dunelm
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All the best for your hospital visit.Morening, no time to write the usual diatribe and unusual diatribe 6.4 today.
Don't forget national bin day folks.
All the best for your hospital visit.Morening, no time to write the usual diatribe and unusual diatribe 6.4 today.
Don't forget national bin day folks.
All the best for the eye clinicMorning All. 6.2 after a terrible night tossing and turning. When I did sleep I dreamt of a ninja tiger wearing glasses stslking my garden. After reading @gennepher s post heaven knows what dreams that will invoke. Great FBG @gennepher I think you have been gradually getting your numbers down and you are in a good place. @jay hay-char I do love a ginger cat. Off to the eye clinic in a minute after my first cup of tea.
Have a good day everyone. Stay well, stay safe.
fbg at 4:15 am this morning.....drumroll...is 7.5
WHAT?
For me, that low? I am normally around 9’s, a bit above in double figures, but I cannot find a 7.5 in my little black book for a fbg....
It was a stressful day yesterday with driving that distance, the heat in the hospital, the wait because the morning clinics ran over, it was the eye check up from my laser treatment.
I have had less than 4 hours sleep, I can’t wind down yet, it will take me all of today. Yet I get a fbg of 7.5
Food wise yesterday was still very low carb, but the difference was I bought some really fresh fruit from the hospital farm stall, which is there daily, ate that while I was waiting in the heat and then driving home. I am talking of a humungous punnet of beautiful strawberries, that tasted as though they had just been picked off sun kissed strawberry fields. They were very local, just miles up the road. (I still have another very large punnet, and a punnet of strawberries. There is a heavenly scent from them.)
Then I had to pick up a parcel when I got home. I didn’t want to go out today, but stay at home. So I made the effort to pick the parcel. Next door was a fish and chip shop, and so I bought a piece of fish. Took the batter off, yes I had a tiny nibble, and just ate the fish inside. The fish in this fish and chip shop, is not frozen fish, but the fresh fish you get in some seaside town fish and chip shops.
How do I keep these lower blood glucose readings?
Did you drink lots of water yesterday? I’m wondering if that’s the reason for my much lower bg readings after spending time with friends. I always drink wine and lots of water to counter balance it. Still lots of research to be done
Gave a funny due to the order of the items for liquid intake - how very droll.Last night reading was 6.4, this morning fbg was 7. That’s a bit extreme.
Must drink more wine and water!
Gave a funny due to the order of the items for liquid intake - how very droll.
Relax, young lady. Up and down the country several times a year, new puppy and balancing T2 with fodmap plus body adjusting to no Metformin? Who'd a thunk bg would not be where you want it? Now drink your CWC and be a good @DJC3 please.A disappointing 6.3 this morning, hoped for lower really but never mind.
I Think I’m not getting enough exercise. Dennis is only having 2x 15 mins exercise a day as he is so little, (apparently puppies should have 5 minutes per month of their age twice a day, so for a 3 month old that’s just 15 mins.) I should just do some squats or sit ups at home - that’d entertain him as well as help me.
This made me feel sad to read. It is ok if they knew that cutting down the carbs would save their feet but they made the decision to go ahead with the carbs and take a chance on the feet. It's ok because they have a right to make that choice.
The people who I feel upset about are the ones that didn't know that the advice to base meals on carbs was the wrong advice and would have followed the low carb way of only they had known about it.
On a happier note - brilliant fbs and great that your hospital visit went well in spite of the oppressive heat.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. What nut job decides to entice a buzzard into his back garden?
We are off to a large garden centre this morning for a look-see and will see if they can fulfill some of your ideas. Our back garden is full of light at night as Mrs Miggins has festooned the place with a good number of solar powered lights - there are even lights climbing some of the trees.
Cat silhouettes sound good, with glow eyes and we will think about the idea of chicken wire. We know about the half full plastic bottles - seen them in Spain but not sure how effective they will be on dull days.
Thank you again and everyone who has contributed - I think that I have heard enough about cats now. It’s like a cat version refresher of Sun Tzu, on the Art Of War and Sun Zi’s Military Methods. It’s all defensive tactics.
Oh definitely!!!!An occasional mattress day can be just the thing for re-charging the batteries! )
Thank you @DJC3@gennepher I’m glad you got such a good outcome from your appt yesterday and don’t have to go back for another year. I hope the new eye drops help. I can imagine the sights of so many amputees would be a sobering one. It’s a shame that dietician wasn’t there to see them and realise the potential time bomb of his opinion.
Relax, young lady. Up and down the country several times a year, new puppy and balancing T2 with fodmap plus body adjusting to no Metformin? Who'd a thunk bg would not be where you want it? Now drink your CWC and be a good @DJC3 please.
Thank you @DJC3
I agree. I wish the dietician could have seen that. It was not a nice sight.
Even the man next to me initially in a wheelchair saying he didn’t feel well in that heat and he had been on dialysis since very early that morning, I am thinking is that diabetic related because he is in the eye clinic for his eyes.
Yesterday was like being in, and surrounded by the hell for diabetic consequences....
>^..^<
And @gennepher .
Sad to see all that yesterday,
Have to see hospital time existing in a totally different celestial plane then "time" as us mere mortals understand it.
As for FBG..it's almost a constant variable regardless of recent activities, some times seems it's evaluating previous day's bloods before issuing forth today's reading, so it's not always linear as I can tell..better to try spotting the trends ,imho
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Cyprus day 2
FBG this am 6.0.
Head a little worse for wear, so happy with that.
Yesterday, a walk to the harbour after breakfast, have to get bus to nearest beach 30 mins away. .bus trip fine
Beach busy but we find two beds easy enough, near to water..(beach beds tiered on 3 levels... is nicer then it sounds)
Water refreshingly COLD
.....but bearable once in
Back on bus, 6pm..a slow walk through town, intending to go back to room...
Get way laid by quirky cider bar, missus read about, that we pass on way home
Decide to sit for "just the one.. "
(Oh, how we lie to ourselves )
Madame had frozen lemon curd cider.
Think slush puppie, with a major kick
Very tasty.
I had Perry cider, @7 5%.
Great hosts, good chat..several drinks later and wallet £28 lighter ...we stumble off to get food.
Oh, and cats galore, but on camera as phone died.
We both have Tave ? On wife's recommendation.
not such a good choice.:***:
Back home, I lie down on bed for 5 minutes.1145pm.
Wake up this morning 9am,
Furry tongue, headache, ache all over
(Must of been the food ..lol. )
Off to do it all again today, somewhere else..hahaha..