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

[gennepher]

It is not surprising that you felt ill when you got back as it was a really stressful morning and so frustrating as it took up so much time @gennepher

Thanks @Krystyna23040 for understanding that I felt ill when I got back because of the stress. I felt I should be strong enough to override that feeling, but I couldn't...yes, frustration takes it out of you.

 

[Lamont D]

Ron DeSantis has that in hand. That Shakespeare fella for starters. The Bible is banned from Elementary and Middle schools in Utah, that well known woke hotbed, for vulgarity and violence. Anyone thinking we, UK, are beyond that must have been living as a hermit in a cave for at least 13 years.

The only religion in the 21st century is money!

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thanks @Krystyna23040 for understanding that I felt ill when I got back because of the stress. I felt I should be strong enough to override that feeling, but I couldn't...yes, frustration takes it out of you.

I would have felt exactly the same @gennepher and I would have had sky high blood sugars.

 

[lindisfel]

Thanks @Krystyna23040 for understanding that I felt ill when I got back because of the stress. I felt I should be strong enough to override that feeling, but I couldn't...yes, frustration takes it out of you.

Our surgery closes down the e-consult @gennepher when they have too much to deal with.

If you can't get an appointment their quite open and tell you to call 111. That is a hard route because you face a barrage of questions and they do not immediately have your notes.

Some friends of ours rang 111 and 111 sent for an ambulance and the husband was taken into hospital, I think they initially hoped for seeing the Q-Doc

Our surgery went down the tubes during the Pandemic and before the GP lead retired it was a superb surgery. One is lucky now if you see a nurse practitioner.

D.

 

[lindisfel]

Interesting as the Bilsdale transmitter is pretty big now. Just hope that lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice.

Bilsdale was/is a high power main station, we had a number of low power smaller transposers to fill in gaps like Whitby and Oliver's Mount around the Moor and also beyond. At Sandale we serviced the Alston transposer which reradiated Bilsdale for the South Tyne valley.
It's getting to be a different world now with it all coming down a 'pipe' or satellite eventually.
The Beeb no longer looks after its transmitters they were all sold off in the 90s.

 

[lindisfel]

Looks like it may be a better day in Cumbria. Yesterday pm was a wash out right into the night.

I hope and petition for those we know who are sick and need relief today.

The position in hospitals is dire with the junior doctors strike and the poor state of community medicine which is our first contact.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from LA which despite any amount of Boosterism isn't the Dordogne. Cambs would do a better impersonation. As per Derek I hope and pray all who are in pain have better days. I wrongly manhandled a bag of dog food yesterday and was eventually forced to take 2 paracetemol which is an event for me. I do have access to powerful pain relief. Quick Health and Safety inspection and basic housekeeping before 4 grandchildren arrive. Meanwhile in Georgia ....... Make the best you can of your day - if you can muster this kind of enthusiasm all good (sorry Cass and Paloma) - lyrics

 

[gennepher]

Our surgery closes down the e-consult @gennepher when they have too much to deal with.

If you can't get an appointment their quite open and tell you to call 111. That is a hard route because you face a barrage of questions and they do not immediately have your notes.

Some friends of ours rang 111 and 111 sent for an ambulance and the husband was taken into hospital, I think they initially hoped for seeing the Q-Doc

Our surgery went down the tubes during the Pandemic and before the GP lead retired it was a superb surgery. One is lucky now if you see a nurse practitioner.

D.

We don't have E-consult. Period. I do know there are different levels of e-consult. When it first came out it was an amazing site. You could arrange blood tests, anything on it. Then the site got vastly reduced on what you could access from my surgery, then last year it was a bare minimum you could access, but I could still send a message to my practice. I googled and researched, and found that depending on the funding of the practice, there were different affordable levels (to the practice), of e-consult. It depended which level of e-consult the practice subscribed to. But now, my practice which virtually closes down during children's school holidays, and sends all the nurses off on their extended summer holidays to be with their children is run on a shoestring. And it now says for e-consult "Your Surgery does not offer the Consult Online service". And tells you to look up the NHS self help advice if you need help. That is it. Nothing else.

