Safe now not to visit kay

Ok family. It is OK now.  It  is safe to leave Kay in the mental institution.  She has forgotten you and me and her past..... Unless something reminds her of it.  She has accepted her place there not because she has forgotten but she needs someone to remind her   I visited her today and found her wandering the halls.  When she saw me her eyes lit up and could not get enough of caressing and kissing my face from pleasure.  She remembered me but I don't think she remembered me until she saw me.   Has she forgotten you?  Visit her and find out.  

The corn plant here bloomed for us.  This has been seen by few people.  

Another incident few people have experienced.  I went to the Dr here at the facility and in the inquiry he asked me how old I was.  When I said 92 he expressed amazement.  He even had the nurse confirm it.  Throughout his check up he kept expressing amazemet.  Here is a copy of a letter I sent on the subject 

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To avoid having someone come and take me to a Dr I just told them here to have me checked by the Dr that comes here periodically.  I figure it doesn't make much difference.  In finding out about me of course he asked me how old I was.  When I told him 92 he stopped and looked at me and said NO WAY you cant be 92.  I believe he even asked a confirmation from the nurse. Throughout the interview he kept commenting  on me being 92.  He asked me where he had run on to the name Gudgel.  Later when he learned that Kay was in the other facility owned by the same owner he said that is were he ran across it.  He would be treating Kay.   If you were impressed with the number of walkers in a retirement center multiply that several times adding wheelchairs in assisted living like here.  That is where this doctor spends his time.  Constantly in daily contact with overweight, sick, physically handicapped diabetic people most of them around 60 barely hanging on because of their diabetes .  To find someone who looks alive and alert (I hope) at 92 just is never seen.  So that is why he seemed so impressed with me.   He asked the nurse why I was not living with Kay.  Of course the reason is the facility does not have provisions for  a mix of patients like us living together.  The nurse said she did not know so he told her to look into it.  I don't have much hope that can happen but would /t it be wonderful if it could?   

I have not seen a lot of people in my age group so  have asked an occasional health care professional how many patients who are in my age group and I get the answer "lots" What this doctor tells me they are lieing. 

Accuracy in B/G testing

To all you diabetics out there who take so much confidence in the readout of your meter when you test for glucose.  Did you read the fine print where it says it is accurate to 20 percent?  Well, for monitoring your B/G that is next to useless if you can't improve the accuracy.  Let's say your actual B/G is 100.  20 percent of that is down to 80 or up to 120 what your meter can say and still be in it's spec's not much good though for adjusting you B/G.  How you can increase the accuracy to 1 or 2 percent is when you sample the blood with the strip  you keep it exactly where you sampled it so the strip does not move but keeps taking in blood if it needs it. You will not be able to see this if it does need the extra blood.  This will give it the proper amount of blood to give an accurate reading.  I use a Bayer which reads out in 5 seconds and keep it in position for 4 seconds if possible. This works fine on any size drop of blood if the sample into the strip does not reduce the size of the blood sample.  If it does reduce the sample size that means it did not get full.  But if you don't see a reduction in the blood drop you will get an accurate reading because it had it's fill. This works for very small drops. The main problem then is getting the ding and drawing the strip out too soon.  I keep the strip in for several seconds although I am not sure it really needs that long  for accuracy.  Maybe even one second would be ok.  It is easier for me to just keep it in to be sure instead of sticking myself the number of times to figure it out.  Now if you happen to have a reading of 110 and want to bring it down to 90 you can check yourself 15 or 20 minutes later and be fairly sure the reading you get is correct. If you are only sure of 20 percent  it would be useless to adjust with that information.

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