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

[Annb]

Typically self-effacing reply. I'm sure others see it as a blessing that you were guided to this thread by He who moves in mysterious ways acting (unwittingly?) through mods I assume. JKP back from visiting and MIL slept better last night but still on oxygen.

Glad your MIL slept better. Being on oxygen is, I'm told, very uncomfortable. Perhaps the oxygen is making her confused, or maybe medication. That, most certainly, can do it. She's best where she can have the help she needs. Hoping and praying for her speedy recovery for her sake and for all of your family's sake. It's so hard to stand back while a loved one is ill and just wait for the outcome.

Actually, I found the thread myself - attracted by the title "...full on chat." I am a chatterbox.

 

[JohnEGreen]

Fbg was 5.8 this morning yes I don't believe either but the meter doesn't lie does it?

Going to put my shoes on and have another little stroll in a while Melody insists on going with me even though it only to the corner of the road.

Had a text this morning reminding me of an appointment for cardio vascular department just a check to see if my stent is ok but it is at QMC will involve navigating four floors up and across a warren of corridors and then down and up then down again panic already setting in going to contact them and tell them unless they can assure me that I can do it without crippling myself again I am just not going.

 

[Annb]

It's 2.25 am. BG 9.5. This is the second time I've been up. Em is here and we went to bed early, for Em 10 pm, for me, at 10.30, I thought it was a bit late for her, being the night before school, but by the time she'd showered, it was 10. She couldn't get to sleep for a long time and nor could I. She finally dozed off about about 11.30 and I couldn't settle (chest a bit tight and wheezy) on my right side. Tried again on my left side and was just dozing off when my right leg started hurting so I had to get up. Took some pills and a cup of warm milk and went back to bed about 1 am. Did manage to doze off in a bit, but woke again at 2 am. Gave up. Got up. And here I am - cup of tea beside me and nothing to do except chat to you guys. Unfortunately, nothing to chat about. Ah well ... drink the tea and sit in the big chair. I wonder if there's anything on TV that I would care to watch just now. Also unfortunate - my eyes are burning with tiredness so watching TV may not be the best idea either.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg was 5.8 this morning yes I don't believe either but the meter doesn't lie does it?

Going to put my shoes on and have another little stroll in a while Melody insists on going with me even though it only to the corner of the road.

Had a text this morning reminding me of an appointment for cardio vascular department just a check to see if my stent is ok but it is at QMC will involve navigating four floors up and across a warren of corridors and then down and up then down again panic already setting in going to contact them and tell them unless they can assure me that I can do it without crippling myself again I am just not going.

So, @JohnEGreen I am not the only one who goes into a panic when I realize the trek inside the hospital is too much for me. And like you I've said to myself I'm not going. But I have gone so far, and factored in a heck of an extra amount of time to reach the department. I have a walker with a seat, so I can sit on it and rest. But the distance I need to do inside the hospital, with my slow pace of walking and frequent rests on the walker seat means I have to allow up to another 3 hours of time inside the hospital to reach the appointment department and get back out again.

And that doesn't include getting back to my car. And I can't have a rest in my car, because the next car is waiting for my space. So, I drive off panicking where can I find a place to stop to have a rest before I drive home.

In the hospital I feel so stupid and inadequate that I take so long to get to the department. I am sitting resting on my walker watching all these able bodied people walking past, getting to their appointment in literally seconds (at least that is how it feels to me). Where are the ill, frail, and infirm?

About 25 years ago, that is how long I have had this walker, one of my daughters said, 'Sit on this mum, and I'll push you.' And she did, for about half a mile. I was terrified one of the wheels would snap off when she hit a slight bump in the pavement. She wasn't just pushing me, she was running pushing me, and I was expecting to be on the ground with a heap of twisted metal. But my walker survived, and I still have it 25 years later...

Now, there is a wheeled walker that can be used as a wheelchair. It is simply just a much stronger version of the normal wheeled walker I have, that you see people push in the streets. It would be perfect for the smooth hospital corridors if someone could push you.

