Today I had to go to the surgery to have blood taken - separate and different tests, requested by two different GPs from the same practice.
Tomorrow I have to go for an eye test.
Wednesday I expect a phone call (or two?) from the surgery with the results of the blood tests.
On Thursday I have an appointment at said surgery for a blood pressure check, as they are not satisfied with my two recent self-measured results.
On Friday I have to go for an ultrasound scan of my liver, and next Monday I have a dental appointment, when I fear I will get a referral to the dental hospital.
Roll on next week!
Gosh, that is full on. I hope they all go well. And the same for Mr Piglet’s investigation.
I read ‘macaroni cheese and flapjacks’ and my initial reaction was the same! Haven’t had macaroni cheese for ages due to low carbing.
Study day today so I’m going to do some preparatory work for a residential weekend coming up. I also need to do the weekly shop (accompanied by my son, who is currently shopping and cooking for himself prior to university).
@Roseofsharon - sympathies here. Just been to dentist - have an abscess, they want to investigate doing it under general as I react so badly to the general prodding and poking. Had a panic attack there. Doctor's next week. Seen optician - developing cataracts.
Yuk.
Hmm. Enquiring minds wish to know did the flapjacks serve as a sort of biscuity base for the macaroni cheese or as a crust?
Good case for a well placed comma I suppose.
Both were enjoyed by different folk on different days, though oats might work on top of the macaroni cheese instead of breadcrumbs I guess.
Maternal visit went very well as new husband, though unsmiling, was polite and quiet.
Hmm. Enquiring minds wish to know did the flapjacks serve as a sort of biscuity base for the macaroni cheese or as a crust?
Good case for a well placed comma I suppose.
Both were enjoyed by different folk on different days, though oats might work on top of the macaroni cheese instead of breadcrumbs I guess.
Maternal visit went very well as new husband, though unsmiling, was polite and quiet.
Yes, a well-placed comma is a useful thing, obfuscation for the avoidance of!
(signed)
BF (President, and Founder, of the Society for the Preservation, and Correct Employment, of the Oxford Comma).
Yup, me too.but not bad enough yet for the NHS to be interested. Two more bars, whatever that means, before I get a referral to the eye clinic.
As far as the dental problem is concerned, I have a broken molar which I fear has now reached the point where the dentist can't do any more with it. A big chunk broke off it 44 years ago, during my first pregnancy. It has had a lot of work done to it over the years, but has been crumbling badly over the last couple of months and there isn't much left. I believe my dentist will tell me that it is time to have it out, but that she can't do it as it is so fragile.
Had a phone call from the surgery today saying that the Dr wants me to make an appointment for a telephone consultation to discuss the results of yesterdays blood tests. Sounds ominous - whatever else can they have found wrong with me?
Now, because of the crazy appointments system adopted by GPs these days, the earliest appointment I could get was next Wednesday - but I could telephone at 8am tomorrow and get a same-day appointment.
Well, it is quicker to walk down to the surgery at 8am and make an appointment in person than to sit on the phone re-dialling for half the morning and then be told all the appointments for that day have gone.
So, tomorrow morning I am going down to the surgery, in person, to ask for the doctor to telephone me at home.
Ah well, at least it will be a fine morning for a walk.
I'm rather partial to the semicolon; as for the Oxford comma, you can keep it.
Sorry about that.
PS - crosspost - good luck tomorrow, RofS, and ditto Fredegund. As many of you know, I was born with cataracts and had surgery a frightening number of years ago, and had no ill-effects at all.
First in the queue for an appointment (they call it an 'appointment', but its a case of "Dr will phone some time today"). He phoned at 9am. Lucky I went straight home!
No bad news, just another indication of the problem revealed by the last test. Scan on Friday should confirm.
Good news is that my cholesterol is down from 7 to 4.5. No doubt due to the statins that I had resisted for years..
We've had a mixture of good and bad news over the last couple of days (see the Cancer thread downstairs and Praise and Thanksgiving). Fortunately it was bad news followed by really very good news, and D. is, we hope, on the road to recovery.
I hope the pair of you can get a good rest and that D is on the road to recovery.
Lazy day here, I have yoga class this morning and then I will spend the afternoon on my spinning wheel.
Good to know you have had good news, Piglet. More to follow I hope.
