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

Morning all, couldn't stomach a fight with the meter of doom today and just crept in the kitchen and extracted, gently mind, oh so gently as if touching a sleeping dragon who is snoring flame, a 4.9 out of it and retreated like the England bowlers from confrontation.
@DJC3 what the dog behaviourist is explaining is how we have brought up all of our dogs from being puppies, you aren't really ignoring them you are just showing them that you are "the boss" and what to expect from them. We also fed them after us and left the door before them on walks and returned into the house after wards, it shows them that you are the alpha and are checking for dangers so they can proceed. Its the pack mentality and believe it or not they need it, and they actually become calmer for it (well except for Bulldogs they have a mind of their own and are stubborn)but being consistent is the key, no deviation from what your trainer has told you and you will have a very happy and content Dennis. As we will only have rescues now I miss the training of a puppy, but I also get the chance to rehabilitate a adult dogs bad experiences and help them be a Dog again.

Any way folks its only bloomin Friday!! a weekend of wine, song and merry making is on the cards with the pub being the favourite destination!! In actual fact I'm competing on Sunday so early start on Saturday to make sure I'm as fat as I said on my entry form, eating everything in sight and then try and not hurt myself too badly on Sunday!! Enjoy the weekend everyone. but above all else make memories and take care.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, but not to Mrs J who's Morening started at about 4:46am when she decided to defrost the freezer with her kango hammer waking me up in the process, then had the audacity to have a shouting match with a neighbour from across the road who probably had the termerity to ask her what was she doing at 5:00 am with her kango hammer.
Mrs J is now fast asleep imitating a squadron of Russian tanks on the steppes. More noise.

Not a happy start to the morning and then compounded by my evil, vindictive meter which had the audacity to give a reading of 4.9. No driving for me till I get my blood sugars up grrrrr.

Please have a good day folks remember be nice to traffic wardens, that should scare them, and also remember now is a good time to go scrumping, but don't get caught.
 
DJC3 said:
An irritating and unexplainable 6.7 for me today. Oh well, can’t win em all.
@ianpspurs hope all goes well with your scan, when do you expect the results?
@PenguinMum I’m still catching up on yesterday’s posts so belated congrats to no 2 son. What a lovely feeling of achievement for you all. Only you would celebrate by ironing though!
@SaskiaKC I was really happy to see your lovely fbg and the beach photo. Can’t beat the sea for stilling the mind.
@Muddy Cyclist have fun with your granddaughter, is she old enough to ride a bicycle yet?
@gennepher I’m also staying in bed for another few minutes! Made coffee and brought it back with me.
Yesterday we had a ‘dog whisperer’ round to help us with a few small behavioural issues with Dennis. Mostly his nipping. People have said it’s just because he’s a puppy and he’ll grow out of it but it’s very annoying, painful and I can’t have that behaviour when the grandchildren are here. This chap was really amazing. He’s an Afghanistan veteran who was injured and had to find a new career. He loves dogs so decided to go with that. He worked for a while with Monty Roberts the famous horse whisperer and realised he could put the same body language knowledge to use in dog training. He was quite strict about what we had to do and Mr C said afterwards he thought I was about to cry at one point ( I was) Dennis looked so confused. The hardest part will be ignoring him for a minute or 2 when we come into the house, and telling visitors not to immediately bend down and greet him but to walk straight past with shoulders back, no eye contact. Within a minute or 2 little D stops bouncing and jumping up and just settled happily chewing a toy. Quite remarkable, normally he gets really excited by visitors, or any of us arriving home and we have inadvertently been exacerbating the problem by being so happy to see him too. There was so much to take in, I hope we can remember it all.
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Great story about the dog whisperer and enjoy your longer stay in bed - I'm freezing here but won't go back for trousers (shorts till October hopefully) in case I wake Julie. Some time ago you posted that you thought fbg lagged by a day - is today perhaps the working through of the wedding anniversary meal? Re results, I'm only the patient not my place to know the results. I will be informed when "they" are good and ready and should be grateful and properly respectful. Basically, I don't really care how they tell me or how long it takes just that it is all good - I'm sure you know that feeling well.
 
ianpspurs said:
Great fbg @trick60 - triple cheese on toast for you today. My fbg was 5.2 - about as believable as the latest Alexander the bloviator flimflam but the meter sure enough did display those numbers at 5.00 (wonder what it might have been when I first woke much earlier). Scales indicated I am back around trend 74 kgs. Regressed to zero dark thirty waking just when a) I need to recover from surgery b) due to a I can't use the time to exercise c) wrong season to garden or watch cricket from down under early. It took 4 years but I had that sorted. CT scan today so I am instructed to drink my own height in water. Tomorrow we move on to removing and testing the keratosis horn on my head. Eventually, I might get back to dealing with the strange case of the LC diet. Today is Allen F Gardiner day - not the Ipswich river cruise restaurant - the British Naval officer and not his son Allen W.
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All the best for the CT scan - no wriggling about, that horn will scratch things. Not going to look up Allen F Gardiner - even if you offered me free trips to Africa or Patagonia.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, but not to Mrs J who's Morening started at about 4:46am when she decided to defrost the freezer with her kango hammer waking me up in the process, then had the audacity to have a shouting match with a neighbour from across the road who probably had the termerity to ask her what was she doing at 5:00 am with her kango hammer.
Mrs J is now fast asleep imitating a squadron of Russian tanks on the steppes. More noise.

