09:05 GMT

  The middle of yesterday featured rain, but the ends were dry. The afternoon temperature, in the rain, reached 9° C.
  It is definitely cold this morning, just over 3° C, but it is nice and sunny. The sunshine should almost last until sunset, but the temperature may only rise to 7° C this afternoon. Tomorrow may start cold and grey, and by 2pm it could be raining again. There may be a brief peak of 6° C in the afternoon.

  Yesterday was mildly exciting, but I described the best (and worst) bits of yesterday morning yesterday. The rest of the day was less exciting, and even included a horror !

  I resume my narrative roughly where I finished yesterday - the afternoon. I seemed to spend a lot of time just being lazy in the afternoon, but my laziness was interrupted by the arrival of an email from the Lewisham Cardiology Department, and specifically the Cardiac Rehabilitation nurse. It was rather disturbing, but maybe there is some sort of hope. The Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse I saw last time, who I really took a dislike to, maybe have moved on in the last 13 years.

  The interesting thing about that 13 years is that when I resigned after one class I as told, very sternly, that if I quite then I would be back inside a year. Well, obviously I have had more heart trouble since then, but to last 13 years seems like a triumph to me. She just did not believe when I said I do loads of walking exercise, and I did it because I wanted to, and not because she wanted me to do it.

  The email included a questionnaire, in PDF form, and I think the idea was that I would fill it in, email it back. It did try and fill it in, but most boxes would not accept any input. I had to print it out, and fill it is by pen. There is now way I am going to scan it, and so maybe I might have to take it to the hospital and drop it off at the correct office - maybe tomorrow. I shall find out more about it all in half an hour when I expect a telephone interrogation (or appointment/discussion).

  It says something about this Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse, and the course she conducts, that I lost a lot of sleep last night worrying about it. This time the exercises may be a bit harder unless I have got my legs back in good working order, but that does not bother me. The waste of time does bother me a lot, and if it is the same nurse, her lack of tact and not believing a single thing I say, really grates ! I hardly lost any sleep when I was due to have my heart valve replaced, and I didn't lose any sleep when I was due my gastric endoscopy - a procedure I knew could be unpleasant even with light sedation - which I didn't get !

  That email spoiled my afternoon, but there were some positive things, that may also be negative depending on timing. I recently ordered some stuff from Amazon, and yesterday I learned that a few things may be delivered today. I've just checked, and one item is being delivered by Amazon, and so could turn up at any time, but probably very late in the afternoon. Another item is coming via Royal Mail. I assume it will be delivered by my usual postman, although the Royal Tracking says it is out for delivery now, and so it could be coming in one of their vans. Both these things will put limits on what I can do today.

  There is not much, or indeed anything to add to what happened yesterday afternoon, and so I'll move on to dinner time. I had quite a big, and yet fairly healthy dinner (and my health readings this morning confirm that). I started off roasting some Mediterranean style vegetables, and a bit later I microwave oven baked a fair sized sweet potato. For my actual dinner I split the baked sweet potato into two halves and piled of the vegetables plus some grated cheese.

  I gave it 5 minutes in the microwave to melt the cheese, and warm the vegetables up because they had gone cold while waiting for the potato to cook. It looked quite a big dinner, but it did not take long to eat it. I could imagine of it was spread out over the plate it would look a lot less big than a small towering pile in the middle of the plate. It was rather delicious, and I must remember to do something similar more often. The last time I cooked a sweet potato could have been 10 years ago !

  It is now 2 minutes to 10am. I wonder if my phone call will arrive on time ? The answer is yes ! I had a 15 minute chat with the nurse, a different nurse to 13 years ago, and she seemed far more receptive to my thoughts. I explained how last time I resigned after one day because I thought the exercises were very mild compared to my commuting at the time. I told her that I have already started my walking exercises to strengthen my legs, and she said that the classes were not compulsory, and that if I was happy to continue looking after my own exercise she would discharge me. PHEW !!!!

  After my dinner I did my usual and watched TV until I thought I felt tired. I think it was around 10pm when I went to bed. I laid in bed, and tried to get comfortable. I did get comfortable enough, but I could not shut my brain up. I was really stressing about the Cardiac Rehabilitation classes. I did eventually get to sleep. I woke up several times in the night for a pee, and I think it was about 3 or 4am when, after having a pee, my brain started up again. I lost another 3 or more hours sleep, and all because the nurse 13 years ago had annoyed me so much.

  I was a little surprised when after finally getting up, and doing my health checks, that they were better than expected. It seemed my dinner last night really was healthy rather then me desperately hoping it would be healthy). My weight had dropped by 600gm this morning. That is 600gm less than was recorded on my health records by the nurse yesterday, and that was (I think/hope) as much as 6kg less than when I last saw the nurse at the Group Practice (back last October).

  Even my blood glucose wasn't too bad this morning. I had readings from my three meters of 8.1mmol/l, 8.3mmol/l, both good enough, and 9.2mmol/l. The later was one of those times when one meter decides to differ a lot from the other two. It is higher than I would like, but not too bad.

  I have a mixture of ideas for stuff to do today. One thing I can tackle soon after finishing writing is to finish washing a single towel. I started it yesterday, but I think it needs 3 to 5 more rinses today before I can hang it up to dry. It won't matter if a parcel delivery arrives while I am finishing that towel, but it would matter if I was out shopping. I had hoped to go shopping this morning. Once the Royal Mail delivery has taken place - probably around 1pm if it is my regular postman, there could be a small window of opportunity to go to the shops, but only on the assumption that Amazon will make their delivery very late in the afternoon (and occasionally it could be early to mid evening). Sometimes Amazon can give better information about delivery times but it is very rare (their drivers are too busy following their sat-nav, and driving into the sea near Southend according to a news item on TV last night).

   1,357 words today.