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

Good morning all from a mild L.A. on yet another SSSF :woot: Good to have you here @Lamont D and @PatsyB. @dunelm hug for Arthur but winner for movin, movin, movin - well it is Friday. Enjoy the time with TGIB and thanks for the latest installment of #CastleswotIvisited. @jjraak good news that the surgeon was so skilled - TBTG - and today sounds likely to be so very Elbow for you - perfick. @Annb hug for the untimely awakening but there's surely no rush to vacate the big chair? Fourth 750 mls mug of tea needed then maybe up to 50 gms PB. Later I envisage a keto cream tea while there is downtime at Lords. Talking of which, interesting piece here. - no Cardus but articulate. (Must re-read some CLR James - would Suella have tried to send him to Rwanda?) I believe at lower levels teas have been abandoned since covid, Mihir. JKP's teas were legendary especially the trifles. Enjoy your day but don't believe your own hype like certain England batsmen - yes I've done it but from my armchair I'm so much wiser and better at the game. Who knew?
Link to James' biography won't work just now - see below
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who marvel at the users of lap tops, tablets and mobile phones.

Blood sugars this morning were a 5.6

Must depart the grandchildren are here and teaching me, me’s and myself new ways of getting into trouble….
 
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Lamont D said:
This is new to me, been recently diagnosed with T2, along with RH. Hba1c 50!
Have returned to ketosis, already noticed the difference, in losing a couple of pounds.
So, the bad news is my fasting BG at 11am was 7.2!!!!!!(insert swear words to justify this)

Today, my day was filled with my daily chores and helping the wife. Then a little bit of garden tidying, as the wind was pretty rough yesterday, it was actually cold as well, back to March temps. My Lilys are gorgeous, orange flame, yellow so vivid. My roses so full of blooms, reds and pinks, my lawn is growing so quickly, verdant, thick and if I leave for a day or two, it will go to seed.
I still managed a couple of hours in the sun, while the wife was napping, then chicken breasts for dinner with a side salad. Watching the new Star trek series on paramount. ST Strange New Worlds.

Can't eat peanut butter and don't have breakfast! But we shared half a punnet of tasty strawberries, while keeping an eye on the test cricket this afternoon. Off to bed, soon, no doubt, the sun will be bright and sunny first thing!

I might go on about other things tomorrow, such as, how can the right be so wrong, logical and ethically?

Keep safe.
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Hello @Lamont D
 
7.2 this morning. We took Archie for his monthly librella injection to the Vet in Swaffham.

Both dogs enjoyed their early morning walk there. Lots of interesting new scents which they had to forensically investigate. So a more accurate description was that we went for a sniff not a walk. A friend always said that it was their version of reading the daily paper.
 
jjraak said:
A bit late replying @gennepher

So sorry to hear that

Bad enough that we have to prep & brace ourselves for such things..

But to then have it go awry & leave us in pain, doesn't bear thinking about.

I hope it's eased or you've at least been able to make reasonable adjustments until it can be remedied, please god.

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Thanks very much @jjraak
I am still very tired and in pain from it. I am sleeping a lot at the moment. I did not need anything added to my current load of health problems. My brain went awry yesterday and I couldn't even remember how to edit my daily wildlife videos. And I am thinking hell no...that was intensely scary.
Must have been the shock of the procedure, and the heat of yesterday. I feel more towards my normal today. And I am going to attempt a bit of editing and my creative now.

And I need to be and look as near my normal as possible for when my daughter arrives from Australia (on Tuesday now, she wanted to spend more time with my other daughter). I do not need her worrying about me when she goes back. She knows about the procedure, but not how it went badly wrong. So, I have cancelled our expeditions, just said I felt tired, and I am organising painting days (she is a painter and book illustrator too) and I have paints and techniques she has not tried before. So I need to clear the front room tables and set that up.

Thanks x
 
jjraak said:
A dark & dingy 7.3 this morning .

Biblical rain here Wednesday night...looks a drier day today.

Meeting up with nephews & Steph later, first social event since our holidays ...looking forward to it immensely.

