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

shelley262 said:
Hi Debandez just a quick response but can empathise with this it’s happened to me during and after stress. I can go up high and quickly as adrenaline kicks in but then if eat little as you did and stress stops and relax and especially if mid afternoon before dinner/tea it can drop really low I have gone down to low 3s at times mid pm once stress ended and not much food.
Other issue sometimes it can be odd at beginning or end of the sensors life - if you suspect it may not be right you could check with a finger prick and see if it’s similar.
Sounds like you did a wonderful job at the Tower well done you. I’d expect it to balance again tomorrow as you have a more normal day and with your usual eating patterns. X
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This is great feedback thank you so much. Had dinner now and an hour after 4.5
 
PenguinMum said:
My best friend’s little Westie passed away yesterday approaching his 18th birthday so a grand old age. He saw her through all her cancer treatment in the last two years. He was a right character, very clever, and as she lives alone he was her child. He came on beach holidays with us to Cornwall and Ireland and we have loads of great memories of funny moments with him like when Mr PM walked him too far and he developed a limp so OH carried him all the way home to let him down as he scampered in not a sign of a limp!
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What a sweet and honorable elegy for your friend's companion. Thank you for posting about him here.
 
Hi.

Can't say it's BG related, just posting to clear my head, apologies.

just back a few hours from hospital, sat an hour with my nephew.

Literally forcing, in the politest way possible, his reluctant brothers and sister
to take a much needed moment from their sad vigil to eat some food i brought up.
God bless them.

Little change..still and lifeless, apart from the beep of the machines.

We're all praying and hoping he pulls through, but the odds tilted slightly today,
but we hope and pray for a better tomorrow, regardless.

For all my railing against the poor quality and indecisiveness of the NHS re T2,
i SAW the NHS in it's FULL POMP. tonight.

Have always said when it's needed...........it's Par Excellence,
....and it was tonight.

Staff so caring, lovely & thoughtful ..taking time to makes us as comfortable as possible
without being in the way of them doing their job

He's still unconscious, yet i heard the nurses speak softly and politely to
him explaining what they were doing, and apologising for any discomfort.
(because someone was there..? ..maybe..though i believe that made little difference)

Hooked up to all the monitors, you appreciate how complicated we must be

That we can to do so much, be so full of life on a daily basis, take so many things for granted each day..YET ...
when we desperately need help, it's a plethora of devices just to keep us alive.

I hope he heard the words of love they all gave him,
I hope deep within, he's on his way back to the surface.
I hope tomorrow the news is better..

Love to all.
Hug those who are close.
call those who are further away.

There will never be a better time then NOW

as Nike say..Just Do IT.
 
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jjraak said:
Hi.

Can't say it's BG related, just posting to clear my head, apologies.

just back a few hours from hospital, sat an hour with my nephew.

Literally forcing, in the politest way possible, his reluctant brothers and sister
to take a much needed moment from their sad vigil to eat some food i brought up.
God bless them.

Little change..still and lifeless, apart from the beep of the machines.

We're all praying and hoping he pulls through, but the odds tilted slightly today,
but we hope and pray for a better tomorrow, regardless.

For all my railing against the poor quality and indecisiveness of the NHS re T2,
i SAW the NHS in it's FULL POMP. tonight.

Have always said when it's needed...........it's Par Excellence,
....and it was tonight.

Staff so caring, lovely & thoughtful ..taking time to makes us as comfortable as possible
without being in the way of them doing their job

He's still unconscious, yet i heard the nurses speak softly and politely to
him explaining what they were doing, and apologising for any discomfort.
(because someone was there..? ..maybe..though i believe that made little difference)

Hooked up to all the monitors, you appreciate how complicated we must be

That we can to do so much, be so full of life on a daily basis, take so many things for granted each day..YET ...
when we desperately need help, it's a plethora of devices just to keep us alive.

I hope he heard the words of love they all gave him,
I hope deep within, he's on his way back to the surface.
I hope tomorrow the news is better..

Love to all.
Hug those who are close.
call those who are further away.

There will never be a better time then NOW

as Nike say..Just Do IT.
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You brought tears to my eyes.

Your nurses and staff are very empathic and caring with your nephew. That is beautiful.

Hugs for all of you and your family.

And for everyone

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Morning all. Keeping to my LCHF and nil booze routine.

Forgot my meds last night, so got same old FBG at 0520 this morning, 7.3 mmo/lt, same as yesterday.

Weatherman said the word "sun" for the South Coast, just for an hour or two. May the sun shine on you too today.
 
Fbg 7.6

My day didn't work out very well with the audiologist yesterday. My appointment ended up two hours long. Her computer kept crashing and she kept having to reboot again and again. It is a new upgraded computer screen to what it was before.

Consequently things couldn't get done, she couldn't do with my speech processor that were supposed/needed to be done, yesterday, and that initial Apple iOS update has impacted on the cochlear team in a big time consuming way. It has messed up a lot of people and stuff.

