What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[jjraak]

I'm knackered, but of a rough night and a rough day. Realisation with doctor, that we really need help.
And should be getting it.

Bit of win, if I read that correctly, that some one of that level of authority has openly accepted you need more help

Things hopefully are moving forward & improving both your lives.

See Mrs L, still has that spirit inside her.

Let's hope she never loses sight of it.

Best wishes for a peaceful rest, well earned I'd say.

 

[JohnEGreen]

After a few days in the 5s I thought I was getting there and this morning I wake to 7.8 so not sure where there is now, maybe it’s up the creek without a paddle.

 

[gennepher]

6.3 pre doctors, bakers, grocers, then chores, Mrs L dressed and bathed and spruced up, not in that order.
taxi was excellent, doctors, half an hour later, phone numbers, social services, calls team, Duty team. But Mrs L reluctant to have counselling.
funny thing, taxi driver asked how Mrs L was and in her own words. Any more tablets and you - referring to me- will get battered! It's a common term of endearment.
because of the recommendations from the specialist, her anti depressants are to be increased. So I'm watching my back! If I don't report in tomorrow after counselling, you know why!
We went into town because.
And bought herself a couple of something to wear, and some treats, and some food, a bite to eat, so I don't have to cook this evening
I indulged in a pair of cheap sliders. I don't wear slippers, and my old ones are battered.


Spring has sprung, oh no it hasnt!
It's cold!
It's been raining.
And colder over the next few days.

43 years tomorrow.

A new carrier bag, not plastic. To cart around her stuff.

It does seem to Mrs L that as we carried the shopping in from the taxi, with her walking frame, that she confessed, that we didn't get enough from town. And confessed, that Mrs L has forgotten something particular.
I reminded her, that, in the scheme of things. Many things have been forgotten.

I'm knackered, but of a rough night and a rough day. Realisation with doctor, that we really need help.
And should be getting it.

You lot have a lovely evening.

My best wishes to you all as always!

Congratulations on the 43 years @Lamont D

 

[gennepher]

UWD. S1.EP 1.

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" Now, now, young Godber...
Every one knows the top bunk is reserved for us older lags ...."

Last night Chunky Marmalade was trapped by Midnight. I was in bed ready for sleep, and Chunky came charging in my bedroom (with Midnight hard on his tail) with big wide eyes that said RESCUE ME! I distracted Midnight, and Chunky did a huge leap over Midnight...and escaped...

 

[gennepher]

After a few days in the 5s I thought I was getting there and this morning I wake to 7.8 so not sure where there is now, maybe it’s up the creek without a paddle.

There's no rhyme or reason sometimes @JohnEGreen
You'll have your 5's again!

 

[JohnEGreen]

@Lamont D let me add my congratulations on yours and Mrs L’s 43rd anniversary

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.5

I was out yesterday where there were people. I meant to do some sketches but forgot.

Came home and wondered how I'd forgot.
I still have an iPad one and an iPad two. I keep all my old devices charged up. They still have some drawing/painting apps on which could never be updated to the later iOS software, so that's why I like them and keep them going. I have recently changed my password. I consequently got locked out of both. iPad one refused to play ball. ipad two, after jumping through a pile of hoops, I managed to get it to accept my new password after having to prove my identity, 1 million times over.... The drawing I did this morning is from a sketching app on the iPad two. I just happen to like it because it was one of my first sketching apps. I am a bit out of practice sketching on it at the moment, and this is just a bit of lighthearted fun...and so that is my creative this morning...

iPad one, I wiped it clean of everything. Then surprise suprprise it invited me to set up the iPad again. Could I reinstall everything? I don't have time at the moment with having to tidy up before my daughter arrives. But I did have a load of music on it which someone sent me, a couple years, after I'd had my cochlear Implant, which I used to play through a speaker, and I still have that speaker. The last time the iPad one was backed up was December 23, so that will be still in the Apple cloud. I assume that music was backed up as well. Anyway, when I have time, I am going to see what I can do with it, and I have also found out that I can jailbreak it to do something else with it, might be worth a play and a practice??? Nothing to lose there! Otherwise I was going to use the black screen of the iPad one as an acrylic painting palette...

