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

dunelm said:
Lemonade with sugar - wonder if family doctor was on commission? Chicken broth - very nourishing. I make ours by saving a couple of carcasses in the freezer and then pressure cooking them for an hour. Hope the antibiotics do the trick for your sister. In some parts of the UK, getting an appointment with anyone in a GP practice is dreadful and one does wonder if it’s some sort of Boris’ cull ideas.
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Lemonade. At the time recommended for children with tummy bugs, it made a lot of sense. Sugar for energy, so they feel better. Add a pinch of salt to help prevent dehydration, it's more likely to be drunk than plain water, again staving off dehydration. Best of all if it should come back - it doesn't stink or stain.
Also then lemonade was a real treat for my children, the only good thing about being ill.
Have no idea why I thought it might be good for me as whatever the issue, it isn't a tummy bug.
 
lindisfel said:
I took this beech tree in our front garden this am.
It's particularly colourful at ATM whereas all our Ash trees have lost their leaves
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Beautiful colours. There's hardly a leaf left on anything here - apart from the evergreens but still some sad looking ones on the flowering cherry. They are always the last to give up the ghost.

Tried a different approach last night and this morning to try to get BG down to a reasonable level. I took half of my basal insulin before bed at 11.30 pm and half when I got up this morning plus a small (8u) bolus dose. Didn't work for this morning but maybe it'll take a day or so to settle in. BG at 3.50 am was 11.4. 3 hours after taking the 2 insulins it came down to 9.4. 9.3 now, after 6 hours. Now I'll have to take some more of the bolus and have some breakfast. I'll give it another couple of days and see what happens.

Windy and wet here and not very warm either but it is November, after all.

Did I say that DIL seems to have impetigo? Doctors weren't sure if it was that or some other condition which, apparently, diabetics are vulnerable to - not a Staph infection but she can't remember the name of it. Whatever it is,unlike impetigo, it isn't infectious. Em was due to go back to school today, having been quarantined to avoid spreading it. Last night, she developed a rash, so she'll be quarantined for another week.
 
Morning all from a wet and windy L.A @Krystyna23040 good idea to stay in the warm and dry. Welcome @Paule Foster. @karen8967 good to have you here again. @lindisfel good news on the walk and as @dunelm says the further yards can be eeked out. Thanks for the photo - those autumnal colours are a major miss in my life since moving. @dunelm thank you so much for sharing the wonderful art. Much for me to read into that lone soldier and horse, especially with the colour. With one P killed as well as a grandfather and his brother who survived in the trenches it gives one pause as they say. I hope your father's eyesight continues to allow him to read. @gennepher thanks for sharing the owl which looks quite nonchalant to me. Disentangles? looks as though, Trump like , it doesn't give a hoot. @SlimLizzy I hope you soon pick up. Chicken soup is a good idea - widely used in certain cultures but a tad delicate to go there. @alf_Josiah I just hope. Have a poem to go with @dunelm's artwork. It was read at George Aligiah's memorial but each of those who died in or as a result of that or all wars - on all sides - was a great tree for someone.
Edited to give the poem the correct title.
 
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SlimLizzy said:
Lemonade. At the time recommended for children with tummy bugs, it made a lot of sense. Sugar for energy, so they feel better. Add a pinch of salt to help prevent dehydration, it's more likely to be drunk than plain water, again staving off dehydration. Best of all if it should come back - it doesn't stink or stain.
Also then lemonade was a real treat for my children, the only good thing about being ill.
Have no idea why I thought it might be good for me as whatever the issue, it isn't a tummy bug.
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Interesting. The WHO rehydration formula is Six (6) level teaspoons of Sugar. Half (1/2) level teaspoon of Salt. One Litre of clean drinking or boiled water and then cooled - 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.) We used in in the refugee camps in Southern Sudan. Very effective as long as the water was well purified.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera
That badger who has a fetish with the swing coverings...

Creative - no time to do a digital painting this morning, and so I took yesterday's owl and did a double exposure with my net curtains in the front room...
A ghostie owl...

I need a quick nap now (I woke up too early!) and a cuppa tea (already had my coffee)...

Have a good day!

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Gone fishin' ... caught a water-owl. Good fun.
 
Annb said:
Beautiful colours. There's hardly a leaf left on anything here - apart from the evergreens but still some sad looking ones on the flowering cherry. They are always the last to give up the ghost.

Tried a different approach last night and this morning to try to get BG down to a reasonable level. I took half of my basal insulin before bed at 11.30 pm and half when I got up this morning plus a small (8u) bolus dose. Didn't work for this morning but maybe it'll take a day or so to settle in. BG at 3.50 am was 11.4. 3 hours after taking the 2 insulins it came down to 9.4. 9.3 now, after 6 hours. Now I'll have to take some more of the bolus and have some breakfast. I'll give it another couple of days and see what happens.