It would take too long to explain how it is still impacting on me, even though I now have the Android device now as my phone.

I was nearly in tears, came home very frustrated and overtired. I bought a loaf of low GI seeded bread. I was in need of comfort. I also bought some mince pies. I went to bed with the cat, bread and butter sandwiches, 3 mince pies and a large gin and tonic.

Hence the rise in blood sugars.

The other mince pice, although delicious is now in the bin, as is also the other half of the lovely bread.

Today is a new day.

As jjraak says, there is only the NOW, so this is a new day. Yesterday is yesterday. Just had a coffee and I will eat to my blood sugars today. I know that I will be back on track by tomorrow. And I am discussing with a friend this morning about yesterday's appointment. She says she has some ideas.

So, have a good day, the best you possibly can. And give someone a hug, open a door for a stranger, let the person behind you have your place in the shopping queue, buy a stranger a coffee, admire someone's cardigan or their shoes, and more - these are all things total strangers have done for me and it brightens up the whole of the rest of my day.

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@gennepher It sounds like you know how to take care of yourself. Bread is such an age-old staff of life that sometimes I think it's almost in our DNA. Good for you, as well, for binning the other mince pie and the rest of the bread. For me that's usually what it takes to make sure I really don't eat the whole thing!

I am now going to go back to bed to see if I can actually get to sleep this time.
 
SaskiaKC said:
@gennepher It sounds like you know how to take care of yourself. Bread is such an age-old staff of life that sometimes I think it's almost in our DNA. Good for you, as well, for binning the other mince pie and the rest of the bread. For me that's usually what it takes to make sure I really don't eat the whole thing!

I am now going to go back to bed to see if I can actually get to sleep this time.
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This is the first time I have managed to bin it the next morning. It served its purpose when I needed it/something yesterday.

So, I binned it all this morning, despite it being really delicious. If I do this eating a 2nd day, then I will be approaching double figures. So that is not on.

Have a good night's sleep @SaskiaKC

Sweet dreams.

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Good Morning and a 5.9 from my pet Dracula.

@jjraak thoughts and spirit with you my friend, fine actions, words and sentiments, no apology needed.

@gennepher I gave you a hug rating but have a winner also for your determination not to give in under all of your frustrating problems and yesterday's debacle.

Wardrobe delivery day so going to be busy and baffled by the do it yourself build I face.

keep calm, don't waste time it's precious but remember to smell the roses along the way.
 
jjraak said:
Hooked up to all the monitors, you appreciate how complicated we must be
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jjraak any small improvement has to be sized with both hands we are complicated but our capacity to get through these times is amazing...I have been in the same position & know talking to them naturally is so important they can hear (that is often the last sense to go) and are still very much here with us...positives thought for you & your family.
 
gennepher said:
Today is a new day.
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The pie & sandwiches served their purpose gennepher now rightly they're dispatched to the bin...your so right.today is a new day I'm off to London a quick visit to our office...drop the paperwork then meeting a very dear old friend & her daughter...exchange Christmas presents & make arrangements to see each other more often...hugs to all who need them...don't be shy plenty to go round...take care out there.
 
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Morning...launched into an orgy of housework yesterday it took me completely by surprise...real housework when I'd finished I was exhausted...lots of tweeting with @Debandez on her sterling performance in Blackpool...come bedtime it seemed to take an age to go to sleep too much adrenalin...woke this morning to a 5.7 I am making a more conscious effort to bring myself back in line...apple tarts for the office made waiting to see if they survive the journey on the A1(M) to London...our country roads are so uneven if I were feeling poetic I might say undulating!
 
Morning All. Another 6.6 this time I dont know why.
@jjraak love and hope to you and your family. The young have reserves of strength so PG he will come through. Good to hear about the wonderful care. @gennepher I am frustrated for you, what a prolonged unhappy episode. No wonder you had the picnic under the rug with Popeye afterwards. @HarryBeau glad you are well and enjoy the meet up with friends today. Apple tarts are a fine thing from my past.
Rainy and windy here this morning and darker than usual. Wishing you all a day of hope and renewal. Stay well, stay safe.
 
6.3 this morning. I know why though - poor liver recovering after the boozy weekend. I’ll have to live very frugally for a day or 2 in order to get back on the straight and narrow.
My Freestyle Libre arrived yesterday, I decided to self fund it for a couple of weeks, then maybe try a fortnight on every 2 months. I’m not putting it on this morning though as it won’t tell me anything I don’t know about today’s readings.
Now to read back over 78 posts I’ve missed!
Happy Tuesday all.

EDit to change Monday to Tuesday. Duh!
 
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In the immortal words of the prophet Fred Astaire -

"Heaven, I'm 5.7,
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When a nice fish curry is starting off the week…"

Have a great day :)
 
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