I only know about this because I saw an elderly couple in a medical centre a few years ago, and the husband was pushing his wife around in it, but she got off it to do a bit of walking, and then got back on it again. So I talked to them about it, and they said it fitted easily on the back seat of their car. And that it was useful. Could that be any use to you?

There must be thousands of people in our situation. And maybe this leads them to not attending their hospital appointments?

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.7

On the nighttime wildlife camera
Cat Midnight smacks that Fox several times...

Cat Marmalade sleeps on the cat biscuits hour after hour so no one else can eat them....
He sleeps on them from just after 2am, until nearly 6am
Cat Midnight glowers at him.

Creative is another digital sheep in Procreate...

Have your best day.

Yesterday I was expecting a parcel before 1pm.
I sat on the couch by the window and waited and waited and waited...
Nearly 6 pm before it came.
And then I missed it.

I had got off the couch to take my meds and inhaler, doorbell went. I went straight to door, I am only 6 paces away from door. I open door, and the overweight parcel (of cat biscuits) was on the doorstep, and the delivery van was high tailing it out of sight. I had rather hoped to ask him to lug it into the bungalow for me...

So my best day today, won't be wearing my cochlear hearing processor to listen to the roof replacing activities over the road and their radio amplified to mega distortion (perhaps those workers will be deaf in their old age), nor to listen to those chancers yesterday seeing me sitting by an open window and coming up to me...
Chancer one - I'm Pat, I was working on your neighbour's trees at the back of you, and saw you needed some work doing ...
There's no trees on the back of me in neighbour's gardens.
I sent Irish Pat away with a flea in his ear...
Chancer two - I was sent here, this is _____(my address)? I have got the right place?
I haven't asked for anyone I replied.
Oh, it was your husband then he replied.
When I see that husband of mine, I replied, I'm going to....
So, he left very quickly.
Chancer three - I'm in the area, I see you need some work doing (pointing to my garden).
I launched into an explanation of the angle of incidence, and how the height of my trees, in the summer, protects my front room from the heat of the midday sun.
He backs off slowly with me still explaining. So rude...

I will be in silence from the outside world today.
I will NOT open my front curtains. The doorbell has been unplugged from the electrics...other doorbells switched off - they have flashing lights.
And I shall potter in my back garden among the birds and stray cats...
Fort Knox Fence neighbour has had another consignment of building materials, so he is making construction site noises again, so I am unable to wear my sound processor peacefully in my back garden...
And I might be in the potting shed playing my out of tune ukulele. My daughter from Australia tuned it for me last year, and she is coming over again this year, so it will get tuned again. But I am deaf and can't hear it, however, I love the feeling of the vibrations of it against my chest.
And I also have a lyre harp.
You didn't know this did you?
Again out of tune, but I do try periodically with one of those gadgets, so the strings are not too slack, and have a nice vibration.
I love the vibration as I 'play' with it against my face...

gennepher signing out to have my best most perfect day...

Time for a cuppa...

Oh, the sky is blue not a single cloud, the sun is out. I am taken back to when I was a child when the weather was like this, and I had no incoming sound whatsoever...bliss.

Fare thee well, until tomorrow...

 

[Krystyna23040]

It's 2.25 am. BG 9.5. This is the second time I've been up. Em is here and we went to bed early, for Em 10 pm, for me, at 10.30, I thought it was a bit late for her, being the night before school, but by the time she'd showered, it was 10. She couldn't get to sleep for a long time and nor could I. She finally dozed off about about 11.30 and I couldn't settle (chest a bit tight and wheezy) on my right side. Tried again on my left side and was just dozing off when my right leg started hurting so I had to get up. Took some pills and a cup of warm milk and went back to bed about 1 am. Did manage to doze off in a bit, but woke again at 2 am. Gave up. Got up. And here I am - cup of tea beside me and nothing to do except chat to you guys. Unfortunately, nothing to chat about. Ah well ... drink the tea and sit in the big chair. I wonder if there's anything on TV that I would care to watch just now. Also unfortunate - my eyes are burning with tiredness so watching TV may not be the best idea either.

Hope you managed to get some sleep @Annb

 

[dunelm]

Brilliant picture.

