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

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those with webbed feet.

A resounding 5.2 this morning on that meter.

Mrs J has had a communication from the water board saying that the hosepipe ban in this area has been lifted, if they think I’m going to rush out, water the garden and wash the car in this torrential rain we have at this moment. No chance.

News on a personal perspective Mrs J has decreed that this morning I have to undergo drastic surgery on my beard, before I stand in the indoor rain cabinet and also go into Reading for my plinky plonky lesson. Later this afternoon Mrs J will visit that garden centre I wrote about yesterday, Mrs J has realised the total futility of expecting me, me’s and myself to accompany her.

Have a safe day all and if possible wring some enjoyment from it, remember bringing a smile to a strangers face is a tax free gift, now if you don’t mind I’m going to hide the beard trimming equipment. Bah humbug

 

[ianpspurs]

Good morning everyone. The results are in and I'm negative for COVID. My serum glucose at 4.25 ish yesterday was 4.4 but since the lab test was up to 3 hrs later it may have been up to .5 higher which would still not be all that bad. The tests were put back by 3 hrs as another patient needed emergency use of the isolation room which meant no visit to Ely Cathedral to see the G4 concert and grandson's choir. After well over a year the roadworks on the Newmarket bypass section of the A11 are finished so the journey to and from CUH is much faster. @gennepher that creative certainly gives the idea of a bitter day so thank you and hug. @Krystyna23040 what a lovely gesture by the pub manager and the food is good so a real winner. Groceries were here by 7.45 am after a 5.30 start in MK. Here's a story to which I can all too easily relate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63663006. On a slightly lighter but important note linked to the uncivil war some elements of our govt and r/w media want to stoke I'm with this team https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ds-if-only-it-wasnt-so-easy-to-laugh-at-them- Enjoy your day safely with due care and consideration for others.

 

[SlimLizzy]

23.11everything
8 35am FBG 5.6
I have the worst case of buyers regret ever. The item is non returnable and has significant ongoing maintanence costs. No idea what to do with it now. Its proof that looking good is not enough.

Shock horror - I have had enough of Kiki. She bites and scratches, climbs up our legs leaving claw marks galore. Seems impossible to teach her gentler ways. We have had to cancel going to UK for Christmas because she is not going to be safe around my mother who is 90 years old, with T2 and tending to be wobbly on her feet. Can't get a cat sitter. There are no catteries within reasonable distance. No neighbours handy either. She still has four meals a day and it's not safe to leave her outside in tbe hunting season anyway.
I have several bitemarks on my face and hands along with literally hundreds of claw marks elsewhere. Since she now weighs 1.6kg the climbing up requires her to dig her claws into our flesh, lea I g many wounds.

 

[lindisfel]

Hi All,
Cold wet morning climb up to back of garden to take lock off gate and lock off tank at 0745 then back up at 0830 to when 28sec kerosene came.
800 litres that will ruin my pocket money for month! Pleasant fresh faced young guy brought oil. Ask me how long I had been here and when I said 1966, he gulped.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

when I said 1966, he gulped.
D.

It's coming home

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone. The results are in and I'm negative for COVID. My serum glucose at 4.25 ish yesterday was 4.4 but since the lab test was up to 3 hrs later it may have been up to .5 higher which would still not be all that bad. The tests were put back by 3 hrs as another patient needed emergency use of the isolation room which meant no visit to Ely Cathedral to see the G4 concert and grandson's choir. After well over a year the roadworks on the Newmarket bypass section of the A11 are finished so the journey to and from CUH is much faster. @gennepher that creative certainly gives the idea of a bitter day so thank you and hug. @Krystyna23040 what a lovely gesture by the pub manager and the food is good so a real winner. Groceries were here by 7.45 am after a 5.30 start in MK. Here's a story to whicih I can all too easily relate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63663006. On a slightly lighter but important note linked to the uncivil war some elements of our govt and r/w media want to stoke I'm with this team https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ds-if-only-it-wasnt-so-easy-to-laugh-at-them- Enjoy your day safely with due care and consideration for others.

Thanks Ian.
Sorry your tests got back and your day got changed @ianpspurs
Thanks for the links.

 

[ianpspurs]

Thanks Ian.
Sorry your tests got back and your day got changed @ianpspurs
Thanks for the links.

Thanks but no problem. The other patient needed the room and JKP would have been back far too late from Ely.

 

[gennepher]

23.11everything
8 35am FBG 5.6
I have the worst case of buyers regret ever. The item is non returnable and has significant ongoing maintanence costs. No idea what to do with it now. Its proof that looking good is not enough.

