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

dunelm said:
good morning everyone from a dull and fabulously quiet start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of roasted cod with asparagus and a poached egg came in at 4.6 this am

Bit of a damp squib yesterday, a remake of that boring old black and white talkie from Ingmar Bergman “The Day of the Procrastinator”. Never mind, I did manage to get an arbitrary 10 000 steps in without even leaving the house. Next door neighbour threw her keys in the dog poo bin when out walking her dogs (I have no other information and it was current at the time of telling) so I let her through into the garden and to climb over the wall - luckily her back door was open and her keys were on the kitchen table - “it’s a miracle.”

A doggy doodle today - I painted another fish but wasn’t happy with the outcome. Hope everyone is enjoying the right of spring - ballet boots at the ready. Time for koffy.

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All going swimmingly with your art. I do like the movement and feel of freedom with your brush strokes, lovely.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

I didn't get enough sleep. I was turning my devices off for the night at 7pm. I wanted an early night. But a text came through from a friend whose cancer has returned. She's been free a few years now after battling for years. But lockdown has taken its toll with her, and she managed to break a leg walking up her stairs at Xmas, plus a few similar disasters, so her spirits are low. So, I didn't get to sleep early, and still woke up at 3am, as I usually do. But as my cancer friend and I were texting, another friend on another chat app came on and she urgently wanted to talk. Checked how important it was, then told her I was texting my cancer friend, and I will talk to her later today. I have turned off all my chat app alerts from her to off for a number of hours. I need some sanity...

Birds in my back garden.
Mrs Blackbird was pouting at me yesterday morning. I took a photo of her. She was about just over a metre away. She took the hump, gave up on dangerous fly pasts in front of my face. and gathered up leaves and stuff for her nest building and went the back way into the clematis where I 'couldn't see' her entering the leaves.
Now I can sit in the garden without the danger of Mrs Blackbird colliding with my face. She is taking it out on the smaller birds though and trying to make their life a misery. But they don't care, they keep bouncing back where she doesn't want them.

This morning I have a pair of pied wagtails, a pair of robins, a pair of sparrows, a pair of dunnocks, a pair of finches, a pair of longtailedtits, a pair of bluetits and more of that family, and more birds. No others pairs of blackbirds though. Usually I have around 3 pairs of blackbirds in my back garden. But her Mr Blackbird looks a meany too. He has just scattered the sparrows who were having a bath in my bird bath, and claimed it for himself. Mrs Blackbird came along to find out what the fuss was about, and sent Mr Blackbird packing to do something useful. And now she is having a bath...

My cherry trees are full of a whole pile of starlings all neatly lined up on the branches. Then the lone straggler (spellcheck changed this to 'strangler'???) came along and pushed a space into an already crowded overloaded cherry branch...and the whole lot came tumbling down...

Now it is a pair of magpies dancing between the cherry tree branches...very soon a pair of ravens will come along and send them packing. There is nothing larger than the ravens at this point of time...

And I have been doing my digital painting while watching this lot. I have quite a few garden ornaments. Many years ago when J was alive, he would put fairies in my garden, especially when I had been away a few days. And I would look at the garden and think, there's something different. I would go out, and find a fairy hiding in the ivy, or a new hanging fairy bird birth. There was nothing colourful, usually just the darkish grey fairy ornaments you see in garden centres or Past Times (does that shop still exist? I will have to google later....) . I always got fairies for my birthday and Christmas as well. It was J's last Christmas present to me. Anyway this fairy is a bronze-ish colour. She lies on a sundial, fast sleep. It sits on my wooden bench. So, I decided to wake her up, and give her a pair of wide-open eyes...

Ah the robins are back, clearing up the insects under my wooden thatched swing...

Have a good day...

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A lot of romance taking part in your garden and your can always rely on the Starrlings to turn up in a gang a bit West Side Story like. A Great Portrait of the fairy of Chocolate Delight, delicious if not a little mischievous.:)
 
BRSBRI said:
Hello everyone:- update on Astra Zeneca jab aftermath.

Haven't felt very hungry, have a stinking headache and a bit of an upset tummy.

Not eaten anything since breakfast, but blood sugars have gone up to 7.9 at 1245 but now at 6.1 - or more or less where I was when I woke up.

Taking the rest of the afternoon off work...

Hopefully this is the worst of it!
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Winner for getting Jab, ouch for reaction. Mrs MC was very poorly for 10 hours but it passed, hope it does soon for you.

Winner for promotion prospects, you will find ways to handle the BG and Dracula feeding sessions I'm sure.

