Health Matters

Created by: Lester Caine, 28 February 2025
Last modified: 28 February 2025

Thursday 11 of September, 2025

By Lester Caine
11 September 2025

Starting point on looking at 'Am I stressed' bbc article today

That was yesterday. Having had another interrupted nights sleep, I was awake at 5AM reading. The continual push by the Samsung health apps that this must be down to stress perhaps does not help along with it's insistence that I need to go to bed and wake up consistently! I am happy with my nighttime routine and have been going to bed at 9PM for the la…

Wednesday 10 of September, 2025

By Lester Caine
10 September 2025

I am currently happy with my morning exercise regime. I do 20 minutes of warm up, physio for my knee and back and HIT to get may heart rate up. Am I getting any advantage from doing it every day? I simply don't know and while professional advise has been to ease off, I am trying to keep to a target of 6000 steps and 60 minutes with 20 minutes of increased heart rate exercise. On top of that I am normally covering an extra 2000 steps of activity, and over the whole week I still manage on a…

Tuesday 9 of September, 2025

By Lester Caine
9 September 2025

Been a while since I updated the health log and I should perhaps make sure I do it a little more often. I have just finished my morning 'physio/warm-up' session, a little later than normal as I was deep in trying to finish another piece of the software jigsaw. One of the problems I have is with my memory and this morning I was doing the warm-up and simply could not remember the next step a couple of times. I'd had a poor nights sleep again caused probably mainly because I've b…

Sunday 24 of August, 2025

By Lester Caine
24 August 2025

The problem today everywhere seems to be the lack of communication. I've FINALLY recieved my medical notes from Wolverhampton, or at least some of them. Since 'Practice Plus' is a different part of the NHS, only the letters set to the hospital arm are included, and the one thing I was trying to get records of, the ultrasound of my knee, which I thought the hospital carried out, was missing. There is no link to a data access request visible on the Practice Plus website, so I have h…

Yet another new toy but is it progress

By Lester Caine
17 August 2025

The new Watch8 turned up Friday and after topping up the charge I tried it on. The fabric strap and it's thinner design is certainly a lot more comfortable, but I think I actually preferred the mechanical twist ring to access stuff. No doubt I will get used to swiping around the edge of the glass, but I keep hitting things I don't actually want to open. At least MOST of what I am using was transferred from the old phone although I still need to find out how to get the old alarm tone a…