Who's had a rubbish day?

staffordjas

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Hope budgie doesn't get any worse @SketchyMagpie . Fingers crossed for him.


What a palaver !!

I was advised by he oncologist a couple of weeks ago that I'll need to take my blood pressure morning and evening every day and keep a record. So Amazon got some business from me for a blood pressure monitor and I started keeping a spreadsheet of the daily readings. This involved figuring out the monitor, and it's blue tooth connection to the phone, then reading up on what all these numbers meant.
I started it a week ago using Alexa to remind me when a reading is due. This morning I am 119 by 76 heart rate 66. The Doc told me if the systolic goes above 145 or the diastolic above 90 I should contact her straight away. This is to do with the hormone treatment side effects but since I haven't received the medication yet I thought I'd get in a bit of practice.

Apparently if the heart rate goes to zero my worries are over ... (arf arf :heyhey:)

I sometimes think I've spent half my life studying, and being retired has not made it go away. :hmm:
Ughhhh you've reminded me, I was supposed to record mine twice a day starting a week ago..... Mine doesn't connect to Bluetooth or my phone though, that seems way easier!
Mines just a simple' put batteries in' one.Anything connected with phones or computers would have my blood pressure shooting through the roof trying to work it!
 

BobClay

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Examining the spreadsheet I've noticed something. In the morning, blood pressure is higher, but heartbeat is lower. In the evening, blood pressure is lower but heartbeat is higher.
It's all within limits ... but ... this seems weird to me. That's not how a ship's boiler works. :lorks:
 

Gramaisc

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Examining the spreadsheet I've noticed something. In the morning, blood pressure is higher, but heartbeat is lower. In the evening, blood pressure is lower but heartbeat is higher.
It's all within limits ... but ... this seems weird to me. That's not how a ship's boiler works. :lorks:
Check your relief valve.


I remember a rather exciting event at the Poly. We were 'investigating' the behaviour of steam in a closed vessel, in terms of pressure, temperature and that sort of stuff. There was some confusion over instructions and gauges being in metric and Imperial units and this resulted in the boiler being pushed a good bit further than was intended. This should have been no big deal, as it had a relief valve that would go off long before structural dodginess would occur, in theory.

Unfortunately, this valve had not operated in living memory and was well and truly stuck down, the extra pressure necessary to open it and beat the spring force, plus the years of accumulated scale, was about three and a half times the pressure at which it should have gently opened and let a little hiss of steam out.

It finally opened with absolutely no gentleness and the resulting blast, noise and surging cloud of steam, plus the four of us leaving the room at high speed, led people to believe that it had actually let go completely.
 

Noah

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In the morning, blood pressure is higher, but heartbeat is lower. In the evening, blood pressure is lower but heartbeat is higher.

Try testing with one arm, then with the other. I tend to get somewhat different readings between the two. Got a very high one at the doctor's the other day, damn thing stuck on & wouldn't release the pressure, ended up with a bruised arm.
 

BobClay

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Try testing with one arm, then with the other. I tend to get somewhat different readings between the two. Got a very high one at the doctor's the other day, damn thing stuck on & wouldn't release the pressure, ended up with a bruised arm.

WOW !! A Zombie Sphygmomanometer !! (Good name for a band though.) :P
 

littleme

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Try testing with one arm, then with the other. I tend to get somewhat different readings between the two. Got a very high one at the doctor's the other day, damn thing stuck on & wouldn't release the pressure, ended up with a bruised arm.
I think this is why mine is so high, I'm always scared that exactly that will happen!
 

staffordjas

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Try testing with one arm, then with the other. I tend to get somewhat different readings between the two. Got a very high one at the doctor's the other day, damn thing stuck on & wouldn't release the pressure, ended up with a bruised arm.
I think this is why mine is so high, I'm always scared that exactly that will happen!
Mine (same sort as my doctor uses ) occassionally starts pumping up, stops as though it's reading it. Then continues pumping up making it so tight on my arm. I've always assumed it's because my blood pressure is high , but probably ending up high readings in the panic of how tight it's getting on my arm.
 

cj1

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Mine (same sort as my doctor uses ) occassionally starts pumping up, stops as though it's reading it. Then continues pumping up making it so tight on my arm. I've always assumed it's because my blood pressure is high.
This usually happens if you tense your muscles during the test. It's best to keep the arm totally relaxed to get an accurate reading.
 

SketchyMagpie

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My head is kinda all over the place at the minute. Fine one second, in deep despair the next. I’d say generally I’m on the right side of the line still in term of general mood but I do feel like an unsteady stack of plates held together by thin, fraying rope at times. I think it’s the uncertainty around everything right now - are we opening too soon? will we have enough vaccine for everyone by July? Will we get a third wave in the next month? Will the variants in Brazil come here? - that just throws you off as I generally feel my least anxious when we’ve just gone into lockdown and at my most when we’re coming out of it.
 

Bob

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I’ve been job hunting, applied for one I really liked the look of, went to the interview, the second interview, did the online tests they wanted then went back for the morning for a third grilling and ‘practical’ interview.

