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

[UserABC2021]

As Terry Pratchett, films and the wonderful Life of Brian, have been touched upon today, is anyone watching or watched Good Omen, almost as good as the book IMO.

The book is one of my favourites, I'm a big fan of both authors and just finished re-reading Neverwhere (due on the small screen in the near future). I enjoyed the series and have watched it a few times now.

 

[gennepher]

I checked "Agree" for your last line; Hug for your whole post.
I hate being laughed at because I have "invisible" characteristics that keep me from doing some things other people do without even thinking. I am sorry you got the weird looks, sorrier still that you got the shocks. I'm wondering what the flooring material was in the supermarket, and your shoe soles.

My shoes are always rubber soles @SaskiaKC
Supermarket floors? I have no idea what they are.

But one store where I see my friend for a coffee, if we stand too close to each other, an electric shock goes from my hand or fingers to her hands/fingers.
I blame her and she blames me! We try to keep at least a few feet distance between us! But it only happens in that particular store, not in any other store. So you may have a point in bringing up floor materials.

 

[SaskiaKC]

good morning all

4.3 today

shopping and hopefully lunch out today

yesterday we managed to start doing some chopping up for disposal of some extremely thorny bits of tree, it was something that had grown from a random seedling over many years and which had got much too big to prune effectively ourselves.
Our neighbour got a new chainsaw and has been offering all the neighbours round about help with chopping and lopping straggly and dead looking tree bits

so, we asked him to take it down, result is a big mess of prickly branches and twigs. Branches can be dealt with, in many ways, more easily than the small thorny bits. The thorns are needle sharp and up to about 2 inches long, it has very effective defences

It was/is a 'Sea Buckthorn' , pretty orange berries -very sour (and yes I tried one ), which are harvested in some places as a source of vitamin C, fatty acids and other good stuff. But it can be invasive as it grows readily from the berries and the roots 'run'. What remains will probably regrow from the stump and there are a couple of seedlings elsewhere in our 'so called' garden so we can decide later which to allow to stay and we'll be able to prune to keep things reasonable.

Hope your day treats you kindly

Did he get the chainsaw for Christmas? I enjoyed picturing him as a boy with a new toy so excited and happy to share it with his neighbors! What a wonderful way to share his joy.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Fbg 6.7 at 4am

My painting for today...
A4 sized. Acrylics and white chalk pen and white gel pen...
Took about an hour...
View attachment 38096

Have a good weekend
Hugs for those who would like them
Take care

At first the taller tree looked very haunting to me; then I thought of it as sheltering its younger offshoot under its limbs. The water reminds me of a pool I saw from a bridge in Tuskegee National Forest, and of the lagoons at Hilton Head Island.
If I dipped a toe into the water, what would I become? ...
I would love to see your and @Muddy Cyclist 's paintings combined with a story by @jjraak .

 

[jjraak]

Well... In the context of that.. I'd wouldn't mind to see eithers interpretation of the McGarett Plains as it overlooks the Fourbidden Zone.. Or maybe the view from six rivers falls into the plains themselves.. That works in the water angle nicely, I think..

No pressure, guys...

 

[DJC3]

@DJC3 I have problems touching lift buttons (I get a shock and I use my rubber tipped stick or crutches outside and inside the lift to touch the buttons...and get stares...), metal cages holding goods on supermarket shelves etc...and more things too. And I am not supposed to have shocks because of the cochlear implant (and the wires and magnet in my head), although I have a document which tells me the range I can accept before it damages my cochlear implant. But how the heck do I know what that is before I try and lift a tin off the supermarket shelf?

I was trying to lift a tin off a wire grid shelf when I got a very sharp shock. I wanted the blinking tin. I tried again. Another shock. So I went to look for an assistant, and explained. They did come and lift the item for me out of the wire grid shelf, and carried it to the counter for me (the item was only small) but they looked at me as though I was doolally and it was time for them to call the men in white coats on me.

Then I was still unable to lift it off the counter to carry it to the car (because the tin kept shocking me and the guy thought I was crazy each time I pulled my hand back as it gave me a shock) and so I had to ask the assistant to carry it to the car for me because it was still giving me shocks. The assistant ‘knew’ I was definitely ready for the funny farm. I got home, and the tin was fine for me to pick up and get it out of the car to my bungalow.

