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

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and dolphin spotters and wedding anniversary forgetters and all those who are struggling with pain, their that should cover most, oh no I forgot to mention weather forecasters, poor maligned individuals.

Blood sugars this morning were a 6.0

Today is passing slowly, as previously stated time is variable and koffy is a constant and also my 10:30am tea is a fixture, the tea is the constant and the time is the variable. Life is simple and good.

Stay safe all.
 
6.6 today! Hmmph!
Happy Anniversary @dunelm!
Out in garden while the rain stays away.
lindisfel said:
We all have many issues in our lives and sometimes they can overwhelm us if they get too much. Oh that God gives them all peace and they find encouragement from friends and family and their faith.
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When it became too much for me. Part of it was, I thought that I had nowhere to go, to help me, with my issues. It was insurmountable to see my way through it. I needed my brain to stop, to get the thoughts of what my situation and why, why, why, was it happening to me! It was illogical, just no need, and everything that I had done for them and be treated like this. I had done no wrong, I was a good person. I couldn't cope with the reasoning and mistreatment of my value to the work I had done.I
And because of the thoughts and feelings that came from this, when I did get help, other issues, was just knocking me back. One after another, and it piled on the top of everything else, you name it, if it could happen, I thought it would, and in my thoughts and dreams, it did!
My brain lied to me, not only in wanting me to eat wrong but to keep me from feeling safe from trauma. The spiral of comfort food and my intolerance and getting The thoughts that my health was secondary to my mental stability!
The realisation of the situation that only myself and I and me, could with help, get my feelings and my brain to respond to how to live with this life changing decisions to my health and my mental stability.
Wether or not, I can continue, with not only looking after myself, keep my health in control, look after my beloved. I'm dreading not being able to cope in the future when my body doesn't but that is in the future.
I'm coping quite well now!
I'm getting more help, and hopefully that can take some of the burden off me!
My best wishes on this super Sunday, a cockney derby on the box again! C'mon the winners!
 
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Turned out to be a decent day in North Cumbria this pm with plenty of sunshine so I decided to take my beard off sitting outside. One alway feels younger with the white beard gone.
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Rain stayed away so far. But it unseasonably windy again which takes the warmth out! Plenty of deep cloud of many hues!
 
ianpspurs said:
have the holidays started now and will you have "that conversation" with your agent, you have been promising for some time,
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Holidays have started today @ianpspurs. Was really tired today and have totally relaxed.

Am hoping that this week I will get lots of admin and lesson plans done. It's year end accounts time also.
 
Looks like a decent day outside at the moment although a day of rain was promised. I hope for you all it's a good day with less pain.
Again it was cloudy with little chance to see the Perseid meteor shower over night.
All the best to all of you.

NB I must put a new battery in my Codefree and get up to date with my testing.
D.
 
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Well - here it is. The day when 78 years ago my mother put in the final heroic effort to bring me to life. As Em told her mum,, it's the mother who should be given presents for all the hard work they did. Not that she will refuse to take any presents that come her way in two weeks' time.

It is als the day when I have decided I need to use the wheelchair to get around the house! Sad day, but I'm hoping it won't be permanent.

BG this morning was 7.9, pretty reasonable for me, but it was in the 4's and 5's up until last evening, when it suddenly shot up to 7.4. Remained stable overnight though. That's 2 hours in bed, despite the new pills and another 4 hours in the chair in the kitchen. I don't think the new pills are going to do - it took ages to get to sleep - if anything they enlivened me - and I kept on waking with my normal pains plus the new ones, amplified.
 
Annb said:
Well - here it is. The day when 78 years ago my mother put in the final heroic effort to bring me to life. As Em told her mum,, it's the mother who should be given presents for all the hard work they did. Not that she will refuse to take any presents that come her way in two weeks' time.

It is als the day when I have decided I need to use the wheelchair to get around the house! Sad day, but I'm hoping it won't be permanent.

BG this morning was 7.9, pretty reasonable for me, but it was in the 4's and 5's up until last evening, when it suddenly shot up to 7.4. Remained stable overnight though. That's 2 hours in bed, despite the new pills and another 4 hours in the chair in the kitchen. I don't think the new pills are going to do - it took ages to get to sleep - if anything they enlivened me - and I kept on waking with my normal pains plus the new ones, amplified.
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Happy Birthday @Annb. I hope that you have a wonderful day of it and are swamped with exotic gifts from the casbahs, souks and bazaars.
 
Good morning everyone from a precipitous start here in the dark and dangerous north. Looks like it’s in for the day but you never know and we all have waterproofs, wellies and brollies. 5.4 this morning and thank you so much for your anniversary wishes. Not the greatest of days as we were transporting grandchildren about. We now have three of them staying for a week. The Ninky Nonks are playing ‘hairdressers’ of all things after spending nearly an hour drawing pictures at the dining table while having their breakfast -weirdos. Art bit, more ink. Hope your day, whatever day it is, has rays of sunshine for you. I shall make koffy and think about what we can do on a drizzly day.

