said he had no order for a bed to be delivered. It will be another couple of weeks before that can happen. She asked about the hoist that had to come with it. "What hoist? No mention here of a hoist." Without the hoist, she can't go home, because, as before, the carers can't lift her. So there she is, blocking a bed. The council seems incapable of getting their act together and the hospital seems to be incapable of servicing their equipment. Apparently it all comes down to money.

This is no way to treat a 90 year old lady. No - we're not so bad here after all.

Not good, whatever has happened to our nation.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.6 this morning. I also did a check on blood pressure 112/58 - so all looks ok.
Bonnie has been really good and is now fast asleep in her crate after a very energetic play time with her toys.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thanks @Krystyna23040
I sent the Wales PALS an email to see if they could cancel the appointment, but I got an automated reply saying they had a 14 day, at least, backlog, before they could read and respond. This is too late.
So I asked my friendly AI bot to find me an email for my so-called local GP surgery. I know they have not had one since before covid, since before the original main GP was sacked around 2 018-19. My AI bot had to report failure, he could not find any email address for my so-called GP surgery. And suggested me writing a letter. Which I'd obviously already thought of doing so. I'm not wasting my energy going in to ask them for help in this. Because it expends a lot of my energy and I have to park the car a distance away, and by the time I've managed to walk in, which is too far for me, and get to it and then explain my need, and then get back to my car. I am totally exhausted for the rest of the day. And I absolutely refuse to do this when I am trying to have a chill-out week before my operation.

It certainly appears that Wales specialises in incommunication or is it uncommunication...

You make good use of your chill out time tomorrow....

I think that it is really sad that they are making it so difficult for you. Msybe Wales doesn't just specialise in uncommunication but also specialises incompetence.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on another wonderfully quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this a.m. Today is Groundhog Day in some parts of the world - transported to that mad country by Germans I think who may have used badgers. Or, Candlemas if you will and if you just can’t wait until Fat Tuesday, get yourself over to France for some pancakes - they are a bit crêpe mind! Today though, we are going for the more sensible option three; pre-birthday afternoon tea where newly acquired membership cards to official pensiondom will be on display to prove entitlement to free bus journeys. Art bit - after the fire. Whatever you do today, don’t be ruled by the impulses of your emotions - unless of course it’s during the drinking of koffy (or perhaps tea). This is my mug of koffy. There are many like it, but this one is mine.