h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Went to hospital this morning... for the delayed testosterone mid-point/high-point test... diorrhea was too bad to go to it last Friday... sadly the diorrhea hasn't finished yet, so must try get through the person-stopper barriers and book a GP app for that some time next week
Finally gave in and bought a new mobile, well, ordered it, should arrive in a few days...

Was looking at the moto G6.... then they brought out the moto one... and the cleaner OS made more sense tome, and with potential longevity benefits too...

Then black Friday.... stuff... the G6 dropped in price... but... I still wanted the moto One... - the price dropped this morning

Speaking of testosterone tests, yesterday was my semiannual endocrinology appointment, so Monday I went to have blood draws. When I see the hematologist only has two vials to fill, I ask if he's drawing for testosterone. Nope! This is the first appointment after switching to injections, so I'm sure he'll want to see my new levels. So the hematologist tries, but fails, to get in touch with my doctor. He assures me though that they've got enough blood once the lab order comes in.

So, when I see my doctor on Friday, guess what test wasn't done?

Their excuse was the order didn't come in until a couple of hours later. I don't see why that would prevent them from letting me know so I could come in later that day, like I asked the hematologist to do.

Still, much less aggravating that what you constantly seem to cope with.

I can't compete with 2legs' ordeals either but I can tell you that it took three attempts before I finally had appointments for both a blood test and a blood pressure test.

At first my and accepted my proposal for an appointment, but then it was cancelled because they didn't want to do both tests the same day. Why they didn't just do one of the tests and ask me to come in a second time is beyond me.

"Plus I don't think we need to take all the blood tests you mention," says the , "since they were already done only a few months ago."

"Okay, you are the and I trust your opinion," says I.
Guess which tests were done after all ...

And then I had this sort of situation where you are being contradicted even if you can hear that they agree with you 100 percent:
I said: "Both my own and my specialists want my blood tested. Can't we arrange this so I only have to go to one lab and have all the tests done in one go?"
says: "No. We don't want to stress the NHS unnecessarily. I think we should arrange this so you only have to go to one lab and have all the tests done in one go."
Me: "Erm, alright then."

the logic is... impossible to fathom sometimes... often...
I'm sure the phrase 'science based medacine' existed... yet, it doesn't quite seem to work that way... - in my own case, it seems 'random' choice of what they test each time I'm blood let; and no consistency of measuring things over time... - so a while back now I had abnormally high levels of blood calcium, hypercalcemia... and, so they got mega worried; cancer of the parathyroid gland, etc, all that stuff... so measured my calcium again... - the second time it was normal, so, that's it... - no further measurement of calcium, ever (except, of course, independently, my bone Dr sometimes measures it; but for different reasons, so is happy for me to have nice high cal levels) - similarly, if the cardio Dr ever saw my calcium results, she'd do her nut, as high calcium contributes to calcification of one's blood vessels.

yes. its that in-joined up

Well the new phone arrived ahh... you do seem to get a somewhat better looking phone, if you buy one, rather than just taking the free one if your on contract... - I lok forward to playing with the finger print reader, and the clean android OS - though sadly things are interuprited ATM, due to my sim card apparently being neolythic, and too big

shockingly, once I've got it set up, I'll have about four times the harddrive storage space on my phone, compaired to my laptop

Most amazing night at the pub, Friday night;

had been a really good evening, and as we were leaving, we stopped outside; where the other's, already left, were still earnestly deep in conversation about giant squid, and octopus.

We stopped, and someone said something to me, vaguely along the lines, of 'how terrifying the giant squid looks'

To which I replied...

"not as terrifying as the yellow shark, or, for that matter, Ebolynn the modified dog"

To which he replied, "with or without the paper doiley..."

At which point, the entire crowd of people outside the pub, broke spontainiously into a rendition of "Montana"

Its that kind of pub, it doesn't really accept normal patrons

So, part way through the rendition, myself and one of the crowd I knhow fairly well, an actor who's dating an Australian embarmist, began singing the 'whipping post' variation of 'montana'.

Poor William... - he really doesn't get Zappa, and even less knows it; to him, we had all spontainiously gone utterly insane and all began recanting the same weird insaine thing

I do like that pub... even if the toilets are utterly disgusting

Off out for lunch soon, to people who live just opposite us, an aged married pair of anchient queens... we've got wine to take

Then, later this afternoon, we're going to go probably with the neighbours over the road, off to a local pub, which has a ukelally orchestra practising/playing there o a Sunday afternoon

I'm looking forward, still, for the day my life gets truly weird.

Ooo... I wonder if the guys over the road have invited the neighbourhood witch over for afternoon lunch too, she's a hoot about 100 years old, a retired nurse, and entirely mental... - she removed stitches from her own eye a few months back, when the hospital went made a mistake and didn't use dissolvable stitches

I'm wearing leopard print today - seemed right for both the lunch over the road, and for an afternoon uke orchestra/recital

Work tomorrow, at gym, two clients to train in the morning; then to the phone shop in the afternoon to try sort out a new sim card

Sounds like my kind of pub also Me and my pygme

When I got my new phone I had the same challenge with the PIN card. Friend of mine had also faced something similar but pestered the company long enough till they gave him a new card for free.

I tried the same - and lo and behold, I got a similar outcome

So to you!

The phone shop couldn't have been more helpful... she sorted mea new sim, fitted it, plus the new 128 GB SD card I bought, and turned on the speech on the phone for me, and imported my contacts and I've been playing with the phone since... thus far installed most apps I use regularly, and altered a few settings.... changing the orrible ring tone will have to wait, until I can find where my Vira lynn MP3s are hidden, so I can have that again as my ring tone; then just to find the seagull noise for my text message alert

Tested out using the phone as a music player... - far clearer sound and better quality than my very* old IPod I bought second hand in 2015 - I want to research using the finger-print reader, before I use/set that up, as I'd like to use it both for the finger print locking/unlocking the phone, plus password protection, and as a navigation doobry... all of which should* be possible from what I read

But. gosh. having a new phone is... different... - so fast apps from the playstore install before I've had a chance to look at the progress bar for the download and the screenreader/speech on it works so much better, less jumpy and just quicker

Now, just need to copy 500 or so CDs onto an external PC/laptop drive, and then onto the phone (yes I'd already done most, years back, but I assume that is all one the external HD that seems to be bust

Knackered after gym today; and didn't even do a workout... was helping our two clients, plus another wheelchair user... - which was fun, if tiring

oughta be at ten pin tomorrow night, but I called off, I'm still not feeling right, and my energy is way off normal - plus tomorrow morning I've my session with my PT, followed by an hour being chased round by someone in a wheelchair, as she throws medicine balls at me No... seriously... its fun and good exercise for her plus, very amusing

Dinner tonight was baked cauliflower with cinnamon and sesame oil, with grilled salmon and boiled/steamed wild rice lunch was a tin of soup, with a couple small cheese sandwichs breakfast was two hard boiled eggs and a bit of toast

Going to try book see Dr Wednesday if we can, sort out why I'm still from this infection that oughta have cleared ages.... ago...

Today was first day down to just 8 MG prednisolone, still double my normal dose

Oh, and I've found George Formby on Spotify