@Annb suggested awhile ago that the nurses in my practice could be agency nurses. There has been a couple of incidents which has been leading me to think that is possibly so. If that is the case, then possibly their funding has run out, and possibly new agency nurses will be employed in September (I am making an assumption here). So there is going to be a backlog of patients who need care and reviews, whenever the nurses return or new ones taken on.

This surgery is now run by the NHS from 2018/19; when the GP's left. I still have the letter from the NHS telling us not to worry, because they would provide locums and the practice would continue to function as before.

They lied.

There is no other word for it @lindisfel

I cannot telephone 111 for help. And it is not helpful people/organisations telling me there are ways of using the phone through a third party like text relay. I have had/subscribed to various of these services over the years. This text relay could turn into a whole long post by itself. For example you can spend ages getting through on the phone, as you hearing people know, but for me, only for the phone to be picked up at the other end and you get the message on your phone screen, sorry, no text operator is available (because you need a real live person to transcribe the words of the person you are calling into text for you to read, and the quality of the transcribing text operators varies), and the line gets cut dead. I have wasted whole mornings, whole days trying to use the phone through text relay. I could rabbit on for ages on this text relay business...

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 7.1

Probably the stress of yesterday, but it's still a reasonable figure, albeit the top end of acceptable.

I communicated with a friend yesterday because she has a granddaughter with a cochlear implant from birth. The friend said I was being hard on myself, because when I explained the morning with the receptionist, she reminded me that the cochlear implant does not give me hearing, but extra sounds to help with my lipreading. And she reminded me the receptionist was talking through a solid counter to ceiling perspex screen ,which has smears on it and also which has reflections from the window opposite, all making it hard/impossible to hear and to be able to lipread through, as well as muffling the receptionist's voice because there is no grille for a voice to come through. So, I was much more dependent on lip reading (probably totally lipreading only at this point and I was constantly reminding the receptionist to face me so I could lipread her), in this particular situation.
Now, I am analysing that, I realise that was why I was so tired the rest of the day, and I did have a headache. My brain was tense and exhausted working all this out. And I was repeating the receptionist's words and phrases to check I had lipread and understood correctly. That conversation took over 20 minutes in difficult circumstances....I was very lucky I did not get a visual migraine attack with the amount of concentration I put into lipreading/understanding the conversation.


Wildlife video
A night in my back garden - fox & badger & cats
54 seconds

Creative - still trying the credit card to spread the acrylic inks, to try and get some control, but it is not working the way I want. So, I am still experimenting with this.

I am having a no people day. Which means no lipreading or hearing or face to face communicating. It also means I am not putting on my cochlear speech processor. Giving my brain a rest. Going back to visual for today, that is watching You Tube on captions/subtitles only, just for today...

And thanks for the lyrics in your post today @ianpspurs
Because I just looked at the words (not looked at the video because I have no incoming sound today, my choice). And those words resonate for me....

Have your best kind of day.

Time for a cuppa.

 

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 7.1

Probably the stress of yesterday, but it's still a reasonable figure, albeit the top end of acceptable.

I communicated with a friend yesterday because she has a granddaughter with a cochlear implant from birth. The friend said I was being hard on myself, because when I explained the morning with the receptionist, she reminded me that the cochlear implant does not give me hearing, but extra sounds to help with my lipreading. And she reminded me the receptionist was talking through a solid counter to ceiling perspex screen ,which has smears on it and also which has reflections from the window opposite, all making it hard/impossible to hear and to be able to lipread through, as well as muffling the receptionist's voice because there is no grille for a voice to come through. So, I was much more dependent on lip reading (probably totally lipreading only at this point and I was constantly reminding the receptionist to face me so I could lipread her), in this particular situation.
Now, I am analysing that, I realise that was why I was so tired the rest of the day, and I did have a headache. My brain was tense and exhausted working all this out. And I was repeating the receptionist's words and phrases to check I had lipread and understood correctly. That conversation took over 20 minutes in difficult circumstances....I was very lucky I did not get a visual migraine attack with the amount of concentration I put into lipreading/understanding the conversation.