This morning it took three attempts for my bp reading to satisfy the nurse at the surgery. Not sure the point of keeping a record of my bp when in a relaxed state when for most of my day I seem to be decidedly unrelaxed.
Alas, just walking into the GP surgery can often induce 'white coat syndrome', resulting in a high BP reading, no matter how relaxed, or not, one may feel!
@Piglet - best wishes to D. from all of us here aboard Ship, and to you as well. Is he likely to be off duty for a long time?
Thanks, all. We're not sure really how long he'll be out of action - it's very early days yet. He's expected to be in hospital for about 5 days, which would take him to Sunday or Monday, but what the recovery time after that is I really don't know.
I suspect it'll be quite a task to get him to stay off work unless he either has treatment that makes him feel ghastly or is just so tired he can't do it: he carried on despite feeling like death warmed up before he was diagnosed, as he doesn't really see his job as "work", but as "being paid for doing what he loves doing".
@Piglet if D the beloved has had surgery, they will probably tell you/him some actions he should not do for 6weeks or so. Playing the organ will not be on the list, because it is not a common occupation. You would do well to explain to the medics what he does and how he moves in doing that (I know how my husband slides up and down the bench especially when using the pedals). It won’t be so hard to stop him doing the forbidden movement while he still feels sore and a bit wabbit, but that will wear off long before the restated time is up, and then it will be hard. But it is important to stick to what they say, as it is the bits inside which are still healing up after the skin wound is all better.
IANAD but a minister who has seen what happens when people think they are fine too soon, and who lives with a fanatical organist!
Alas, just walking into the GP surgery can often induce 'white coat syndrome', resulting in a high BP reading, no matter how relaxed, or not, one may feel!
Yes, I used to get my clinic patients to take slow deep breaths before taking their blood pressure, to get a more accurate reading. I now instinctively do it when someone is taking mine! I use breathing exercises myself for anxiety these days, I find them very helpful.
Thanks, all. We're not sure really how long he'll be out of action - it's very early days yet. He's expected to be in hospital for about 5 days, which would take him to Sunday or Monday, but what the recovery time after that is I really don't know.
I suspect it'll be quite a task to get him to stay off work unless he either has treatment that makes him feel ghastly or is just so tired he can't do it: he carried on despite feeling like death warmed up before he was diagnosed, as he doesn't really see his job as "work", but as "being paid for doing what he loves doing".
To wear out an old cliché, one day at a time.
The medics will give him some idea of when he can think of returning to work, but a rough guide is that for any GA over 30 minutes you need to allow 1 week "off" for every hour of GA. Putting on my playing hat, he's going to find pedalling quite a challenge for at least 6 months.
That seems very extravagant. She should have written it on the back of a used stamp./
Actually I agree with her. Where's this paperless society we were all promised a few years ago? I blame it on the great god Xerox.
Or on her hand?
I agree about the "paperless society." Since the advent of personal computers, everyone has the means to print out everything they come across -- it's so much more convenient and cheaper than the "old days."
I do know, however, that I'm one of many, many people who have cut back on periodicals (paper newspapers and magazines), catalogues, mailed bills and payments, etc. My mailbox is now often empty or just has a piece or two of mail in it. It used to be filled with "Christmas" catalogues every day this time of year.
I totally agree about the paperless office - whatever happened to that?
I'm whiling away my time here while D. has another cat scan (I assume they mustn't have found any cats last time). He's having a rather less good day today, but I'm given to understand that the third day after surgery is the worst, which suggests that Things Can Only Get Better.
I hope so anyway - thanks again for all your prayers, good wishes and virtual hugs.
(...) I'm whiling away my time here while D. has another cat scan (I assume they mustn't have found any cats last time). He's having a rather less good day today, but I'm given to understand that the third day after surgery is the worst, which suggests that Things Can Only Get Better.
I hope so anyway - thanks again for all your prayers, good wishes and virtual hugs.
So sorry to hear about D’s sudden operation - I hope that there is a continuing absence of felines, and since you are in Canada I would like to wish you both every strength and bon courage for the work of support and recovery.
He's having a rather less good day today, but I'm given to understand that the third day after surgery is the worst, which suggests that Things Can Only Get Better.
Yes, AIUI, that is true - well, it was for me, anyway.
Yes, I know he's a Bloke, and I'm a Bloke, but we do huggy stuff, too...