I have to ask 'Susie' really? I seem to remember you saying you need all the street cred you can get. :)
 
Wilfrid VW camper passed the MOT, looked at certificate and realised that in the last 12 months Wilfrid only did 3k miles.

Today's art first of my Manicured Landscapes, will put the foreground in Wednesday once it's dried.

A4 watercolour about an hour so far...
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Muddy Cyclist said:
A lot of romance taking part in your garden and your can always rely on the Starrlings to turn up in a gang a bit West Side Story like. A Great Portrait of the fairy of Chocolate Delight, delicious if not a little mischievous.:)
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With all two the by twos, I thought gennepher's neighbour had some inside information and was constructing an Ark!:)
D.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
A lot of romance taking part in your garden and your can always rely on the Starrlings to turn up in a gang a bit West Side Story like. A Great Portrait of the fairy of Chocolate Delight, delicious if not a little mischievous.:)
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist
The starlings do a good number in musical branches...
Thanks for the painting compliment :)
 
good evening all :)

4.5 today

spent an hour raking beech leaves in Mum's garden so that will have to do for today's exercise ;)

My own take on managing my T2D is mostly in my signature, I was lucky to be able to lose a lot of weight to bring me into what I suppose is 'remission', am I 'fixed' nope, can't go back to eating the way I used to. I try to keep it in balance with a lowish carb. diet but not keto by any stretch and tend towards more protein rather than more fat. Who knows what my next A1c will show.

My HC records say'resolved' whatever that means :sorry: Haven't had bloods done for 12 months, toe tickles ;) or an eye check for 18 months. I shall try later this week to book a blood test and see what the reply is :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - thank you for my hug :) Love the colour palette you've used for your fairy and the sculptural quality of her face :joyful: I agree that art is therapeutic :)

@lindisfel - Verucca Salt? ... I was thinking more along the lines of Queen ;)

@dunelm - A spare but very effective doggy picture today, so well captured, you do such strong stroke work :joyful:

@BRSBRI - hugs for the vaccine reaction. I had the Oxford vaccine too last week and had an uncomfortable 24 hours but improved after that. Better that than covid ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Yay for Wilfrid :joyful:
Grand light in your dawn sketch and I like the distant vista and today's painting has fantastic light and depth of space, I like it very much already as it is :)

art bit - my version of a work by an artist called Sergei Temerev, I like the light he gets into his skies ;)

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Muddy Cyclist said:
Wilfrid VW camper passed the MOT, looked at certificate and realised that in the last 12 months Wilfrid only did 3k miles.

Today's art first of my Manicured Landscapes, will put the foreground in Wednesday once it's dried.

A4 watercolour about an hour so far...
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Glad about Wilfred passing MOT
I like your landscape very much just as it is.
It takes me back to the tree lined Roland Hilder prints I remember seeing adorning walls when I was a child @Muddy Cyclist
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

spent an hour raking beech leaves in Mum's garden so that will have to do for today's exercise ;)

My own take on managing my T2D is mostly in my signature, I was lucky to be able to lose a lot of weight to bring me into what I suppose is 'remission', am I 'fixed' nope, can't go back to eating the way I used to. I try to keep it in balance with a lowish carb. diet but not keto by any stretch and tend towards more protein rather than more fat. Who knows what my next A1c will show.

My HC records say'resolved' whatever that means :sorry: Haven't had bloods done for 12 months, toe tickles ;) or an eye check for 18 months. I shall try later this week to book a blood test and see what the reply is :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - thank you for my hug :) Love the colour palette you've used for your fairy and the sculptural quality of her face :joyful: I agree that art is therapeutic :)

@lindisfel - Verucca Salt? ... I was thinking more along the lines of Queen ;)

@dunelm - A spare but very effective doggy picture today, so well captured, you do such strong stroke work :joyful:

@BRSBRI - hugs for the vaccine reaction. I had the Oxford vaccine too last week and had an uncomfortable 24 hours but improved after that. Better that than covid ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Yay for Wilfrid :joyful:
Grand light in your dawn sketch and I like the distant vista and today's painting has fantastic light and depth of space, I like it very much already as it is :)

art bit - my version of a work by an artist called Sergei Temerev, I like the light he gets into his skies ;)

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Thanks for my art fairy compliment @geefull

That is a brilliant sky in your painting. I love it...
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Winner for getting Jab, ouch for reaction. Mrs MC was very poorly for 10 hours but it passed, hope it does soon for you.

Winner for promotion prospects, you will find ways to handle the BG and Dracula feeding sessions I'm sure.

I have to ask 'Susie' really? I seem to remember you saying you need all the street cred you can get. :)
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Susie was a bad mistake, you're right. Sid fits the persona. I think that's better! Sid and Wilf - the new Thelma and Louise?