This will be an April project...

Nighttime Wildlife camera.
Fox & Badger
32 secs

Time for brekkies...

And a nap...I have been awake since 3 am...

Have your best day..

 

[dunelm]

6.3 pre doctors, bakers, grocers, then chores, Mrs L dressed and bathed and spruced up, not in that order.
taxi was excellent, doctors, half an hour later, phone numbers, social services, calls team, Duty team. But Mrs L reluctant to have counselling.
funny thing, taxi driver asked how Mrs L was and in her own words. Any more tablets and you - referring to me- will get battered! It's a common term of endearment.
because of the recommendations from the specialist, her anti depressants are to be increased. So I'm watching my back! If I don't report in tomorrow after counselling, you know why!
We went into town because.
And bought herself a couple of something to wear, and some treats, and some food, a bite to eat, so I don't have to cook this evening
I indulged in a pair of cheap sliders. I don't wear slippers, and my old ones are battered.


Spring has sprung, oh no it hasnt!
It's cold!
It's been raining.
And colder over the next few days.

43 years tomorrow.

A new carrier bag, not plastic. To cart around her stuff.

It does seem to Mrs L that as we carried the shopping in from the taxi, with her walking frame, that she confessed, that we didn't get enough from town. And confessed, that Mrs L has forgotten something particular.
I reminded her, that, in the scheme of things. Many things have been forgotten.

I'm knackered, but of a rough night and a rough day. Realisation with doctor, that we really need help.
And should be getting it.

You lot have a lovely evening.

My best wishes to you all as always!

Congratulations on your 43rd

 

[Krystyna23040]

Morning all on a damp start to Wednesday in Little America. Unknown fbg from yesterday's 17-18 gms carb and just over 7k steps. I'm never quite sure how well I navigate the narrow path between a proper attitude of gratitude, accurately evaluating the impact of my body's major manufacturing defect, the effects of cytotoxic drugs and their heady mix which seemingly requires a much more sedentary lifestyle than I desire. How much of that is a mental desire to over protect, play for a draw/stay in the game in sports terms? Does a keto lifestyle adversely affect an already tricky situation? - I (strongly) suspect it probably does but bloods don't show that. Anyhow, enough about me. @Krystyna23040 this suggests Poppy could well have worked out what you wanted. @LivingLightly welcome. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative. I do know hydration is important so more tea incoming. Do unto Wednesday as you would have Wednesday do unto you.

Thank you @ianpspurs - a really interesting article. So Poppy did understand what was going on. She was so proud of her achievement when she presented me with the carton lid.

 

[Krystyna23040]

6.3 pre doctors, bakers, grocers, then chores, Mrs L dressed and bathed and spruced up, not in that order.
taxi was excellent, doctors, half an hour later, phone numbers, social services, calls team, Duty team. But Mrs L reluctant to have counselling.
funny thing, taxi driver asked how Mrs L was and in her own words. Any more tablets and you - referring to me- will get battered! It's a common term of endearment.
because of the recommendations from the specialist, her anti depressants are to be increased. So I'm watching my back! If I don't report in tomorrow after counselling, you know why!
We went into town because.
And bought herself a couple of something to wear, and some treats, and some food, a bite to eat, so I don't have to cook this evening
I indulged in a pair of cheap sliders. I don't wear slippers, and my old ones are battered.


Spring has sprung, oh no it hasnt!
It's cold!
It's been raining.
And colder over the next few days.

43 years tomorrow.

A new carrier bag, not plastic. To cart around her stuff.

It does seem to Mrs L that as we carried the shopping in from the taxi, with her walking frame, that she confessed, that we didn't get enough from town. And confessed, that Mrs L has forgotten something particular.
I reminded her, that, in the scheme of things. Many things have been forgotten.

I'm knackered, but of a rough night and a rough day. Realisation with doctor, that we really need help.
And should be getting it.

You lot have a lovely evening.

My best wishes to you all as always!

@Lamont D congratulations to you and Mrs L on your 43rd wedding anniversary today

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.5

I was out yesterday where there were people. I meant to do some sketches but forgot.

