So ... How's Your Girl?

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I sometimes feel I should ask more questions, and the NHS have been great with regular appointments with a Diabetes Nurse, but it comes to my appointments and I can’t think of anything to ask. “LADA” for example: no, I’ve never heard of that. Googled it now though: and, no, that was never mentioned. They seemed to know it was Type 1 from the start and my blood sugar was sky high (42!) when they tested it after I first sought medical help. The doctor has mentioned that late onset Type 1 is getting more common these days. And after 7 years of suspicions, they've finally told me I almost certainly don't have the prostate cancer they suspected I did. It took a general anaesthetic, 51 needle, biopsy though. (See "unpleasant" above. (lol emoji thing)) See also I'm a fortunate man, no mistake, above. Health & Fitness (as opposed to quasi-jazz mag Health & Efficiency) has been a big thing for me ever since I sent for a Charles Atlas course when I was 9 years old. Parents these days would intervene and ask why the hell a Year 4 child would feel the need to beef up for self-protection, but they were different times, and thus began the journey, with weight training, martial arts, marathon running and indoor rowing being pursued to sometimes ridiculous levels of intensity. Also, I changed jobs in September so the last 3 months has been a rabbit in the headlights time, and not what I was hoping for (yet). The right decision? Time will tell, but my general confidence and job satisfaction is on the floor at the moment. Keep on keeping on … I hated WFH at the time, but I had two young kids in the house and awful technology (a modem, couldn’t use the landline at the same time, etc). Nowadays I have 100 Mb internet, video calls (I’m living in the future!), and I have no desire to return to spending an hour a day commuting to and from an office on a grotty industrial estate next to a motorway.

On the plus side my teenage daughter now lives with me full time, that also brings quite a few challenges. Managed a couple of trips, one semi regular one to the paradise that is Prince Edward Island and I made it to Yorkshire for a week to see my brother. Started year with a degree of of optimism. The last couple of years I had lost my mum (age in the main) and brother (brain tumour). Then there was Covid and I had long Covid (mouth taste smell) which would not go away. 2021 had to be better. Didn’t it? ….. I started the year as a postman, which I did until about May, when I quit because a) the office I finally ended up at, after being shunted around, wasn’t that well run. b) I didn’t want it to become what I did. Did an open University course, just a mini thing (introduction to Arts) but felt great to challenge myself and was something different to throw myself into.

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I turned a corner this year. During the total WFH period (which I’m now startled to learn was only about ten weeks for me…. seemed to last a fkin lifetime) I came closer to having a breakdown than I ever have done. The work was relentless and horrifically difficult. For several weeks I woke up and immediately regretted that I’d woken up…. I mean that’s not good is it? Family all okay, so blessed in that respect. My son has started playing bass guitar, so it’s great to see him get into music and find an instrument he likes. Has there been a more successful band with less charisma than the Bee Gees? 93 comments | 1.7k views I’m not a very sociable person at the best of times but all the masking-up, social-distancing and restrictions on things to get out and do/people to see are producing a sort of mild low-level depression in me. Quite a bit of my rather pitiful social life has been affected. Work's been a slog, but I can never really complain about that. Lately I've seen the worse end (for me) of the things I'm in line to do now and again (i.e. not spreadsheets) and that takes the wind out of my sails a bit, but, in the words of Marc Riley "mustn't grumble".

Dislikes humankind? Generally, yep. I don’t see much to like in most of humankind (too much evil crap and shit stuff and we allow it to happen. And social media and YouTube are real windows into how utterly crap so many people are. And so are the governments we vote for). Its also been the when the kids have transitioned to independence….. the elder boy has finished his National service (compulsory here in Singapore) and will be off to Uni next year (not sure yet if UK or overseas) and the younger boy finished his A levels and will start his National Service in January. We are very much getting used to it just being the two of us again after all these years. You can use so in front of adjectives and adverbs to emphasize the quality that they are describing.Needless to say my endlessly patient wife bore the brunt of my bad moods and exhaustion. Strong words were had chez Moose and a lot of calculations were made and – long story short – I cut my hours by a third. I just had to reduce the presence of my job in my life. I’m doing a course with the spare days which may or may not lead me out of this hellhole of a job and into something where I get treated like a human being. It’s a good job I didn’t marry someone with expensive tastes. So is a very common discourse marker in speaking. It usually occurs at the beginning of clauses and we use it when we are summarising what has just been said, or when we are changing topic: I don’t want to be all-consumed by my diagnosis, it is what it is and I prefer to ignore it as much as possible.”– Yes! That’s how I feel EXACTLY. I had more problems getting used to the meter (as I never had a meter during the “Type 2” years) than to the insulin injections!