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Virtual Meetup - second Sunday of the month
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Lovely to see you this afternoon @MrDaibetes - enjoy your dog walk!
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Well what a lovely chat!
Sorry you didn't get much of a word in @Kopiert, but it was lovely to see you.
Not sure what to do about December, because I have booked that Sunday off on the 12th. You are welcome to chat without me, or we could perhaps shift it to 19th Dec?
Forgot to say how great your song and choir were @SB2015 - you had clearly all put a lot of effort into the writing, arrangement and rehearsing. Hope you were pleased with how it came out 🙂
Sorry you didn't get much of a word in @Kopiert, but it was lovely to see you.
Not sure what to do about December, because I have booked that Sunday off on the 12th. You are welcome to chat without me, or we could perhaps shift it to 19th Dec?
Forgot to say how great your song and choir were @SB2015 - you had clearly all put a lot of effort into the writing, arrangement and rehearsing. Hope you were pleased with how it came out 🙂
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Kopiert
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Thank you. So nice to put some faces to names. It is such a good idea to do these calls. Thank you everybody
Thank you for that it was interesting to learn how it is for Type 1s.
Dear Mike and every else on today’s forum, I can’t thank you enough for your friendship, openness, the way you share your personal experiences and add so much information. David seems a real mine of data, perhaps he can advise us all if/when he gets his Libre 3! Have a good month everyone x
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Oops, there were quite a few of us, hope we didn’t dominate the conversation too much with the ins and outs of adhesive patches !
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Yes sorry if we all got a bit carried away! Was lovely to have you join the chat. Hope to see you at another one 🙂
Tbh it was a load of stuff that as a T2 on Metformin I have never even thought about . It was fascinating.
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Not at all! Letting it all out is what the forum is all about!
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Thanks dog walk was good nice to see you all.
Lucyr
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What is a mump?
Glad to listen in, would be good to try smaller groups one day. It’s difficult to join in conversation with so many people (although that could just be me).
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Sounds like I missed quite a good one! Got my covid booster done though which was unexpected, only went to get my daughter’s. Her school are doing them this week but then we got a letter saying that she’s entitled to 2 doses (school only do one) so book it online. Was chatting to a man while we were waiting, and said I don’t know whether I’ll get a booster as I’m 50 now but was still 49 when I got the first two doses done so I might fall down the gap as it were. He said they could take walk ins, if I had my card with me from the first two doses I could just get it there and then, and you only have to wait 5 months now instead of 6 after the second dose. Mine was 5 months and 6 days previously so that has saved a job another day! Now just got to book flu jabs for both of us (first time I’ve ever had one!)
A mump Is a bit of a moan lol.
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The Pharmacy where we had our boosters was not interested in our vaccination card, and relclutanly wrote down the the batch number of the booster he gave.
Squirrel768
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Sad I missed yesterday! Had the reminders set, then totally forgot 
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We got our boosters on Thursday. Trying to book online, 20+ miles away. Tried contacting the local centre - 3 weeks next appointment. Cheked NHS walk-ins - 30 0r 40 miles! Local council website showed a little local pharmacy, doint walk-ins. Phoned them to confim, Mon, Thur, Fri mornings. We expected a queue, but went straight in, he checked our previous cards plus online to ensure we were eligible, had pre-printed cards with batch and date, just had to fill in names! According to NHS, that place doesn't exist LOL.
Hopefully, by the next meeting I will have a pump. I wanted the tandem, but because the hospital doesn't have anyone familiar with it (paediatric team use it, not adult team) it would mean delays until the new year. What I'm doing in the meantime is a ;legitimate cheat', starting on Omnipod on December 7th, after chatting with my DSN, in the full knowledge that I can change my mind within 90 days. So, unless I get a complete change of heart, I'll switch to tandem early next year. (Air Liquide rep is off sick at present, so not had any input from her following a lovely chat a couple of weeks back.)
Next hurdle would be Dexcom - unless the agreement between Abbott and Tandem produces anything worthwhile soon ...
.We got our boosters on Thursday. Trying to book online, 20+ miles away. Tried contacting the local centre - 3 weeks next appointment. Cheked NHS walk-ins - 30 0r 40 miles! Local council website showed a little local pharmacy, doint walk-ins. Phoned them to confim, Mon, Thur, Fri mornings. We expected a queue, but went straight in, he checked our previous cards plus online to ensure we were eligible, had pre-printed cards with batch and date, just had to fill in names! According to NHS, that place doesn't exist LOL.
Hopefully, by the next meeting I will have a pump. I wanted the tandem, but because the hospital doesn't have anyone familiar with it (paediatric team use it, not adult team) it would mean delays until the new year. What I'm doing in the meantime is a ;legitimate cheat', starting on Omnipod on December 7th, after chatting with my DSN, in the full knowledge that I can change my mind within 90 days. So, unless I get a complete change of heart, I'll switch to tandem early next year. (Air Liquide rep is off sick at present, so not had any input from her following a lovely chat a couple of weeks back.)
Next hurdle would be Dexcom - unless the agreement between Abbott and Tandem produces anything worthwhile soon ...
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Me too , got caught in things for mother in law so sorry. I would have enjoyed I am sure .
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