Came home and wondered how I'd forgot.
I still have an iPad one and an iPad two. I keep all my old devices charged up. They still have some drawing/painting apps on which could never be updated to the later iOS software, so that's why I like them and keep them going. I have recently changed my password. I consequently got locked out of both. iPad one refused to play ball. ipad two, after jumping through a pile of hoops, I managed to get it to accept my new password after having to prove my identity, 1 million times over.... The drawing I did this morning is from a sketching app on the iPad two. I just happen to like it because it was one of my first sketching apps. I am a bit out of practice sketching on it at the moment, and this is just a bit of lighthearted fun...and so that is my creative this morning...

iPad one, I wiped it clean of everything. Then surprise suprprise it invited me to set up the iPad again. Could I reinstall everything? I don't have time at the moment with having to tidy up before my daughter arrives. But I did have a load of music on it which someone sent me, a couple years, after I'd had my cochlear Implant, which I used to play through a speaker, and I still have that speaker. The last time the iPad one was backed up was December 23, so that will be still in the Apple cloud. I assume that music was backed up as well. Anyway, when I have time, I am going to see what I can do with it, and I have also found out that I can jailbreak it to do something else with it, might be worth a play and a practice??? Nothing to lose there! Otherwise I was going to use the black screen of the iPad one as an acrylic painting palette...

This will be an April project...

Nighttime Wildlife camera.
Fox & Badger
32 secs

Time for brekkies...

And a nap...I have been awake since 3 am...

Have your best day..

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Lovely fun sketch and all the best with IPad 1.

 

[Krystyna23040]

After a few days in the 5s I thought I was getting there and this morning I wake to 7.8 so not sure where there is now, maybe it’s up the creek without a paddle.

Hopefully it is just a blip and you will be back in the 5s tomorrow.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.6 this morning. Am almost caught up with posts.

 

[gennepher]

Lovely fun sketch and all the best with IPad 1.

Thank you very much @dunelm

Usually when I have to do something to sort out a device, it is a current device I am working on, and that terrifies me sometimes.

But this iPad one, I have nothing to lose whatever I do to it so I can probably enjoy doing it....

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on a drizzly start to International Bin Day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this am. Up and at em this morning - part 2 of my Shingles jab and then off to the bakery for our loaves. Art bit - still trying to use up a bowl of ink that I over poured a few days ago - random wet runs, a bit of white, a dab of pale yellow and a thumb of red. Hope your day is a good one. I have had koffy and best get going.

 

[Annb]

6.3 pre doctors, bakers, grocers, then chores, Mrs L dressed and bathed and spruced up, not in that order.
taxi was excellent, doctors, half an hour later, phone numbers, social services, calls team, Duty team. But Mrs L reluctant to have counselling.
funny thing, taxi driver asked how Mrs L was and in her own words. Any more tablets and you - referring to me- will get battered! It's a common term of endearment.
because of the recommendations from the specialist, her anti depressants are to be increased. So I'm watching my back! If I don't report in tomorrow after counselling, you know why!
We went into town because.
And bought herself a couple of something to wear, and some treats, and some food, a bite to eat, so I don't have to cook this evening
I indulged in a pair of cheap sliders. I don't wear slippers, and my old ones are battered.


Spring has sprung, oh no it hasnt!
It's cold!
It's been raining.
And colder over the next few days.

43 years tomorrow.

A new carrier bag, not plastic. To cart around her stuff.

It does seem to Mrs L that as we carried the shopping in from the taxi, with her walking frame, that she confessed, that we didn't get enough from town. And confessed, that Mrs L has forgotten something particular.
I reminded her, that, in the scheme of things. Many things have been forgotten.

I'm knackered, but of a rough night and a rough day. Realisation with doctor, that we really need help.
And should be getting it.

You lot have a lovely evening.

My best wishes to you all as always!

It sounds as though someone is taking your problems a bit more seriously and, with any luck, that may lead to some extra help for yourself and Mrs L. Congratulations on your 43 years.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all. Today has always been celebrated as both my mum's birthday and the first day of spring chez P so forget fbg or the news. Locate the dinky strimmer, fire up the venerable RR (I don't have and never desired a quattro - even Suzi), acquire flowers and head for the Old Country. There is a wonderful artisanal baker/patisserie in my home village so treats for JKP and MIL @dunelm that small red boat rescued an otherwise bleak piece for me - thanks. @gennepher whimsical creative today thanks - hobbit houses? Let's do Thursday.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good national bin day Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those celebrating a wedding anniversary, events to be cherished.

