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

[dunelm]

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

Always nice when friends step in and help with transport and hope that all your medical appointments go to plan.

 

[ianpspurs]

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

Busy and stressful time for you, Marjorie and your girls but all very important so rest under his wings. Also helps to have the support of a good lady, family and friends. Shalom.

 

[lindisfel]

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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Reminds me of the old joke about a horse that walked into a pub.
The landlord behind the bar ask him! "Why the long face?"
D.

 

[lindisfel]

You mention problems for the disabled finding it difficult in hospitals. There is the problem of getting increasing throughput, but staff are ebbing away to other jobs due to underfunding with no intention to help recruitment of staff by paying them properly.
This is the problem with doctors surgeries many doctors who went to medical school with Helen have already retired. They find their jobs too hard to keep up the pace.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

You mention problems for the disabled finding it difficult in hospitals. There is the problem of getting increasing throughput, but staff are ebbing away to other jobs due to underfunding with no intention to help recruitment of staff by paying them properly.
This is the problem with doctors surgeries many doctors who went to medical school with Helen have already retired. They find their jobs too hard to keep up the pace.
D.

According to Jeremy they are too busy playing golf to rescue the economy he and his mates have spent 13 years trashing. Many also have elderly parents and childcare responsibilities because of austerity.

 

[gennepher]

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

Ha ha!!!
Hopefully my playing the ukulele upset him...

 

[gennepher]

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.

The French system sounds amazing. Nothing remotely like that here.

Pre-covid there were porters that would wheel you to the department. And I made use of those. But that has all gone now.

I just checked on the hospital I was talking about that I had all that walking to do, and there's nothing you can book. I am just thinking maybe I should contact PALS and bring it up with them?

 

[gennepher]

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.


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I hope you enjoyed that sunshine...

I am liking this new sketch...

 

[gennepher]

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.

Thank you for the compliments Ian.

I hope you all survived the madness of yesterday....

 

[gennepher]

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.

A lot of digging! The fruit trees and bushes sound good...

I need to start planting as well...

 

[lindisfel]

A lot of digging! The fruit trees and bushes sound good...

I need to start planting as well...

Planting trees in old age is act of faith.
D.

 

[Krystyna23040]

7.3 this morning. 18hr fast yesterday, 12g carbs, 1200 calories, 14K steps plus resistance exercises. It is proving really hard work to get back to normal for me blood sugars. Hopefully l will see some progress soon.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Morening all. I hope all is well and fellow posters, painters and close ones are coping with trials and tribulations.

Blood sugars yesterday were 5.7 and today 6.2

Here in Tilehurst Towers time has run away along with what was left of my sanity and I must now depart and stand in that indoor rain box then prepare for another full on day.

Stay safe all and hopefully tomorrow, national bin day will be less of a full on day.

 

[jjraak]

Morning team D.

FBG was in the style of that Liverpool FC lamp, a week or so back.
6.4

Perfect, IF you're looking for something middle of the table,
...very ho hum.

As for PorterGate: MIA.

I was lucky enough to not need porters during my many hospital visits
(Dept location almost first entrance inside hospital)

But I did obviously need for leaving hospital both times.

First time may point to understaffing.

Dec 24.
Hospital filling up with new covid patients
I was in a 4 berth HDU, the coughing coming from neighboring wards was constant.

I was getting as dressed as possible & was sat in chair, ready to go by 9am, as told porter on way.

At around 12:30 I was back on bed, being served lunch.

I had queried it, and told porters can take a while & waits for transports can be long.

So best eat now while you can, who knows when you'll eat next, sort of thing....so ok, I order.

Bit of an ordeal, getting back on bed but the chair just proved too uncomfortable after an hour or so..but I manage eventually.

As I'm sat starting to eat, porter enters ward & asks for me, and comes to bed all business like.

I point & explain food has just arrived, will I have time to eat it ?

Without a moment's pause, he rolls his eyes, turns and flaunts away, muttering about waiting etc.

Nurse comes over moments later, ask what happened.

I explain the hissy fit (I was annoyed & frustrated )

Same porter eventually returned, as I got myself tidied up to exit straight away off bed

An awkward moment as he's clearly annoyed being ordered back.

Deciding it's just a bad day for him, I apologise for earlier, explain what nurses said about delays getting home.

He explains how busy they are, not enough of them.

