My Diabetes Journey....The Beginning

I know I'm repeating myself but though this would be easier to find with 'Diabetes' in the title 

Someone from my local GP practice phoned me about 2 years ago to tell me I had prediabetes, then 2 years later, with nothing else being said to me relating to Diabetes, my GP rang to tell me I had type 2 Diabetes. The same afternoon, the GP's visiting nurse visited me at home and said I should be on meds to lower my blood sugar. Given that for 2 years, nobody from the practice had any input into how I could manage this myself, I basically told him that I would sort things out for myself.

I then visited the site of the GP practice and although they have included a who bunch of stuff from Diabetes UK they missed out any information on reversing type 2 the low carb programme, nor intermittent fasting.

Talk about cherry picking.

Another Epic Fail by My GP Again

I have been telling my GP for years that my thyroid was undermedicated, which massively increases the risk of Diabetes.

He totally ignored me and refused to increase my thyroid meds.

Then yesterday morning he CONFIRMED the Diabetes, which I already knew about as I have a blood glucose meter at home and also have a son who has had Diabetes for 35 years

So....the GP basically, undermedicated my thyroid and has only increased the thyroid meds following the Diabetes diagnosis after my asking him to increase the thyroid meds for 7 years. 

Link HERE to article on underactive thyroid and Diabetes connection

Link HERE to Why I Don't See My GP

Eastbourne Seagull On The Prowl

This is what happens when we follow instructions to leave glass in a bag by the bins. I heard a lot of noise outside and caught this seagull on camera, attempting to carry off a bag of empty coffee and food jars

 

Little Boxes

 With stepdaughter off to University very soon, I remembered this song from my childhood in the sixties and thought it was worth sharing again

Update on the Silly Bin Saga

 

That song brings back memories, when dustman just picked up the bins and there was none of this 'check website for updates'

So, I wandered down the path on Thursday morning as that was the date of bin pick up stated on our council website, only to find that the bin was where I left it. I got all excited at the idea that the bin had been put back, only to find it hadn't been emptied.

The above is a recap just in case you didn't read the previous post.

I was going to post here on Saturday only the refuse collectors decided to empty my bin a day early with no notice on the council site. Now for my family this is an ongoing minor  annoyance, but what if I had been an older person living alone? How would I be expected to know that refuse collectors just turn up when they feel like it.

On the 12th April our black bins will start getting picked up every other week instead of weekly with the recycling bins being picked up on the weeks in between. I can check with the calendar on-line but how do people work things out when they don'y have the internet or don't know how to find the calendar? 

It's been suggested by the Facebook experts who all seem to have huge walled  gardens, that we all get compost bins. I best start saving up to buy a place with a garden where people are going to leave compost bins alone. It must be lovely to live in fantasy land, but a lot of  people don't.

Silly Bin Episode

 

So, the 'assisted' sticker turned up from Amazon and as in the picture I stuck them on before leaving the black bin out on Wednesday evening. With it being Easter weekend coming up, we were told that our black bin would be picked up on Thursday instead of this Friday.

So off I trot on Thursday morning only to find that not only had the bin not been moved, it hadn't been emptied either. After a bit of a swear at the refuse collectors who weren't there to hear me, I went indoors to have a bit of a whinge to Billy.

We settled down to our coffee with me on the chromebook and Billy faffing about on his phone. I then thought I'd check the Easter dates for the bin emptying and the date had been switched to Saturday lol I guess that our local council department who puts out this information must think we are all psychic.

I'll be having another go at this on Saturday

The Refuse Bin Saga Goes On

 

Oh Look! This is the result we got from our complaint to our local MP (Caroline Ansell), that our bin is still being left up the road, obstructing the path, despite our address being on the disability support list. We have been on this list for 7 years and because we are on this list, our bin is supposed to be collected from where we leave it and then put back in the same place.

I'm pretty sure that I left my bin in the same place last night, that I have left it every Thursday evening for 7 years (barring stays in hospital and so on , when I wasn't there to do this). I got up this morning and in the vain hope that action had been taken by our MP (Caroline Ansell) as she had said would happen, I checked outside for my bin. Instead of being left where I had left it last night, in the gap between our building and the next, along with our neighbours' bins), all the other bins had been put back and our bin was the only one left on the path several doors away.

 

Water Vapour Is A Gas? Climate Change The Science With Future Learn

Climate Change:The Science

I must have missed that class in school science where we were taught that water vapour is a gas??? 

"Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous phase of water. It is one state of water within the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be produced from the evaporation or boiling of liquid water or from the sublimation of ice."

So water vapour is the gaseous stage of water. I'm 61 and just learned that

(Every day is a school day)

Crochet Projects March 2021

 This month I have made 2 scarves to send down to family in Gosport

I plan to get back to selling my lap blankets once I work out which sites to add them too.

The top picture is a Doctor Who inspired design and the bottom picture is an infinity scarf I made for my daughter