ION, have any of you been participating in demonstrations/strikes today, regarding climate change/global warming?
BBC News carries an image of a young lassie carrying a banner measuring about 6 inches x 4 inches. It reads 'Use Less Paper'... https://bbc.co.uk/news
The teenager here went to the local rally where there were several hundred. He did at least catch the bus to local centre. Then he returned to play computer type games.
[...] BBC News carries an image of a young lassie carrying a banner measuring about 6 inches x 4 inches. [...]
Even young sheepdogs are now involved, then! 'What's that, Lassie, the climate is stuck down a mine shaft?'
And indeed it is something all flora and fauna are affected by. May the world be shepherded into a new era of more awareness and willingness to tackle said issues.
I've mowed our lawns and Mr Nen is helping our new neighbours clear their garden. A digger, chain saws and skips are involved. Mr Nen is a slash-and-burn gardener so is thoroughly enjoying himself.
Grr... I was woken by some strange noises shortly before 2am, went downstairs to check, and lo and behold, yet another attempt at breaking into the vending machine nearby. Glass all over the ground, and... a manhole cover! (Well, that's a new one..!)
The police arrived within minutes of my calling them, looked at everything, took notes and pictures and placed the manhole cover on its manhole again, in the end. Never a dull moment in Continental WesShire.
Luckily, the very powerful north wind from the last few days has abated, it really was rather extraordinary. Daytime temperatures were up to 18 or 20°C, but the windchill must have brought that down to perhaps about 5°C! (I couldn't find any website that would indicate the 'felt' temperature.)
In unrelated news: Just read in the papers the other day that shedloads, or perhaps better, entire flocks of birds have disappeared from the face of Planet Earth, like in Canada and the US, in the last few decades. And there are also notably fewer insects, in general. I think the same can be said about Europe, I'm afraid - I believe in the 1960s or 1970s, car windscreens were splattered with dead bugs after a longish drive, and needed a thorough clean - and now? Barely any.
I know there are still plenty of mozzies and midges to make life miserable, but generally speaking, it is shocking. We live in strange times, somehow, don't we.
Still wishing everyone an uplifting, relaxing, blesséd and healing (D et al!) Sunday.
And there are also notably fewer insects, in general. I think the same can be said about Europe, I'm afraid - I believe in the 1960s or 1970s, car windscreens were splattered with dead bugs after a longish drive, and needed a thorough clean - and now? Barely any.
It is indeed true. I see it from remembering long car journeys with my family as a child compared to long car journeys with Mr Nen now. It's pretty alarming and seems such a huge thing to try and do something about. I am planning to make more of a concerted effort with my sadly neglected garden in future and want to make it insect and wildlife friendly.
Hmm. No apparent dearth of insects round here (North Kent), especially amongst the spider community! Or birds, either, though (owing to global warming, I expect) we no longer get the winter visitors I recall from 20+ years ago.
Our local swans have been OK - of the two regular couples, one has 3 cygnets, and the other has 5.
And butterflies seem to have been doing well this year, too.
Hmm. No apparent dearth of insects round here (North Kent), especially amongst the spider community ...
When I left the house this morning, the sun was shining in just the right place to show up a whole load of spiders' webs woven between the railings of the deck - they were absolutely beautiful.
ION, D's had a Not Good Day: he had to have further surgery (previous mend leaked, making him very unwell). Now in Intensive Care, but hopefully being well looked after.
Prayers for D and Piglet, what a bugger.
It's another Monday waiting in for a parcel, but at least it's for me this time. The weekend seems to have been spent mostly struggling with technology in one way or another for both of us. Husband trying to get his new computer to export the slide show he did of the wedding last weekend so the bride and groom can see it and me trying to get a new phone ordered. Really not helped by company insisting you speak to them on the phone, due to my deafness I need my husband to translate, and he couldn't understand what one of the operators was saying either. At least it should appear today.
We did manage to get to one of the Open House places near us on Saturday, but I also intended to go to a 13th century chantry chapel yesterday and totally forgot.
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Hmm. Enquiring minds wish to know did the flapjacks serve as a sort of biscuity base for the macaroni cheese or as a crust?
Today I had to go to the surgery to have blood taken - separate and different tests, requested by two different GPs from the same practice.
Tomorrow I have to go for an eye test.
