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

Goacher55 said:
@PenguinMum
Thinking of you today ...

@Bubbsie I walked into a wing mirror on a parked car about 2 years ago - too busy talking and not concentrating and I ended up tearing my right rotor cuff. I can’t use my left arm (following strokes when I was 23) so it was quite problematic. Glad Harry wasn’t touched.

Busy day for me today
‍♂️ then rocket man and afternoon tea.

It was a sad night for me last night, I had to finish reading on a prime number chapter.. (97) oh the trauma! Real first world problems ..

However as I glanced and my testery machine, a 4.4 shone through the darkness this very morning !

@Bildad completely agree with your number theory.

I’ve long said there is a PhD hiding with blood glucose readings.

I am still searching for the mathematical relationship between carb intake, time of taking my readings, the weather on Mars...etc. Its there but I’ve not found it yet, I continue my search and continue to add and take away different parameters from my trusty spreadsheet. First world problems! #stillageek!

Have a wonderful Wednesday good chatty people
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Oh dear, sorry to read about messing up your right rotor cuff. I hope that it’s not too painful for you and that it repairs swiftly.
There are a number of women in my family who would not be able to speak if they could not use their arms.
Prime number chapter finishing may sound quite traumatic, good job twin primes didn’t come into play - very distressing.
My own thoughts about the mathematics of fbg is that there isn’t one. Mathematics is quite good in a laboratory or at a conference when confirmation bias drives forth some boring theory about why molecules in a table leg don’t re-shape themselves into flutes, in real life though there are far too many things going on to even make assumptions about what number or symbol to assign to minute fluctuations in pancreatic conversations with liver, other body parts and the non conscious conversations with brain.
 
dunelm said:
Clothes Pegs. A purchase of them took place yesterday, of various shapes and colours, to supplement the ones already residing in a basket in the towel cupboard. They can be used to peg down towels on sun loungers; there is a constant and pleasant breeze in Lands Are Grotty.

However, clipping down towels round the pool is such a waste of a good resource when you are two years old. Sealed in their plastic packs, they can be rattled, banged, squeezed and slid along tiled floors. Sprung from their enclosures they become a source of great debate when clipped to table ends, door handles, chair legs, kitchen handles, toys, rubbish bin foot pedals etc.
As I write this, Mayhem has just wandered into the kitchen, sunglasses on, upside down, naked doll in hand, wrapped in its baby blanked and picked up a green peg, pinned it to the baby blanket and wandered out - no words, a bare flick of her hair, nose in the air, being a fashionista.

Oh yes, a troubled sleep due to lower back whinging about how badly a hand it had been dealt with for all these years; it was 1975, get over it. The wheel of sympathy and protests took the side of lower back, stuck out it’s notional tongue and blew a 5.9 in my general direction.

Toddler tossing - a great new game:
Ingredients and tools;
A swimming pool (obviously, it only works once on other surfaces).
Agreeable toddlers (one each if possible but you can take turns).
Anti UVB swim suits (optional but it works for longer).
Swim nappies (very necessary for toddlers who are philosophers and have no time for trivia).
Upper body buoyancy vests (arm bands work as well)
Factor 9,000 waterproof sun screen.

Rules:
Teams of two, one in the pool, one on the side.
The team member on the side of the pool (the pitcher) holds to toddler firmly but gently, with toddler facing the team member in the pool (the catcher).
The pitcher recites the incantation, “ready....steady...go” and tosses the toddler towards the catcher.
The catcher catches the toddler to control decent into the water and, depending upon the skill of the toddler, dips head under water.
Toddler screams with laughter and shouts, “again” - or, if you are Chaos and Mayhem, “more”.
When all team members are worn out, let the toddlers just float about in the pool.

Happy Wednesday everyone, hope someone has put our bins out for emptying.
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Toddler tossing.. you should patent it I think it might catch on
 
Bubbsie said:
Smiling as I read this whilst having my second coffee dunelm...laughing now...I read it again... laughing even louder now...who knows I may even volunteer to babysit for chaos & Mayhew at some point I like the sound the sound of the 'toddler tossing':hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:.
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Any time I think. You will need to bring a very large bag of energy.
 
dunelm said:
Any time I think. You will need to bring a very large bag of energy.
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Their adventures remind me so much of the girls when they were younger...wonderful to hear about their antics...I love the slightly skewed logic of children... sometimes bizarre but you can't fault it.
 
