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

[UserABC2021]

6.2 this morning and welcome to November, enjoy the day

 

[johnpol]

Morning all, well it's the day after the night before, lots and lots of Halloweeners at the door, well actually none a big fat none, zilch, nada, zero not one so that meant a extremely fat, bearded, glasses wearing person had to eat some sweets. que the fight this morning with a rested up meter of doom, it was epic soft toys and stuffing thrown all around the kitchen, sidekick Sid even left his bed to investigate! After the plumes of stuffing had fallen, and the dust had settled and the limbs of the soft toys had been gathered a 6.9 was petulantly thrown at me, I took it and retreated from the scene of Battle.
@HarryBeau sorry to hear the news of the Kittens and their mother, but unfortunately people seem to have a complete disregard for their responsibilities as far as pets are concerned so sending you hugs. I will also send hugs to those that need them and tell you all that today is only bloomin Friday and you know what that means? Yes that's right, a weekend full of watching Rugby, celebrating by drinking to excess and climbing trees whilst taking our clothes off for everyone's entertainment!! Oh to be a yoof again, and I could still actually do those things without fear of people being ill at the sight of it!

Take care everyone.

 

[HarryBeau]

scraped the pasta bake bits stuck to the side of the dish straight into my mouth!

I'd have done exactly the same PM I bet the scraps were delicious...it was good to have 'Plumpy' here once the kids realised what a big softy he was there were strokes & cuddles galore...he was in his element as soon as there was a knock at the door he was there...yes some important questions need to be asked today so I shall put my 'work head' on

 

[HarryBeau]

So take care. I will peek in.

gennepher you have to prioritise your own needs first...so whilst I will miss your posts I understand... the energy required to 'fight your own corner' can be exhausting/draining mentally & physically at the best of times ...I wish you every success with the ongoing battle & hope very much it's a resounding victory for you & other users who are affected in this way...take great care of yourself & Popeye and I do sincerely appreciate your comments re: the kittens.

 

[dunelm]

ooh..my head..

Great day yesterday..drank a little more then expected,

Was meant to be just 3 of us, meeting at 1pm, but rather pleasantly, others came later during day in dribs and drabs to join us..a lunch time session evolved into a full evening session..(almost)

My first real drink this year apart from holidays, and i think i've turned into a bit of light weight, judging by those who started with me, still looking ok, as i had to call it a night around 10pm..LoL

Seems i came home, sat on arm of couch, announced i was pappily hissed ()
roll back on to the couch seat, legs draped over the arm of the couch, and began snoring.

(Which is better then the last time i came home like that, where i intended to sneak into bed quietly, but caught my foot taking of my jeans, stumbled over a free standing oil heater, scared the bejasus out of the cat, while swearing in japanese..so i'm told..)
Good job it's only once in a blue moon...

Our adopted cat, then took great delight in kneading me with it's paws, before curling up on me for the night.
awoke at 3 am, stumbled off to bed and awoke, feeling a tad worse for wear, about midday.

So hoping i survive the recovery,
to whit i'm here now sipping copious amounts of tea.
trying to decide if a good fry up would be helpful or not ,,decisions, decisions

Reading was 5.7 on waking, so quite happy with that.

day is dictated by self infliction, to be a simple one..( for now. )

hope all is ok out there, wherever you all are.
Best wishes for your day.

Now you do know that bacon, or just the smell of cooking bacon wafting through the house is the greatest cure for all sorts of ailments and especially those nasty germs picked up in ale houses.

 

[johnpol]

Thank you everyone for your kind messages.
@ianpspurs @jjraak @dunelm @DJC3 @PenguinMum @Muddy Cyclist @HarryBeau @SaskiaKC
I hope I have not missed anyone out.

@HarryBeau I am very sorry about Lola, and now the eventual outcome of the litter and mother. From what you say they all have feline enteritis which is very contagious, and it can sweep through the shelter. I used to take in cats and kittens when the local cat shelter was full in the 1980’s, 25 cats and their kittens at one point of time. That is when I came across feline enteritis. But I never lost a cat or a kitten through it. However those that had it (which is why they got dumped on me and I didn’t know it at the time) did need intensive 24 hour care from me, and frequent injections from the vet (who was convinced they wouldn’t pull through, but they did). The shelter cannot deal with that kind of outbreak. There is not the staff for individual care in a contagious outbreak. You will get your kittens or young cats, but my own personal view (and experience) says maybe look elsewhere now. I hope you don’t mind me saying all this. Hugs for you. It is incredibly upsetting.

