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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

Thanks all for thoughts about my lovely grandson. He looks much better today. When his parents got.to a and e last night they were in a queue of 5 children, 4 of whom had croup. Apparently it is starting early this year, and seems much more severe.
Hoping that by the time the steroids wear off later this evening he is still ok.
I dont know how all you other grandparents feel about this, but I absolutely hate loving them so much and yet feeling so very helpless when they are ill, with the added worry of fretting about thier parents!! It feels like a double hit of anxiety.
Sometimes I am so very grateful to be living in such a civilised country where little children can get such good, free at need healthcare.
 
Kentoldlady1 said:
Thanks all for thoughts about my lovely grandson. He looks much better today. When his parents got.to a and e last night they were in a queue of 5 children, 4 of whom had croup. Apparently it is starting early this year, and seems much more severe.
Hoping that by the time the steroids wear off later this evening he is still ok.
I dont know how all you other grandparents feel about this, but I absolutely hate loving them so much and yet feeling so very helpless when they are ill, with the added worry of fretting about thier parents!! It feels like a double hit of anxiety.
Sometimes I am so very grateful to be living in such a civilised country where little children can get such good, free at need healthcare.
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So glad your tiny grandson is recovering.Yes you worry for the grand child and their worried parents when little(and big ones) are ill.Like you I'm grateful for the good care they get here in the UK.Worry is the price we pay for all the love we give and receive,being parents and grandparents,a good thing you are there to help.Take care.
 
Feliĉa tago al ĉiuj vi el ĉiuj miaj plej gajaj diabetaj persikoj. I dragged my sorry carcass out of my warm wonderful bed. A move which required all the personal fortitude that I possess and as I did the vertebrae in my back creaked 4 times. Either I need a very intensive course of physiotherapy from an exotic temptress or my blood sugars on waking this morning are 4.0mmols. Drat, drat and treble drat it's my blood sugars :). May your Wednesday be like a weekend in the middle of the week.



Whoops I almost forgot it is time for doggie walk and then off to the labour camp for an extended period of mining salt.
 
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PenfoldAPD said:
Mmm, another weekend in France ... another overindulgence over banquettes! How is that bread so nice :angelic:

So up at 7.8 today :angelic: had a stinking cold while away so that reduce my resistance levels (that’s what I’m telling myself). Wish the cold and cough would be gone!!!!

Got note for Doc to say cholesterol up at 5.9, need to check details. Wants to up my meds - not that I’m taking them! Awaiting HBA1c news ....

Need to get myself back in check, all going wrong - but I know I can fix it .... ;)

Thanks for listening :bag:
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Yes, you can fix it, with your usual style!! I hope you can ditch the cold, that will help the numbers come back to you. Good luck honey. We need you back, bouncing and healthy. :)
 
geefull said:
good morning to all :)

4.3 today

looks a bonny morning so far with a pleasant breezy air, (on the other hand, I had to have 4 goes at jabbing myself this morning to get enough to test, so the air inside is rather blue ;) ).

Off to the wicked city today to get some paint for the bedroom we've been working on at mum's so Mr Gee and I will treat ourselves to lunch out :)
gee
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Sounds like you had a lovely day planned, I hope it worked out. :happy:
 
Diabeticliberty said:
Type 1 is not really terribly complicated although some of us like to over complicate issues. The 'rules' with type 1 are there to be followed. As with type 2. if you stick to them then you have the best possibility of a positive long term outcome. You just integrate the blood testing and insulin regime into your daily routine. I can look at a plate of food and pretty much instantly work out where it will put my blood sugars if I choose to eat it. This has only come with long term experience. I have of course had a few harum scarum moments. Like all type 1's I suspect. I once wrote a car off while hypoglycemic on a motorway and almost lost my driving license. another time with very low blood sugars in a petrol station the lady behind the counter became frightened I suppose and rang the police. The gentleman who arrived felt that I was some kind of crazed drug addict and threatened me with a can of CS spray. Bless his cotton socks. I nearly drowned while sea trout fishing in the pitch dark at 2.00am in a morning with no hypo treatment within reach. That one really scared the **** out of me. I have had an episode of DKA with elevated levels of potassium in my blood stream. That one nearly did me in. God it was bloody painful. I got stabbed in the hand by one of 3 'gentlemen' whom I was escorting from a night club in which I worked. My blood sugars had dropped and they decided to take advantage. They quickly saw the folly in their misadventure and we parted as friends. My most recent fun, fun fun episode was in June this year and while thrashing around on my own bathroom floor I broke 2 of my own ribs on my bathroom cabinet. My wife bought that unit and didn't want to take it with her when we parted company. I have always hated the damned thing. I am convinced that she bought it just so that I would do myself a bit of personal misadventure with it.

Having read through this post before I hit the green reply button things appear all rather hectic. They are of course not. This is an accumulation of silly events in 33 years of the condition. I think the most difficult thing facing all of us type 1's and type 2's today are doctors with the best of intentions but very little practical experience of what we are all about. I am lucky in that for the most part they tend to leave me alone. I really actually quite fear for the rest of you. Particularly type 2's which is why I am so vocal in my support for you all. You really do seem to get a raw deal.
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I know you've said all these events have happened over a long time, but I do think that we're lucky to have you with us!!:wideyed:

Ditch the bathroom cabinet;)
 
Glenmac said:
Good morning, 6.6 today.Im finding I can eat low carb on holiday just fine..........bacon eggs sausage for breakfast,then find my way around a menu for the evening meal.A lapse yesterday .....fish and a few chips (ordered a child's portion!!), but numbers stayed ok.Eating overlooking Plymouth Sound was perfect.:).........My handbook,How to eat on holiday will be published next week.......just joking,;) I think it's best (for me) to have the occasional lapse and enjoy time with family without being too far off piste.I have found that for a light bite the Co Op does great prepared salads in a bowl which are perfect and the hotel here makes its own pork scratchings ..........delicious!!
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Sounds like a fabulous time is being had by all!! Super. Very happy for you.
 
Kentoldlady1 said:
Morning all. I had 2 mornings today. Up at 02.30 because my grandson had to go to hospital.withI croup. 3rd time in last 8 weeks. He had nebuliser and steroids and he is only 5 months old. I went to look after his sister until they got back from a and e. So at 03.00 I was 4.8.
Went back to bed at 6 and then got up at 9 to a 5.3. Is this how the dp works? If you take it by surprise you get low readings???!!
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hugs to you for the little one.
 
5.0 today in sunny Marathonas....a bit high for me but had "strange bed syndrome". Here is a pic of the burial mound of the Athenians at the battle site
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Diabeticliberty said:
Feliĉa tago al ĉiuj vi el ĉiuj miaj plej gajaj diabetaj persikoj. I dragged my sorry carcass out of my warm wonderful bed. A move which required all the personal fortitude that I possess and as I did the vertebrae in my back creaked 4 times. Either I need a very intensive course of physiotherapy from an exotic temptress or my blood sugars on waking this morning are 4.0mmols. Drat, drat and treble drat it's my blood sugars :). May your Wednesday be like a weekend in the middle of the week.



Whoops I almost forgot it is time for doggie walk and then off to the labour camp for an extended period of mining salt.
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Sounds like a particularly tough shift for you after the dog gets walked. I think you should allow yourself the physiotherapy session with the exotic temptress as you probably deserve it for risking your life to make sure so many of us have salt on our tables.
 
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