I've been pretty busy the last few days.
7.6 / 136 Post-Bfast 12:00:33
7.2 / 130 Post-Lunch 15:52:00
5.3 / 95 Post-Tea 20:29:33 Pizza and white shiraz
6.1 / 109 Fasting 07:49:13
6.8 / 122 Post-Bfast 11:15:04
5.9 / 106 Post-Lunch 14:32:10 sausage roll
4.5 / 81 Pre-Snack 15:49:03 peckish and bgl low
7.3 / 132 Post-Snack 17:49:34 toasted cheese sandwich
5.1 / 92 Pre-Tea 20:18:28
6.5 / 117 Post-Tea 22:27:44 Chicken curry with rice.
Last week, my GP rang me about the referral to the Gastro clinic at Flinders public, to let me know that they contacted him and there's a 9 month waiting list to be seen. So, he wanted me to see a Gastro specialist outside of the public health system, which would mean a gap fee but there's nothing for it as it needs to be dealt with. He gave me a doctor's name to ring for an appt, and when I did, I found the gap fee was $50 with nothing back from Medicare. Ugh. But, a couple of days later I got a call from Flinders Private Gastro clinic and apparently they handle some of the overflow from the public hospital. Their gap fee is $128.35, but I'll get all but $15 of it back from Medicare. That's better. So I made an appt for the 24th, and cancelled the appt with the other doctor. The other thing I feel much more confident about is that the doctor I'll be seeing is a woman.
Last Wednesday, I went to my local Bakers Delight with Carol from Breast Stroke, and we presented them with a thank you from our Breast Stroke group for their May promotion supporting BCNA (Breast Cancer Network Australia). The franchise owner was SO enthusiastic, it was wonderful. And while a lot of the other bakeries Carol had visited only made a limited number each day of the pink buns that were part of the promotion, MY local Bakers Delight made lots and also included all of the sticky buns as being in support of BCNA. 100% of the price for these buns is given to support BCNA, and that's absolutely wonderful. Carol took photos, and once I have them, I'll add them to the new website for Breast Stroke that I'm slowly developing.
After our visit to the bakery, (and of course purchase of some sticky buns and scones/biscuits), Carol and I had hot chocolate and a little coffee shop across from the shopping centre. It was great as we were in a side room and had it all to ourselves. It was a bit like having a cuppa and chat at home, but someone else did the cleaning up. It was excellent hot chocolate too - warm milk and real chocolate that needed to be stirred. And my glucose levels stayed OK too, which is even better.
I spent thursday doing fun stuff like laundry and working towards setting up some software I've been meaning to update. I didn't finish the software project (installing an ad server) until Saturday, but started reading the documentation and preparing for it on Thursday.
Friday the RDNS nurse came to change my dressing and I made a comment about having finally turned the heater on the night before and she asked if we were pinched financially. I said no, not really, just being frugal. And before I knew it she rang up the head office and requested a fee waiver for me. Wow! Even better, later in the day the person doing the waiver rang me and I asked about the current bill as it arrived during the previous week. She said to rip it up and she'd take care of it. Another Wow! I was reading Email and Rod had received a request for help with the Zen cart software and the fellow said he'd be willing to pay for the help. Rod told him he didn't have to, but if he still wanted to pay something, he gave our bank details. Today the guy put some funds into our account. How nice is that?
In the afternoon, I went to Breast Stroke and visited with my friends. We had a fairly big turn out and it always does me good to hug and be hugged by my Breast Stroke sisters. There was a bit of excitement for a bit since one of the residents (we meet at a retirement village) set off the fire alarm and all the fire doors were closed. Geez, between the siren and seeing these closed doors, it really made me feel claustrophobic. The fire trucks came and they investigated but apparently it was a false alarm. The girls went on to the pool and spa, I went to wait for Rod to pick me up. Normally I take the bus home, but Rod and I had plans -- a cheap meal at the Food Court at the Central Market and then some serious shopping in the market. It's one of my favourite things to do, and I kept up with Rod pretty well this time. There have been so many times in the last year that walking around the market (which is HUGE) has been so painful, but it really was much better this time. No pain! Well, my feet were sore when we finished, but that at least is NORMAL.
Saturday I managed to finish installing the ad server and get our little ads from the previous software into the new one. I ended up having to wait to do one site, but finished that on Sunday.
Sunday was Mother's Day, and this year I worked most of the afternoon on the ad server project, but by late afternoon I was ready to pamper myself. I took a shower (can't do bubble baths as I still have this hole in my side), did my hair, put on some perfume and a lace 'robe' that I bought for $85 a few years ago and only wear very rarely. I LOVE it, but it's for special times only. It's probably the most expensive item of clothing I've ever owned and worn only once in a great while, but when I DO put it on, I just absolutely love it. It's soft and pretty. I then put some incense on, lit some candles, got out the wine and wine glasses and felt pampered for the rest of the evening.
Last Friday, I'd told the Breast Stroke girls that I was going to find something for Mothers day for myself at the market and it'd be my gift from my kids to me, since they often don't think about it until the day, and besides, shipping from the states would be too expensive for them. Well I didn't see anything I wanted at the market, so Sunday and today I did some online shopping. From the Avon clearance catalog (that landed on my doorstep Sunday morning) I bought a soft wool brown wrap/scarf with pockets and a pair of lovely earrings - all for under $15, and then today I ordered a pair of speakers that I'd been looking at for my MP3 player, and a label maker. Then I sent my kids a thank you note and listed what each gave me this year. The wrap and earrings are from Terry, the speakers from Chris, and Kerstin gave me the label maker. :-) Now I just have to wait for these to arrive. It'll be exciting and each thing was something I really wanted, and each for under $20.
Today I continued setting up adverts to work with the adserver, and I did a write up advertising the fact that we've made my book, "The Internet for C64/128 Users" (TIFCU for short) available in our online shop as a downloadable PDF file. The write up I sent to the Homestead list (a mailing list with about 250 subscribers for Commodore enthusiasts that Rod and I host. I also added it to the News section of our Commodore website. And I created ads for this for the sidebars on my site and the CBM site. This has been something I've wanted to get done for awhile now, and it feels good to have got this off my 'to do' list. Now hopefully we'll get a few orders in for it. :-)
Rod's been in bed for the last half hour or so. He says he stills feels 'hung over' from the night before. Sheez, we only had 2 bottles of wine between us. I don't seem to have any ill effects from it, but I am running a fever tonight. So I think I better skedadle and get some beauty sleep!
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