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

[Annb]

Fbg 6.7

Creative today is a kaleidoscope of the Mahonia from yesterday. This is the only sunshine in my garden.
Freezing outside again. It was -5C outside in the early hours. I closed my bedroom window because the cold was creeping rapidly indoors. I like sleeping with an open window,


Wildlife nighttime video.
Cats Midnight & Jade on the swing together & 2 Badgers
53secs

Me, I need a nap, was working on videos in the early hours. This latest iPad up date has messed up my device lots...

Some clouds in the blue sky here. Rain predicted soon...

I found a bag of seeds. Put them on the little bird table which is now covered in sparrows, bluetits, many greattits, and a male robin. I put cat biscuits and peanuts as well.

Have your best day.

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Loving these kaleidoscopes.

 

[Annb]

Morning all from frosty the no show, except for blowup versions, snowman (yet) L.A. Seasonally impractical for much of the UK who need to live somewhere cheap enough then travel miles to work or shop with woeful/non existent public transport. Fbg of 4.7 at 4.36 or 5.3 at around 8.02. @dunelm thank you for sharing the stunning art and the word festooned but not attic - very long story and also a word I don’t think I have ever actually heard said. @gennepher thanks for sharing the kaleidoscope which reminds me of some early 70s dresses - in a good way. @Krystyna23040 take the offer of a lift - isn't the F Pace 4x4? @lindisfel hug for not eating most of yesterday. One way or another I've averaged around 1200 cals per day over the last 7 days and I think my body has decided to inflate bg at times to supplement things. I read the Sciency/Mathsy bits and ..... one body many members (gifts?). Now Jude the obscure, indeed all Hardy, animates me. Have a poem - very fitting for this weather. @Annb I hope DIL is gradually recovering and Alistair isn't trying to do too much. In a previous version I would already have walked the dogs for hours in the early morning ice, come back, showered and had the log burner roaring. Now I'm left waving and feeling auf Wiedersehen pet. I don't like Streisand much but that song is now lodged in my head. Have a tattyfilarious day - but

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Thanks for the poem Ian. It reminds me that I must revisit Thos Hardy. Oddly enough I was watching a repeat of "Escape to the Country" earlier and the house-hunt was in Wessex. They showed the monument to Admiral Hardy and explained that although this was Thos Hardy country, the memorial was not to him. Pointers to the fact that I should try to find some of the work of Hardy among my books. There should be something there - unless Neil has it among his, which is always a possibility.

DIL is, apparently, not feeling so bright today. She is on morphine and that's depressing her spirits a bit. She is also NOT on the cocktail of drugs she has become used to over the last few months, since the trouble in her neck developed. I suppose she became rather too used to them. But she is a bright and resilient soul and I'm sure this experience won't hold her down for long.

 

[Annb]

01.12 FBG 5.8
02.12 FBG 5.1
Have been prescribed vitamin D.

Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency may include:

• Fatigue.
• Not sleeping well.
• Bone pain or achiness.
• Depression or feelings of sadness.
• Hair loss.
• Muscle weakness.
• Loss of appetite.
• Getting sick more easily.

No bone pain and haven't noticed hair loss, but certainly the fatigue and feelings of weakness, sadness and almost total loss of appetite plus an infection seem spot on.
Was expecting a pack of twelve pills, instead got this.
View attachment 64674Some difficulty in working out how to take this single dose supplement. Google to the rescue.
Also do I now have to get monthly repeat prescription ?
MrSlim and I are both very happy to surprise medical professionals with a list of zero medications. Seems this is unusual.
Very frosty morning, -2°C. Not really liking that MrSlim has gone to look at and possibly buy a gate for our field. Drive of about an hour each way.
We have a dinner invitation for tonight.
Am not going to be the perfect guest...No alcohol and low appetite. Cannot even contribute amusing conversation. Not been anywhere and hardly done anything to talk about. Will have to rely on questions.

Here's hoping that the vit D is what you need to pick up your general health and happiness. It wouldn't be surprising, especially after the year the world has had and its impact on all our lives.