@dunelm clothes pegs make really cool dolls too, and at least in Mayhem's case you wouldn't have to bother with making clothes for them.

@Bubbsie I'm glad you and Harry are OK, but what a scary experience!

I was up before dawn this morning; woke before 5 and decided to get on up about 5:30 and do a grocery run before it got hot. I made it to the store before 8, ran into a neighbor and her dog and had a nice chat; it was "only" about 20 degrees out there then but already muggy. Today's forecast is a high of 34 degrees and I'm not going out in that!

6.2 on the meter this morning.

@PenguinMum I hope all is going well.
 
True Blue said:
Morning everyone. Grey dawn breaking at 0430 BST.

FBG 7.0 mmo/lt. . Another two lbs lost. Baby steps towards Emerald City.

Have a great day.


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I love that music. I was nearly grown before I heard it in the movie; over here it was well known as "Marlboro Country" -- the theme for the Marlboro cigarette commercials with the Marlboro Man, back in the days before they took those off the air.

 
SaskiaKC said:
I'm glad you and Harry are OK, but what a scary experience!
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Thank you Saskia...it was scary& the noise was horrendous...I didn't suffer any ill effects apart the initial fright & having to breathe deeply to calm myself before I ripped her wing mirrors off...luckily I only thought about it & didn't succumb to temptation;)
 
Morning all. Seems ages since I last posted. Mum has now had a hip replacement which at 90 with Alzheimer's is an achievement in itself. First hurdle over. Early days and not sure what will happen next. Just off back to the hospital so may be out of touch for a while. Sorry 'I haven't had time to read though all your recent posts but I wish you all well. :)
 
Bubbsie said:
Thank you Saskia...it was scary& the noise was horrendous...I didn't suffer any ill effects apart the initial fright & having to breathe deeply to calm myself before I ripped her wing mirrors off...luckily I only thought about it & didn't succumb to temptation;)
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Well done! Or, well not done! :)

@dogslife, that really is a great achievement. I'm glad y'all are over that hurdle. I wish all of you well. :)

@Cumberland lookin' good. Take care. :)
 
Had another phone call from the hospital. A different retinal eye clinic - run by a really top consultant who I have seen before - want me to come in, I explained I had had a rentinal check and was having the lucentis injections on Monday but they were very insistant I came in on Saturday. As he is an absulutely excellent consultant I am happy to go in again. Thank goodness for the NHS as I dread to think what all this would cost if I had to pay for it privately. Good to get a second opinion also - I think it means that I will get the best and most appropriate treatment.
 
@SaskiaKC Howdy. I love the Old West. Visit the Buffalo Bill Center at Cody, Wyoming, if you get the chance. Your Clip has several fine paintings by Charles Russell. Amazing movement built into some images, surely a model for current art students.
Some more big band stuff below. Play it loud!

 
@Krystyna23040 good news that this top bloke is insisting on seeing you, I think you’re right, a second opinion gives you the best chance of the best treatment.
@dogslife I’m so pleased to hear of the success of your mum’s op. Lets hope she is bery soon up and about.
@Cumberland good going - hopefully you’ll be hitting your single figure goal soon.
@dunelm brilliant post ( again) you capture 2yo logic and joie de vivre perfectly.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Had another phone call from the hospital. A different retinal eye clinic - run by a really top consultant who I have seen before - want me to come in, I explained I had had a rentinal check and was having the lucentis injections on Monday but they were very insistant I came in on Saturday. As he is an absulutely excellent consultant I am happy to go in again. Thank goodness for the NHS as I dread to think what all this would cost if I had to pay for it privately. Good to get a second opinion also - I think it means that I will get the best and most appropriate treatment.
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Hi Krystyna its great you are seeing this consultant earlier. I had my first Lucentis injection this morning and it was all ok. I remembered when I got there that when I had Uevitis years ago I was allergic to the drops and had to have preservative free ones. So they gave me gentler everything and used something other than iodine to clean the area. When I got up afterwards to walk to the waiting area to meet my sons I felt like I was walking on giant marshmallows. I am not good with any anaesthetic. It has been a bit stingy and gritty but is improving as the day has worn on. I found it best to lie on the sofa with my eyes closed listening to the radio. I have the transparent eye mask till tomo. I wish you all the best and I couldnt agree more thank God they have these injections now. I gather they cost £600 each and today there were two “no shows” which isnt good.
 
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