Glad Mrs MC got over it...I've had a bowl of soup and my BG is now 4.7 - which is the lowest it's ever been. It's up and down like a yoyo...Normally in the 6s or 5s...headache going, arm stiff as a board.
Wife's sympathy evaporating, " I said for better or worse not better or NURSE". Blimey - that's me told

I once had deep fried tarantula in Cambodia - I think that might be too high carbs now !
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

spent an hour raking beech leaves in Mum's garden so that will have to do for today's exercise ;)

My own take on managing my T2D is mostly in my signature, I was lucky to be able to lose a lot of weight to bring me into what I suppose is 'remission', am I 'fixed' nope, can't go back to eating the way I used to. I try to keep it in balance with a lowish carb. diet but not keto by any stretch and tend towards more protein rather than more fat. Who knows what my next A1c will show.

My HC records say'resolved' whatever that means :sorry: Haven't had bloods done for 12 months, toe tickles ;) or an eye check for 18 months. I shall try later this week to book a blood test and see what the reply is :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - thank you for my hug :) Love the colour palette you've used for your fairy and the sculptural quality of her face :joyful: I agree that art is therapeutic :)

@lindisfel - Verucca Salt? ... I was thinking more along the lines of Queen ;)

@dunelm - A spare but very effective doggy picture today, so well captured, you do such strong stroke work :joyful:

@BRSBRI - hugs for the vaccine reaction. I had the Oxford vaccine too last week and had an uncomfortable 24 hours but improved after that. Better that than covid ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Yay for Wilfrid :joyful:
Grand light in your dawn sketch and I like the distant vista and today's painting has fantastic light and depth of space, I like it very much already as it is :)

art bit - my version of a work by an artist called Sergei Temerev, I like the light he gets into his skies ;)

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Thank you for painting compliment.

I do like the painting you have done today and you have managed to capture the light in that sky.

Leaf gathering is certainly good exercise.

With you and @jjraak on Eating regime and where we are with T2D, it isn't going away we can only do our best to manage it.
 
BRSBRI said:
Susie was a bad mistake, you're right. Sid fits the persona. I think that's better! Sid and Wilf - the new Thelma and Louise?

Glad Mrs MC got over it...I've had a bowl of soup and my BG is now 4.7 - which is the lowest it's ever been. It's up and down like a yoyo...Normally in the 6s or 5s...headache going, arm stiff as a board.
Wife's sympathy evaporating, " I said for better or worse not better or NURSE". Blimey - that's me told

I once had deep fried tarantula in Cambodia - I think that might be too high carbs now !
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Glad your feeling better, sorry you can no longer play the sympathy card.

Sid is much better, bet he's too precious to be stamped like Wilfrid, I used my dads signature, Dad was a great adventurer and it was inheritance pennies from dad that meant I could purchase Wilfrid.......
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And on the bonnet.... and me before loss of weight, I'm skinny now. :)
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jjraak said:
Had to Google, soz arty folk :rolleyes::bag:

Indeed it does, well spotted, @gennepher
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Couldn't find any bare winter trees...
 
Swipey says... 6.2 ➡️
Jabbed arm.. hurts like hell and was overcome early last night with a massive wave of tiredness and actually turned in early. Trying to work out whether resulting neck ache is down to the jab, or to the extended Physio Rehab workouts of the last couple of days and DOMS. Needless to say today is a rest day as the next couple of sessions are... cardio boxing or Resistance/Weights work. Noping the hell out of those just now!

Need to drag myself into town to put money IN the bank and maybe the fresh air will do me some good...
 
ianpspurs said:
Interesting indeed about Metformin. I seem to remember reading that it may be preventative and protective of cancers - prostate? but no mention of dosage. Both previous Practice and this one were/are happy enough to prescribe at 36 HbA1c. This practice is far more careful around naproxen.
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My GP and I have a continuing debate about this. I got my bloods down (not quite to pre-D levels, gahhh) on 3 Metformin (SR 500mg), and my GP wants me to go to four, and mumbles about good for heart health but... never really backs that up with anything positive. When I commented that I don't have any heart issues (at the moment) he did have me bang to rights saying that both my parents had heart problems... and it can run in the family. But I have stuck to three for now (mainly because of the traction issues I was having with the loads of meds).

@ianpspurs Naproxen... is that the anti-inflammatory? I think that was what I was initially prescribed for the severe arthritic pain together with something to settle the stomach, but... they won't let me have it long term so I have to ask for it again when my hands inevitably stop working again after a while. Not terribly helpful when one writes for a living!
 
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