Windy and wet here and not very warm either but it is November, after all.

Did I say that DIL seems to have impetigo? Doctors weren't sure if it was that or some other condition which, apparently, diabetics are vulnerable to - not a Staph infection but she can't remember the name of it. Whatever it is,unlike impetigo, it isn't infectious. Em was due to go back to school today, having been quarantined to avoid spreading it. Last night, she developed a rash, so she'll be quarantined for another week.
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I have always though that taking insulin was something of a black art. Our youngest son’s MIL has just been put on it and really struggles.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet and windy L.A @Krystyna23040 good idea to stay in the warm and dry. Welcome @Paule Foster. @karen8967 good to have you here again. @lindisfel good news on the walk and as @dunelm says the further yards can be eeked out. Thanks for the photo - those autumnal colours are a major miss in my life since moving. @dunelm thank you so much fir sharing the wonderful art. Much for me to read into that lone soldier and horse, especially with the colour. With one P killed as well as a grandfather and his brother who survived in the trenches it gives one pause as they say. I hope your father's eyesight continues to allow him to read. @gennepher thanks for sharing the owl which looks quite nonchalant to me. Disentangles? looks as though, Trump like , it doesn't give a hoot. @SlimLizzy I hope you soon pick up. Chicken soup is a good idea - widely used in certain cultures but a tad delicate to go there. @alf_Josiah I just hope. Have a poem to go with @dunelm's artwork. It was read at George Aligiah's memorial but each of those who died in or as a result of that or all wars - on all sides - was a tall tree for someone.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. A win for the post and a hug for the misery only lightened by the colours in that autumnal @lindisfel tree. And a smile and a thank you for the poem - always liked the work of Maya Angelou.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet and windy L.A @Krystyna23040 good idea to stay in the warm and dry. Welcome @Paule Foster. @karen8967 good to have you here again. @lindisfel good news on the walk and as @dunelm says the further yards can be eeked out. Thanks for the photo - those autumnal colours are a major miss in my life since moving. @dunelm thank you so much for sharing the wonderful art. Much for me to read into that lone soldier and horse, especially with the colour. With one P killed as well as a grandfather and his brother who survived in the trenches it gives one pause as they say. I hope your father's eyesight continues to allow him to read. @gennepher thanks for sharing the owl which looks quite nonchalant to me. Disentangles? looks as though, Trump like , it doesn't give a hoot. @SlimLizzy I hope you soon pick up. Chicken soup is a good idea - widely used in certain cultures but a tad delicate to go there. @alf_Josiah I just hope. Have a poem to go with @dunelm's artwork. It was read at George Aligiah's memorial but each of those who died in or as a result of that or all wars - on all sides - was a tall tree for someone.
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Thanks Ian...
 
dunelm said:
Interesting. The WHO rehydration formula is Six (6) level teaspoons of Sugar. Half (1/2) level teaspoon of Salt. One Litre of clean drinking or boiled water and then cooled - 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.) We used in in the refugee camps in Southern Sudan. Very effective as long as the water was well purified.
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So not on commission then.
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @ianpspurs. A win for the post and a hug for the misery only lightened by the colours in that autumnal @lindisfel tree. And a smile and a thank you for the poem - always liked the work of Maya Angelou.
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Thanks. I've edited the post for at least two errors. The most egregious is the poem's title - great trees not tall. As for autumnal colours., I caught a glimpse of what I like and remember when taking my grandson into Newmarket last Friday. A hedgerow and estate had the colours I associate with the season. Unsurprisingly, that was in the Cambs part of the journey.
 
Rain cleared away soon this am and sun is shining again after being wet and windy over night. When we looked out North out of the down stairs side bedroom windows that face north at side the stars were bright at 1930 after Helen rang. The Plough and Polaris were visible in the Northern sky but am afraid I dipped out on the Northern lights again and the clouds soon came over again.

Helen and Jane had a very busy weekend.
Helen was exhausted Monday.
The train to London just took less than two hours from Warrington to Euston.
 
