Health Matters

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

Monitoring is all very well but ...

By Lester Caine
21 March 2025

I'm slowly getting to grips with just what the new Watch4 can achieve and what it can't. Much as I have established with the other monitoring devices. That none of them actually agree on a single figure for say pulse rate, and while the watch is monitoring that at 10 minutes intervals, it has problems when my heart is in it's erratic mode and fails to record anything. Over night the oxygen level is similarly erratic and while it records that it drops below 90% it can't say for…

Ongoing monitoring

By Lester Caine
17 March 2025

Trying to monitor just how interrupted my sleep is I've bitten the bullet and picked up a Galaxy Watch4 Classic reconditioned unit to keep the price down. It was supplied with a new silicon strap, but that has already broken and I think that is contributing to the failures in taking readings via it. The initial problem was that the watch needed to be updated, and initially I could not see how to action that, but eventually it started some large downloads. It took me a little while to…

Daily routine updates

By Lester Caine
12 March 2025

I am getting into a settled routine despite there being a number of external factors getting in the way. Waking up at 6:30 is settling down and doing my morning bits result in my having breakfast around 7. I've dropped the Rice Snaps as they are of little benefit, and while I still have a little Fruit and Fibre left, I have switched back to just Bran Flakes as I've been adding fresh Bananas anyway. Bananas are fun, but I get big ones but chop in half and seal the second half ready for…

A trying time

By Lester Caine
11 March 2025

Having been unable to see either my mother or son before they were cremated, the death of my father a week ago was another blow. At least I was able to take the time after a 4 hour round trip down to Basingstoke to say a good bye to him. I will not cause problems by attending the funeral next week, but am waiting to here if I can at least watch in on proceedings. It would have been nice to do that for my son's funeral back in 2023, and that is something that the judicial system could do a…

Music therapy

By Lester Caine
9 March 2025

Had a nice night out yesterday over at Coventry Cathedral listening to 'Everything Under The Sun' performing the music of Pink Floyd, and backed by the cathedral organ. It was a sell out performance and while the tickets said 8 to 10, we walked back to the car at 10:45 with the last set still playing. Back home before 12. So much for my new sleep pattern, and I was hal…