Thank you @Annb

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

On the nighttime wildlife camera
Cat Midnight smacks that Fox several times...

Cat Marmalade sleeps on the cat biscuits hour after hour so no one else can eat them....
He sleeps on them from just after 2am, until nearly 6am
Cat Midnight glowers at him.

Creative is another digital sheep in Procreate...

Have your best day.

Yesterday I was expecting a parcel before 1pm.
I sat on the couch by the window and waited and waited and waited...
Nearly 6 pm before it came.
And then I missed it.

I had got off the couch to take my meds and inhaler, doorbell went. I went straight to door, I am only 6 paces away from door. I open door, and the overweight parcel (of cat biscuits) was on the doorstep, and the delivery van was high tailing it out of sight. I had rather hoped to ask him to lug it into the bungalow for me...

So my best day today, won't be wearing my cochlear hearing processor to listen to the roof replacing activities over the road and their radio amplified to mega distortion (perhaps those workers will be deaf in their old age), nor to listen to those chancers yesterday seeing me sitting by an open window and coming up to me...
Chancer one - I'm Pat, I was working on your neighbour's trees at the back of you, and saw you needed some work doing ...
There's no trees on the back of me in neighbour's gardens.
I sent Irish Pat away with a flea in his ear...
Chancer two - I was sent here, this is _____(my address)? I have got the right place?
I haven't asked for anyone I replied.
Oh, it was your husband then he replied.
When I see that husband of mine, I replied, I'm going to....
So, he left very quickly.
Chancer three - I'm in the area, I see you need some work doing (pointing to my garden).
I launched into an explanation of the angle of incidence, and how the height of my trees, in the summer, protects my front room from the heat of the midday sun.
He backs off slowly with me still explaining. So rude...

I will be in silence from the outside world today.
I will NOT open my front curtains. The doorbell has been unplugged from the electrics...other doorbells switched off - they have flashing lights.
And I shall potter in my back garden among the birds and stray cats...
Fort Knox Fence neighbour has had another consignment of building materials, so he is making construction site noises again, so I am unable to wear my sound processor peacefully in my back garden...
And I might be in the potting shed playing my out of tune ukulele. My daughter from Australia tuned it for me last year, and she is coming over again this year, so it will get tuned again. But I am deaf and can't hear it, however, I love the feeling of the vibrations of it against my chest.
And I also have a lyre harp.
You didn't know this did you?
Again out of tune, but I do try periodically with one of those gadgets, so the strings are not too slack, and have a nice vibration.
I love the vibration as I 'play' with it against my face...

gennepher signing out to have my best most perfect day...

Time for a cuppa...

Oh, the sky is blue not a single cloud, the sun is out. I am taken back to when I was a child when the weather was like this, and I had no incoming sound whatsoever...bliss.

Fare thee well, until tomorrow...

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Lovely art. You can sing Tiptoe Through The Tulips while the building works are ongoing.

 

[Krystyna23040]

7.1 this morning. Relaxing with a coffee after the dog walk and trying to get myself motivated to do some admin before I leave for lunchtime classes in Norwich.

 

[Annb]

Hope you managed to get some sleep @Annb

Not so far, but I am about to have breakfast and then I'll settle down and try to sleep for a while.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg was 5.8 this morning yes I don't believe either but the meter doesn't lie does it?

Going to put my shoes on and have another little stroll in a while Melody insists on going with me even though it only to the corner of the road.

Had a text this morning reminding me of an appointment for cardio vascular department just a check to see if my stent is ok but it is at QMC will involve navigating four floors up and across a warren of corridors and then down and up then down again panic already setting in going to contact them and tell them unless they can assure me that I can do it without crippling myself again I am just not going.

