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

ianpspurs said:
What can I say that will do justice to each individual's situation, the madness infecting "the world" yet still honours the collegial, supportive and optimistic spirit of this forum, thread and my faith? Well, it is bin day and wet here as well. I am privileged/blessed to share your stories and virtual friendship. The creatives @gennepher shares exude hope and the triumph of something primal beyond the seen. @dunelm is like Jacob way, way back many centuries ago, a fine example of a family man. Skilful artist to boot (or shoe) so my thanks for sharing your gift - not everyone does. Any thoughts of monetising that via NFTs? Totally agree about the people of Ukraine. @Krystyna23040 great fbg and restraint last evening, take care today. @karen8967 thank you for that meme and another in the series of wonderful fbgs from you. I'll let you know my fbg when that becomes appropriate. Meanwhile, back at the ranch JKP and myself are supposed to be blessed with the duty of care for and pleasure from three grandchildren today. Give today your best shot folks because sometimes one just has to do this and you know what? it works. Have a song I rather like, particularly this version. @gennepher (Kitty Kallen's) lyrics here
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Thanks @ianpspurs
And for the words...
 
SlimLizzy said:
24.02
8.05am FBG 4.8
Experimented with BG yesterday afternoon.
BG 5.4 ate slowly 6 squares chocolate.
Pottering about garden.
After 1 hour BG 6.5.
Expected rise to continue.
More pottering, this time in kitchen,
After 2 hours BG 5.5.
Does this possibly mean my body has learned to cope with occaisional sugary treats? Maybe HbA1c will be ok after all.
Love the song @ianpspurs.
@dunelm got your wish for me granted, pleasa t weather pm yesterday and lovely sunny morning with light breeze, am going to hang sheets outside to dry.
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It is nice to be able to have a few treats @SlimLizzy
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Will need to email class members in my Wednesday morning classes. Yesterday a class member was convinced there was a dead bird behind a radiator. I definitely did not want to retrieve it so contacted the lady who does the hall bookings. The chairman of the Village Hall committee then went to investigate and found the dead bird was actually a pine cone that from the Christmas decorations. What as relief.
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Oops @Krystyna23040
That caused a bit of a kerfuffle...
 
I have just come back from doing some local stuff this morning.
Got the printed paper from the bank saying the British Gas Service plan for this year is cancelled, and that I have paid the last instalment for this last year's contract.
The British Gas App is still not letting me in saying combinations of they have no record of me, to oh yes you do have an account but we have locked you out for security, now fill in all this stuff and we'll let you back in and I do so but it goes straight to I don't exist again.
I told the Bank Lady and she said I didn't need to notify British Gas. So I told her I was going on Twitter to notify them, whereupon she grinned at me...

I'll be getting a Corgi approved gas service person or something in future.

Came back home cold and frozen again. Get under my electric blanket, and I see one of the ginger strays outside in my back garden. I call him Biscuit. And he is doing a sterling job as chief mouse catcher. He is getting a treat later.

He is well worth the price of cat food...
 
gennepher said:
I have just come back from doing some local stuff this morning.
Got the printed paper from the bank saying the British Gas Service plan for this year is cancelled, and that I have paid the last instalment for this last year's contract.
The British Gas App is still not letting me in saying combinations of they have no record of me, to oh yes you do have an account but we have locked you out for security, now fill in all this stuff and we'll let you back in and I do so but it goes straight to I don't exist again.
I told the Bank Lady and she said I didn't need to notify British Gas. So I told her I was going on Twitter to notify them, whereupon she grinned at me...

I'll be getting a Corgi approved gas service person or something in future.

Came back home cold and frozen again. Get under my electric blanket, and I see one of the ginger strays outside in my back garden. I call him Biscuit. And he is doing a sterling job as chief mouse catcher. He is getting a treat later.

He is well worth the price of cat food...
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Great that you got it sorted @gennepher and really good that the ginger stray is doing a sterling job as chief mouse catcher. Is there any way you could lend him to @SlimLizzy
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Great that you got it sorted @gennepher and really good that the ginger stray is doing a sterling job as chief mouse catcher. Is there any way you could lend him to @SlimLizzy
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Thanks @Krystyna23040
I am very glad the bank lady was very accommodating for me.

For @SlimLizzy
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He says only if the cat food menu is à la carte. He is fussy about his food...
 
Hi gennepher and SlimLizzy laughed at your posts this afternoon which was a blessing in disguise’s. Has I’ve just had some awful news my younger sister is in cardiology unit after having a heart attack a couple of days ago. Family couldn’t find my phone number
I’m going to see her this evening she’s gone to have angiogram done this afternoon with the possibility of putting in Stents to inflate the Arteries to allow blood to flow easier. She’s been type1 Diabetic since she was 10 years old she’s in her early 60s now hopefully she will be ok if she makes some lifestyle changes now. K
 
Granny_grump_ said:
Hi gennepher and SlimLizzy laughed at your posts this afternoon which was a blessing in disguise’s. Has I’ve just had some awful news my younger sister is in cardiology unit after having a heart attack a couple of days ago. Family couldn’t find my phone number
I’m going to see her this evening she’s gone to have angiogram done this afternoon with the possibility of putting in Stents to inflate the Arteries to allow blood to flow easier. She’s been type1 Diabetic since she was 10 years old she’s in her early 60s now hopefully she will be ok if she makes some lifestyle changes now. K
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BIG HUGS K. AND A SPEEDY RECOVERY FOR YOUR SISTER XX
 
Granny_grump_ said:
Hi gennepher and SlimLizzy laughed at your posts this afternoon which was a blessing in disguise’s. Has I’ve just had some awful news my younger sister is in cardiology unit after having a heart attack a couple of days ago. Family couldn’t find my phone number
I’m going to see her this evening she’s gone to have angiogram done this afternoon with the possibility of putting in Stents to inflate the Arteries to allow blood to flow easier. She’s been type1 Diabetic since she was 10 years old she’s in her early 60s now hopefully she will be ok if she makes some lifestyle changes now. K
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All the best for your sister. My dad had a heart attack last year and they put in a stent - He is in his 90’s and even though his heart is now only pumping at 50% he seems right as rain according to mother.
 