Jumped through every hoop and was offered the job. Yesterday we were discussing salary and start date, today they’re emailing to retract the job offer, with a vague excuse about hiring internally, I’ve turned down another job offer and cancelled an interview I had lined up in the meantime.

I’m gutted, although I feel like I’ve had a lucky escape if this is how they treat people but it’s hit me harder than than it probably should of, feeling very frustrated to say the least.

I’m finding the whole process really deflating at the moment, I’ve missed out on a couple I really wanted after second and third interviews and been totally overlooked for others I felt were perfect. Finally like a bus I got two offers in a week and now I’m back to square one.
 

c0tt0nt0p

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I’ve been job hunting, applied for one I really liked the look of, went to the interview, the second interview, did the online tests they wanted then went back for the morning for a third grilling and ‘practical’ interview.

Jumped through every hoop and was offered the job. Yesterday we were discussing salary and start date, today they’re emailing to retract the job offer, with a vague excuse about hiring internally, I’ve turned down another job offer and cancelled an interview I had lined up in the meantime.

I’m gutted, although I feel like I’ve had a lucky escape if this is how they treat people but it’s hit me harder than than it probably should of, feeling very frustrated to say the least.

I’m finding the whole process really deflating at the moment, I’ve missed out on a couple I really wanted after second and third interviews and been totally overlooked for others I felt were perfect. Finally like a bus I got two offers in a week and now I’m back to square one.
At some point in 2022 I'll be going back into the whole job hunting thing and to be honest your experience isn't the first time recently that I've seen this kind of thing.... It must be very deflating....
 

Bob

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At some point in 2022 I'll be going back into the whole job hunting thing and to be honest your experience isn't the first time recently that I've seen this kind of thing.... It must be very deflating....

Its a nightmare, people are paying peanuts at the moment too. Salaries are definitely lower than they were pre corona and employers seem to want an awful lot more for what they’re paying too. This one was £5k below what it would have been at the beginning of 2020 but it’s seems to be tue of almost every role I’m looking at.
 
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peggy

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I’ve been job hunting, applied for one I really liked the look of, went to the interview, the second interview, did the online tests they wanted then went back for the morning for a third grilling and ‘practical’ interview.

Jumped through every hoop and was offered the job. Yesterday we were discussing salary and start date, today they’re emailing to retract the job offer, with a vague excuse about hiring internally, I’ve turned down another job offer and cancelled an interview I had lined up in the meantime.

I’m gutted, although I feel like I’ve had a lucky escape if this is how they treat people but it’s hit me harder than than it probably should of, feeling very frustrated to say the least.

I’m finding the whole process really deflating at the moment, I’ve missed out on a couple I really wanted after second and third interviews and been totally overlooked for others I felt were perfect. Finally like a bus I got two offers in a week and now I’m back to square one.
Sorry to hear that Bob
 

Thehooperman

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Its a nightmare, people are paying peanuts at the moment too. Salaries are definitely lower than they were pre corona and employers seem to want an awful lot more for what they’re paying too. This one was £5k below what it would have been at the beginning of 2020 but it’s seems to be tue of almost every role I’m looking at.

It's definitely an employer's market at the moment for semi/skilled jobs but I would recommend that you still keep trying and not just jump at the first offer.

My company are offering voluntary severance but the offer equates to just over two weeks per year employed and I can't afford to take my pension yet. The equivalent package pre COVID would have been circa three weeks per year employed.

There seem to be a lot of "manual" jobs available at the moment so perhaps one of those might fill in whilst looking for the job that you really want.

Either way I wish you the best of luck in finding what you want.
 

c0tt0nt0p

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It's definitely an employer's market at the moment for semi/skilled jobs but I would recommend that you still keep trying and not just jump at the first offer.

My company are offering voluntary severance but the offer equates to just over two weeks per year employed and I can't afford to take my pension yet. The equivalent package pre COVID would have been circa three weeks per year employed.

There seem to be a lot of "manual" jobs available at the moment so perhaps one of those might fill in whilst looking for the job that you really want.

Either way I wish you the best of luck in finding what you want.
Every day I log in to work at home I see the letter from my employer confirming Voluntary Severence (dated the start Feb). Still no word when I'll be going !!
 

Bob

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I’m having a hard time tonight, still awaiting PCR results but my eldest (12 year old) had a very faint line on her lateral flow test this morning and a not so faint line this evening. She’s developed a bit of a chesty cough and has a headache but is fine in herself other than that at the moment.

My anxiety levels however have gone through the roof. I don’t know which way to point myself, I just want to give her a big hug and tell her it will all be ok and with being in the at risk group myself, having a younger daughter too that I want to protect and worrying about the problems that we would face if hubby had to isolate is making my head spin.

Eldest daughter’s school is full of it and they have now shut half of her year group for the rest of the week. Seems it’s too little too late in our case. I’d have never sent them back if it was up to me, my instinct is alway to wrap them up in cotton wool. I’d give anything to have a crystal ball right now and I’m gutted that we’ve come this far following all the rules, still taking precautions and now it all feel like it’s been for nothing.
 
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