Not a happy start to the morning and then compounded by my evil, vindictive meter which had the audacity to give a reading of 4.9. No driving for me till I get my blood sugars up grrrrr.

Please have a good day folks remember be nice to traffic wardens, that should scare them, and also remember now is a good time to go scrumping, but don't get caught.
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4.9 - who issued that? Enjoy your breakfast.
 
dunelm said:
All the best for the CT scan - no wriggling about, that horn will scratch things. Not going to look up Allen F Gardiner - even if you offered me free trips to Africa or Patagonia.
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The horn is tomorrow's fun. Today is the bladder. Goodness knows what part(s) next week might be. Have a great day.
 
Morning All. 6.1 but did have 2 glasses French rose down the pub (well needed it after all that laundry and ironing)).
@DJC3 thanks for the good wishes. Though it has yet to be marked we have waited a long time to get here and he has his health back and a job. We are beyond grateful.
Fascinating account of the dog whispering so interesting. @Fndwheelie hug for the migraine and the wrong beads. Be gentle today. @ianpspurs hope the scan goes well and you get a good result soon. @HarrisonK hope you get some time off for good behaviour in Her Ladyship’s absence. @Karen take care. @Cumberland so hope you’re ok. @Bubbsie I think ‘Westminster’ is the new ‘Love Island’ I am bingeing on it! Yorkshire incredible, Scotland today, Dublin Monday. Bring it on..you couldnt make it up.
Have a great Friday. Stay well, stay safe.
 
5am - why? What’s that all about. The earth has wobbled - the days are drawing in - 5am - ridiculous.

The wonder wheel of bouncing off walls in dark corridors issued yet another 5.6 - is that all you’ve got kiddo?

I have been put in charge of curtains again today. I say again as I hung some “voiles”yesterday. The look very similar to “nets” but you are not allowed to utter such profanities nowadays as we now have a car and know how to spell Waitrose.
So, today I am jumping level 2 and moving straight on to level 3 - hanging lined curtains - oh joy - they are quite heavy - going through my mind is that chandelier scene from Only Fools And Horses; “are you ready Dell?.

Have a great day if you can, sunbathing should not really be on your agenda during these uncertain times.
 
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gennepher said:
The dog whisperer sounds amazing @DJC3
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He really was - we all sat there open mouthed for a lot of the time as he got Dennis to behave perfectly within a few minutes.
I was recommended to him by a friend of my daughter who had a completely out of control beagle - that dog is now a lovely friendly family pet, completely transformed.
I wish like Dr Dolittle that I could talk to the animals.
 
PenguinMum said:
@HarrisonK hope you get some time off for good behaviour in Her Ladyship’s absence.
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Unfortunately, Mother Nature isn't on holiday just yet, and so my services as a 'garden groomer extraordinaire' need to continue. "Wyrd bið ful aræd" (fate is inexorable) shall be my epitaph ;)
 
PenguinMum said:
Morning All. 6.1 but did have 2 glasses French rose down the pub (well needed it after all that laundry and ironing)).
@DJC3 thanks for the good wishes. Though it has yet to be marked we have waited a long time to get here and he has his health back and a job. We are beyond grateful.
Fascinating account of the dog whispering so interesting. @Fndwheelie hug for the migraine and the wrong beads. Be gentle today. @ianpspurs hope the scan goes well and you get a good result soon. @HarrisonK hope you get some time off for good behaviour in Her Ladyship’s absence. @Karen take care. @Cumberland so hope you’re ok. @Bubbsie I think ‘Westminster’ is the new ‘Love Island’ I am bingeing on it! Yorkshire incredible, Scotland today, Dublin Monday. Bring it on..you couldnt make it up.
Have a great Friday. Stay well, stay safe.
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I think you’re right about Westminster being the new Love Island! Brilliant comparison, lots of self obsessed narcissists throwing their toys out of the pram.
 
ianpspurs said:
Great story about the dog whisperer and enjoy your longer stay in bed - I'm freezing here but won't go back for trousers (shorts till October hopefully) in case I wake Julie. Some time ago you posted that you thought fbg lagged by a day - is today perhaps the working through of the wedding anniversary meal? Re results, I'm only the patient not my place to know the results. I will be informed when "they" are good and ready and should be grateful and properly respectful. Basically, I don't really care how they tell me or how long it takes just that it is all good - I'm sure you know that feeling well.
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Hmm yes, maybe the revenge of anniversary meal which I thought was pretty lc but discovered halfway through that the chef had added a little bit of sugar, ‘just for flavour’. I had checked before that there was no flour in the dish but never occurred to me there might be sugar - it was a curried aubergine thing.