Granny_grump_ said:
Hi gennepher and SlimLizzy laughed at your posts this afternoon which was a blessing in disguise’s. Has I’ve just had some awful news my younger sister is in cardiology unit after having a heart attack a couple of days ago. Family couldn’t find my phone number
I’m going to see her this evening she’s gone to have angiogram done this afternoon with the possibility of putting in Stents to inflate the Arteries to allow blood to flow easier. She’s been type1 Diabetic since she was 10 years old she’s in her early 60s now hopefully she will be ok if she makes some lifestyle changes now. K
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Best wishes for your sister. Hopefully your visit this evening will reassure you and be a tonic for her.
 
Granny_grump_ said:
Hi gennepher and SlimLizzy laughed at your posts this afternoon which was a blessing in disguise’s. Has I’ve just had some awful news my younger sister is in cardiology unit after having a heart attack a couple of days ago. Family couldn’t find my phone number
I’m going to see her this evening she’s gone to have angiogram done this afternoon with the possibility of putting in Stents to inflate the Arteries to allow blood to flow easier. She’s been type1 Diabetic since she was 10 years old she’s in her early 60s now hopefully she will be ok if she makes some lifestyle changes now. K
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Hugs for all this @Granny_grump_
Best wishes for your sister x
 
Granny_grump_ said:
Hi gennepher and SlimLizzy laughed at your posts this afternoon which was a blessing in disguise’s. Has I’ve just had some awful news my younger sister is in cardiology unit after having a heart attack a couple of days ago. Family couldn’t find my phone number
I’m going to see her this evening she’s gone to have angiogram done this afternoon with the possibility of putting in Stents to inflate the Arteries to allow blood to flow easier. She’s been type1 Diabetic since she was 10 years old she’s in her early 60s now hopefully she will be ok if she makes some lifestyle changes now. K
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Hope the visit went ok

Best wishes to your sister
 
Morning everyone
BG 6.0 this morning
Pleased with this BG it’s going down and that’s my aim along with weight loss for the sake of my joints.
I visited my sister yesterday evening visiting in the Cardiology Unit she’s lucky to have survived her heart attack they wanted to perform a triple heart bypass but has she has previously had vein grafts a few years ago and still had the blockages in the thigh area from smoking and bad diet which she wouldn’t give up despite warnings from her surgeon they felt she would not survive the surgery. On top of all this she has been type1 diabetic since she was 10 years old that’s 52 years and lived her life has if she never had diabetes, I love my sister but nobody could get her to listen it’s taken a heart attack to stop her from smoking. But I’m not convinced has she hasn’t had the means to smoke in hospital has she’s been confined to bed I worry when she gets home today will she carry on has she has in the past, if she does she won’t survive another heart attack. Her cardiologist decided not to go ahead with the bypass has they felt she wouldn’t survive it due to her lifestyle choices and performed a double stent procedure. In three weeks time she has to have two more stents in the other chambers of the heart, I feel like shaking her and screaming at her to Wake Up listen to people who know what will happen to you if you carry on ignoring everything they tell you, I’m at my wits end worrying about her. In her eyes I’m the boring one worrying about my weight and getting my BG under control, what you bothering about at your age she said to me and the nurse attending her has if it was a vanity thing not a health issue I was doing this for.
I’m telling all this to let new and all diabetics to be more aware of your diabetes it’s not the damage you can see with Diabetes it’s what you can’t see it’s not to be treated lightly either type1 or type2 it’s a very damaging condition please take better care of yourselves that includes myself. K
 
dunelm said:
Thanks @Jojo85 - I’m still grappling with whether I want Friday as part of the week or as an extended weekend.
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dunelm
Just enjoy it you can’t get more than 7 days in a week even including Friday has a weekend extension K
 
Good morning everyone under what looks to be a clear blue sky here in the dark and dangerous north
Had to wait in yesterday for one of those deliveries when those involved in said delivery have no concept of time nor that mechanical and other fancy timepieces have now replaced sun dials, candle clocks and hour glasses. Still, the goods were eventually delivered. There has been some chatter in the ether which sounds like conversations with Alan Titchmarsh and including words like spade, dig, border, level, and even decking. I’m taking cover. Mrs Miggins is going over to our little house on the prairie this morning to make sure it is still there and the elusive carpet for our bedroom is rumoured to be turning up this morning.
Art bit - One long brush stroke with two brushes tied together on a large sheet of raw rice paper and then a little focal point. I do hope that your day is kind to you and that you pass such kindness on to others. To kick start such feelings I must now consume koffy.

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jjraak said:
Hope the visit went ok

Best wishes to your sister
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Thank you it went well but she looked so vulnerable has I walked towards her bed, I hope she relies how much she needs to change her lifestyle to avoid another attack, I love her dearly but she’s always treated her diabetes has if it was not something she needed to be concerned about I can’t help but worry she hasn’t taken in what everyone involved with her care is telling her. K
 
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