Category: Health

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This afternoon I get a phone call from the doctors, saying I need to have an urgent blood test done at the hospital as my potassium was showing a reading of 6, which is high. This was from the blood test I had done on the 7th February.

They said go to the hospital now and say it’s for an urgent blood test.

I get to the hospital and there is nowhere to park, this is due to some work going on in the car park, I drive around, but can’t find spaces in any other car park, so find a side road to park in and walk to the blood test centre.

There I get told, that I need a form for the blood test, which the doctor never said, so I go back to the car and drive to the surgery, yes there was a form there with urgent on it. Why didn’t they say?

So I go back, park in the same road, which was wise as the car park still full, and was allowed in.

The person who took my blood, actually took it out of my right hand, never had it done like that before, as they said the vein was good. Again I didn’t feel anything.

This morning I had my blood tests done at the surgery to find out why my blood pressure is high.

As usual they say sharp scratch, but I never felt anything. I’m not the greatest with needles.

Just wait now to see what the results are.

Today I completed the Oviva course which was to help prevent me becoming diabetic.

Overall the app was very useful, with the learning information that it provided and also keeping track of what I was eating, my weight and exercise.

You are also provided with a coach to help you, but as mentioned in a previous post, that wasn’t much help.

It appeared my coach either left or moved to a different department as I had no contact for a long time and then when someone took over, they thought I was on a different course and disappeared.

Doesn’t help, when there is a chat option on the app, but the coach gets no notification if you message them.

This is the app that I have been using to help with hopefully preventing becoming diabetic type 2.

On the 20^th October, I got this message from my coach –

“Hi Michael,

That’s really great to hear!

It’s good that you have a goal weight in mind. You are doing really well and the graph shows that you are steadily losing weight. Also, you are only at the start of the programme.

I will be messaging you 3 times next week. After that, it will just be 1 message per a week on alternate weeks.

You too and best wishes,

Alice”

But to this day, I hadn’t heard anything, so yesterday, I emailed there support and today I had a phone call from her colleague, apologising and that the above message was incorrect and I wasn’t to hear from my coach till January.

I have to admit, the phone call was pretty pointless and from a bit of communication since from Alice, it turns out they don’t get notified if I send a chat message on the app, which seems a useless chat system, don’t you agree?

This evening, both myself and Claire had our flu jab. So were all jabbed up for the winter.

Stay safe and healthy people.