26th August, 2025.
Right … it’s now Tuesday.
Which is nice.
As — hopefully — it means the next batch of test strips and lancets will have arrived at my usual pharmacists.
They could’ve turned up, yesterday.
Except, of course, yesterday was a bank holiday: which always holds things up.
~≈Î≈~
I have to say, though, that strips — and lancets — are surprising.
Although ‘surprising’ is possibly the wrong word to use.
I’m still getting use to using them: so it’s surprising — amazing? strange? — to me, how quickly I get through the things.
As are some of the results.
Apparently, my safe range is between four, and seven: and I’m supposed to do two tests a day
So getting through the strips, rapidly, is surprising: and getting results between roughly four and eight — 4·4 and 8·6 — seems even more surprising.
Especially when my usual range seems to be around 5·5 and 6·6
What’s more … ?
I don’t know the how figures from the machine — 5·6 mmol*, as an example — relate to the results of the quarterly HbA1c tests I have to take: I believe the HbA1c are supposed to be roughly ten times bigger than the glucose machine’s results.
So my last HbA1c result, ~forty (40), should translate to ~four (4).
Whether I’m right … ?
I don’t know.
Thankfully?
I’ve got an appointment booked with my GP’s nurse-practioner, in September.
I can ask, then.
~≈≈~