Fingers crossed your hospital is better at getting results out than daughter’s MIL who has annual scan follow up for a brain tumour in 2016. Last year it took 6 months and letters to Pals before she got her results, this year has already been 10 months!!! I am so angry on her behalf but she seems very reluctant to complain and it’s not my place to be bossy with her.
I get the results of my 6 monthly scans the same day. I’m never transferring my care from the Royal Marsden they are fantastic.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
@DJC3 isn't it so annoying when you get an unreliable high in the morning. I get them too. Of course they would be completely explainable if we had access to the inner workings of our body or maybe an instruction manual. Or maybe not if the instruction manual for my car is anything to go by.

Your dog whisperer sounds a really good find.
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You’re right, and the instruction manual would probably be written in Chinese and completely indecipherable! We just have to keep the faith I think and not let a high reading spoil the day!
 
johnpol said:
Morning all, couldn't stomach a fight with the meter of doom today and just crept in the kitchen and extracted, gently mind, oh so gently as if touching a sleeping dragon who is snoring flame, a 4.9 out of it and retreated like the England bowlers from confrontation.
@DJC3 what the dog behaviourist is explaining is how we have brought up all of our dogs from being puppies, you aren't really ignoring them you are just showing them that you are "the boss" and what to expect from them. We also fed them after us and left the door before them on walks and returned into the house after wards, it shows them that you are the alpha and are checking for dangers so they can proceed. Its the pack mentality and believe it or not they need it, and they actually become calmer for it (well except for Bulldogs they have a mind of their own and are stubborn)but being consistent is the key, no deviation from what your trainer has told you and you will have a very happy and content Dennis. As we will only have rescues now I miss the training of a puppy, but I also get the chance to rehabilitate a adult dogs bad experiences and help them be a Dog again.

Any way folks its only bloomin Friday!! a weekend of wine, song and merry making is on the cards with the pub being the favourite destination!! In actual fact I'm competing on Sunday so early start on Saturday to make sure I'm as fat as I said on my entry form, eating everything in sight and then try and not hurt myself too badly on Sunday!! Enjoy the weekend everyone. but above all else make memories and take care.
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Yes he explained it just the same way - that it’s not being mean, dogs feel comfortable once they know their position and don’t feel they have to take responsibility for being in charge of the whole household. He said the same about leaving and entering the front door first.
Now I have to train the postman not to crouch down and fuss Dennis every day!
Good luck with your competition, I’ve great admiration for your resilience and determination.
I’m going to be very much out of my comfort zone Sunday as I’ve signed up to do a ‘Muddy’ 5k Race for Life. Don’t know what possessed me I haven’t run anywhere since I was 8 but it’s for a good cause so I’ll do my best to wheeze my way round the course!
 
DJC3 said:
Yes he explained it just the same way - that it’s not being mean, dogs feel comfortable once they know their position and don’t feel they have to take responsibility for being in charge of the whole household. He said the same about leaving and entering the front door first.
Now I have to train the postman not to crouch down and fuss Dennis every day!
Good luck with your competition, I’ve great admiration for your resilience and determination.
I’m going to be very much out of my comfort zone Sunday as I’ve signed up to do a ‘Muddy’ 5k Race for Life. Don’t know what possessed me I haven’t run anywhere since I was 8 but it’s for a good cause so I’ll do my best to wheeze my way round the course!
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Good luck for Sunday - what a brilliant thing to do. Pretty sure I now completely understand what possessed you and love the fact that you can do it. Go girl.
 
DJC3 said:
Yes he explained it just the same way - that it’s not being mean, dogs feel comfortable once they know their position and don’t feel they have to take responsibility for being in charge of the whole household. He said the same about leaving and entering the front door first.
Now I have to train the postman not to crouch down and fuss Dennis every day!
Good luck with your competition, I’ve great admiration for your resilience and determination.
I’m going to be very much out of my comfort zone Sunday as I’ve signed up to do a ‘Muddy’ 5k Race for Life. Don’t know what possessed me I haven’t run anywhere since I was 8 but it’s for a good cause so I’ll do my best to wheeze my way round the course!
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I do believe that you will indeed "breeze" around the course, whilst having fun!! You can let the postie say hello to Dennis, just ask him to wait a minute first then pet him. It will be good for Dennis to have social interaction outside the house, and he's your furbaby so you set the rules for him. Good luck on your Muddy Run!!
 
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