Honours even, we both agree it was just a bad moment & let it go.


Deposited in transport lounge, (think large classroom size waiting room.)
I was offered tea & biscuit.

And after many hours
(I was the only one & there was some issue because it would take two people to get me home)

I was kindly offered a sandwich by the lady in charge

I arrived home sometime before 10 pm...(which then became another epic saga )

So, from my limited experience.

It's too few of them, trying to move more people then the system was geared up to, pre covid.

And on a side note, the transports home, I believe were private companies (Falcke for definite the first journey, the second, some sort of minibus )

Perhaps pointing to where PFI & privatising segments, has undermined the NHS, as the balance once private becomes more profit over patient ?

 

[gennepher]

Fbg I have not taken it this morning because I was really hungry at midnight… A long story, I'll tell you in a minute.

Wildlife trail camera...
Badgers and the Fox

Badger KissyKissy, and a pair of badgers were in the garden pretty much all night, and Foxy Loxy as well who is very nervous that there are no cats on the swing all night.

I have no idea why, because there is pretty much always a cat on the swing most of the night. But the cats are not eating the cat biscuits here either during the night, although as soon as daylight came, the cats were queuing up to eat the same cat biscuits!

Foxy Loxy kept finding one of the badgers, KissyKissy, bumping into him, and he kept having to move out of the way very quickly.

Creative is another digital sheep painting in Procreate. I fell asleep half way through doing it, and luckily it was still here when I woke up, with the iPad still firmly grasped in my hands...

Right. My problem late last night was that an order for some eye drops had not arrived when it should've. Midnight had insisted last night that I go to bed early, at 7:30 and he wouldn't let me use any of my devices and sat firmly under my chin until I fell asleep. Consequently, I had been asleep a few hours when I woke up just before the time of midnight. Midnight, the cat, had obviously gone outside, and so I picked up my iPad. There was a message from Amazon saying they were really sorry about my eyedrops order, but also in the same message, said I had to contact the healthcare firm myself to sort it , because it hadn't been dispatched by Amazon, and it said I could not do that until Saturday and also said I had to give the firm another two days to sort it out.

I was furious for several reasons. And I needed that particular eyedrop because my prescription eyedrops are aggravating my eyes badly at the moment, and are unusable to me. I tried to do something about it there and then on Amazon, but the system wouldn't let me it was all automated for this and automated for that. But what I did find out when I went to the actual healthcare provider of my eyedrops order, was that in the last couple of days, there was a complaint after complaint after complaint by people who had not received the eyedrops. It went on and on. So something was up.

Also, when I went to the actual page of the same eye product and health care firm on Amazon, it had increased in price by three times, in just a few days. That was one heck of an increase on what I had originally paid for it.
So at that instance, I thought I'm writing this off for the moment, I'll pursue it next week sometime, and I'll go to eBay to see what I can find in this same eyedrop. Because I badly need them and they really do soothe my eyes.

On eBay, I found the same thing, the exact same make of eyedrop had increased by three times what it was a few days ago. Then I found two suppliers who are selling them for only double the price, and guaranteed that the expiry date was 2025, so I ordered a batch of drops from each one to make sure I have some.

I was stressed, but once I've done that I thought well I can relax now, but I was absolutely starving, so I had my breakfast in the very early hours. I couldn't wind down..

I was awake most of the night and fell asleep at first light. And then just before 9 o'clock, I had another email off Amazon saying that I was still getting my eyedrops at the original price, but it was from another healthcare supplier and that it was being dispatched today and I should get it in the next few days, and there was a proper tracking number with this one, whereas the tracking number with the eyecare firm that let me down led to nowhere.

I think Amazon had realised, that the original healthcare care company had gone rogue and were taking the money and not sending anything out, so Amazon sorted something for their customers.

I had paid for a whole year's supply, the firm had sold them as a years supply worth, so that was one heck of a relief.

So that was my hectic frantic night to get hold of my important eyedrops.

Can I have a day of rest today please, and without my cochlear ear again...

It is pouring with rain out there, but the sky is clearing, and maybe if I go out in the back garden, the sun might come and shine on me...

Have your best possible day!!!

I need some cuppas...

 

[jjraak]

Something had those badgers very animated last night .

I wonder if whatever that was influenced the cats behaviour ?

