Nowhere near so cold this week just gone, but milder means damper and grey at this time of year. It was often gloomy by 4pm even if sunset was gradually getting later by a minute or two each day. When you can't see the sun for thick cloud those minutes are really meaningless.
The week hasn't been very exciting ...Dentist, Keep Moving Group, prescription review, bit of gardening, bit of shopping, swimming and snooker on TV.
The trip to the dentist was OK, yet another filling needed so that's another tooth rescued for a while and it didn't take too long. I pondered on going into the town centre or to one of the out of town big supermarkets or Dunelm etc but couldn't be bothered, there's nothing I need so just went home.
Years ago the annual Prescription Review meant actually going into the health centre and speaking with the doctor, then it changed to a phone call with the doctor from the health centre and now it's a phone call with some random person who knows nothing about you or the health centre that you go to. Usually it's quite quick - but this week a doctor(?)pharmacist (?) grilled me for what seemed like ages - but mostly she wanted to know what I would do if I had suicidal thoughts!! I said I'd no idea as that was unlikely to happen but she said I should turn to friends or family or call someone so I had to assure her that I would but as Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health service is struggling......
30 Oct 2024 — The region's troubled mental health trust is still not meeting the needs of its patients, according to a damning new report.
...................I'm not sure much help is actually available.
Then she got onto the "taking Statins" talk, but I said no thank you and then the "increasing the dose of blood pressure tablets" talk so I had to agree to go and get a check up again.
The call finished eventually but not before she'd told me that statistics show that I have a 15% chance of some sort of trauma (heart attack or similar) in the next 10 years. Well, that's good to know as it means I have an 85% change of NOT having a heart attack or stroke. In 10 years time I'll be almost 80 anyway. If I get to that milestone I'll have done well I reckon, considering the amount of cancer in the family history and anyway I don't want to live forever!
One of the two new people at Keep Moving Group returned for a second week and several others who'd not been regularly for a while turned up so we were 13 in total which is good. I've put a note on the Facebook pages of local villages again as there is still room for more.
Gardening was just cutting down another of the huge Buddleias - only half of what I'd cut fitted into the garden waste bin. They put on 6 foot of new growth in a year whatever the weather!
Swimming wasn't the best experience as there were two women walking (?) up and down the middle of the pool talking non stop and not looking where they were going, and it's not a big pool, and three girls with very severe learning difficulties who were in the pool each with a helper plus another helper too. Good to see them enjoying the water but one of the girls shrieks at the top of her voice - and by golly she's loud!
That's it. An unexciting week, quite boring to write and very boring to read!!
Back Monday
Sue
You’re never boring. Like Jane Austen, you work with a fine brush on two inches of ivory.
ReplyDeleteIngrid
Agreeing with Ingrid. Except I find your writing more interesting than Miss Austen's (that's probably heretical) our surgery pharmacist has done my meds review for 4 years, over the phone. He has the loveliest voice, with a beautiful Irish accent. I have no idea if he is good looking, but he sounds gorgeous! I never understand these statistics which claim to "reduce your risk of dying by 10%". Everybody dies eventually!
ReplyDeleteIt won’t be long before the prescription review includes offering government assisted dying as an answer to our problems. And theirs. Just think of the money they’ll save without us costly and troublesome pensioners.
ReplyDeleteAnna.
Never boring ! This is real life, and your life. The phone doctor had statistics for you indeed ! At least she took time to explain things, and yes, 85% chance of not having a stroke is good ! Hope the swimming session is better next time. I never learnt to swim, it's a shame as I've always lived close to the ocean. Walking is what I can't do without.
ReplyDeleteMaguy
Obviously the walking and talking 'swimming' women are don't know that if they walked faster without talking they would achieve a better level of fitness?!
ReplyDeleteIt’s the boring that’s interesting in years to come Sue! June
ReplyDeleteSounds like you got a Practitioners Assistant. They like to masquerade as doctors.
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