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That sounds the right way to do it TDA, I'm so pleased to hear your news. Your Mum has a family who are making sure she is ok, I'm sorry to say our neighbours family are only offering words not action.
Apologies if I've gone on about this saga!
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The village hall acoustics weren't brilliant but the performance was beautiful. I also watched a repeat on BBC 4 this week, the late Diana Rigg did a programme about the same thing and it was also recorded at Shirehampton with a fantastic 15 year old violinist.
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Christmas cards from our church to all residents of the parish, containing a Christmas message and details of the services which are being held.
Each volunteer gets a bundle to deliver to specified addresses, I had about 45 to deliver this year.0 -
That's good news, TtDA. I'm not sure what the situation is at Dad's care home but I know the local surgery have started making appointments, because the elderly lady whose dog I walk every day told me how annoyed she was that her friend who is 84 has an appointment before her (she's only 81!)
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No need to apologise brue. 😁
Mum is very lucky, we look after her ourselves, and have a good understanding with our surgery, who know us as a family. She is linked to my online patient record, and has given her permission for me and my sister to do things with the surgery on her behalf. Hence I can re order her meds, book her an appointment, sort out lots of other things, all via my own access. It has made life so much easier. Hence I was apparently the first person to get an over 80’s appointment for the jab, at our surgery, within 10 seconds of getting the text through!🤩
All through this pandemic I have worried about how other elderly, frail locals around us have gone on. Some simply don’t want to know about any help, sadly put independence before safety. Others are like your neighbours, family contact is minimal or none existent, and they are reliant upon kind others to help them out. Or they make a simple situation into a crisis, as you mentioned earlier. You can’t help but worry if you are a caring human being.
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Brue that's good to know your neighbour should get another chance I had read on another forum you only got one chance, didn't seem right to me as they want everyone to get the vaccine.
TDA great news for your Mum, very organised practice you have.
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Quite agree with your entire post, Ttda, BUT I do have to ask what is the qualification for " elderly / frail " please ??
The reason I ask is very simple :--
I Had a decent busy day on Monday 14th, with full plans for today.
Woke up this morning at 09:15 [ very late ] feeling as wobbly as a jelly on an off day. Staggered, still in pj's, to the living room and did a diabetes blood test ARRRRRGH - 2.8
.Shovelled three sweet discs and a full breakfast down and into my tummy. Sat on settee, dropped off to sleep and woke again at 11:00 to find blood sugars had climbed to the dizzy heights of 4.5, where it should have been to start with. Slowly recovered, washed, dressed and all ready to go only some four and a half hours late
. Got everything done except for delivery to elder Sister which should now be done tomorrow.The reason everything went avocado shaped I don't know, only that it did. So if that can happen to me, a 30 odd year diabetic with full control it seems, then weird things can happen to anybody.
Emergency Sweet Tabs by the bed, Glass of water to assist in swallowing them. All ready for waking tomorrow, probably in rudest of rude health, but none the wiser as to WHY it all went off rotten today.
Brian
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Gosh, that’s quite a day ABM, I hope you are feeling much better.
I can only use elderly, frail in the context of my Mum, and one or two neighbours I see. Mum for example cannot walk without an arm to lean on, would forget to eat, would struggle to take a bus journey, cannot understand what medicines she needs to take. So she is frail in physical and mental terms, but full of life in other ways when encouraged and given a bit of help. At nearly 92 she is elderly. The day you had today would be every day for my Mum, and she wouldn’t be able to cope, or know what to do to put things right sadly.
I also know some strong but elderly persons. No help required physically to get about, cope with life generally, except perhaps at a slower pace. Sharp as a knife mentally as well. Very lucky indeed.
Hope your tomorrow is a much better day.🙂
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Brian
Margaret uses these when her sugar levels get low and she gets shaky, you just chew them. She has been on insulin now for five years and we both struggle to understand how even having eaten properly the sugar levels either take a dive or go sky high!!!
David
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We had a few young diabetic members of staff at work, very occasionally one another would have an off moment, we learned quickly to have Mars Bars around. Not pleasant at all for them.
