Southampton General Hospital
Well it's on mornings like this that I'm very happy to be indoors regardless of where I am
Well the time was 6:30am and the sound of revalee revalee was ringing in my ears as Shawn, one of the nurses woke me up with "Martin, Martin it's time for your meds", distracted me from one of best sleeps in have had in hospital.
I digress, why was I pleased to be indoors, because all I could hear on the otherside of the ward window was a howling wind. And I mean howling!!!
A quick look on Google and it appears we have Storm Bert heading away, and tagged with a rare red weather warning. More on this storm here
It was so miserable I decided not go for Full English Breakfast this and stayed in bed. Tomorrow hopefully.
This is the weather in Portland Harbour at the moment here. And the latest from the Dorset Echo here.
Today I started my first round of my new antibiotic and which slowly dripfed into my body between 00:10 and 2:50.
Linezoid my new Antibiotic. Let's hope this one helps 🤞
I've never taken insulin before, but the powers to be deemed it necessary as after a traumatic surgery my sugar levels were all over the place.
So recently I've been taking 26 units of insulin in the evenings and subsequent sugar levels the next morning have registered sugar levels of between 4 to 6.
Ideally for me they should be around the 9 mark. And then the other morning I had a reading of 16.5 which was way to high.
Looking back I realised that the previous evening I hadn't taken my insulin, hence the high reading.
So not one to miss out on a bit of maths, I worked out that if zero insulin gave a reading of 16.5 and 26 units gave low readings of between 4 to 6, then 20 units in my calculations would hopefully result in this mornings reading of around 9, my goal for a good reading.
Well you can imagine how chuffed I was when my first reading of this morning was 9. Maths was the only "O-level" I ever achieved at school, but obviously a very useful one back in the day.
So everything was looking very good, until I had another sugar review a few hours later and the readings came back at 16.5.
A bit baffled by this I realised my antibiotics contains glucose monohydrate 🤣🤣. It looks like I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board again. 🤔
Note
If it clears up at all, there might be a bit more on today's blog later.
Not Southampton but a few photos from Dawn as she travelled to work this morning on Portland:
Chesil Beach from the top of New Road.
Chesil Cove
If it clears up at all, there might be a bit more on today's blog later.