Shock horror - I have had enough of Kiki. She bites and scratches, climbs up our legs leaving claw marks galore. Seems impossible to teach her gentler ways. We have had to cancel going to UK for Christmas because she is not going to be safe around my mother who is 90 years old, with T2 and tending to be wobbly on her feet. Can't get a cat sitter. There are no catteries within reasonable distance. No neighbours handy either. She still has four meals a day and it's not safe to leave her outside in tbe hunting season anyway.
I have several bitemarks on my face and hands along with literally hundreds of claw marks elsewhere. Since she now weighs 1.6kg the climbing up requires her to dig her claws into our flesh, lea I g many wounds.

Oh dear @SlimLizzy
I hope you don't mind me saying so, but I wouldn't be cancelling my visit to the UK because of a cat. If it was Midnight, he would have to go in a cage. And at the other end, I would have a very large cage (I already have one actually, it was for my small dog who was not allowed to be running around in the holiday cottage when all of us from abroad and everywhere met up). I don't know how doable that would be for you.

Hugs for you.

 

[jjraak]

23.11everything
8 35am FBG 5.6
I have the worst case of buyers regret ever. The item is non returnable and has significant ongoing maintanence costs. No idea what to do with it now. Its proof that looking good is not enough.

Shock horror - I have had enough of Kiki. She bites and scratches, climbs up our legs leaving claw marks galore. Seems impossible to teach her gentler ways. We have had to cancel going to UK for Christmas because she is not going to be safe around my mother who is 90 years old, with T2 and tending to be wobbly on her feet. Can't get a cat sitter. There are no catteries within reasonable distance. No neighbours handy either. She still has four meals a day and it's not safe to leave her outside in tbe hunting season anyway.
I have several bitemarks on my face and hands along with literally hundreds of claw marks elsewhere. Since she now weighs 1.6kg the climbing up requires her to dig her claws into our flesh, lea I g many wounds.

Oooh. Nasty.

Such a horrid situation.

If it helps, our belles (a rescue kitten) sounded very similar

Kept attacking our feet ankles
Even snuck under end of bed to bite/scratch those awful bed mice (shapes of feet in bed )

Got so bad I made girls wear anklet bangly things on feet, I had read helps ..seemed counter intuitive But it did to a tiny degree calm the situation

But I still got to the point she was almost feral, and I was taking belles to Battersea to be rid.

Girls argued & cried.

So I postponed it to see if she improved ...

She did over the course of the next month.
Guess the ankle bangles got her out of the attack habit


Still had her moments but nowhere near as bad

For a few years she was mummies cat, I got suffered when I was near her .

Then she just warmed to me.

Began snuggling down/sitting on me/sleeping on me every night...no idea why

But it made me fall in love with her.

And the rest, as they say, was history .

She became officially "my cat' & fur which i am forever labelled as the 'Cat stealer' by Lauren, in humour ....mainly,

but she still holds a small grudge over it, bless her ..


So ...tough, but there is hope .

Best wishes it settles down, asap.

 

[mojo37]

Would this help? https://lowcarbfood.co/shop/low-carb-pasta-flour/ Recipes: https://lowcarbfood.co/recipes/

Thank you I do low carb some of the time and try twice cooked and cooled pasta but the portions have to be minuscule maybe 10 pieces ( as apposed to 100 or so ) ah just to be non diabetic again and know what I know now

 

[jjraak]

Good morning everyone. The results are in and I'm negative for COVID. My serum glucose at 4.25 ish yesterday was 4.4 but since the lab test was up to 3 hrs later it may have been up to .5 higher which would still not be all that bad. The tests were put back by 3 hrs as another patient needed emergency use of the isolation room which meant no visit to Ely Cathedral to see the G4 concert and grandson's choir. After well over a year the roadworks on the Newmarket bypass section of the A11 are finished so the journey to and from CUH is much faster. @gennepher that creative certainly gives the idea of a bitter day so thank you and hug. @Krystyna23040 what a lovely gesture by the pub manager and the food is good so a real winner. Groceries were here by 7.45 am after a 5.30 start in MK. Here's a story to whicih I can all too easily relate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63663006. On a slightly lighter but important note linked to the uncivil war some elements of our govt and r/w media want to stoke I'm with this team https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ds-if-only-it-wasnt-so-easy-to-laugh-at-them- Enjoy your day safely with due care and consideration for others.

Two very interesting reads . Cheers

The gen z rings a bell

Have to admit to rolling my eyes mentally, whenever our Steph (30) gets a bit full on describing issues the article mentions.

I worry she's making the world a scarier place then it needs to be
But then I see how tightly she's willing to defend her friends or on the few occassions where I'll ask her opinion in some hot topic,
(One I probably couldn't reply to without it seeming inappropriate for me to do so (as in not directly affected / age or gender specific issue

Happy to engage with her, in a mutually respectful way, to improve my understanding of the more intricate sides to many issues.)