Hope today is a lot better for you Brian🤞🙂
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Hope you are feeling better today Brian. OH is type 2 but does an insulin prod first thing in morning and he used to work with someone who was type 1 and had to do about 5 prods a day at work some days better than others, OH did have a few days being off a few years back before he was with the French health system so went to a friend's doctor do you drink caffeinated coffee and he said yes so no caffeine since and now a lot better so when he has coca cola he had the decaf and no sugar variety and all ok but does not drink it very much.
Weather sunny and a bit warmer at 15C so all washing out and drying well as we now have a good breeze.
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We had a lady at work who would come into the dinning room and start to wobble as though she was drunk. The majority of us knew she was diabetic so we used to sit her down and get her a full strength Coca-Cola which after a few minutes restore her to normal. The Dextro glucose sweets are easy to carry and are pretty fast acting.
David
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Brian, if you are not careful Big Sis will be around to check up on you and that would be embarrassing.
Take Care.Miserable day here today, full on rain this morning now lightened a bit and might even stop soon.
Had a bit of shopping to do but Lidl was very quiet so we obviously picked a good time.
Just found out we'll be in yet another National Lockdown from the 28th.December. So what is the most urgent thing that needs to be done? According to MiL it's to rearrange her hair appointment and yes, I can almost see many a head nodding in agreement. So she has managed, the lucky devil, to get a spot on Christmas Eve, changing it from New Years Eve. She's already booked the taxi so I know what I'll be doing.
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My hairdresser said that people aren't coming in like they usually do before Christmas, no meals and dances or office parties etc.
My friend's son got married last Saturday, at the fifth Covid attempt this year. Apparently, with 15 people spread out through the church it still went very well. The happy couple had a first dance in the back of the church, the bride's father delivered his speech and jokes and then everyone went home! 🎉
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It certainly pays to have knowledgeable staff around. Our life guards all had to have a validFirst Aid certificate, so they were pretty clued up and on the ball. As you say, it happens so suddenly.
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One of my newly acquired lockdown skills is basic hairdressing. Mum and I share a hairdresser who is also a bit of a chum. He didn’t think it was safe enough for Mum to go into the salon, so he gave me a few tips on how to shape a “Bob” cut, and I bought some decent hair scissors online. Mum had a really good layered cut to start with, so I have managed to keep this trimmed and neat. She’s very lucky, still has lovely thick hair at 92. Since she stopped having a perm, it’s in superb condition, and the new style takes years off her face. We are dealing with a Diva here as well, hair, face, clothes carefully checked every day😁
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OH says that someone's got their priorities right, at least.
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ABM sounds like an awful experience Tuesday for you. Goes to show diabetes is very nasty diease and must be treated with respect. Delighted you recovered fairly quickly after being able to gather the required meds and have sensibly put them by your bed just in case, but take your time doing things and give yourself some TLC. Hopefully that was just a blip but if there's any more you contact the medics for help and advise. Lecture over 🥰
Odd, yes even by this website 😱, as I went post this at 0645. Could read and refresh pages but when I tried to login i got the essential maintenance message!
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Thanks to EVERYBODY for their kind thoughts and comments ( even that naughty Moulesy, you scamp )
Woke up today before the alarm clock ~~ all nicely scrubbed up before porage time, all keen and ready to go barring the fact called very heavy rain, grrrr. Duccy started first time ( hurrah !! ) got round to The Aged One, to discover she was in the middle of furniture arranging ! But that was just to keep her eldest's lunatic whippet from attacking all the wrapped presents ! That's the wierdest dog ever, barks like crazy when I enter the room then, when I go to stroke her she dives for a corner & lies there trembling & whimpering -- it is truly bonkers !!
Sugar Levels today all sitting where I expect them to be, so no Emergency Supplies needed thank 'Evans.