Wednesday I expect a phone call (or two?) from the surgery with the results of the blood tests.
On Thursday I have an appointment at said surgery for a blood pressure check, as they are not satisfied with my two recent self-measured results.
On Friday I have to go for an ultrasound scan of my liver, and next Monday I have a dental appointment, when I fear I will get a referral to the dental hospital.
Roll on next week!
I read ‘macaroni cheese and flapjacks’ and my initial reaction was the same! Haven’t had macaroni cheese for ages due to low carbing.
Study day today so I’m going to do some preparatory work for a residential weekend coming up. I also need to do the weekly shop (accompanied by my son, who is currently shopping and cooking for himself prior to university).
Yuk.
Both were enjoyed by different folk on different days, though oats might work on top of the macaroni cheese instead of breadcrumbs I guess.
Maternal visit went very well as new husband, though unsmiling, was polite and quiet.
Yes, a well-placed comma is a useful thing, obfuscation for the avoidance of!
(signed)
BF (President, and Founder, of the Society for the Preservation, and Correct Employment, of the Oxford Comma).
And I'm reading this at the moment: https://tinyurl.com/y3z2wwnn
Of that miserable specimen, the Semicolon, I have nothing to say.
(BTW, I should have mentioned that I am President, Founder, and sole Member, of the aforesaid Society. It is, indeed, lonely at the top...).
As far as the dental problem is concerned, I have a broken molar which I fear has now reached the point where the dentist can't do any more with it. A big chunk broke off it 44 years ago, during my first pregnancy. It has had a lot of work done to it over the years, but has been crumbling badly over the last couple of months and there isn't much left. I believe my dentist will tell me that it is time to have it out, but that she can't do it as it is so fragile.
Had a phone call from the surgery today saying that the Dr wants me to make an appointment for a telephone consultation to discuss the results of yesterdays blood tests. Sounds ominous - whatever else can they have found wrong with me?
Now, because of the crazy appointments system adopted by GPs these days, the earliest appointment I could get was next Wednesday - but I could telephone at 8am tomorrow and get a same-day appointment.
Well, it is quicker to walk down to the surgery at 8am and make an appointment in person than to sit on the phone re-dialling for half the morning and then be told all the appointments for that day have gone.
So, tomorrow morning I am going down to the surgery, in person, to ask for the doctor to telephone me at home.
Ah well, at least it will be a fine morning for a walk.
Sorry about that.
PS - crosspost - good luck tomorrow, RofS, and ditto Fredegund. As many of you know, I was born with cataracts and had surgery a frightening number of years ago, and had no ill-effects at all.
No bad news, just another indication of the problem revealed by the last test. Scan on Friday should confirm.
Good news is that my cholesterol is down from 7 to 4.5. No doubt due to the statins that I had resisted for years..
We've had a mixture of good and bad news over the last couple of days (see the Cancer thread downstairs and Praise and Thanksgiving). Fortunately it was bad news followed by really very good news, and D. is, we hope, on the road to recovery.
relieved piglet
Lazy day here, I have yoga class this morning and then I will spend the afternoon on my spinning wheel.
This morning it took three attempts for my bp reading to satisfy the nurse at the surgery. Not sure the point of keeping a record of my bp when in a relaxed state when for most of my day I seem to be decidedly unrelaxed.
@Piglet - best wishes to D. from all of us here aboard Ship, and to you as well. Is he likely to be off duty for a long time?
I suspect it'll be quite a task to get him to stay off work unless he either has treatment that makes him feel ghastly or is just so tired he can't do it: he carried on despite feeling like death warmed up before he was diagnosed, as he doesn't really see his job as "work", but as "being paid for doing what he loves doing".
To wear out an old cliché, one day at a time.
IANAD but a minister who has seen what happens when people think they are fine too soon, and who lives with a fanatical organist!
The medics will give him some idea of when he can think of returning to work, but a rough guide is that for any GA over 30 minutes you need to allow 1 week "off" for every hour of GA. Putting on my playing hat, he's going to find pedalling quite a challenge for at least 6 months.
Yes, I know he's a Bloke, and I'm a Bloke, but we do huggy stuff, too...
ION, have any of you been participating in demonstrations/strikes today, regarding climate change/global warming?
