Today will be cooler than yesterday.....or will it ? Right now it should be dull, but it seems sunny to me, although a cloud has passed in front of the sun making the view to the south a tiny bit duller. If the sunny spells do fail, they should be back at midday. The temperature seems like it will be highest late in the afternoon with 26° C forecast for 5 and 6pm. Once again it will be bone dry, and we will have another cool night. Tomorrow may have full sunshine during daylight hours, but only 24° C is forecast.

  Yesterday featured a change of plans from some plans to a single plan (or two if you include washing my hair and having a shower as one plan). The major plan was for a beer tasting session in the late afternoon, but Jodie said she had other plans - a gig !

  I almost could have had a very relaxed day yesterday after I learned there would be no beer tasting, but I still wanted to go shopping in Tesco. I was running quite late yesterday morning (and I don't really now why), and I did not think I had time for shopping until Jodie reminded me about the gig she was going to. That took all the stress out, and made going shopping so easy.

  In view of the slightly odd feeling from my heart recently, I wondered how well I would fare going out to Tesco, and coming home with heavy shopping. After my shower, and washing my hair, I got dressed, and put my best foot forward. I felt perfectly fine walking to Tesco. In fact I felt better than anticipated. I deliberately wore a pair of shoes that usually slows me down, but they didn't seem to do that yesterday.

  I bought quite an assortment of stuff in Tesco - some healthy, and some not so. I made sure I bought some fruit, and as well as ready prepared fruit I also bought some flat nectarines (or maybe they were peaches, but they don't seem to be hairy). I shall look forward to having a couple of the today, and the other couple tomorrow. I say this to remind me not to ignore one or more of them so log that they start rotting - as has happened to some fruit I have bought in the past.

  Among the stuff I bought were 4 two lire bottles of Diet Coke. I carried them in my rucksack, and while it is a comfortable way to carry them, it is still a fair weight to carry home. Once again, I felt fine carrying all my shopping home. I had no heart twinges, or anything like that, and in a way this has made everything a bit weirder.

  I have noticed one thing about my heart twinges. I find it difficult to describe what I feel, but part of it is like a jolt of adrenaline, such as after a bit surprise or shock. The weirdest observation is that at home it is likely to happen when going downstairs to the kitchen. On the other hand, and this is the really weird bit, going back upstairs, which should put more load on the heart, nothing happens. Assuming I live through it, I will be fascinated to hear the cardiologist's explanation for this when I see him next April (only a 9 month wait !).

  Once back home I settled into a very relaxed way of life - what some would call, and quite accurately too, being very lazy. I guess that is only true if reading is also classified as being lazy - which I feel it shouldn't be. I whiled away quite a few hours with my head stuck in the book I am currently reading - Isaac Asimov's "Prelude to Foundation".

  I had the sort of day where snacking, or indeed any eating, could have been out of control. That could have been worse considering I had just come back from shopping, and I had lots of "yummies" on hand. I can't remember all I ate, but I would have guessed it was too much, but this morning results suggest I must have been more restrained than I feared.

  Maybe I rested too much yesterday. For instance I could have done some laundry, and I could have finally got around to scrubbing the baking tray that has been in the kitchen sink for over a week. My extreme resting involved a few snoozes (or at least two - I think). That did have a knock on effect. In the evening I watch my usual amount of TV and went to bed at around 10pm.

  Recently I have been turning out the light, and falling asleep almost in seconds. Last night I seemed to take ages to fall asleep. I think something was keeping my mind active, but I have no idea what it was. In fact I remember very little of it, and I wonder if I did have a couple of hours of insomnia, or if I just imagined it. I am sure I can definitely remember checking the clock and seeing it was just before midnight. Maybe I had awakened from a dream where I was dreaming I was awake !

  Once I did get to sleep I think I only got two hours of sleep before I got up to pee. I think I did it again 2 or 3 or 4 hours later. I woke up just after 5am, and if needed I could have got up then, but I forced myself back to sleep again somehow. I think it was getting close to 8am when I actually got up. Since then I have had another pee, and on the second attempt passed a substantial poo. After all that I weighed myself and found I have lost  400gm. It is not a lot, but at least it s heading in the desired direction.

  I did wonder if the paradox would happen again this morning - weight down, but blood glucose up (sometime vice versa). I guess my blood glucose was up a tiny bit. I got readings of  8.1, 7.6, and 8.4mmol/l. That averages to 8.03mmol/l, and that is a bit less than yesterday's 8.5mmol/l. All these readings are very acceptable. A bit lower would be nice, but I am happy with them.

  The big event today happens at 3pm. I have an appointment with the Gastroenterology team. I am unsure why this is. I thought I had got myself discharged from that speciality. I can only imagine they have some weird desire to stick a camera up my bottom. That would not be today because it needs a week of unpleasant preparation. Maybe today's meeting is to persuade me that I really ought to have it done so they can find the polyps that they believe might be there.

  This all started with a heavy dose of blood thinners while in hospital. They caused bleeding in my gut, and black "stools". Once I finished taking the blood thinners the bleeding stopped, and my poos returned to normal. To assist in them staying that way I am now prescribed Esemprazole to reduce stomach acid. That evidently works well because I hardly ever have any heartburn now. I used to get it a lot. As far as I am concerned, my guts have been in perfect working order for ages now.

  As I said, the appointment is at 3pm, and so I can have a slow morning followed by a nice walk in the park, before the arguments start about whether I still need the services of a Gastroenterologist. Once I am home again I can cook up some nice unhealthy marinated pork belly strips, followed by ice cream. Apart from cooking, which will take little more than maybe 15 minutes, and some time to eat the cooked food, I can resume being very lazy - which will be made much easier with a full stomach !