Oh and he's diabetic too

Husband had an appointment with the practice nurse yesterday, to discuss his newly-diagnosed borderline diabetic blood results, I went with him as the nurse is a new one who's apparently red hot and dead keen on diabetes stuff, so I might see her in future instead of my current nurse.  He took in a new wee sample, as requested by the GP, to check how the blood and white blood cells in his wee are doing - very little blood now (at the weekend it was more a case of seeing if there was any wee in his blood!) and no white blood cells, so presumably the antibiotics are working.  His wee test results aren't back yet though.  

We were both a bit surprised that he's been hit with the diabetic diagnosis, however, the nurse said that as his mother and one or two other relatives were/are also diabetic, he's probably genetically predisposed to have it.  She said, however, that as it's borderline at the moment, with dietary changes and losing weight, it can probably be reversed.  She's a big advocate of Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 diet, eating in a time-restricted window and cutting down drastically on carbs.  We will, however, carry on with our Mediterranean way of eating as we like it so much, but will cut back on carbs and reduce our portion sizes.  

Thank you for comments, Hazel suggested we find a nice park to spend a few hours to get away from the builders.  Lovely idea - if there was one!  To expand a bit on where we live - it's literally the middle of nowhere, we are surrounded by farmland, fields full of crops or livestock, there are NO amenities nearby - no shops, doctor, pub, bank, library, sports facilities, parks....nothing within walking distance, and no public transport.  The only way we can access any of these facilities is by driving there.  We tend to only go to town, etc, when we have several things to do at once, to save time and fuel.  We can't afford to use too much fuel, and our car is old and falling apart.  So, much as we'd like to go out every day to get away from the builders, we can't - it's as simple as that.  We do go out dog walking twice a day, but there are only a few fields that we are allowed in - some of the farmers don't want people in their fields of crops or livestock and actively discourage it, understandably.  Our local lanes are very narrow, just one vehicle wide, with high hedges and in some cases a ditch on one side, there are passing places spaced out, but you take your life in your hands when walking along the lanes as if a tractor or large farm vehicle comes along, as they naturally do all the time, there's simply no way for them to pass you unless you sprint along to the next passing place.

So for the most part, we just have to put up with the noise next door, which will be ongoing for another few weeks, as they're more or less gutting the entire house.  A load of new kitchen units were delivered yesterday afternoon, so presumably they'll be installed next week.