Another good set of observations this morning - blood pressure 107/70 (ideal) 45 minutes after getting up, pulse 64, oxygen 96%, temperature 36.7
Last time I tried the blood glucose monitor a day or two ago it claimed dead batteries so I revived it with two new CR2032s (bulk order from Amazon, so revived the bathroom scales as well). It gave me a score of 5.4, which I'm perfectly happy about. I have no reason to suppose that I'm diabetic or even mildly pre-diabetic but I like to do the occasional spot-check just to be confident that nothing unacceptable is going on - and especially so these days because steroids can raise blood glucose. It's been suggested that these spot-checks are pretty much pointless and that I should encourage either my GP or my haematologist to request six-monthly Glycosylated Haemoglobin tests which give a more meaningful result over three months than you can get from spot checks. I'll try, but I have a feeling both will say "OK, but no need until we have reason to suspect an issue here..."
We'll see. Otherwise, got up at 06:30 to a bright sunny morning - sufficiently so that I had to close half of the curtains across my studywindow because of glare on the monitor. Otherwise the day is likely to include a trip to the GP surgery to collect prescriptions for me and for Sue, a Tesco delivery, possibly an attempted repair of Walter Walker, and maybe some boules practice at Ongar in the afternoon.
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