Meanwhile back in the world of diabetes. It seems like I’ve written about just about every aspect of my health except the one I thought would be the most significant – my diabetes. I’ll have a quick catch up now on account of having a check-up this last Monday. It’s hardly surprising I’ve written little…
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Retirement blog about good health not necessarily mine
How many times have I written in these retirement blogs that the topic of the blog might be less than desirable, but at least I’ll quote, ‘get a blog out of it’? A few times I think. You can see by the title what that focus might be this time. I believe I’ve also mentioned…
Retirement and so much data
I’ve decided to take control of my health in my retirement. Not surprising for most people maybe but a definite first for me. It’s positively perverse how life unfolds sometimes. This decision came about from the very annoying health review a few weeks ago. I wrote about it and that made me feel a bit…
When the helping professions don’t help
I had some interesting responses to my last retirement blog about my diabetes review which was encouraging because, when I looked at it again, it felt like a bit of a whinge. With these responses in mind I decided I should seize the moment and try and write a more positive blog around the topic…
Retirement and diabetes
There are times when writing this retirement blog that I have the first sentence in mind but not the rest of the blog. At other, less frequent times, I have the blog in my head but not the first sentence. This latter was the situation with this blog which is why I’ve started with the…
Retirement health challenges
Mrs Summerhouse and I were taking our usual, retirement, morning walk with the pups in our local park and, it being Wednesday morning, the morning after Tuesday night which is Mrs SH’s yoga class night, our conversation turned to how the class had been. Let me just explain, before I go on, that I have…
I’m China-ed out or what happens when you don’t retire
This blog might be a bit confusing, it’s sort of about retirement but exactly how I’m not sure yet. It has a broad theme around my birthday which I mentioned last time was on Friday and I was 68, I’m older than that now. Let’s not talk age or as my in-laws put it –…
Retirement, diabetes, medication and dementia, a great combination
It’s been a while since I wrote about my health in retirement and specifically my diabetes. I’m prompted to do so now for two reasons. First I have given up the unequal struggle against going on insulin. I avoided insulin for a number of interwoven reasons none of them very sensible in isolation but together added…
Retirement health : Keep on Trucking?
You have probably been wondering about how my type 2 diabetes review went. I know I have. How do you interpret a non-response? When the nurse says she will call you with the results on Thursday and she doesn’t do that, do you take that as a no news is good news response or do…
Diabetes report, half way through the month
If you remember I have been given a month to shape up or go on insulin. This is my half way report. But, before I deliver it, first let me go back in time. When I first got diabetes in New Zealand in 1995, after a period of feeling deeply sorry for myself and in…