What a sad state of affairs. When my mum visits the hospital for an appointment, she gets a prescription for a taxi ambulance (my parents live in France). The driver picks her up at the door and at the hospital pops her in a wheelchair and takes her to the place she needs to be. Same happens in reverse when she is ready to go home. I thought you could book at least wheelchair assistance.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on what looks to be a nice day here in the dark and dangerous north. I have been given a job. Well, the hint of a job, which I am currently ignoring as it involves a carpet cleaner and I have purposefully forgotten where I put it after the last outing. Anyhow, the sun is shining and it would be complete madness to miss out on some free at the point of delivery, vitamin D. I could of course sit the mushrooms on the kitchen window ledge as they do make the stuff given some sunshine. But no. Art bit - a new sketch. Hope your day is a good one whatever you want to call it. I shall now make koffy.

 

[Annb]

What a sad state of affairs. When my mum visits the hospital for an appointment, she gets a prescription for a taxi ambulance (my parents live in France). The driver picks her up at the door and at the hospital pops her in a wheelchair and takes her to the place she needs to be. Same happens in reverse when she is ready to go home. I thought you could book at least wheelchair assistance.

It is a sad state of affairs. It always used to be possible to get a porter to push a wheelchair to the required department, and back. The last time I asked for assistance at our local hospital the porter moaned and complained about being too busy for this, but he did push me to my appointed place, however grudgingly. It is a self propelling wheelchair so I managed to get myself back to the entrance rather than call him again. Took me about 3 times as long as it took him.

These days, there don't seem to be any porters and Neil takes me in and one of the nurses usually offers to take me back to the entrance. Waste of a nurse's valuable time, I would have thought. There were porters right up to Covid, so I don't understand what happened to stop them working.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all on yet another day where England leads the sporting world. The official page for this flagged up a not secure warning which was a shame. A dull and much cooler day here than of late. @Annb hug for the pain and lack of sleep. I hope by now you have managed to knock out a few zs and make some sense of e-consult. @gennepher well done on dealing with The Chancers and thanks for the creative . That sheep seems to be sheltering a few cats. @dunelm thanks for the art and illustration of how less world leading nations somehow seem to manage to treat their citizens with dignity. Obviously taxation rates are in no way linked just ask Liz. Very wise to leave the carpet cleaner to those who have attended the requisite training course. I do wonder why the hospitals @JohnEGreen, @gennepher and anyone else need to access don't use Mychart since it seems to be part of Epic. Another Epic fail of the swivel eyed and mendacious crew to actually put their arm around us? Fun start here with two grandchildren arriving earlier than advertised having missed breakfast at home then needing to be ferried to school. Morning drop off may be even madder than pickup. Worse still, dad had left his laptop behind and on it was his presentation for a promotion. No computers in the office, own laptop only. JKP drove to Cambridge station - 2 hrs for a 30 minute journey due to roadworks. At one stage she took 30 minutes to go 0.2 miles Anyone making LC pancakes has my sympathy. I never liked the normal ones much but JKP tried some LC versions these sound "interesting" though. We won't be trying those as the grandchildren have pre-ordered Nutella - the "proper" Italian one like Nonna has. Have a great day if you can.

 

[Annb]

Morning all on yet another day where England leads the sporting world. The official page for this flagged up a not secure warning which was a shame. A dull and much cooler day here than of late. @Annb hug for the pain and lack of sleep. I hope by now you have managed to knock out a few zs and make some sense of e-consult. @gennepher well done on dealing with The Chancers and thanks for the creative . That sheep seems to be sheltering a few cats. @dunelm thanks for the art and illustration of how less world leading nations somehow seem to manage to treat their citizens with dignity. Obviously taxation rates are in no way linked just ask Liz. Very wise to leave the carpet cleaner to those who have attended the requisite training course. I do wonder why the hospitals @JohnEGreen, @gennepher and anyone else need to access don't use Mychart since it seems to be part of Epic. Another Epic fail of the swivel eyed and mendacious crew to actually put their arm around us? Fun start here with two grandchildren arriving earlier than advertised having missed breakfast at home then needing to be ferried to school. Morning drop off may be even madder than pickup. Worse still, dad had left his laptop behind and on it was his presentation for a promotion. JKP drove to Cambridge station - 2 hrs for a 30 minute journey due to roadworks. At one stage she took 30 minutes to go 0.2 miles He better get the job. Have a great day if you can. Anyone making LC pancakes has my sympathy but these sound interesting. We won't be trying those as the grandchildren have pre-ordered Nutella.

