What have you been doing today?

[Highway Man]

Morning walk with our friend and her dogs. Sad news: one of the girl pups has died. Just wasn’t feeding and went downhill fast. They were all checked over by the vet only a few days ago too. It’s not uncommon and she has had it happen before. Her vet says there is a name for it - fading puppy syndrome - and he says pups are not truly out of the woods until 10 weeks old. All the girls were spoken for and they’ve now got to tell the potential owner that he can have one of the boys if he wants. We’ve got first dibs on any of them and we want a girl but if it turned out that only boys were left, we might decide not to have one. Will have to see how we feel if it comes to that. Still sad though and our friend is quite upset about it.

Awful news. How distressing.

 

[Justin Passing]

Another day dealing with incompetent people/systems.
One medical, two banking.
I'm finding life hard. Diabetic now, but so far the doc has done nothing.
The "diabetic nurse" was useless. Didn't check weight, feet, sores, bloods or anything like that. I took a meal replacement drink I use (Huel) to show here. She said it was probably full of sugar but wouldn't read the label.

Tired all the time, I can't stay awake. I surfaced about 1pm, put a microwave meal on, and sat down. Woke up an hour and a half later. Got on the SM and made few thou - it's one of those days, but then I started dropping off again.

Tried to shift a lump of money between banks. You phone both ends, check everything is in order, but it still goes wrong.
They don't know why.
Then the payment system sees some alert-raising refusals so locks up completely. Ugh.

 

[securespark]

I'm so sorry you're having a massive struggle with everything.

You could do with some help. Often, you need to speak up in medical situations, but it's not always easy. I know someone who is a medical professional who looks after someone and even they have an uphill struggle.

I've lost count of the number of times medical professionals have asked me about my conditions or meds because they don't understand them, but that worries me, because how many times does that happen with elderly or vulnerable patients who haven't a clue either?

It's so important to get a grip on diabetes.

Fatigue is common with uncontrolled diabetes because the body cannot effectively convert glucose into energy because of either an insulin deficit or insulin resistance.

Frequent peeing and blood sugar fluctuations don't help either.

Monitor your blood sugar readings regularly to try and level out spikes. I guess you have a kit?

Change your diet to include low GI whole foods and lean proteins. Stay away from high sugar foods.

Drink plenty of water, especially when it is hotter!

Do you know what your HbA1c is?