Wildlife video
A night in my back garden - fox & badger & cats
54 seconds

Creative - still trying the credit card to spread the acrylic inks, to try and get some control, but it is not working the way I want. So, I am still experimenting with this.

I am having a no people day. Which means no lipreading or hearing or face to face communicating. It also means I am not putting on my cochlear speech processor. Giving my brain a rest. Going back to visual for today, that is watching You Tube on captions/subtitles only, just for today...

And thanks for the lyrics in your post today @ianpspurs
Because I just looked at the words (not looked at the video because I have no incoming sound today, my choice). And those words resonate for me....

Have your best kind of day.

Time for a cuppa.

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Glad the lyrics helped somewhat - every little helps as they say. Perhaps look at the video later and sense the joy those people had in using their gift of song which I imagine is similar to yourself and @dunelm with your artiistc creativity and @Annb with her baking and catering gifts. Thanks for sharing today's creative.

 

[gennepher]

Glad the lyrics helped somewhat - every little helps as they say. Perhaps look at the video later and sense the joy those people had in using their gift of song which I imagine is similar to yourself and @dunelm with your artiistc creativity and @Annb with her baking and catering gifts. Thanks for sharing today's creative.

Yes @ianpspurs I will look at the video tomorrow. It is on my watch later list...
Tomorrow has to be a hearing day, I have stuff outside the house to deal with.
Thanks.

 

[lindisfel]

We don't have E-consult. Period. I do know there are different levels of e-consult. When it first came out it was an amazing site. You could arrange blood tests, anything on it. Then the site got vastly reduced on what you could access from my surgery, then last year it was a bare minimum you could access, but I could still send a message to my practice. I googled and researched, and found that depending on the funding of the practice, there were different affordable levels (to the practice), of e-consult. It depended which level of e-consult the practice subscribed to. But now, my practice which virtually closes down during children's school holidays, and sends all the nurses off on their extended summer holidays to be with their children is run on a shoestring. And it now says for e-consult "Your Surgery does not offer the Consult Online service". And tells you to look up the NHS self help advice if you need help. That is it. Nothing else.

@Annb suggested awhile ago that the nurses in my practice could be agency nurses. There has been a couple of incidents which has been leading me to think that is possibly so. If that is the case, then possibly their funding has run out, and possibly new agency nurses will be employed in September (I am making an assumption here). So there is going to be a backlog of patients who need care and reviews, whenever the nurses return or new ones taken on.

This surgery is now run by the NHS from 2018/19; when the GP's left. I still have the letter from the NHS telling us not to worry, because they would provide locums and the practice would continue to function as before.

They lied.

There is no other word for it @lindisfel

I cannot telephone 111 for help. And don't tell me there are ways of using the phone through a third party like text relay. I have had/subscribed to various of these services over the years. This text relay could turn into a whole long post by itself. For example you can spend ages getting through on the phone, as you hearing people know, but for me, only for the phone to be picked up at the other end and you get the message on your phone screen, sorry, no text operator is available (because you need a real live person to transcribe the words of the person you are calling into text for you to read, and the quality of the transcribing text operators varies), and the line gets cut dead. I have wasted whole mornings, whole days trying to use the phone through text relay. I could rabbit on for ages on this text relay business...

Sorry gennepher, I am not being obtuse, just explaining how our surgery has deteriorated.

Meanwhile Rich Rishi is having to put up with warm southern climes. I hope his place in the sun has been checked for legionella..

I tried to get an appointment the last two days for a problem I have and the earliest I can see a doctor/nurse is September 11th.
If it's not an emergency there are no appointments.
D

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those whose day will be full of mystery and the odd unknown.
This morning my bloods were a self induced 8.3, don’t ask.