@SaskiaKC Thank you for your concern. I will send you a message later today with my email address. And you may email anytime and on anything. When something happens to a site there is the sudden vulnerability that comes with it, and possible loss of connections.
When I was researching for a new phone (because the iPhone is now useless, and for too long), I found this might be happening a lot what you say that your cell service requires you to buy a new phone this year because of upgraded services. Apple are upgrading their services/technology (although my problem with the Cochlear stuff is separate to this issue), and this means that older iPhones (with SIM cards) will not be able to work or connect to any Apple services and therefore will be useless. All this I think is part and parcel of developing technologies. But it exposes a consumer vulnerability that we need these services, and it feels like they can hold us to ransom because we have to buy the latest (inflated price) phone. We don’t have a choice.


Like I said in my post yesterday I will be off this thread for a bit and explained why. I don’t have the energy in my brain to read your posts like I normally do (and love doing) each morning, because I need to concentrate this energies elsewhere which I will explain below. I popped in this morning to see how you were. And to reply.


My energies need to be elsewhere at the moment. It is hard to explain briefly why. But I will try. I have been on online forums (other than Apple’s forum) about this Apple update affecting Cochlear Implant users. And I have been trying to explain to the forum my problems. But just about all of them are hearing aid users. They had a similar connectivity via an app on their iPhones.

However, they are spitting furious because there was a new Apple update on this issue (I think it was yesterday and I will update today), and this direct alert sounds into my neural pathways which frightened the living daylights out of me because it was so powerful, have now been removed. At least so I understand from the forum.

Hearing Aid users apparently liked these sound alerts and are now campaigning for them to be put back on. I tried to explain on the forum how it affected me as a Cochlear Implant user and how bad it was. But I was like an ant in front of an oncoming steam roller...I literally got blasted. I was upset. But after a night’s sleep I realised I needed to explain a bit differently. You can get a bit defensive when you get attacked online.

Hearing aid users all have a working cochlear or else they wouldn’t be hearing aid users. So alerts for them direct to their hearing aids are pretty much similar to alerts hearing people hear from their phones.

But I do not have a normal cochlear. I have wires in my head which convey sounds and noise directly to my neural pathways. And these noises and sounds are carefully regulated by the mapping I receive. So I am talking now about normal sounds (although I don’t hear them anything like hearing people), but these alerts and phone ringing directly into my skull as a result of the Apple update were not regulated by my mapping and were at dangerous sound levels, causing my brain to freeze on whatever I was doing at the time because it had no idea what was happening.

I was actually parking my car when the phone rang in my skull for the first time after this Apple update (my iPhone was set before the update never to ring because I cannot hear to take a phone call, yet the Apple update bypassed that and put the phone ringing directly into my neural pathways at the loudness as if I were in Big Ben Bella chiming midnight). My brain froze, my foot froze on the brake pedal, my brain is unable to compute. My car, which is a big heavy car, goes into the brick wall in front of me. The brick wall was fine, but not the front of my car.

So obviously insurance, getting car repaired, driving a courtesy car (completely different), trying to get my confidence back (which had taken a hell of a knock), and furious because I have been driving a car since I was 17 years old and never once had an accident. So, I have been trying to be ‘normal’ with my posts on here, because I would have written a book if I had started saying everything what was happening these last few weeks.

I have a meeting with other Cochlear Implantees next week, all who have the Nucleus 7 Processor, and an audiologist, and I will be presenting what this reprehensible update from Apple caused me as a Cochlear Implant user. My mind/brain (for the next few days) needs to be totally on what I need to to present and how best to explain it.

So I will be back on the forum I spoke about earlier, because I can now verbalise (just like I am trying to explain to you here) in no uncertain terms how this affects a cochlear Implant user as opposed to a hearing aid user.

I am probably on the slightly aggressive end of assertive at the moment. What if I had been driving on a motorway and that telephone ringing had gone off in my skull? A pile up? Me dead? Others dead? And I wouldn’t have been able to explain what happened. Actually I am still furious.

I am not taking any blood glucose readings until I have had my meeting next week. This is not an intentional experiment but it could be one. I will eat as I have been, and I don’t need to comfort eat, because my adrenaline is going on this. I cannot concentrate on any diabetes related matters at the moment.

I hope this helps you understand a little bit where I am at. At the end of the day as a Cochlear Implantee, I am a niche user of this hearing software within Apple, whereas the hearing aid community using the same software is vast and has the greatest voice and are over riding other groups. I need to make sure my voice, and the voice of Cochlear Implantees are heard - in the forums the world over - and I need a detailed description of how this affected a cochlear implant user, and I will be doing a one page précis for impact that I can hand out.