 

[lindisfel]

01.12 FBG 5.8
02.12 FBG 5.1
Have been prescribed vitamin D.

Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency may include:

• Fatigue.
• Not sleeping well.
• Bone pain or achiness.
• Depression or feelings of sadness.
• Hair loss.
• Muscle weakness.
• Loss of appetite.
• Getting sick more easily.

No bone pain and haven't noticed hair loss, but certainly the fatigue and feelings of weakness, sadness and almost total loss of appetite plus an infection seem spot on.
Was expecting a pack of twelve pills, instead got this.
View attachment 64674Some difficulty in working out how to take this single dose supplement. Google to the rescue.
Also do I now have to get monthly repeat prescription ?
MrSlim and I are both very happy to surprise medical professionals with a list of zero medications. Seems this is unusual.
Very frosty morning, -2°C. Not really liking that MrSlim has gone to look at and possibly buy a gate for our field. Drive of about an hour each way.
We have a dinner invitation for tonight.
Am not going to be the perfect guest...No alcohol and low appetite. Cannot even contribute amusing conversation. Not been anywhere and hardly done anything to talk about. Will have to rely on questions.

Do you know what your Vit D level is? @SlimLizzy

 

[lindisfel]

Thanks for the poem Ian. It reminds me that I must revisit Thos Hardy. Oddly enough I was watching a repeat of "Escape to the Country" earlier and the house-hunt was in Wessex. They showed the monument to Admiral Hardy and explained that although this was Thos Hardy country, the memorial was not to him. Pointers to the fact that I should try to find some of the work of Hardy among my books. There should be something there - unless Neil has it among his, which is always a possibility.

DIL is, apparently, not feeling so bright today. She is on morphine and that's depressing her spirits a bit. She is also NOT on the cocktail of drugs she has become used to over the last few months, since the trouble in her neck developed. I suppose she became rather too used to them. But she is a bright and resilient soul and I'm sure this experience won't hold her down for long.

When Helen was doing Hardy in English lit O level we took the two of them to Hardy's cottage in Dorset whilst at the New Forest.

I seem to recall it was Little Bockhampton?
If my memory can go back that far.
D.

..

 

[dunelm]

Hug for that, mate

Sensible but still a sense of loss, I'm sure.

Nothing quite matches the madness of dressing for the ride, & that zen like feeling of being (almost) at one with nature as the world zip on past.

Same to Mr K, @Krystyna23040 .

I drove all year round for many a year, but there were times ( & days of them) it just wasn't worthwhile or sensible.

Good call by your man.

Thanks for that @jjraak

 

[Annb]

I wouldn't recommend it, I read it through and it depressed me for three months.

I think Calvinism is much to do with the Scotsman's problems. Those guys roasted them they saw as heritics who just were different Christians.
St George apparently refused his duty for The Roman Army because he wouldn't kill Christians and was executed. But it was fairly typical of the early Christians.
I don't agree with five point Calvinisn I don't like the smell of TULIPs.
D.

I'm not happy with any exclusive doctrine. As humans we have a huge capacity for seeing only the bits of various teachings of various philosophies that we want to see. Calvinist thought and the influence of John Knox were 2 of the moving characters that influenced the Scottish psyche and politics over the last 500-600 years, but I think the early Celtic Christians laid the foundation of the willingness to reform the Church then, and later. Not that I have anything against Celtic Christians and their ideas of a simple form of worship. It just suited the people's mindsets, which is still similar today. However, it has led the Scots into fiercely simplistic ideas, in some cases and caused that exclusivity that causes me to be uncomfortable.

 

[ianpspurs]

When Helen was doing Hardy in English lit O level we took the two of them to Hardy's cottage in Dorset whilst at the New Forest.

I seem to recall it was Little Bockhampton?
If my memory can go back that far.
D.

..

This may redress the balance in Hardy's favour. Probably best not to read the poem Drummer Hodge however true it may be.

 

[Annb]

This may redress the balance in Hardy's favour. Probably best not to read the poem Drummer Hodge however true it may be.