In a few short minutes I shall be smearing some sort of pain relief cream over my knee, parrots eating molly taken earlier. Walking with a walking stick is proving a real test of my hand foot eye coordination, it is possible to trap my stick between my legs ending up posterior over mammary gland while Mrs J throws her hands up in the air muttering profanities. Mrs J has a rather large vocabulary and a voice that carries, aircraft carries voice springs to mind.
Here in Tilehurst Towers the day is taking shape, under Mrs J’s direction, I am not party to this, but just cling onto any flotsam that comes my way.
Today I must begin my exercise regime and get back into plinky plonky, but.

Stay safe all.

 

[gennepher]

Sorry gennepher, I am not being obtuse, just explaining how our surgery has deteriorated.

Meanwhile Rich Rishi is having to put up with warm southern climes. I hope his place in the sun has been checked for legionella..

I tried to get an appointment the last two days for a problem I have and the earliest I can see a doctor/nurse is September 11th.
If it's not an emergency there are no appointments.
D

Sorry, I was not implying that. I didn't mean to come over like that.
My apologies for sounding like that. I was definitely on a mission writing that post, but it was not intended as personal towards you. I am sorry. Apologies again.

All our surgeries have deteriorated in the last few years. The degree of service we get varies tremendously now.

So, you are having to wait a month for a doctor's appointment? That is appalling. You have multiple interconnected health problems.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 7.1

Probably the stress of yesterday, but it's still a reasonable figure, albeit the top end of acceptable.

I communicated with a friend yesterday because she has a granddaughter with a cochlear implant from birth. The friend said I was being hard on myself, because when I explained the morning with the receptionist, she reminded me that the cochlear implant does not give me hearing, but extra sounds to help with my lipreading. And she reminded me the receptionist was talking through a solid counter to ceiling perspex screen ,which has smears on it and also which has reflections from the window opposite, all making it hard/impossible to hear and to be able to lipread through, as well as muffling the receptionist's voice because there is no grille for a voice to come through. So, I was much more dependent on lip reading (probably totally lipreading only at this point and I was constantly reminding the receptionist to face me so I could lipread her), in this particular situation.
Now, I am analysing that, I realise that was why I was so tired the rest of the day, and I did have a headache. My brain was tense and exhausted working all this out. And I was repeating the receptionist's words and phrases to check I had lipread and understood correctly. That conversation took over 20 minutes in difficult circumstances....I was very lucky I did not get a visual migraine attack with the amount of concentration I put into lipreading/understanding the conversation.


Wildlife video
A night in my back garden - fox & badger & cats
54 seconds

Creative - still trying the credit card to spread the acrylic inks, to try and get some control, but it is not working the way I want. So, I am still experimenting with this.

I am having a no people day. Which means no lipreading or hearing or face to face communicating. It also means I am not putting on my cochlear speech processor. Giving my brain a rest. Going back to visual for today, that is watching You Tube on captions/subtitles only, just for today...

And thanks for the lyrics in your post today @ianpspurs
Because I just looked at the words (not looked at the video because I have no incoming sound today, my choice). And those words resonate for me....

Have your best kind of day.

Time for a cuppa.

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What a good friend you have there who understands and can help you break down your frustrations. I would hope that if I were that receptionist that I would have exited the bunko booth barrier to good communication and sat facing you and given you my fullest attention. It’s what we (my veterans group) do when talking about something important with our deaf friends. Paper and pencil we find useful also. The group that I am in have all known each other since we were boy soldiers in the 1960’s - some are now deaf, some blind, one with a leg missing and so on. Just family really. Thanks for the art - frustratingly wonderful.

 

[dunelm]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those whose day will be full of mystery and the odd unknown.
This morning my bloods were a self induced 8.3, don’t ask.