The way the assistant was looking at me frightened me badly. And I now order all my tins from Amazon now... I have no problem taking any tin out the the cardboard box it comes from Amazon, and I have no problems handling tins or any metal at home.

Some days I am worse than others with this, but I have given up going to the shops for anything that involves metal or tins that I have to directly touch.

I have been like this since I was a child...

It is easier to stay at home and not go out...

That’s such a shame Gennepher. I know the shocks can be quite painful though. I wonder if you could carry a metal spoon in your pocket when you go to the shops? If you held it and touched the tin, or the wire crate with the other end of it first, you should earth yourself.
I used to do this at work - I worked in a microbiology lab and had to wash my hands a hundred times a day. When I was in one of these phases I’d touch the taps with a ( sterile) metal inoculation loop before turning them on. Sometimes I’d see the spark jump from the metal I was holding right over to the tap! It would be safe to wash my hands then though.

 

[gennepher]

At first the taller tree looked very haunting to me; then I thought of it as sheltering its younger offshoot under its limbs. The water reminds me of a pool I saw from a bridge in Tuskegee National Forest, and of the lagoons at Hilton Head Island.
If I dipped a toe into the water, what would I become? ...
I would love to see your and @Muddy Cyclist 's paintings combined with a story by @jjraak .

I often do trees reaching out for each other, or bigger ones protecting a younger smaller tree @SaskiaKC

 

[gennepher]

That’s such a shame Gennepher. I know the shocks can be quite painful though. I wonder if you could carry a metal spoon in your pocket when you go to the shops? If you held it and touched the tin, or the wire crate with the other end of it first, you should earth yourself.
I used to do this at work - I worked in a microbiology lab and had to wash my hands a hundred times a day. When I was in one of these phases I’d touch the taps with a ( sterile) metal inoculation loop before turning them on. Sometimes I’d see the spark jump from the metal I was holding right over to the tap! It would be safe to wash my hands then though.

Thanks @DJC3
I will try that.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Well... In the context of that.. I'd wouldn't mind to see eithers interpretation of the McGarett Plains as it overlooks the Fourbidden Zone.. Or maybe the view from six rivers falls into the plains themselves.. That works in the water angle nicely, I think..

No pressure, guys...

And y'all wouldn't have to travel to Oxford for your collaborations ...

 

[SaskiaKC]

I just got my lab results from Wednesday's doctor's appointment.
A1C is 6.3% which she says is fine but is higher than the "standard range" of 4.0 - 5.3%. I wish I knew how to translate that number but I have tried and failed and there is no website that will do it for me. Anyway it is the highest it's been over a year. LDL is 123; how can that be "a little high" when it's right within the "standard" range of 75 - 193 mg/dL?

I wrote back to her asking if we could keep the statin at its current dosage and I could try eating better but I doubt I can.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Great jam night, murdered many good tunes now have a house of musicians tying to sleep or quietly playing the blues, good for the soul. I have the unenviable job of tidying up Mrs MC retired to bed, so listening to the blues gently being played, drinking too much red wine I tackle the aftermath of a fine evening.

Sorry no painting today but you will have to accept lots of creativity on musical instruments.

I dare not feed Dracula, will see what the Morning brings.

Sleep tight one and all.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Sounds like fun. I wish y'all could bounce it off a satellite so I could hear it!

Oh, how you would have enjoyed it. We get through so much music, we are not always great but every one enjoys it and lots of noise is made. As the night moves on we start to know how each musician works and there are some truly wonderful moments that stand out against the majority of mediocre music

The main thing is every one without exception enjoyed it.

@jjraak write the opening scene and let's see what art it contours.

Too musically charged to sleep, tidying up done and so back to playing some slow blues.

I dare not feed Dracula, so let's see what Morning brings.

 

[SaskiaKC]

I bet the music is all great. I enjoyed reading about it. Thank you for posting.