Blood sugars were 11.1 insulin calculated and administered, tea and koffy drunk, plinky plonky completed, 40 minutes. All that remains is two retrieve the wheelie bin, give front lawn a mild and hopefully not bitter trim, then smile at a poor unsuspecting stranger, either making their day or terrifying them.

Time to depart, there by getting on with active life.

 

[Annb]

Fbg 6.5

I was out yesterday where there were people. I meant to do some sketches but forgot.

Came home and wondered how I'd forgot.
I still have an iPad one and an iPad two. I keep all my old devices charged up. They still have some drawing/painting apps on which could never be updated to the later iOS software, so that's why I like them and keep them going. I have recently changed my password. I consequently got locked out of both. iPad one refused to play ball. ipad two, after jumping through a pile of hoops, I managed to get it to accept my new password after having to prove my identity, 1 million times over.... The drawing I did this morning is from a sketching app on the iPad two. I just happen to like it because it was one of my first sketching apps. I am a bit out of practice sketching on it at the moment, and this is just a bit of lighthearted fun...and so that is my creative this morning...

iPad one, I wiped it clean of everything. Then surprise suprprise it invited me to set up the iPad again. Could I reinstall everything? I don't have time at the moment with having to tidy up before my daughter arrives. But I did have a load of music on it which someone sent me, a couple years, after I'd had my cochlear Implant, which I used to play through a speaker, and I still have that speaker. The last time the iPad one was backed up was December 23, so that will be still in the Apple cloud. I assume that music was backed up as well. Anyway, when I have time, I am going to see what I can do with it, and I have also found out that I can jailbreak it to do something else with it, might be worth a play and a practice??? Nothing to lose there! Otherwise I was going to use the black screen of the iPad one as an acrylic painting palette...

This will be an April project...

Nighttime Wildlife camera.
Fox & Badger
32 secs

Time for brekkies...

And a nap...I have been awake since 3 am...

Have your best day..
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Looks a bit like Alice's Wonderland. Charming.

Really Gennepher, I don't know how you cope with all these techie things. I feel quite inadequate when I can't even get a mobile phone to work. Neil is no help there - he dislikes mobile phones intently, as he does Microsoft products, so will take nothing to do with them.

Neil, at present, is working through the specifications we've received from the installers of the new and has identified areas where they seem to have got it wrong, so he is revising their spec and sending it back to them.

I had a word with both of the "boys" about getting prostate checks done. Neil reckons that he gets a PSA figure each time he has a blood test (not sure about that myself so asked him to check next time he's talking to a doctor), Alistair said he thought the surgery would contact him to get tested, but it hasn't happened so far. He agreed to ask about it next time he sees a nurse for a BP check. I think it's important because both are in their 50's and my father and my husband both had prostate cancer which was caught early enough and treated.

Still a bit shaky today but my BP is a bit on the high side so maybe that's the cause. It would be a new symptom if it is. I checked it because I thought it might be a bit low. Wrong! At least I lost a bit more weight this week, so that's one good thing. Also found that fermented foods aren't good for me. That's another gain from the week. Sold my heavy, professional contact grill to a man who appears to be setting up a catering business - many of the asylum seekers start up doing that. He looks to be either Afghan or Syrian. Had a lovely visit from 2 friends - one Afghan and one Persian - to wish me a happy Naw Ruz. Lightened my day yesterday. That's another plus for the week. Just going out for the leg bandaging ritual. Now that I have nurses looking after my legs, they are being so helpful and supportive. (Another plus. I have a lot to be grateful for.)

Then of course, there's you guys. Very much something to be grateful for.

EDIT: Meant to say BG at 05:30 today was 7.0 and is now, after breakfast, down to the 5's. Still behaving a bit oddly, but on the whole, I can't complain.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Hope you didn't hurt yourself.

Only damage was to the shoe and my pride. Bit embarrassing doing a clown impersonation in the centre of town.