Other What's ruining your life right now?

broke a radiator pipe and flooded the downstairs hall. joy,

 

I used to work in the meat trade many years ago. The last company i worked for produced for Tesco's. originally wrapped in paper and boxed in wax lined boxes. Moving on to vacuum packing and eventually at the time a new process of gas flushing ( filling the vacuumed bag with CO2 ). Legally the best before date was max' 6 weeks, but Tesco's insisted on 10 days.
If it doesn't smell very bad it's ok, alternatively soak in a salt solution or simply trim off the worst bits. It's the aerobic bacteria on the surface that is a problem, the anaerobic bacteria within the meat is safe and is what tenderizes meat when hung.

 

I knew nothing about any of this, so went to find out what the deal was with a soak in salt solution. Three hours later I've spent the whole morning on Spruce Eats looking at all sorts!

Must be more productive this afternoon!

 

Got some new diabetes meds:



Feeling kinda green right now though, which was to be expected when first starting out with it. It is seriously restricting the amount that I can eat, which is not a bad thing, I just need to get used to things. Hopefully going onto this and dropping off the hated Gliclazide will have a good effect on my weight though so willing to tough it out and get through things.

 

I'm still totally diet controlled at the moment, eating low carb. Luckily or unluckily whichever way you look at it i lost 25Kg doing a Keto diet prior to being diagnosed prediabetic. I now know that that skewed the Hba1c and i was in fact probably diabetic then. Three years later full diagnosis. I don't know if you are aware but the best forum for all diabetes types is,
(1) Diabetes Forum • The Global Diabetes Community

 

I was diagnosed in 2008, although I had probably been diabetic for a while by then - it was only picked up during a new patient checkup when I had to move doctors, and have gone through the route of diet controlled, then meds then more meds, then a change, then more, then change, and so on, to the point where I just got fed up of always being lectured at and messed around with what I was taking and what was and wasn't working (seemingly in the opinion of different people all the time - there was no consistency).

I seem to have a pretty good team at the local GP's now and going by my testing readings, this does seem to working pretty well already, probably due to the decreased amount that I am eating. I have pretty much halved (or less) my food intake over the past couple of days, I just don't feel like eating much at all, took me over an hour to get through a sandwich last night.

I did a test before driving home from work last night and was down in the 8s for glucose, not been there for a while. Just got to keep it up now and we shall see what my Hba1C comes out at at the end of November.

I have always had problems with Gliclazide and weight gain. When I was first diagnosed I lost about 15kg and it was still going. I then went onto Gliclazide and even though I started getting more exercise at the same time, all the weight and more came straight back on. I stopped taking it a while ago and started to lose weight again, but was told to go back on as my results were getting scary high, and of course the weight came back again.

 

Manager: *Tells Asst Manager about accusation of him looking at porn on his break with people in the room"

Asst Manager: *Denies everything*

Also Asst Manager: "Oh it might've been my Grindr app!"

 

Frickin annoying.

Amazon 2 stops away. Map disappears.

Estimate end time reached now delivery is before 9PM.

Really effin useful.

 

In my experience, that means it was never on the van in the first place.

 

Either that or its easier to do others first I guess.

Guess we'll see

 

Not "ruining" per se, but I had a bit of a weird sobering moment recently.

For somewhat irrelevant reasons, I looked up the base that we used to live on in Germany. For context, my dad was in the RAF from before I was born until the early 2000s. I knew it was somewhere in Nordrhein-Westfalen near RAF Brüggen, but it turns out it was RAF Wildenrath. It was decommissioned as an active military base just before we moved there in 1992 but all the married quarters and facilities remained, and it was still enclosed and secured. Before Wildenrath we lived in Roermond in The Netherlands, just over the border. We moved abroad in 1991 and spent a bit more than a year in The Netherlands, nearly 2 years in Germany, and we moved back in 1994. I was 9 when we moved out there.

I got used to seeing stuff that probably sounds incomprehensible to most people. Things like armed guards at the gate, armed military police patrols, and armed guards on my school buses - and by "armed" I don’t mean "holstered pistol on the belt", I mean "openly carrying a loaded assault rifle in their hands". Or checking the car’s wheel arches and under the front/rear for anything that might be a bomb - literally before you even lay a hand on the car, let alone unlock it. It was just normal to me, and I never really felt like I was at any serious risk.

I started reading the Wikipedia entry for RAF Wildenrath and learned about the IRA activity in that area. In 1988, two servicemen stationed at Wildenrath were shot in Roermond, one was killed and the other was severely injured. We moved to Roermond three years later. In 1989 a serviceman and his 6 month old daughter were gunned down in their car at a petrol station on the outskirts of Wildenrath - both were killed. We moved to Wildenrath 3 years later. The nearby base of JHQ Rheindalen, a joint service base spanning UK, US, and German military, was attacked with a car bomb in 1987 - 31 people were injured. I got talking to my mother about it and that didn’t exactly help things. She told me that my dad knew the guy who’d carried out the autopsies on the victims of the 1989 shooting, which included the 6 month old baby. She told me that the IRA had made credible threats against school buses, hence the armed guards. She also told me that they never put the dining table near a window, because an IRA sniper shot an officer through the head while he was having dinner.

"Sobering" is a bit of an understatement, I had no idea that the IRA was so active in that area. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to take your 4 year old and 9 year old children out to live in a place where there was a credible threat to their lives.

 

Another small update

she stabilised after my last message and thats basically been the news ever since, with gradual improvements but nothing really noteworthy

today we got the news that they believe she might be strong enough to attempt slowly waking her up, which they will start Monday
they have said to expect some brain damage due to the oxygen starvation, to the point where they informed her Mom to prepare for her not knowing who she is. on top of that it will likely be MONTHS of rehabilitation even in the best case Scenario

so its a pretty mixed bag, its ruining my life because its just more waiting

 

Really sorry you're going through this.

 

Thanks for the update.

Yeah, really sorry you and all her family are going through this. Both good news and bad news all rolled up in one by the sounds of it.

Keep the hope though, everybody reacts differently. Compared to a little while ago when it sounded like everybody should prepare for the worse she's obviously improved on that.

Sounds like a little battler to me.

Hang in there bud.

 

Oh you should be more cavalier.

Hang in there bud, life is sent to constantly test some of us.

 

Try to remember, have you recently walked under a ladder made of 13 black cats holding broken mirrors?

 

Need a med change, paranoia and auditory hallucinations are back. Only way I beat this is by being honest with myself and my doctors. Wish this would all go away.

 

The UK benefits system. I'm currently off work with long term illness, and my wife is working, as well as supporting three kids full time and looking after me.

What does the government have to say about this? "We need to make sure your wife is working hard enough before we give you a penny of support."

What's not to love about Tory Britian?

 

I don't work because of long-term mental illness and, my wife is older than me and retired. If I claim UC, we will be crippled financially and not be able to eat, we are much better off with her claiming all she is allowed to and, with me claiming nothing.

What is there to love about Tory Britain?

Vote the bastards out at the next General election, before the pound drops below $0.50...