Yesterday was not as awful as forecast, for instance no heavy rain fell for more than a few minute. Most of it was light rain, and even when it was forecast to be raining it was sometimes dry, but still rather murky outside. I don't think the temperature rose above the forecast 16° C.
       

  There has been some sunshine, but now it is quite dull. However the extra dull hour at 10am, in the screenshot above, has now been replaced by just white cloud, and all yesterday's predictions for some showers today have disappeared. The chances are that there could be quite a few sunny spells today, and that may push the temperature up to a more respectable 20° C.  It could be a cool night with the temperature down to 12° C, and the rest of tomorrow could be no more than 17° C. The current prediction for tomorrow is that there will be a scattering of light rain showers - except in BBC land where an occasional afternoon thunderstorm is predicted. I suspect that like yesterday's forecast for today, the forecast for tomorrow may change beyond recognition.

   Yesterday's dull and wet weather did nothing to put me in a good mood, and yet some of the day was OK. There were other reason why my day was spoiled, but I'll get to those reasons later. I guess I was lucky that I managed to find a timne to go out when I only briefly passed through some moderate heavy rain.

  As I mentioned yesterday morning, my intended plan was to walk to the pharmacy, and then walk around the corner to Aldi. Not only was intended, it was also reality. I put on my best hooded raincoat, but I didn't bother to put the hood up when walking to the pharmacy because I only felt an occasional drop of rain. At that time it was only about 13° C outside, and that seemed cold enough to trigger a bit of chest pain. It seemed to be just the old problem of the scar tissue, and sternum aching, rather than angina.

  When I got to the pharmacy I was served by the intelligent assistant with the good memory. She didn't do the usual (for the others) of asking my name and date of birth, but just put it all in the PC by memory to check it was the correct time for the repeat prescription. One thing she did confirm for my is that it doesn't appear the changes to my prescription that the cardiologist was going to do, has not been done.

  There is still hope that I may get the revised dosages when I pick up the prescription on Thursday morning. I feel sure that the pharmacy send an internal email style message to a doctor to get the prescription authorised, and there is a slim chance he will see that I have been under the care of the hospital cardiologist, and see the recommended change in my medication. I hope that happens because while I still haven't properly tested it, I think the full dose of the anti angina drug, which I am able to do because I have more than I need to last to this coming repeat prescription, and can take a whole pill instead of half, is helping a lot to hold off the onset of angina.

  After the pharmacy I put part two of the plan into operation, and walked around the corner to Aldi. There was some definite healthy stuff I wanted from there, but I also intended to deliberately buy something very bad for me. After my recent stomach upset I wanted something that would be easy on my digestive tract. I considered low sugar, canned custard, but I'm not sure if Aldi have any, likewise for a low sugar rice pudding.

  In fact, although not closely checking every single shelf, I didn't actually see any canned custard or rice pudding. What they did have was what I was really planning to buy all along - ice cream ! They usually have some 300ml tubs of ice cream that pretend/claim to be low calorie, although they make no claims about sugar content. They seemed to have none of that yesterday, and I had to select a 1 litre tub of full fat ice cream, although a very quick glimpse suggested to was not as bad as some.

  Other stuff I purchased was a couple of bottle of close on zero sugar Dandelion & Burdoch fizzy drink. I like that stuff, in small amounts, but they don't awlays have it in stock. I also bought two bottles of their own brand sugar free cola. Instantly I was carrying 9kg in my rucksack (4 x 2 litre bottles). Other stuff was some diced chicken, some mixed salad leaves, plus some "naughty", but interesting flavoured crisps, and a 9 pack of toilet paper.

  I can't say I enjoyed my walk home. For one thing it was during a brief heavy fall of rain. My raincoat kept my top half perfectly dry, but the hood does tend to slip down my forehead, and I almost have to tip my head back to see straight ahead. The two shopping bags I carried seemed light enough, and the weight in my rucksack didn't feel any problem, but I still found the walk home a bit tiring, and I often seemed to be on the point of getting some unwanted pains.

  It did seem I instantly recovered by the time I was in the dining room, putting the bag, and rucksack down, and then taking off my raincoat. After putting everything away it was almost 1pm, and so instantly lunchtime. That was when I deliberately, without really caring for the consequences because I knew they would be short lived, even if they completely messed up a recent very good record, had my lunch of about a third of the tub of ice cream I had just bought. I have to say it tasted delicious, and slipped down my throat with ease. I could almost feel it coating my sensitive digest tract with a cooling/healing cream.

