(300) The timely acquisition of Monarch blood testing strips... whilst things conk out
Like a lot of people I have a To Do list. I try to prioritise it by having those items I deem most important at the front. Only sometimes the unexpected happens. Now read on... On the morning of September 3rd 2024 I thought about dropping in, just round the corner, to my local health centre to get some strips that I had to use on a daily basis to monitor the level of sugar in my blood. I had two different machines and each used a different type of strip. The strips for the machine I was then using came in a yellow packet marked Freestyle with the image of a Monarch butterfly on it. But, since I had just enough such strips to suffice for a week or so, I didn't bother and instead walked off to the bank to transfer some Euros which my son had, out of the blue, requested the previous day. Indeed, as I was about to leave the house, my wife rang to see if I'd done so yet. That afternoon my mobile phone conked out and so I drove to the local Movistar office to get it sorted. I