Just remember Screwfix isn’t a dating agencyDon’t believe it. Just went to close window in conservatory and ****** me one of the hinges is busted. Gently placed window back in the hole.
It’ll be Screwfix on the way home tomorrow for a new pair of top hung window hinges no less.
Still love the place though.
had a similar experience in the very first house I bought - opened an upstairs window and the bottom of the fram fell off. Just managed to catch the glass...
- backed mine off a bit last night and woke on a 5.1, which was nice.
pip pip!Good morning friends
7.4 this morning so I’m pleased with that
Have a jolly decent day what
That's kind of how I thought it worked. I know I can feel <4 and >11 but between those figures seems ok. Unless there's a sharp rise or fall where I feel ill no matter what the actual figures are.
Helensaramay I've never used a pump but I do use Lantus. I don't find any over-run beyond 24 hours and sometimes it doesn't seem to even reach that to the point where I'm talking to hcps about trying Tresiba. It may not be the same for you so you might want to be a bit cautious initially, depending on whether you prefer to correct hypos or hypers. Hope that's what you were driving at?
I like this Alison, I think I see what you're getting at. Are you talking about the physiological process that judges the amount of bg and then sends the message to the pancreas to produce insulin? Because it would make sense that if that process gets overloaded by high bg (which I presume it isn't programmed/equipped to deal with) it doesn't know what to do and therefore may malfunction/go haywire, whereas if the signals it receives are all about bg within the normal range it just ticks along as usual - the fact that the pancreas is b****red is irrelevant to this process. Have I understood you?
@Circuspony I agree completely that for many the interest wears off because you, like all of us T1s, just get on with it because you have to, so it often looks as if it's no big deal. I've had T1 for over 30 years and it wasn't until my sister actually came and stayed with me for an entire week a couple of years ago that she said to me, with some amazement, 'you have to think about this all the time, don't you?' I don't think the penny had really dropped that unless you eat the same things for every meal every day (which I don't, except for breakfast - arithmetic at that time in the morning?That's kind of how I thought it worked. I know I can feel <4 and >11 but between those figures seems ok. Unless there's a sharp rise or fall where I feel ill no matter what the actual figures are.
Nearly at my 1 year anniversary so will stop being 'newly diagnosed' then. Still feel like a total novice! Sister in law round at weekend and she lost her cousin to T1 last year (died in sleep from hypo at age of 33) so she was asking me a tonne of intelligent questions about how I was doing. Mother in law listening in interrupted with 'well you LOOK fine', so obviously illnesses only count if you've got bits falling off you.
It did strike me how boring long term chronic illnesses are though. The novelty of people caring how I am and offering help etc has definitely worn off. Nowadays when they ask how I am all they want to hear is "fine" and not me waffling on about it being a bad week.To be fair I'm pretty bored of the whole thing too.
) there are calculations to make for whatever you eat. And yeah, it gets boring I think for people with a fully functioning pancreas we just inject a bit of insulin and crack on - I spent 40 odd years thinking T1 was that!!@Circuspony I agree completely that for many the interest wears off because you, like all of us T1s, just get on with it because you have to, so it often looks as if it's no big deal. I've had T1 for over 30 years and it wasn't until my sister actually came and stayed with me for an entire week a couple of years ago that she said to me, with some amazement, 'you have to think about this all the time, don't you?' I don't think the penny had really dropped that unless you eat the same things for every meal every day (which I don't, except for breakfast - arithmetic at that time in the morning?
Wow, I'd never heard the active for up to four days idea before! Good luck when you start pumping again.
I don't know what I'm talking about either and you've got me wondering too now!
That's kind of how I thought it worked. I know I can feel <4 and >11 but between those figures seems ok. Unless there's a sharp rise or fall where I feel ill no matter what the actual figures are.
Nearly at my 1 year anniversary so will stop being 'newly diagnosed' then. Still feel like a total novice! Sister in law round at weekend and she lost her cousin to T1 last year (died in sleep from hypo at age of 33) so she was asking me a tonne of intelligent questions about how I was doing. Mother in law listening in interrupted with 'well you LOOK fine', so obviously illnesses only count if you've got bits falling off you.
It did strike me how boring long term chronic illnesses are though. The novelty of people caring how I am and offering help etc has definitely worn off. Nowadays when they ask how I am all they want to hear is "fine" and not me waffling on about it being a bad week.To be fair I'm pretty bored of the whole thing too.
to which the reply is "Errr Yeah DUH!". But as like you I don't have bits falling off me, so too most they would think I'm OK., but with modern day tools and the amount of information avaliable out there, plus the awesome people in here, T1D is an easier thing to manage these days, certainly compaired to even 5 years ago and from this thread alone it certainly isn't boring 
Pop the early hours of 31st August into your diary for cake and wine! I think my first insulin injection was around 2amYeah it sort of, maybe, might work like that
I'm sure by now you have worked out that all of us are differnet in the way we handle things, as you are too
It is a "long term illness" not sure about classing it as 'chronic' but then again I do not seem to suffer with issues that I find many do on the forum, having said that, doing a search and I find one place that classes Type 2 Diabetese as a 'common chronic illness', so thats us off the hook
But I get where your Mother In Law (queue all the Les Dawson jokes) is comming from, I don't hide my illness, all my friends know but the way I'm when out and about and the things I eat I have had on more than one occasion "are you sure your a diabetic?"
T1D can be a major PITA
When you reach your 1 year aniversary I'm going to crack open a bottle of wine and have a cake and then raise a toast to you
Lots of promises from the diabetes team about how much better I would feel, except I was feeling absolutely fine in the run up to diagnosis. My body was so used to running on BG levels of 30+ that the detox from the sugar overload was horrendous in those first few weeks.