In a few short minutes I shall be smearing some sort of pain relief cream over my knee, parrots eating molly taken earlier. Walking with a walking stick is proving a real test of my hand foot eye coordination, it is possible to trap my stick between my legs ending up posterior over mammary gland while Mrs J throws her hands up in the air muttering profanities. Mrs J has a rather large vocabulary and a voice that carries, aircraft carries voice springs to mind.
Here in Tilehurst Towers the day is taking shape, under Mrs J’s direction, I am not party to this, but just cling onto any flotsam that comes my way.
Today I must begin my exercise regime and get back into plinky plonky, but.

Stay safe all.

In the face of walking stick adversity, laugh loudly and buy a walking cane (best done in B&W). All the best with the exercise regime.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on a somewhat late start here in the dark and dangerous north. The grandchildren are multiplying - four last night so all hands on deck this morning for breakfast, dressing, getting out buckets and spades and off they go! Luckily Little Miss Pamplemouse is a good organiser and a dab hand at setting a table. We went into town yesterday but unluckily for me I had to catch the bus back. I can usually sit on a bench part way into town for a few minutes and then be OK but it was raining so onwards we went doing a newly invented limping game with the youngest half of the Von Trapp family in tow. So sorry to read about some pretty awful experiences with GP surgeries or lack of. It reminds me of how lucky we are here to be able to get an appointment quite quickly and with a real, in the same room doctor or nurse practitioner. Art bit. Not satisfactory yet so may add some more colour and thicken the foliage - or not . Hope your day is a peaceful one. I have already had my koffy.

 

[Lamont D]

7.0 today. It is not a rogue reading.
The normal readings I got the other day must have been the rogue! Hmmm!
Washout yesterday, and a frustration of computer science, with the better half!
Now I can't find despite asking, where the piece of paper is, with the new passwords are!
Have asked my grandson to help but that will be later in the week.
I actually thought at first she had pressed factory settings! But just messed about with her settings! Aaaaaaaggghhhh!.
Off to counselling soon I need to offload again.
Messed up appointments but will sort it out, if I can!
Just go.
Bright and sunny day in prospect!
Best wishes.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hugs for @dunelm and @alf_Josiah for mobility issues. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and enjoy all the time with those precious youngsters. My take on the Doctors and ancillary staff issues is that post cynical and performative clap for carers, whilst ignoring all rules imposed on others, most carers have realised the game simply isn't worth the candle. They are merely variables on a spreadsheet - whatif indeed. Crudely put, if you pay peanuts (whilst throwing pooh everywhere) you eventually get monkeys. We are back in the era of the cost of everything and value of nothing.

 

[gennepher]

What a good friend you have there who understands and can help you break down your frustrations. I would hope that if I were that receptionist that I would have exited the bunko booth barrier to good communication and sat facing you and given you my fullest attention. It’s what we (my veterans group) do when talking about something important with our deaf friends. Paper and pencil we find useful also. The group that I am in have all known each other since we were boy soldiers in the 1960’s - some are now deaf, some blind, one with a leg missing and so on. Just family really. Thanks for the art - frustratingly wonderful.

Thanks @dunelm
I have pencil and notepaper, but I have never found anyone (a hearing person - a doctor/nurse/receptionist/etc) yet willing to write their reply on it. (Except once in 2008, and I still have what they wrote) They either try shouting (that's more obscure for me), or enunciating their words like the village idiot, etc (sometimes, don't laugh, I can act like the village idiot back at them and that actually gets results). It is good you can talk among your boy soldiers group about strategies. It does give confidence.

I do use words like 'I need you to...because...' but that falls on deaf ears...

I wear a sunflower lanyard which says I have a disability. And I attached to it, a badge I made which says 'I LIPREAD - please face me'.

I don't think the receptionists ever come out from behind their 'bunko booth barrier'. I am not sure they are allowed to. If you did that for me, faced me, and gave me your fullest attention, that would make that communication tons easier and far less stressful for me.

If I have to go back in to sort the meds again in a month's time, I am going to employ a couple of new strategies.

Thank you for the painting compliment.