They're great! I have one but since childhood I had a big case of rebelious evasion stage... even nowadays it still carries on via habit and potentially subconcious 'fear' of knowing sugar might be high... and then not wanting to check it. (or maybe just call me being a wimp towards it lol! ) Mine does show results for past 8 hours but it doesn't give me alerts how high my blood sugar is etc.
What made your day a crap one??
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I had a letter arrive in the post this morning from my GP surgery. Apparently, they want me to book an appointment with a nurse to have a routine blood test/BP check/weight check. I have these occasionally, so this didn't come as much of a surprise. However, when I saw the nurse the last time, I then received another letter, saying that my GP would like to discuss the results of these tests with me. As my local surgery seem reluctant to let people have proper face-to-face appointments with their GPs, and I do not own a mobile phone (and have no plans to buy one in the foreseeable future), I was unable to do this. I am worried that this will happen again when I book the new appointment to see the nurse, and I will end up going round and round in circles again, unable to make an appointment to see my GP, purely because I do not have a mobile phone. You would imagine that they would be fully aware that not all of their patients own a mobile phone, despite being told numerous times, but apparently this has gone completely over their heads (again). Clearly, they have not made a note on my medical records to reflect this, and so it goes on and on, without me getting anywhere.
This has annoyed me, again, which has made my day a VERY crap one.
This has annoyed me, again, which has made my day a VERY crap one.
A landline? How quaint.
We haven't had one of those since my cack-handed, idiot brother came home from the pub late one night and dropped it on our kitchen floor. He had been on the beer for most of the evening, which may well have contributed greatly to this unfortunate accident. Our kitchen floor is tiled, so it didn't exactly do our phone a lot of good, as you can probably guess.
We've been reluctant to get another phone, just in case it happens again. So now, my brother is the only one of us who has a mobile phone, and therefore the only one who can still make and receive phone calls. It's not too difficult to appreciate the irony of that...
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My GP surgery doesn't do appointments by email. They always ask for my phone number, even though I have told them numerous times that I don't have one. It seems as though people are left high and dry if they don't own a mobile phone or a landline. It seems as though most GPs try to avoid face to face appointments now, so God knows what I would do if I needed a face to face appointment. I would have almost zero chance of getting one.
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Have a piss and moan at CQC?
I don't need a piss at the moment, thank you very much, but it's very kind of you to take such an interest in my daily ablutions...
I also think that even a kick up the arse from the CQC wouldn't make my GPs suddenly improve. It would take a hell of a lot more than that. I think that my GP surgery is already well past that point as it is. I have no reason to believe that things will get any better anytime soon, either.
I Agreed, Im sure on a quack forum someone is moaning about a miserable old hermit they can’t contact
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A landline is quaint? You have NO TELEPHONE!
A landline could be thought of as quaint, but I struggle to comprehend someone considering it to be that whilst declaring that they have no telephone at all. You don't want to spend, say, £15 on a new landline handset in case your brother gets drunk and breaks it. That might be quaint.
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I have a flip phone, I use it mainly for an alarm to get my ass up in the morning, originally got it for emergency purposes, never know when I might need the meat wagon.
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I have an iPhone. It doesn't have a SIM but I can still use it to completely ignore other human beings. I used to smoke like a chimney for that very purpose, so good to have a replacement. Nobody actually uses a smartphone as a phone.
I am frustrated at
I did not choose to isolate myself at all. The fact that I no longer have a working landline is down to my piss-head brother, not myself or anyone else. I did not break the bloody phone on purpose, so your claim that I have, supposedly, put myself in this position is nonsense. The phone was broken in an accident, not deliberately. If my brother had not had a skinful when he came home that night, then it probably wouldn't even have happened.
Yes, I am frustrated, so you are right on that score. I am frustrated at no longer being able to make a simple appointment to see my GP and I am frustrated at the lack of compassion and understanding from certain members of this forum.
I am not miserable, and you don't even know me, so how can you possibly know this? I also go out often and I am a relatively sociable and friendly person when I do go out, so I am not a hermit, either. You base your opinion of me purely on what I post on here, but that is hardly an accurate impression of my personality.
Please get your basic facts correct before you start throwing insults around.
£15 for a new landline??? Please tell me where I can get one as cheaply as that. The ones that I have seen are at least double that amount (some even more). I don't shop in Aldi or Lidl. If I paid such a suspiciously low amount for a new handset, I would fully expect it to pack up within six months. You get what you pay for.