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Good morning all from L.A. where overnight and early morning drizzle have freshened up things. @Annb the winner is in recognition of both today's birthday and the sensible decision to use the wheelchair for as long as it takes. Have as great a day as possible. @Krystyna23040 I hope the end of year accounts and lesson plans don't stop you having a relaxing day. I can see Mr Ks point when at one stage England only had 12 players. I'm not convinced by Borthers or Angeball but neither of them bother to ask for my advice. Has Mr K heard from Borthwick? Today, well soon actually, is Move It, Move It day then two days of four grandchildren since #1 grandson has been released from scout camp near Saarfend. His family went indoor sky diving yesterday - must be some wokery started by lefty lawyers. Keto bagels you say? well only to be polite. They look identical to Izzy's cinnamon doughnuts but even frozen have an onion powder smell which helps. JKP likes normal bagels so a toaster with a bagel toasting function has been acquired - fairly aspirational/woke. Have a good day y'all.
 
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Annb said:
Well - here it is. The day when 78 years ago my mother put in the final heroic effort to bring me to life. As Em told her mum,, it's the mother who should be given presents for all the hard work they did. Not that she will refuse to take any presents that come her way in two weeks' time.

It is als the day when I have decided I need to use the wheelchair to get around the house! Sad day, but I'm hoping it won't be permanent.

BG this morning was 7.9, pretty reasonable for me, but it was in the 4's and 5's up until last evening, when it suddenly shot up to 7.4. Remained stable overnight though. That's 2 hours in bed, despite the new pills and another 4 hours in the chair in the kitchen. I don't think the new pills are going to do - it took ages to get to sleep - if anything they enlivened me - and I kept on waking with my normal pains plus the new ones, amplified.
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Happy Birthday @Annb
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a precipitous start here in the dark and dangerous north. Looks like it’s in for the day but you never know and we all have waterproofs, wellies and brollies. 5.4 this morning and thank you so much for your anniversary wishes. Not the greatest of days as we were transporting grandchildren about. We now have three of them staying for a week. The Ninky Nonks are playing ‘hairdressers’ of all things after spending nearly an hour drawing pictures at the dining table while having their breakfast -weirdos. Art bit, more ink. Hope your day, whatever day it is, has rays of sunshine for you. I shall make koffy and think about what we can do on a drizzly day.

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Enjoy your busy week @dunelm
 
dunelm said:
Happy Birthday @Annb. I hope that you have a wonderful day of it and are swamped with exotic gifts from the casbahs, souks and bazaars.
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I don't look for presents on this day. Too much of a reminder of the passing years and, anyway, the only one who has any money in the family is my brother and we agreed about 57 years ago not to exchange gifts on birthdays or Christmas since neither of us could afford to buy something that the other might not really want or need, just for the sake of giving something. A card or a phone call is enough to know that someone is thinking of you. I have always made the same rule with Neil and Alistair although Neil has always ignored me and given a small gift anyway, but no card (he doesn't approve of cards) and since he married, Alistair has tended to ignore my injunction anyway. Em usually gives me a hand made card, which is much appreciated.

Neil came along a little earlier with a CD of medieval music which is my kind of thing - very calming, sweet sounds, my brother sent a card and I'm hoping that's it - probably wrong. Probably a visit from Em if I'm lucky. No cake, of course. Why would I? Dear goodness, I sound like a miserable old biddie, don't I? I'm not - just from a family that never had 2 pennies to rub together in the early years and find it hard to change my ways.
 
Fbg 6.5

I went to the doctorless surgery last Friday to see if anyone could help me with my denied meds I had ordered online. All I had got was declined because my review was overdue. But i had sorted that review a month earlier and everything had been okayed. But the the two elderly receptionists had not a clue, and there was no one else on.

So I had to go back this Monday morning to see if I could sort it. Receptionist said it had all even okayed a month before. But the online ordering of my meds is being declined because it says I need to attend a review, and that I am overdue. Receptionist tries to order my meds for me, but the system refused her. It is coming up that you need an asthma review, she tells me. But we cannot give you an asthma review because we have no nurses to give you one. There are no nurses for anything at all at the moment. Where are they I said? Oh they are all on their summer holidays with their children the receptionist told me. We don't know when they'll be back.

Next to the receptionist who was dealing with me, was another receptionist on the phone. It was obvious someone was asking to see the doctor, and that receptionist was replying on the phone telling them to go to the chemist and the chemist would sort it. No I cannot give you a doctor's appointment because we don't have any doctor's appointments. No, we can't give a doctor's appointments because there are no doctors. I have already explained, said the receptionist to the phone, that you need to go to the chemist and the chemist will tell you what to do from there. It was 8:30 in the morning and that receptionist looked like she had already lost the will to live...