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6.8 this wet, headachy, windy miserably wet Wednesday we have to put up with! Good moaning!
I don't think there has been for weeks, a day without rain. Snowdonia is not doing its job, nor the jet stream, where is the high pressure? Moan, moan, moan!
All trees are bare around here and the foliage is all in my garden and very wet. The gutters are full on the road, filling the grids, which is stopping the heavy rainfall going into the drains. Moan, moan, moan!
Woke up this morning with residual headache from migraine, it was intense and the auras were as colourful and blinding as the fireworks, with the boom getting into my brain and deafening. Moan moan, moan!
Yesterday I felt fat, this morning after first lot of chores, I feel less fat, even slim! Moan, moan, moan!
Are those owls from Hogwarts? No moans, just jealousy! Mutter about my lack of artistic skill!
Have you got any connection with the dark arts?
I have droppsy this morning, since having the dream last night, in which, trying to catch something, the attempt to do so, woke me up. So at every attempt this morning my fingers which are cold and a bit stiff due to the arthritis, I can't get grip, and I have been told that by Mrs L. Moan, moan, moan!
Lemonade!
I don't believe that the lemonade we enjoyed in our childhood, obviously when affordable as a treat, it's just not the same now. To get a diet lemonade, which Mrs L enjoys, we send our DiL to her local supermarket, which has Schweppes in cans. And reasonable. And of course, what Mrs L wants, moan,moan, moan!
But it's the same as my favourite pop as a kid, cream soda! We had a local supplier called Heavysege's, who made those different pops, such as dandelion and burdoch, and real beer shandy, limeade etc. I remember my aunty from London taking a whole crate home with her, when on a visit. And it was delivered or bought from the local Heavysege's off licence shop. Which was conveniently nearby the sweet shop and bingo. Nothing like that any more. Moan, moan, moan!
Chores, not quite done, gotta go shop as well, doin too much, exercising will wait till later, back a bit tight and numb! Moan, moan, moan!
Oh yeah my fasting BG today is......... 6.7, that is my average over the last couple of months. Why won't it come down? Moaning won't help, will it?
Cuppa required, Mrs L is having a nap away from my moaning, and is in her pit, moaning about my moaning! And I have to climb those bloody stairs again! Moan!
Is it woe, woe, woe Wednesday?
Or moaning Monday?
Mrs L is none the wiser, you call it what you want. I have no idea no more!

Its still raining!.........gotta go! Mo...
 
Just ordered some oil for our boiler. 500 litres which should keep us going for about 3 months with what is still there. That comes to just less than £500. We only have the oil and electricity - no gas this far away from Stornoway. That means we are paying, at present (winter), about £1100 a quarter for energy (other than in the car but that's not much, probably only £100 a quarter). I'm hoping for better figures from the installation of the air source heat pump and solar panels. Not sure how long it will take before the contractor can get to it, if the house is suitable at all. Whatever happens, I will not be cutting down so far on heating this winter - cleaning up the mould and chucking out packets of foodand other things that have absorbed the damp means that we waste money while trying to save it.
 
lindisfel said:
Rain cleared away soon this am and sun is shining again after being wet and windy over night. When we looked at North out of the down stairs side bedroom windows that face north at side the stars were bright at 1930 after Helen rang. The Plough and Polaris were visible in the Northern sky but am afraid I dipped out on the Northern lights again but the clouds soon came over again.

Helen and Jane had a very busy weekend.
Helen was exhausted Monday.
The train to London just took less than two hours from Warrington to Euston.
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There was a huge bank of cloud, to the North, when I was on the footie pitches last night but clear overhead, so the usual winter stars were quite clear, so no chance of seeing anything towards the north., I would love to see the northern lights again! Big bang or no big bang, is the question this year after the latest pictures back from the new telescope seeing further and further back into the cosmos, but not the whole universe, seen or unseen.

The reason the train was quick, because it was all downhill, as is the country's direction!
 
Annb said:
Just ordered some oil for our boiler. 500 litres which should keep us going for about 3 months with what is still there. That comes to just less than £500. We only have the oil and electricity - no gas this far away from Stornoway. That means we are paying, at present (winter), about £1100 a quarter for energy (other than in the car but that's not much, probably only £100 a quarter). I'm hoping for better figures from the installation of the air source heat pump and solar panels. Not sure how long it will take before the contractor can get to it, if the house is suitable at all. Whatever happens, I will not be cutting down so far on heating this winter - cleaning up the mould and chucking out packets of foodand other things that have absorbed the damp means that we waste money while trying to save it.
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I think you are definitely right in not cutting down on heating. Hope and pray for you that the house is suitable for those upgrades and that they keep you warm, damp free and reduce outgoings. Peace be with you.
 
gennepher said:
That is beautiful @lindisfel
Your garden must stunning with these autumn colours...

My ash trees still have pretty much all their leaves.
My oak trees keep a lot of leaves all winter and they go a beautiful brown. Squirrels have taken the acorns and redistributed them.
Rowan trees are just skeleton branches.
My cherry trees are bare of leaves, just skeletons.
A lot of the deciduous trees are still holding on to their leaves.
Apple trees have pretty much all their leaves, and I am still picking cooking apples...

Then there are all the evergreens...
The ivy needs controlling a bit. It provides security for birds nests, and food for moths and shelter for their larvae. The air in my garden is thick with all kinds of moths at night.

I talked with one of my neighbour's, the other day, who doesn't particularly like my natural garden and has always been curt with me, and I explained the wealth of insect life in my garden because of its overgrown nature. And a bit more stuff. He left enlightened, not sure how convinced he was, but I got my point of view over.
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if all our gardens were like yours @gennepher the planet and our wildlife would be in a much better position than it is now.
 
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