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Friday 23rd 46F/8C [8.50] Overcast, dark grey and increasingly windy. With rain starting this afternoon. A storm warning for Sunday. [Austen] This is presently battering the Irish coast and heading eastwards.
Up at 8.15 after waking earlier and drifting. 23C/73F in the room.
I have a routine, secure phone call today. From the hospital heart department. This keeps them updated on my progress and any side effects or symptoms. Without my having to travel into the city. I also have a flu and Covid jab this afternoon.
9.40 Just had my chat with my minder. Now I am off for my walk.
10.00 Back from my walk. The weather was cool and grey. The wind localized. The little guard dog was back and very persistent. The lady owner came out and we chatted. The suggestion of my offering dog treats was considered too risky. Because the dog might follow me home. Which would involve the busy, speeding traffic on the road. I hadn't thought of that.
Meanwhile, the new neighbours, in the house on the road, are back. With many tins of paint visible in the picture windows.
11.25 I've just had my phone talk with the heart specialist at the hospital. He approved of the medicines I am taking and has prescribed for more of the same. It's all done online. I just need to present my health insurance card at the local apotek to get more tablets. I can see my medicines in the very useful online app. Which also records my appointments, my tests and results, my health. Even what medical personnel recorded about me during hospital visits and stays for treatment. The Sysikringsbevis card is more or less an all purpose, digital ID. Teenagers can show it as proof of age. To avoid their purchasing booze and fags.
The cards have been going for many decades in Denmark. Introduced in 1973. To replace the previous, private insurance funded, health service. Which became a free on demand, publicly managed health service.
The plastic card is yellow and white and the same size as a credit card. I presume the resistance to holding such ID in the UK. Is due to a complete lack of trust in the Fabian, communist dictatorship. I have never heard a Dane question the card or its ability to reveal everything about them. With the relevant authorization of course.
16.30 Drizzling for the last hour. Back from having my jab. A very pleasant young lady made the experience painless. She requested a 15 minute wait before I left the premises. In case there was any reaction. I did a bit of shopping while I was in the village.
No afternoon nap. Dinner was a chicken fry-up. With mushrooms, toast, tweggs and cherry tomatoes. I did a mountain of washing up while it cooked. I'll have to go back to complete the task.
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