My receptionist then tells me to bypass the computer system, she is printing out last month's prescription again, and she needs to get hold of a doctor ot sign it, and my prescription will be at the chemist by such and such a day.

What about next month, I ask her, will this asthma review take place before next month's prescription? I have no idea the receptionist tells me. When are the nurses due back I ask. The receptionist shrugged her shoulders and her hands palms up, I have absolutely no idea she told me. If online refuses to let you order you medicines next month, then come back here, she told me and I will see what I can do.

Will someone tell me what is going on here?
A so called surgery that has no nurses, during the summer holidays so that the nurses can look after their children.

i have already lost the will to live this morning. I got there at 8 am, the time it said the surgery opened. I had to because I was expecting a parcel this morning, and the window for the parcel delivery began at 9:15 am. But when I got there at the doctorless surgery, the receptionists said it was only open for phone lines between 8 and 8:30 and the desk did not open until 8:30, and for me to sit down and wait. I was tired and falling asleep by 8:30. Then she opened the grill barrier at 8:30 am.

I got home for just gone 9am. And I have gone to bed. The heavens opened as I left the surgery, I couldn't use my mobility scooter as it was raining when I went in. So had to use my walker...

And I am still waiting for some meds from last month from the chemist. Apparently there was a manufacturing problem. And the standby med they could prescribe if the first one wasn't in, also had a manufacturing problem.

I need a long nap now. I'll do the creative and other stuff later, the You Tube thingy...

Where's my electric blanket...

Zzzzzzzzzz.....
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

I went to the doctorless surgery last Friday to see if anyone could help me with my denied meds I had ordered online. All I had got was declined because my review was overdue. But i had sorted that review a month earlier and everything had been okayed. But the the two elderly receptionists had not a clue, and there was no one else on.

So I had to go back this Monday morning to see if I could sort it. Receptionist said it had all even okayed a month before. But the online ordering of my meds is being declined because it says I need to attend a review, and that I am overdue. Receptionist tries to order my meds for me, but the system refused her. It is coming up that you need an asthma review, she tells me. But we cannot give you an asthma review because we have no nurses to give you one. There are no nurses for anything at all at the moment. Where are they I said? Oh they are all on their summer holidays with their children the receptionist told me. We don't know when they'll be back.

Next to the receptionist who was dealing with me, was another receptionist on the phone. It was obvious someone was asking to see the doctor, and that receptionist was replying on the phone telling them to go to the chemist and the chemist would sort it. No I cannot give you a doctor's appointment because we don't have any doctor's appointments. No, we can't give a doctor's appointments because there are no doctors. I have already explained, said the receptionist to the phone, that you need to go to the chemist and the chemist will tell you what to do from there. It was 8:30 in the morning and that receptionist looked like she had already lost the will to live...

My receptionist then tells me to bypass the computer system, she is printing out last month's prescription again, and she needs to get hold of a doctor ot sign it, and my prescription will be at the chemist by such and such a day.

What about next month, I ask her, will this asthma review take place before next month's prescription? I have no idea the receptionist tells me. When are the nurses due back I ask. The receptionist shrugged her shoulders and her hands palms up, I have absolutely no idea she told me. If online refuses to let you order you medicines next month, then come back here, she told me and I will see what I can do.

Will someone tell me what is going on here?
A so called surgery that has no nurses, during the summer holidays so that the nurses can look after their children.

i have already lost the will to live this morning. I got there at 8 am, the time it said the surgery opened. I had to because I was expecting a parcel this morning, and the window for the parcel delivery began at 9:15 am. But when I got there at the doctorless surgery, the receptionists said it was only open for phone lines between 8 and 8:30 and the desk did not open until 8:30, and for me to sit down and wait. I was tired and falling asleep by 8:30. Then she opened the grill barrier at 8:30 am.

I got home for just gone 9am. And I have gone to bed. The heavens opened as I left the surgery, I couldn't use my mobility scooter as it was raining when I went in. So had to use my walker...

And I am still waiting for some meds from last month from the chemist. Apparently there was a manufacturing problem. And the standby med they could prescribe if the first one wasn't in, also had a manufacturing problem.

I need a long nap now. I'll do the creative and other stuff later, the You Tube thingy...

Where's my electric blanket...

Zzzzzzzzzz.....
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Oh Gennepher, what kind of a medical service is it where you live? What does the Health Board think it is doing? They don't have to let every nurse off at the same time, even though it is summer and children on holiday - not unless they only have agency nurses. That practice and that Health Board look as though they are not fit for purpose and should be censured. I gather your MP is no use either in helping to sort out your difficulties. I don't know what you can do, except maybe make a fuss in the press or other media. Do take care of yourself as best you can and try not to let it get to you.
 
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