I apologise for writing a book here. I am just letting you know where I am with this.

So take care. I will peek in.

@gennepher I can only offer you very gentle hugs for the terrible time that you are going through at the moment, I don't think you need to be anything other than aggressive assertive at the moment, as the update could have resulted in something more terrible than a banged up front of your car, so you tell them, really tell them the devastating impact this update has had on you. Fight the good fight and again I will send you the gentlest of hugs.

 

[HarryBeau]

Take care everyone.

john thank you for those comments...yesterday was a very sad day however I am laughing out loud at your post particularly at the soft toy massacre...who was it Sid or Trixie? (surely not you)... it's particularly relevant as I found a pair of pyjamas on the bathroom floor torn to shreds this morning I have no idea who that could have been... as I picked them up for the washing pile (there's an admission of the lack of household management ) I noticed the shreds of what used to be my favourite pair gyrating wildly underneath the ceiling extractor fan...I did ask 'Plumpy' but as he'd almost destroyed the evidence he wasn't making any admissions certainly not without his 'brief' present.

 

[dunelm]

Thank you everyone for your kind messages.
@ianpspurs @jjraak @dunelm @DJC3 @PenguinMum @Muddy Cyclist @HarryBeau @SaskiaKC
I hope I have not missed anyone out.

@HarryBeau I am very sorry about Lola, and now the eventual outcome of the litter and mother. From what you say they all have feline enteritis which is very contagious, and it can sweep through the shelter. I used to take in cats and kittens when the local cat shelter was full in the 1980’s, 25 cats and their kittens at one point of time. That is when I came across feline enteritis. But I never lost a cat or a kitten through it. However those that had it (which is why they got dumped on me and I didn’t know it at the time) did need intensive 24 hour care from me, and frequent injections from the vet (who was convinced they wouldn’t pull through, but they did). The shelter cannot deal with that kind of outbreak. There is not the staff for individual care in a contagious outbreak. You will get your kittens or young cats, but my own personal view (and experience) says maybe look elsewhere now. I hope you don’t mind me saying all this. Hugs for you. It is incredibly upsetting.

@SaskiaKC Thank you for your concern. I will send you a message later today with my email address. And you may email anytime and on anything. When something happens to a site there is the sudden vulnerability that comes with it, and possible loss of connections.
When I was researching for a new phone (because the iPhone is now useless, and for too long), I found this might be happening a lot what you say that your cell service requires you to buy a new phone this year because of upgraded services. Apple are upgrading their services/technology (although my problem with the Cochlear stuff is separate to this issue), and this means that older iPhones (with SIM cards) will not be able to work or connect to any Apple services and therefore will be useless. All this I think is part and parcel of developing technologies. But it exposes a consumer vulnerability that we need these services, and it feels like they can hold us to ransom because we have to buy the latest (inflated price) phone. We don’t have a choice.


Like I said in my post yesterday I will be off this thread for a bit and explained why. I don’t have the energy in my brain to read your posts like I normally do (and love doing) each morning, because I need to concentrate this energies elsewhere which I will explain below. I popped in this morning to see how you were. And to reply.


My energies need to be elsewhere at the moment. It is hard to explain briefly why. But I will try. I have been on online forums (other than Apple’s forum) about this Apple update affecting Cochlear Implant users. And I have been trying to explain to the forum my problems. But just about all of them are hearing aid users. They had a similar connectivity via an app on their iPhones.

However, they are spitting furious because there was a new Apple update on this issue (I think it was yesterday and I will update today), and this direct alert sounds into my neural pathways which frightened the living daylights out of me because it was so powerful, have now been removed. At least so I understand from the forum.

Hearing Aid users apparently liked these sound alerts and are now campaigning for them to be put back on. I tried to explain on the forum how it affected me as a Cochlear Implant user and how bad it was. But I was like an ant in front of an oncoming steam roller...I literally got blasted. I was upset. But after a night’s sleep I realised I needed to explain a bit differently. You can get a bit defensive when you get attacked online.

Hearing aid users all have a working cochlear or else they wouldn’t be hearing aid users. So alerts for them direct to their hearing aids are pretty much similar to alerts hearing people hear from their phones.

But I do not have a normal cochlear. I have wires in my head which convey sounds and noise directly to my neural pathways. And these noises and sounds are carefully regulated by the mapping I receive. So I am talking now about normal sounds (although I don’t hear them anything like hearing people), but these alerts and phone ringing directly into my skull as a result of the Apple update were not regulated by my mapping and were at dangerous sound levels, causing my brain to freeze on whatever I was doing at the time because it had no idea what was happening.