Mixed bag this week.

Saw plastic surgeon for post op assessment other day. (19 months in )

Simply confirmed prev experts opinion that healing has ended.
And likely arthritis is what's causing the degeneration in knee.

Interesting point cleared up.
(I know it's not for everyone, but I'm one who thrives better 'knowing how something works' )

As he examined scars, ( he was yet another doctor marvelling at the surgeons skill...so I'm going to have to accept so many positives as a good sign, & thank my lucky stars for that surgeons skills )

He explained how skin from forearm was used to cover the hole left by all the flesh that had died or was lost due to contamination from the gravel etc, in & on the leg.

The 'flap' as they call it, is the size of your hands palm, yet my forearm scarring is from wrist to elbow.

He explained that while it looks like skin only, it's the entire layer of flesh below it that's gets transplanted. , and that requires veins to feed it in its new location ...( Makes sense, once I thought about it sensibly )

But as leg was so severely damaged,
( Scar above flap is where bone broke through the skin, so not a suitable site ) the only places for the 'feed' for the new vein to be plumbed in had to be higher up my leg then desired.

Hence why my arm scar is so extensive, as they needed a longer amount of vein than desirable, but that did increase the chances of a successful transplant ...which it did TG.

So, once again, every day's a school day.

Hope you all have as good a day as I'm expecting to have :cool:

Love.
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I like " knowing" as well. Because once I "know, I feel I can achieve a better outcome (however small) than the specialists predict.

It sounds a though you had amazing surgeons. I am glad for you x
 
gennepher said:
Thanks very much @jjraak
I am still very tired and in pain from it. I am sleeping a lot at the moment. I did not need anything added to my current load of health problems. My brain went awry yesterday and I couldn't even remember how to edit my daily wildlife videos. And I am thinking hell no...that was intensely scary.
Must have been the shock of the procedure, and the heat of yesterday. I feel more towards my normal today. And I am going to attempt a bit of editing and my creative now.

And I need to be and look as near my normal as possible for when my daughter arrives from Australia (on Tuesday now, she wanted to spend more time with my other daughter). I do not need her worrying about me when she goes back. She knows about the procedure, but not how it went badly wrong. So, I have cancelled our expeditions, just said I felt tired, and I am organising painting days (she is a painter and book illustrator too) and I have paints and techniques she has not tried before. So I need to clear the front room tables and set that up.

Thanks x
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Makes for sad reading. I really hope you recover enough to manage the new plan and have a wonderful time with your daughter so that the badly implemented procedure doesn't rob you of even more.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a pretty overcast start here in the dark and dangerous north. Car picked up yesterday without a hitch. Met up with Mrs Miggins’ twin who has just returned from a trip up the coast of Norway to Hammerfest - 24 hour sunlight so went for an inside cabin. Girl In The Bubble stayed over last night so probably a walk into town taking in the swing park and then toast in her favourite cafe before going to nursery for her afternoon session. Art bit, adding some detail to the roof. Hope your day is kind to you. All this talk of peanut butter is making me hungry so am filling up on koffy.


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I seem to have an aversion to claustrophobia at the moment. And this is another one of yours that gives me that feeling. But that is a testament to your skill as an artist being able to create that true feeling of that excessively heavy type of ceiling @dunelm

I am glad yesterday went so smoothly.
 
gennepher said:
Thanks very much @jjraak
I am still very tired and in pain from it. I am sleeping a lot at the moment. I did not need anything added to my current load of health problems. My brain went awry yesterday and I couldn't even remember how to edit my daily wildlife videos. And I am thinking hell no...that was intensely scary.
Must have been the shock of the procedure, and the heat of yesterday. I feel more towards my normal today. And I am going to attempt a bit of editing and my creative now.

And I need to be and look as near my normal as possible for when my daughter arrives from Australia (on Tuesday now, she wanted to spend more time with my other daughter). I do not need her worrying about me when she goes back. She knows about the procedure, but not how it went badly wrong. So, I have cancelled our expeditions, just said I felt tired, and I am organising painting days (she is a painter and book illustrator too) and I have paints and techniques she has not tried before. So I need to clear the front room tables and set that up.