  There would be amazing things later, but the first amazing thing was that I managed to move a few things around in the freezer, and could just about squeeze that one litre tub in it. My afternoon started off nicely, but was soon spoiled by a phone call from Sue. It is usually pleasant to chat to Sue for maybe an hour, but as usual she had verbal diarrhoea, and stretched the call out to 5 hours long. That annoyed me a bit because I had tried to end it nearly two hours earlier, and she had said OK, but then just kept talking. It rather spoiled my intentions for dinner.

  Knowing how "naughty" that ice cream was, I had an idea that I might try to eat nothing for dinner. But then I decided I would have just a small amount of crisps. In the usual course of events there is no such thing as just a small amount of crisps, but there was this time, but only because I decided to switch to some rice crackers and cream cheese. I had just finished a snack sized amount of dinner when Sue phoned my back about just one little point, and then it was hard to shut her up for another 2 hours.

  I had missed a bit of TV I had intended to watch, but I still had the final part of my dinner (and which only became the the final part after I felt hungry after the previous final part because of having to listen to Sue. The actual final part was a surprisingly tasty Aldi ready made basic salad - with probably a bit more grated cheddar on it than intended. As I say, it was very enjoyable, and didn't seem to have any negative effects when I laid down to go to sleep.

  I think it was getting on for 10pm before I went to bed, and it was definitely after 10pm when I put the book I was reading down, and turned over to go to sleep. As far as I can remember, I fell asleep really quickly, and I seemed to sleep very soundly through all the night. I woke up to pee about twice in the night, and the last time I wondered if it was even needed.

  In my last hour or two of sleep I had a very rich dream - full of details, and seeming to last a long time, but now, several hours later, I can only recount some very broad details. The dream was set in a different version of Catford - a Catford with 3 or 4 large music venues. I started out going to one with a female friend whose name, and even image, now elude me. It was in something that seemed like it had a previous life as a cinema. The gig was supposed to start at 8.30pm, but by then the band was still setting up.

  It got to 9pm, and we still had not heard any music. At that point almost all of the audience got up and walked out. I knew they must be going to another venue only a few shops down the high street. I/we decided to do the same. Things got a bit complicated at that point because we got split up somehow, or maybe decided to take a slightly different route. Much hanging around happened as we tried to meet up again. It felt like a lot of time must have passed, but nothing happened - except I woke up.

  After what seemed like a good sleep I actually got out of bed just before 6am - just early enough to take screenshots of the weather forecasts before they were revised/refreshed at 6am. I went for quite a small pee, and thought I would also poo, but it was just a couple of farts. I gave my hands a good scrub to make sure there was not contaminants like sweat or soap on my hands so I could get a nice clean blood glucose reading.

  After eating "full fat" ice cream, and crisps, I expecting my blood glucose to be higher than recently I was prepared for figures up in the nines, but I was very wrong. The Contour meter read an excellent 7.1mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read an amazingly good 6.5mmol/l - right in the middle of the rarely seen dark green zone. The Sinocare meter lit up it's very rarely seen green LED (indicating really good), and gave a reading of just 7.0mmol/l. I have a really cranky/stupid idea that a high jolt of sugar kicks my pancreas fully awake. I have seen this happen before, but maybe never this good.

  My other health indicators were pretty good this morning. My weight is 100gm higher than yesterday, but if I had had a decent poo early this morning that could fully account for that 100gm, and possibly more. I might have even "lost" 200gm. I expect I will have one before I go out at lunchtime. My blood pressure is also very good this morning. It was, on a second attempt at relaxing, just 103/49. That should be low enough to satisfy the most rabid doctor !

  Today I shall be going out for my usual Wednesday lunchtime drink of a couple of pints of Guinness. It is possible that today could be a three pint lunchtime. There is not even a tiny microscopic chance that Angela will be there, but Dik, the guitar player from The Entourage Band will be dropping by for a chat, and that almost guarantees a third pint (sometime a fourth !). I hope I have a very peaceful afternoon, and can have a snooze without a call from Sue !


 





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