I was actually parking my car when the phone rang in my skull for the first time after this Apple update (my iPhone was set before the update never to ring because I cannot hear to take a phone call, yet the Apple update bypassed that and put the phone ringing directly into my neural pathways at the loudness as if I were in Big Ben Bella chiming midnight). My brain froze, my foot froze on the brake pedal, my brain is unable to compute. My car, which is a big heavy car, goes into the brick wall in front of me. The brick wall was fine, but not the front of my car.

So obviously insurance, getting car repaired, driving a courtesy car (completely different), trying to get my confidence back (which had taken a hell of a knock), and furious because I have been driving a car since I was 17 years old and never once had an accident. So, I have been trying to be ‘normal’ with my posts on here, because I would have written a book if I had started saying everything what was happening these last few weeks.

I have a meeting with other Cochlear Implantees next week, all who have the Nucleus 7 Processor, and an audiologist, and I will be presenting what this reprehensible update from Apple caused me as a Cochlear Implant user. My mind/brain (for the next few days) needs to be totally on what I need to to present and how best to explain it.

So I will be back on the forum I spoke about earlier, because I can now verbalise (just like I am trying to explain to you here) in no uncertain terms how this affects a cochlear Implant user as opposed to a hearing aid user.

I am probably on the slightly aggressive end of assertive at the moment. What if I had been driving on a motorway and that telephone ringing had gone off in my skull? A pile up? Me dead? Others dead? And I wouldn’t have been able to explain what happened. Actually I am still furious.

I am not taking any blood glucose readings until I have had my meeting next week. This is not an intentional experiment but it could be one. I will eat as I have been, and I don’t need to comfort eat, because my adrenaline is going on this. I cannot concentrate on any diabetes related matters at the moment.

I hope this helps you understand a little bit where I am at. At the end of the day as a Cochlear Implantee, I am a niche user of this hearing software within Apple, whereas the hearing aid community using the same software is vast and has the greatest voice and are over riding other groups. I need to make sure my voice, and the voice of Cochlear Implantees are heard - in the forums the world over - and I need a detailed description of how this affected a cochlear implant user, and I will be doing a one page précis for impact that I can hand out.

I apologise for writing a book here. I am just letting you know where I am with this.

So take care. I will peek in.

Rage against the machine - it’s good for you.
Glad to read that the car vs the brick wall incident was not, as you say, taking place on the highway.
Class action???

 

[PenguinMum]

@gennepher thanks for the post explaining what your life is like atm. It is terrifying just reading your account of how it affected (car crash) and is affecting you. It seems such a complex tech issue but if anyone can lead the challenge to solve it I believe you are that person. The only thing is it shouldnt be happening. Sending lots of love and hugs to you and Popeye and come back when you are ready.

 

[DJC3]

Morning All. A dastardly 6.5 this morning because (oops) I did it again...scraped the pasta bake bits stuck to the side of the dish straight into my mouth! Going to have a stern word with myself and tailor today’s food accordingly. Will I ever learn.
@HarryBeau glad you had Plumpy round for Halloween after the day you had I wouldnt have blamed you for eating some of the treats. Hope you get somewhere with the shelter today. @DJC3 congrats on your fbg and well done for fasting. I just cant do it. Have to eat something but you are made of sterner stuff. @Muddy Cyclist hope the wasp man doesnt waste your entire day and your ears can take it.
Have a good Friday everyone. Good luck to all rugby fans for tomo am. Stay well, stay safe.

Ooh those crispy cheesy bits - irresistible!
I’m rubbish at fasting too. Not sure I’ll last til 3pm but having dinner early yesterday seemed to work well. I might try and do that more often if I can make something which won’t spoil for the others to have later.

 

[johnpol]

john thank you for those comments...yesterday was a very sad day however I am laughing out loud at your post particularly at the soft toy massacre...who was it Sid or Trixie? (surely not you)... it's particularly relevant as I found a pair of pyjamas on the bathroom floor torn to shreds this morning I have no idea who that could have been... as I picked them up for the washing pile (there's an admission of the lack of household management ) I noticed the shreds of what used to be my favourite pair gyrating wildly underneath the ceiling extractor fan...I did ask 'Plumpy' but as he'd almost destroyed the evidence he wasn't making any admissions certainly not without his 'brief' present.

well clearly you have "Mice" in the house! Admittedly, big Bulldog "Plumpy" shaped ones, but mice all the same. I think a couple of biscuits put out may solve the issue. They are funny animals, I liken it to having toddlers, permanent toddlers, running about the house and our lives are better for it.