 

[UserABC2021]

I'm being very quiet. 5.7 this morning and her ladyship is heading for warmer climes for a week. Hence my 0430 romping around, sleep well

 

[SaskiaKC]

Great jam night, murdered many good tunes now have a house of musicians tying to sleep or quietly playing the blues, good for the soul. I have the unenviable job of tidying up Mrs MC retired to bed, so listening to the blues gently being played, drinking too much red wine I tackle the aftermath of a fine evening.

Sorry no painting today but you will have to accept lots of creativity on musical instruments.

I dare not feed Dracula, will see what the Morning brings.

Sleep tight one and all.

It sounds very close to heaven.
I don't know if y'all do much Welsh music but your post brought to mind some songs on a Meredydd Evans record I was given decades by a Welsh friend, and have just been listening to again on YouTube.

 

[SaskiaKC]

I'm being very quiet. 5.7 this morning and her ladyship is heading for warmer climes for a week. Hence my 0430 romping around, sleep well

Happy romping.

 

[jjraak]

I just got my lab results from Wednesday's doctor's appointment.
A1C is 6.3% which she says is fine but is higher than the "standard range" of 4.0 - 5.3%. I wish I knew how to translate that number but I have tried and failed and there is no website that will do it for me. Anyway it is the highest it's been over a year. LDL is 123; how can that be "a little high" when it's right within the "standard" range of 75 - 193 mg/dL?

I wrote back to her asking if we could keep the statin at its current dosage and I could try eating better but I doubt I can.

Mg/do converter
HBA1c converter

At 6.3, I think that puts you into pre diabetic zone.
Not too shabby, as you say, if I recall it's not only T2 you are trying to balance

 

[SaskiaKC]

Mg/do converter
HBA1c converter

Thank you but I have no idea what mg/do means or what number goes where. Is my 6.3% an mg or an mmol? I do know that the last time I tried to figure this out I got a number that was nowhere even in the ballpark of HbA1C numbers other people were posting here.
As usual, math leaves me sitting on the sidelines but for this I don't really want to just get up and walk off the field.

 

[jjraak]

As I understand it, @SaskiaKC
They changed the way it's presented.

So a 6.4% would be equal to 47 in UK mmol.

The part that gets hard to remember is the MMOL for HBA1c...Is NOT the same as the everyday MMOL we use for the finger pricking
I know, confusing huh.

So for THAT..Americans report it as
126 mg/dl
And in the UK, that would be 7.0 mmol

If you scroll down those links, I think it shows THOSE examples a little better.

I would also caution, that for all the disappointment, and I think we have all been there, with our own figures at some point.
Where a ***, .. And maybe even a WHY do I bother..

EVERYTHING WE DO
Has kept us at a far healthier level then if we simply went with the flow, and ate as instructed.

EVERY Day, we post in range, is a day further away from the complications that MIGHT begin to start making any inroads on our health.

And I Celebrate each of THOSE days as a Victory.

One over on the beast lurking within.

We may never beat it, but by God, we are NOT going quietly, WITHOUT a **** good fight.

 

[ianpspurs]

Happy Third Sunday of Epiphany or other meaningful label for today. Fbg of 4.8 around 4.00 am. That is not a great fbg but better than a 5. Tempting to ascribe that to a niche diet of Haggis, Cropwell Bishop and sampling the malt whisky collection. Diet doesn't work as an explanation for me. (@DJC3 it never degenerated into blended W or Walnut liquer from Domme.) IMHO a much more likely explanation is the environmental factors; boys, grandchildren things we understood ,were created for. Julie was palpably more Julie. @Muddy Cyclist Dracula may well surprise you as yesterday sounds very much who and what you are meant to be. @SaskiaKC I think the Dr is merely covering his or her backside by giving the target numbers. All the best teachers know there is no such thing as the average child so there can't be average adults. These targets seem to be derived from some quasi mystical law to the effect of "on average folks about here on these metrics are ok (ish)." 1 John 1 v4, England cricket team balcony when Ollie Pope hit his maiden test ton, America's team documentaries (NFL) and so on all admonish me to feel more joy in other people's successes - no I in team kinda vibe. Have a great day and share your triumphs however small just to metaphorically scourge me. (Still 4.8 + 2 hrs after bulletproof tea)