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OldButBold said:
The problem in the past with PPS is that in the USA people were being sued for dodgy vaccine use. There was a faulty monkey vaccine that was used both there and the UK which led to a claim that PPS was the result. It wasn't but the UK got defensive and refused to acknowledge PPS for a long while. I don't blame the 'boots on the ground' NHS for this, these choices were made by the govt.

I guess I should admit that I am medically trained so I still have many colleagues in the NHS that helped get PPS recognised. I left western medicine in the early 80s as I was disillusioned (and an undiagnosed aspie) and took degrees in other fields. One of my main worries back then was specialisation without integration and I recently experienced this when my ENT consultant checked my sleep apnea but refused to run laryngeal tests as she was 'only a nasal consultant'. I pointed out that ENT meant Ear Nose and Throat but she wouldn't have it :wideyed:

Can I just say that everyone here shows tenacity and joie de vie in the face of diabetes and its associated co-morbidities. Each one of you is a light to each other and the new folk that pass by. Thank you all for your stories here :)
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Can only repeat what others have already said, my friend.
best wishes and hopes the implications and process are a way off the mark, less intrusive and as slow moving as possible.

And as it's so far in the future, Have you considered the possibility that bonding with the Borg, MIGHT JUST Become possible, come the time that you really need to think such thoughts ..;)

I DO SO agree with your end statement, it truly is a remarkable group.

Take care my friend,
for us all 'Each days, Another day'
nothings guaranteed
 
geefull said:
Katy can't climb the curtains like Lola but she does like to play with the bottom of the door curtain in Mum's sitting room, it is weighted and she lies down and 'boxes' it to make percussion accompaniment to our conversations
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geeful she sounds perfect what a little lady...I've just let Dennis The Menace & Minnie The Minx out for a couple of minutes watching them from the doors...then hoping they'll go for a snooze...maybe your mother and me need to swop just for a month or so:D:D:D
 
SaskiaKC said:
I have finally found a mattress. For purposes of this thread I will call it an InterSprung. It is made by Wolf, so hopefully it will live up to its ads and keep me from counting sheep.

Happy Wednesday, everyone. I'm for bed.
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Great news..so glad you got one you wanted..

and before you throw out the old one..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-51466978/how-mattresses-could-solve-hunger

have a good sleep @SaskiaKC , catch you on the afternoon shift..:)
 
Very disheartened & obviously a very bad 'parent' just re-watching 40 years of The Brits...got slightly carried away and blasted out a line from Adele's Someone Like You...Charlie & Lola jumped a foot high & shot off the sofa ungrateful to say the least...wait until they next misbehave I know exactly what to do!
 
jjraak said:
And as it's so far in the future, Have you considered the possibility that bonding with the Borg, MIGHT JUST Become possible, come the time that you really need to think such thoughts ..
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I had considered options akin to that, such as volunteering to be a cyborg or downloading my consciousness into the web and creating the Singularity. I even considered volunteering for the one-way Mars mission.

The world is my oyster :)
 
OldButBold said:
I had considered options akin to that, such as volunteering to be a cyborg or downloading my consciousness into the web and creating the Singularity. I even considered volunteering for the one-way Mars mission.

The world is my oyster :)
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WOW..Wouldn't THAT be some trip, huh..:D

That web thing, not so much.:sorry:

seen far too many get carried away by the power ..:rolleyes:
 
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FBG 7.6 this morning. I think I have figured something out. Whenever I am really hungry, and think my blood sugar is low, and I check it, it is actually a little high, as this morning. So maybe that "hunger" was just a carb-craving? If I do low-carb for awhile I remember the difference between carb-craving and actual hunger, and the latter actually feels good, and healthy -- because, thank goodness, I am able to get food and eat it; I have never known starvation.
 
HarryBeau said:
Very disheartened & obviously a very bad 'parent' just re-watching 40 years of The Brits...got slightly carried away and blasted out a line from Adele's Someone Like You...Charlie & Lola jumped a foot high & shot off the sofa ungrateful to say the least...wait until they next misbehave I know exactly what to do!
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Look out, Charlie & Lola! ^. .^. .^
Nice to see you back again in your avatar. I hope Harry is well. :)
 
OldButBold said:
6.2 this morning following another bout of daytime lows.