 

[HarryBeau]

I liken it to having toddlers, permanent toddlers, running about the house and our lives are better for it.

Absolutely john...when he went out to greet the revellers (probably subterfuge to try to steal their sweeties) to tempt him back in it required a gravy bone...eventually he figured out the more he refused to come in the more gravy bones he needed/got...who's a clever boy.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning surviviors of this year’s zombie cull. All the white rabbits still hiding in white rabbit city, nervously checking their pocket watches and muttering about being late.

The wonder wheel of ghosts, ghouls, witches and such like banging on your door every few minutes with begging bowls like a bunch of itinerant Buddhist monks (other monks available) gave out a rocky horror show of a 5.8 accompanied by an eerie Vincent Pricesaque “serves your right you Halloween glutton”.

Yesterday afternoon, in the park, bright, gloriously sunny afternoon, cold mind, loads of young giraffes charging about, a sight to behold.

Last night. Brilliantly ghastly stage show for the children early evening followed by a spectac of an organised firework display afterwards - lots of kids wearing ear muffs to deaden the sound. One of our twins loves a firework display - the other - no, just no. Never mind, she just stays at home with the autres choses gang. Grandson, Mr Pickle decided upon Fortnite Black Knight as his evening wear.

Have a great day if you can, Bon weekend and all that. Here is a photo of a landrover taken in the park yesterday for all landrover lovers.
On yams and clams and human hams and vintage coconut wine
The taste of which was filthy, but the after-effects divine

 

[mojo37]

7 this morning after too many comforting carbs last night ...missed gym and zumba session because feeling rough then binged on comfort food now feel even worse !

 

[DavyJones]

 

[ianpspurs]

Sounds like all life is here today. Varying degrees of sorrow and self inflicted ills along with public vows to eschew food until you can't. Hugs for @gennepher and @HarryBeau. Sympathy for @Krystyna23040 and granddaughter - @DJC3 1 meal around 13.00 hrs has long seemed the best way forward to me. @jjraak at least you didn't come out with never again.
An oven ready 5.4 just right for the microwave today. Day began well with longest sleep for a while and a good exercise bike session - including a 4 sprint session. Isaiah 35 was good to reflect on with morning tea and fond memories of those who rejoice on another shore and in a greater light.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Good morning and a low 4.7 for me. Surprised as only 3 hours sleep, too much wine and even a glass of brandy with family last night, not quite in the state you got into @jjraak

Rain held off yesterday so good day at Trentham although forgot it was Halloween and so there was lots of monsters, witches, skeletons and ghosts about.

Rain here today but off to Mom in Laws to wait for wasp nest removal man, could be a long day as the time slot was anytime between 9 am and 5 pm, taking ear plugs as mom in law likes TV very, very, very loud.

Hope all your days are better than you expected.

What kind of earplugs do you use? I need to get some before Christmas when the neighbors sublet their apartment to what sounds like a basketball team every year. I have some earmuffs that deaden sound but I can't watch TV with them on and they fit so snugly I feel they are putting my blood pressure up!

 

[SaskiaKC]

7.1 this morning. I had expected a 6.something after a 9-hour fast, oh, well, yesterday was Hallowe'en, what can I say? The rain has gone and the sun is shining, bringing us to a very not-warm 2 degrees! I will put off my planned morning shopping trip until this afternoon.

Off now to read Isaiah 35, @ianpspurs .

 

[SaskiaKC]

 

[SaskiaKC]

Good morning surviviors of this year’s zombie cull. All the white rabbits still hiding in white rabbit city, nervously checking their pocket watches and muttering about being late.

The wonder wheel of ghosts, ghouls, witches and such like banging on your door every few minutes with begging bowls like a bunch of itinerant Buddhist monks (other monks available) gave out a rocky horror show of a 5.8 accompanied by an eerie Vincent Pricesaque “serves your right you Halloween glutton”.

Yesterday afternoon, in the park, bright, gloriously sunny afternoon, cold mind, loads of young giraffes charging about, a sight to behold.

Last night. Brilliantly ghastly stage show for the children early evening followed by a spectac of an organised firework display afterwards - lots of kids wearing ear muffs to deaden the sound. One of our twins loves a firework display - the other - no, just no. Never mind, she just stays at home with the autres choses gang. Grandson, Mr Pickle decided upon Fortnite Black Knight as his evening wear.

Have a great day if you can, Bon weekend and all that. Here is a photo of a landrover taken in the park yesterday for all landrover lovers.
On yams and clams and human hams and vintage coconut wine
The taste of which was filthy, but the after-effects divine
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Lovely Land Rover, and a ferociously fearsome Black Knight!