Thanks x
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I do hope that you have a lovely time with your daughter @gennepher. It sounds like she will really enjoy the painting days. Your Plan B is a very good plan.
 
lindisfel said:
Good to see you Lamont, life can get pretty difficult at times. I hope you manage to control your new diagnosis of T2.

I have still in the main managed to keep on average in the prediabetic range but health-wise I am a lot worse after the Pandemic than I was before it.

You will like it here, we are a mixed bunch who get on really well.
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Hi, Derek.
glad to hear from you, mate. And getting closer to being a really old codger. I'm Defo grumpier!
I have had my **** booted about my recent hba1c levels and calling into question my resolve since my life turned upside down. It is still rough but making ground. I hope. Third round of counselling and trying to get a grip of moving forward positively. I am in keto and I've noticed some weight loss already, but my fasting so far is up and down. This morning at 10am was 8.4, over a one mmols difference but as the wife had an appointment. So when I tested , I had spent the previous hour, getting the wife and myself reasonably fit for the venture outside! I would surmise that it had an impact.
I'm hoping by my next hba1c levels test, that I have got back to near normal levels.

Hope you're (at least) coping with your numbers, and behaving yourself a lot better than I have!

It has took me a couple of weeks to post on this thread. My fasting bloods readings were so boring, always being in normal levels, and after so long, to find out I'm actually acceptance of my levels, I wasn't sure that being and posting was the right thing to do! And as usual, as the wife would say. Stoooopid!

My best wishes as always mate. Take care.
 
dunelm said:
Cucumbers are great pickled. Also look up recipes for cucumber soup and spritzers with lime, mint, elderflower et al. Sorbet? Not my cup of tea but I know some folk make them.
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Cucumber and onion in vinegar (not malted vinegar) are a must at Christmas! Especially with a roasted gammon joint. Mmmm!
 
jjraak said:
Sounds a perfect sort of day.

The cars. .
5 over the years , so you must like them a lot.

Early ones seem a small engine, presumably the later ones offer a more relaxed drive ?

And drifting ....seriously ?
Wouldn't want to in one doing that.. :wideyed: :hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

Enjoy the new wheels :cool:

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Yep, only 0.9L engine but they go quickly enough. Longest time spent in one was 9 European countries in 15 days. Last one was turbo charged, current one a Brabus. Need to use paddle shifts for drifting and best not done on the highway.
Have a gander at this: Drift. Not as much fun as my old 450cc CCM but fun enough.
 
After reading the Guardian article on how to walk correctly I realised I needed to change the way I was teaching walking and update my walking sheet.

The way I was teaching walking was technically 100% accurate but my instructions had become too technical and hard to follow.

Originally I had used visualisation to teach it but had drifted into explaining too much about how each part of the body worked.

The Guardian article had some brilliant visualisations and I have 'borrowed ' them for my walking sheet plus my original visualisation. I have then added a simplified version of the technical bit at the end. It did take several re-writes but I am really happy with it now. Already I am getting feedback that it is working well.
 
gennepher said:
I seem to have an aversion to claustrophobia at the moment. And this is another one of yours that gives me that feeling. But that is a testament to your skill as an artist being able to create that true feeling of that excessively heavy type of ceiling @dunelm

I am glad yesterday went so smoothly.
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Thank you @gennepher - I will do something a bit open air next time
 
dunelm said:
Yep, only 0.9L engine but they go quickly enough. Longest time spent in one was 9 European countries in 15 days. Last one was turbo charged, current one a Brabus. Need to use paddle shifts for drifting and best not done on the highway.
Have a gander at this: Drift. Not as much fun as my old 450cc CCM but fun enough.
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Holds the road better than I thought.

Had expected light weight, short wheelbase to offer more spins (see clip ) and a higher risk of toppling ala mercedes A on the elk tests ...
Still not a Hammond driving moment from me..:bag:

Cheers
 
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