I received my official diagnosis for Post Polio Syndrome yesterday.

No worries, I have been chasing this dragon for 20 years. Back at the start, the NHS refused to discuss it and I sat on my hands and waited. Five years back they looked at it and said: "you may have but it hasn't progressed to where it is a problem".

Last two years I've had swallowing issues, blackouts, sleep apnea, muscle issues, fatigue, and, it seems, T2. Hospital had looked at each separately and refused to link them until recently, and now they have conceded.

Like my Asperger's diagnosis, I am quite happy to finally get my PPS recognised, not happy that I have it mind.

Now that it is official they also let me know that there are around 120,000 polio survivors left over from the 50s in the UK and there's a high chance they could develop PPS. Nice to know.

The reason for the final diagnosis is that my symptoms are progressively worsening and there is no known cure for it.

Anyways, final days are still a way off and I'll probably choose euthanasia as my option. Not a religious man so tots and pears aren't necessary, but I thought I'd share it as it will be a factor in my ongoing T2 and may have been the underlying cause.

Enjoy the day ;)
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You too, @OldButBold. I am so sorry to read of your diagnosis.
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ianpspurs said:
Thank you for that information. I need to look back over chrono meter data and see what biotin levels are/were. Also need to find which foods are high in biotin as I don't take supplements. I just hope tea, avocado and salad aren't high in biotin as that is pretty much my diet. Good to see you back in low 5s and that eye treatment less worrying. Take care
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I looked up foods with biotin and I realised that all my favourite foods have a lot of biotin except for Montezuma 's. My feeling is that if it is in food it is OK. The supplement I took had masses of biotin - which I think caused the problem.

It will be interesting to see if I have another low hb1ac in March. If I don't - it wasn't stopping the biotin that lowered the hba1c.. Of course I did buy some lovely new socks before I had the hba1c - so it could well be the new socks that gave me the low hba1c.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I looked up foods with biotin and I realised that all my favourite foods have a lot of biotin except for Montezuma 's. My feeling is that if it is in food it is OK. The supplement I took had masses of biotin - which I think caused the problem.

It will be interesting to see if I have another low hb1ac in March. If I don't - it wasn't stopping the biotin that lowered the hba1c.. Of course I did buy some lovely new socks before I had the hba1c - so it could well be the new socks that gave me the low hba1c.
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I should be fine then. I bought about 20 pairs after my last A1c. Avocado wasn't on the hibi list
 
SaskiaKC said:
Look out, Charlie & Lola! ^. .^. .^
Nice to see you back again in your avatar. I hope Harry is well. :)
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Just done a short walk with Harry Saskia...my knee has been so bad recently I'd stopped walking with him...however the less I use it the stiffer & more painful it becomes so starting short walks for now...Charlie & Lola are in their room they're fine their new toys have just arrived catnip bananas & a cat dental brush toy for their little teethies.
 
dunelm said:
@SaskiaKC - I hope that the springing wolf will give you years of comfort. Howling at a full moon should add extra excitement.
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Oh my goodness, you know me! :)
One of my favorite T-shirts (pic found online but mine is identical; just can't get up to photograph it right now as I have a sleeping cat in my lap) --

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jjraak said:
Great news..so glad you got one you wanted..

and before you throw out the old one..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-51466978/how-mattresses-could-solve-hunger

have a good sleep @SaskiaKC , catch you on the afternoon shift..:)
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Brilliant article. Thank you for the link. I went over to the University of Sheffield's website after reading the article you linked, and it's a fascinating project (also makes me very angry on behalf of the refugees, as the Sheffield professors writes:
The news is often full of refugee crises couched in terms such as “how will we cope?”, without much thought for the refugees themselves.

One of my good horsey friends has a father who is a retired missionary who worked in an engineering field. He is also a farmer, so I am going to link her to a couple of these articles to see if she wants to pass them on to him. Also want to check out my alma mater Auburn University's website to see what they may be doing (traditionally an agricultural and engineering university).
Hopefully I can also -- which would actually be the most important task -- find a local organization that could take my mattress for something useful like this.

Your post goes well with a review I read just the other day of a cat litter made from corn -- one customer was appalled that in some homes cats are literally pi$$ing on what could serve as food for other creatures in other homes ...

Thank you.
 
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