She shows me that's not always the case.

Often she illuminates a darker corner for me, but sometimes she just agrees with me

I know, should that even be happening ..lol

Somehow THAT shows me, she just sees the world through a different prism...a lense that sometimes, ( as that article reminds me) , I once saw the world through.


As said, interesting link.

 

[mojo37]

Does the pasta cause a big difference? For me pasta did not cause a big jump...a small blip...Also i ate about 75g of cooked pasta. However half that amount of rice, or half a slice of bread causes a big jump.
I did start eating a bit of pasta for a couple days because the Libre 3 showed that my BG level was dangerously low. It turned out that the Libre3 was giving a lot of wrong and very low readings. I changed to a Libre3 sensor and it worked a lot better, but still quite different from the blood test strip tests, which are showing higher numbers.

Yes pasta and bread are my BG demons probably because I love them so much lol . To be honest I only test before and after meals now and then mainly because of the cost.

 

[jjraak]

As for the other link, @ianpspurs

A very human emotion.
Who hasn't questioned the rhyme or reason ( whatever flavour of belief ) of that supreme being/intellect that guides us.

All I can think, much like the diabetes which binds us, here.

We all journey through our own personal forest of life

Some pathways are a choice, some are chosen and end our journey in a different way/ end our journey sooner then others.

Not rocket science, sure most have a similar response, of sorts.

Can only see it, as making us grateful for the gift of the extra time, so frighteningly highlighted by our own sudden realisation of our mortality.

Beyond that, it just seems like a self inflicted scab, the we needlessly pick away at.
But it is a very human reaction, I'd say.

And I doubt any words from me will stop any of us doing it ourselves.

Have the best day.

 

[lindisfel]

Oooh. Nasty.

Such a horrid situation.

If it helps, our belles (a rescue kitten) sounded very similar

Kept attacking our feet ankles
Even snuck under end of bed to bite/scratch those awful bed mice (shapes of feet in bed )

Got so bad I made girls wear anklet bangly things on feet, I had read helps ..seemed counter intuitive But it did to a tiny degree calm the situation

But I still got to the point she was almost feral, and I was taking belles to Battersea to be rid.

Girls argued & cried.

So I postponed it to see if she improved ...

She did over the course of the next month.
Guess the ankle bangles got her out of the attack habit


Still had her moments but nowhere near as bad

For a few years she was mummies cat, I got suffered when I was near her .

Then she just warmed to me.

Began snuggling down/sitting on me/sleeping on me every night...no idea why

But it made me fall in love with her.

And the rest, as they say, was history .

She became officially "my cat' & fur which i am forever labelled as the 'Cat stealer' by Lauren, in humour ....mainly,

but she still holds a small grudge over it, bless her ..


So ...tough, but there is hope .

Best wishes it settles down, asap.

We all mellow with age!

 

[jjraak]

We all mellow with age!

So where do grumpy old men come from....?

Asking for a friend

 

[ianpspurs]

So where do grumpy old men come from....?

Asking for a friend

I asked Alexa and she said "Under gooseberry bushes."

 

[mojo37]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those with webbed feet.

A resounding 5.2 this morning on that meter.

Mrs J has had a communication from the water board saying that the hosepipe ban in this area has been lifted, if they think I’m going to rush out, water the garden and wash the car in this torrential rain we have at this moment. No chance.

News on a personal perspective Mrs J has decreed that this morning I have to undergo drastic surgery on my beard, before I stand in the indoor rain cabinet and also go into Reading for my plinky plonky lesson. Later this afternoon Mrs J will visit that garden centre I wrote about yesterday, Mrs J has realised the total futility of expecting me, me’s and myself to accompany her.

Have a safe day all and if possible wring some enjoyment from it, remember bringing a smile to a strangers face is a tax free gift, now if you don’t mind I’m going to hide the beard trimming equipment. Bah humbug

I love your humour .

 

[dunelm]

Good afternoon everyone. Not too good today - yesterday was a free at the point of delivery, once in a lifetime Pneumonia jab and the point of delivery is now all sad and uncooperative. Rest of body has joined in and wants yo-yo between falling asleep and dashing to the loo. Art bit - so far. Hope to be back tomorrow - no koffy - can’t face it today.

 

[mojo37]

The lowest FBG in an absolute age with a 5.8 I know in the whole scheme of diabetes ( and it is a scheming devil ) it means little but it made me feel like I might be getting some control back .

 

[Annb]

So where do grumpy old men come from....?

Asking for a friend

From better disciplined grumpy young ones.