Hug for the eye drop saga

Is a 'fair play' to Amazon applicable, for seeming to sort it despite the poor supplier ?

Either way, good that you seem to be sorted for the time being.

 

[gennepher]

Morning team D.

FBG was in the style of that Liverpool FC lamp, a week or so back.
6.4

Perfect, IF you're looking for something middle of the table,
...very ho hum.

As for PorterGate: MIA.

I was lucky enough to not need porters during my many hospital visits
(Dept location almost first entrance inside hospital)

But I did obviously need for leaving hospital both times.

First time may point to understaffing.

Dec 24.
Hospital filling up with new covid patients
I was in a 4 berth HDU, the coughing coming from neighboring wards was constant.

I was getting as dressed as possible & was sat in chair, ready to go by 9am, as told porter on way.

At around 12:30 I was back on bed, being served lunch.

I had queried it, and told porters can take a while & waits for transports can be long.

So best eat now while you can, who knows when you'll eat next, sort of thing....so ok, I order.

Bit of an ordeal, getting back on bed but the chair just proved too uncomfortable after an hour or so..but I manage eventually.

As I'm sat starting to eat, porter enters ward & asks for me, and comes to bed all business like.

I point & explain food has just arrived, will I have time to eat it ?

Without a moment's pause, he rolls his eyes, turns and flaunts away, muttering about waiting etc.

Nurse comes over moments later, ask what happened.

I explain the hissy fit (I was annoyed & frustrated )

Same porter eventually returned, as I got myself tidied up to exit straight away off bed

An awkward moment as he's clearly annoyed being ordered back.

Deciding it's just a bad day for him, I apologise for earlier, explain what nurses said about delays getting home.

He explains how busy they are, not enough of them.

Honours even, we both agree it was just a bad moment & let it go.


Deposited in transport lounge, (think large classroom size waiting room.)
I was offered tea & biscuit.

And after many hours
(I was the only one & there was some issue because it would take two people to get me home)

I was kindly offered a sandwich by the lady in charge

I arrived home sometime before 10 pm...(which then became another epic saga )

So, from my limited experience.

It's too few of them, trying to move more people then the system was geared up to, pre covid.

And on a side note, the transports home, I believe were private companies (Falcke for definite the first journey, the second, some sort of minibus )

Perhaps pointing to where PFI & privatising segments, has undermined the NHS, as the balance once private becomes more profit over patient ?

Yes @jjraak
There were always too few porters, even before Covid. But they were there. And I did have to wait even then. And I was grateful for them, they were overworked.

It was good you and the porter agreed it was a bad moment. It is always good if you can do that. So my hat off to you in a difficult situation...

I have waited a long time in those transport lounges as well! A depressing, place, full of people who had dementia, Alzheimer's, and just had hospital gowns on, they're being sent home in hospital gowns, it was freezing in that transport lounge... and I was offered a sandwich as well!

 

[gennepher]

Something had those badgers very animated last night .

I wonder if whatever that was influenced the cats behaviour ?

Hug for the eye drop saga

Is a 'fair play' to Amazon applicable, for seeming to sort it despite the poor supplier ?

Either way, good that you seem to be sorted for the time being.

Those badgers were far too lively. KissyKissy was really mithering that poor fox, who didn't know which way to look...

Must've affected the cats behaviour in someway. Maybe the female badger was in heat, or is it mating season, whatever it was, they're letting some kind of scent (I presume) that was a warning alarm to other animals @jjraak

Yup, Amazon came up trumps there, and pretty quickly. I will believe it is properly sorted once I get those eyedrops in my hand from Amazon!!!

There must've been a lot of people affected for Amazon to react that quickly.

Thanks.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Planting trees in old age is act of faith.
D.

Who said I am old?

 

[Annb]

FBG (8 am) 11.9. Bad night. Up and down all night. My body was clearly trying to get rid of something even though my BG wasn't too bad for me. Kept having to get up and then went back to bed again so, eventually I stayed in bed until 8 am. That's thrown me out for the day - not that I have any schedule to stick to - other than 3 pm when Em comes in from school.

Been having trouble with our landline recently and decided it was actually the handset in the kitchen that was causing it so Neil bought a new one - much more complicated than the old one and has fixed it on the kitchen wall. Now I'll have to be shown how to use the basic functions. That's all I'll use no doubt and also no doubt, it will take me ages to remember how to work it.