Annb
Expert
Slow start today. 3.30 am BG was 11.3 but I just took pain killers and went back to sleep. Dragged myself awake at 8.50 when BG was 12.9. I've been trying to get on and do things I should have done yesterday so ignored BG and had some cheese to keep me going. However, now it is at 14.5 (Libre) - that means about 16 on the fingerprick and the Libre is giving me messages about taking whatever emergency measures my medics recommend to reduce BG. In fact, they don't, so I have just taken a correction dose of insulin and hope that will do the job.
Yesterday I had a long (for me) list of things I wanted to get done but before I got going but 2 visitors arrived - one lives on the Island and I see her often but the other has recently moved back to Britain from America and I haven't seen her in 20 or so years. Enjoyed seeing her after all this time. They were here from 11 am to 4.30 pm. Luckily I managed to find enough in the fridge to feed them. But I ended up doing very little from my list and that little just about finished me. It was the major task of putting a clean cover on my duvet. I used a recommended "easy" method but it took me an hour and I needed to rest for the remainder of the evening after that.
They said they would come back on Sunday afternoon - about 5 pm so will need to be fed again. And they will be bringing some others with them. Didn't order food in to make that much extra but I will manage if I can make enough of an effort today to prep a few things. Oh dear. That's quite an expectation I have there. I have made a start by using my breakfast smoked mackerel and making a pate and hard boiling some eggs. Luckily, despite a local egg shortage again, I have enough if I don't have any myself until I can get more.
One of the Sunday visitors is diabetic and determinedly won't eat carbs - just sits sullenly and refuses to eat even fairly low carb things and making everyone feel uncomfortable; bad manners, but that's life. Knowing it would mean I would be ill-mannered if I didn't make provision for her. So low carb baking, salads, mainstream baking, will do the job. Coconut flour, bananas and peanut butter will be coming into their own. Baking cakes I can do blindfolded so no problem there. The only problem will be my stamina.
Yesterday I had a long (for me) list of things I wanted to get done but before I got going but 2 visitors arrived - one lives on the Island and I see her often but the other has recently moved back to Britain from America and I haven't seen her in 20 or so years. Enjoyed seeing her after all this time. They were here from 11 am to 4.30 pm. Luckily I managed to find enough in the fridge to feed them. But I ended up doing very little from my list and that little just about finished me. It was the major task of putting a clean cover on my duvet. I used a recommended "easy" method but it took me an hour and I needed to rest for the remainder of the evening after that.
They said they would come back on Sunday afternoon - about 5 pm so will need to be fed again. And they will be bringing some others with them. Didn't order food in to make that much extra but I will manage if I can make enough of an effort today to prep a few things. Oh dear. That's quite an expectation I have there. I have made a start by using my breakfast smoked mackerel and making a pate and hard boiling some eggs. Luckily, despite a local egg shortage again, I have enough if I don't have any myself until I can get more.
One of the Sunday visitors is diabetic and determinedly won't eat carbs - just sits sullenly and refuses to eat even fairly low carb things and making everyone feel uncomfortable; bad manners, but that's life. Knowing it would mean I would be ill-mannered if I didn't make provision for her. So low carb baking, salads, mainstream baking, will do the job. Coconut flour, bananas and peanut butter will be coming into their own. Baking cakes I can do blindfolded so no problem there. The only problem will be my stamina.
I wish you all a lovely week-end---make the most of this sunny weather! 