I didn't even make it to breakfast, Ian. Relaxed for a moment in my big chair and woke up when Neil came in with the shopping at a bit after 10! Must have needed it.

 

[ianpspurs]

I didn't even make it to breakfast, Ian. Relaxed for a moment in my big chair and woke up when Neil came in with the shopping at a bit after 10! Must have needed it.

Good news on catching some Zs. As for the porters, a shrewd guess would be that better paid employment in safer environments became available.The which seems to be very difficult to see for those with their eyes closed to life as actually lived. (Updated @jjraak so thanks for the earlier like)

 

[SlimLizzy]

21.02.
8.30am FBG 5.9
Yesterday trip to buy fruit trees, special offer in supermarket €11.90. Also bought fruiting currant bushes, few shrubs and some herbs. Plus what now seems an excessive amount of onion sets, garlic bulbs and seed potatoes. Am convinced there won't be anywhere near enough space in the vegetable beds for all of them. Today I bought half a dozen lettuce seedlings...time to get digging.
MrSlim has got both the new skylights in the attic bedroom and is now finishing off plasterboarding.
Kiki is quieter and the Tomcat has not returned. MrSlim thinks he saw him yesterday in the next village.

 

[lindisfel]

Hi all,
Up early this am and had to get my pacemaker checked before dermatology in the south of the town removed two suspect lesions from my back, then back to Cumberland infirmary to Cardiology to check if diathermy had messed up my pacemaker from its normal setting. And then home, friends from church took us and did all the running about between the two centres in Carlisle.
So now it's a trip to Newcastle Thursday for pre op and then the operation for new pacemaker on 3rd March at Freeman.
Its all go, I have a diabetic eye test on Friday this week.
Atb.
Derek

 

[dunelm]

Morning all on yet another day where England leads the sporting world. The official page for this flagged up a not secure warning which was a shame. A dull and much cooler day here than of late. @Annb hug for the pain and lack of sleep. I hope by now you have managed to knock out a few zs and make some sense of e-consult. @gennepher well done on dealing with The Chancers and thanks for the creative . That sheep seems to be sheltering a few cats. @dunelm thanks for the art and illustration of how less world leading nations somehow seem to manage to treat their citizens with dignity. Obviously taxation rates are in no way linked just ask Liz. Very wise to leave the carpet cleaner to those who have attended the requisite training course. I do wonder why the hospitals @JohnEGreen, @gennepher and anyone else need to access don't use Mychart since it seems to be part of Epic. Another Epic fail of the swivel eyed and mendacious crew to actually put their arm around us? Fun start here with two grandchildren arriving earlier than advertised having missed breakfast at home then needing to be ferried to school. Morning drop off may be even madder than pickup. Worse still, dad had left his laptop behind and on it was his presentation for a promotion. No computers in the office, own laptop only. JKP drove to Cambridge station - 2 hrs for a 30 minute journey due to roadworks. At one stage she took 30 minutes to go 0.2 miles Anyone making LC pancakes has my sympathy. I never liked the normal ones much but JKP tried some LC versions these sound "interesting" though. We won't be trying those as the grandchildren have pre-ordered Nutella - the "proper" Italian one like Nonna has. Have a great day if you can.

Heroic journey by JKP. Can we now have MSG in our pancakes - I like Kimchi but probably won’t be indulging.

 

[dunelm]

21.02.
8.30am FBG 5.9
Yesterday trip to buy fruit trees, special offer in supermarket €11.90. Also bought fruiting currant bushes, few shrubs and some herbs. Plus what now seems an excessive amount of onion sets, garlic bulbs and seed potatoes. Am convinced there won't be anywhere near enough space in the vegetable beds for all of them. Today I bought half a dozen lettuce seedlings...time to get digging.
MrSlim has got both the new skylights in the attic bedroom and is now finishing off plasterboarding.
Kiki is quieter and the Tomcat has not returned. MrSlim thinks he saw him yesterday in the next village.

All the best with all that planting. It will then all need guarding against agents provocateurs.