David K, -- I use round tubes of Fruit flavoured Glucotabs or Lift. with 3.7 grammes of Glucose per tablet & a choice of flavours if its in a decent pharmacy -- but sadly not Fish, Chips n Mushy Peas
but I also terrify peeps who know me by having a couple of cans of Cokes Best available. As for the speed of onset , that is the reason DVLC request regular blood tests when driving -- four hours MAX per run between pauses - I do it but wonder how many others do 1 -
ABM, what a scare you had, luckily you knew what to do and didn't panic, take it easy for a few days.
Miserable dark grey day today, we've had rain but not heavy and now the wind is picking up. Lights and heating on all day but its not really cold outside.
I've been busy at the knitting machine again, I had a terrible day of it yesterday, nothing I did worked right, so I gave it a talking to and shut it in the bedroom on its own to think about it
did the trick as today it has worked perfectly, only problem is my arms and shoulders are complaining from using them so much. OH was busy at lunchtime doing his deliveries for the lunch club, as they can no longer meet up for lunch, the volunteers take lunch to them. The high tea they did a while ago went down well, so decided to do a Christmas themed lunch today, it would have been their Christmas lunch if not for covid.
We had delivery today of our caravan big seat cushions back from Bellfield's. They phoned yesterday morning to say they were done and would today be convenient for delivery. They arrived at 10.10 this morning by TNT now that's a good service. We have had them changed from foam to spring interior, can't wait to get away in the caravan now to try them out
WN, good to hear MIL got her hair appointment sorted, a girl has to look her best you know even if she is going nowhere
I saw the lunchtime news about your lockdown after Christmas.
Really do wish the governments would stop being so wishy washy and stop all this nonsense over the 5 day break. Its alright saying you can but we'd rather you don't. That's not the right message to be sending out to folk, as usual the majority will do the right thing, while others will act like a load of irresponsible nitwits. We should be doing what Germany, Netherlands and France are doing, keep it to a minimum drive the numbers down and concentrate on getting the vaccines out to all those who need it. I fear they may be trouble ahead.0 -
Bakers2 Indeed Diabetes in all it's forms can be truly EVIL !!
Youngsters normally fall into Type 1, which can be better or worse than T2, since the young ones can get full & personal control of the illness and their lives. Sadly more & more young are getting T2 which, in many cases, may well be due to general life style and the fat that comes with it, giving the " Dietary " world a job to do and a possibility of full & permanent remission. Alas it needs a good & honest dietician to give them the direction to real success in that line, but too many fake diets exist that are just for the publicity, with no care for the damage done.
TG, no need to rest these bones, once the sugar levels have been back to normal for half an hour every thing should be good to go as the world says these days
P.S. Hope you manage to escape & try those cushions out fully, and give that machine some time on it's own
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I'm so sorry I missed this ABM, all good wishes and hope you're feeling better.
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Today I've spent a late afternoon half hour waiting to be called in from the cold and dark outside our dentists. Then I had a lose crown cemented back on, the post has broken, there's hardly any tooth left so I don't know how long it will last. I've gone off dentists at the moment...
Spoke to my sister, only to hear that the care home where our mother lived has been badly hit by Covid (after doing really well earlier on.) They've lost residents and no-one can go in beyond the front gate at the moment. Really sad for them.
TG that sounds a quick turn around for your van cushions, hope you enjoy them.
Forgotten what a van is at the moment...what did we use them for?!
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Bit wet here today, but luckily a couple of dry hours mid morning as we went to pick up the oak skirtings, facings, door stops and window sill for DD's bedroom project.
Having struck up a good working relationship with one of the staff at our local timber merchant, he had organised to get the width and thickness of oak we needed specially milled, and at a very reasonable price too.
We got it loaded onto the roof rack by a fork lift, quite heavy but we only had half a mile to drive and it was all securely wrapped. DD helped me unload as she is quite tall, and it is now laid along the side of the hallway to acclimatise. Will be a couple of weeks till I need most of it as I have to finish the bathroom, then the bedroom floor. I think that is the last of the materials now.
Time to organise stuff for our own bathroom now!
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And the same goes for me. Glad to hear that you've fully recovered.
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A wet and windy night and morning, and again this evening, but we did manage to fit in a dry 3+ ml walk this afternoon.
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