BBC News carries an image of a young lassie carrying a banner measuring about 6 inches x 4 inches. It reads 'Use Less Paper'...
https://bbc.co.uk/news
Actually I agree with her. Where's this paperless society we were all promised a few years ago? I blame it on the great god Xerox.
Or on her hand?
I agree about the "paperless society." Since the advent of personal computers, everyone has the means to print out everything they come across -- it's so much more convenient and cheaper than the "old days."
I do know, however, that I'm one of many, many people who have cut back on periodicals (paper newspapers and magazines), catalogues, mailed bills and payments, etc. My mailbox is now often empty or just has a piece or two of mail in it. It used to be filled with "Christmas" catalogues every day this time of year.
I'm whiling away my time here while D. has another cat scan (I assume they mustn't have found any cats last time). He's having a rather less good day today, but I'm given to understand that the third day after surgery is the worst, which suggests that Things Can Only Get Better.
I hope so anyway - thanks again for all your prayers, good wishes and virtual hugs.
So sorry to hear about D’s sudden operation - I hope that there is a continuing absence of felines, and since you are in Canada I would like to wish you both every strength and bon courage for the work of support and recovery.
Yes, AIUI, that is true - well, it was for me, anyway.
The teenager here went to the local rally where there were several hundred. He did at least catch the bus to local centre. Then he returned to play computer type games.
80,000 reported to have attended in Sydney.
And indeed it is something all flora and fauna are affected by. May the world be shepherded into a new era of more awareness and willingness to tackle said issues.
I've mowed our lawns and Mr Nen is helping our new neighbours clear their garden. A digger, chain saws and skips are involved. Mr Nen is a slash-and-burn gardener so is thoroughly enjoying himself.
It's an absolutely glorious day here: 20° and sunny - autumn at s best!
The police arrived within minutes of my calling them, looked at everything, took notes and pictures and placed the manhole cover on its manhole again, in the end. Never a dull moment in Continental WesShire.
Luckily, the very powerful north wind from the last few days has abated, it really was rather extraordinary. Daytime temperatures were up to 18 or 20°C, but the windchill must have brought that down to perhaps about 5°C! (I couldn't find any website that would indicate the 'felt' temperature.)
In unrelated news: Just read in the papers the other day that shedloads, or perhaps better, entire flocks of birds have disappeared from the face of Planet Earth, like in Canada and the US, in the last few decades. And there are also notably fewer insects, in general. I think the same can be said about Europe, I'm afraid - I believe in the 1960s or 1970s, car windscreens were splattered with dead bugs after a longish drive, and needed a thorough clean - and now? Barely any.
I know there are still plenty of mozzies and midges to make life miserable, but generally speaking, it is shocking. We live in strange times, somehow, don't we.
Still wishing everyone an uplifting, relaxing, blesséd and healing (D et al!) Sunday.
It is indeed true. I see it from remembering long car journeys with my family as a child compared to long car journeys with Mr Nen now. It's pretty alarming and seems such a huge thing to try and do something about. I am planning to make more of a concerted effort with my sadly neglected garden in future and want to make it insect and wildlife friendly.
It doesn't seem like much, but someone drew my attention recently to I will be a hummingbird. I will do the best I can.
Our local swans have been OK - of the two regular couples, one has 3 cygnets, and the other has 5.
And butterflies seem to have been doing well this year, too.
But yes - Gaia is very frail...
Glad your beasties seem all right.
ION, D's had a Not Good Day: he had to have further surgery (previous mend leaked, making him very unwell). Now in Intensive Care, but hopefully being well looked after.
Just light planning working today. I’ve been neglecting my walking recently so might start the day with a nice long walk.
It's another Monday waiting in for a parcel, but at least it's for me this time. The weekend seems to have been spent mostly struggling with technology in one way or another for both of us. Husband trying to get his new computer to export the slide show he did of the wedding last weekend so the bride and groom can see it and me trying to get a new phone ordered. Really not helped by company insisting you speak to them on the phone, due to my deafness I need my husband to translate, and he couldn't understand what one of the operators was saying either. At least it should appear today.
We did manage to get to one of the Open House places near us on Saturday, but I also intended to go to a 13th century chantry chapel yesterday and totally forgot.
I’m in the midst of a Psoriatic Arthritis flare up. New puppy due to arrive tomorrow - an interesting combination!
At least he’ll keep my mind off my symptoms. His name is Echo.