Sorry, Ian, but what's wrong with "Drummer Hodge"? It's closer to my kind of poem than most of what I have read of Hardy so far. But then, I am a fan of many of the accepted "war poets". I have to admit that, about the age of 14, I read the words "If I should die, think only this of me, that there is a corner of a foreign field that is forever, England." It was inscribed on a plaque at Penshurst Place, in Kent. I was touched and it seemed to bridge the gap between works glorifying war and works explaining how inglorious war can be.

 

[ianpspurs]

Sorry, Ian, but what's wrong with "Drummer Hodge"? It's closer to my kind of poem than most of what I have read of Hardy so far. But then, I am a fan of many of the accepted "war poets". I have to admit that, about the age of 14, I read the words "If I should die, think only this of me, that there is a corner of a foreign field that is forever, England." It was inscribed on a plaque at Penshurst Place, in Kent. I was touched and it seemed to bridge the gap between works glorifying war and works explaining how inglorious war can be.

Being from a small country village and having a relative killed in WW1 and buried in France that poem always resonated. It wasn't the haunting content that I wanted to sanitise. My thinking was that if people found Jude the Obscure depressing Drummer Hodge wouldn't re-balance things. Some of his short stories are bleak e.g. The withered arm (available online) - ghost stories were some odd kind of Victorian Christmas tradition.

 

[gennepher]

Loving these kaleidoscopes.

Thank you @Annb

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentleman. Sorry to many posts to catch up on, so, hugs, chuckles and out right bolshiness if required.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.0 what they were the previous few days I can’t remember and I just don’t care either.

Ah the speed of dark, another of science’s unknowns like light, since nobody really understands light, but apparently can split it ( thanks to Pink Floyd) Really, the question about dark matter is, is dark matter hot or cold. Question why is dark matter called dark matter.

Mrs J is festooning the lounge with Xmas stuff and my task is many fold. Along the lines of hurry up and wait.

Well now it’s that time again. Yep time to look busy so I can avoid a task or several.

Stay safe all, stay warm and avoid media driven enquiries.

Edit

Foot and hand note doctors and physicists ( I can’t say about chemists) really don’t like admitting they just don’t know.

 

[Annb]

Being from a small country village and having a relative killed in WW1 and buried in France that poem always resonated. It wasn't the haunting content that I wanted to sanitise. My thinking was that if people found Jude the Obscure depressing Drummer Hodge wouldn't re-balance things. Some of his short stories are bleak e.g. The withered arm (available online) - ghost stories were some odd kind of Victorian Christmas tradition.

Somewhere in this house, there is a copy of "the Withered Arm" but I'm not sure where it is. Must sort these books out and I will get around to it one of these days, but there are more important things to sort out first.

I don't think any of our family were killed actually in WW1 but my grandfather was gassed in 1916 and suffered from that for the rest of his life (until 1946). So, it was injury in that war that killed him in the end. Perhaps that is why I always knew that there was nothing glorious in war.

 

[Lamont D]

I'm with the others.

If your comfortable & feel it's useful, then I'm more than happy to see you post how you feel.

My dad had similar with mum.
I saw how he tried to make light of what was clearly killing him.

I think dad kept a lot in, looking back...I wish he had had some outlet like this.
We all did what we could, but I'm pretty sure he held a lot back to protect the rest of the family.

Would have been nice to think he might have laid some of that heavy burden down, among similar folks to ourselves, without the worry he'd upset those closest to him.

What you say, is pretty much what he said.
Heartbreaking to hear it then, heartbreaking to hear it happening to someone else.

I don't have the words to make, what is clearly a hard road to travel, much easier, though I wish I did @Lamont D

I just hope some of the camaraderie on here, helps lighten a hard day, just that little bit .

And the unburdening when you feel able, affords you some badly needed relief, and the chance of a little second wind, to help you through the day .

Take care.

Once again, I am grateful for your wisdom, O, wise one.
Cheers mate, considerate and thoughtful words, that actually do make a lot of sense.
My dad wouldn't discuss his feelings, or about his military service in Burma.
I knew he had nightmares, but the only outlet was others who shared similar circumstances.
Obviously, I could never imagine what it was like, but I do wish that he could have assured me, that he was coping. I did meet someone, that was in Burma, and of course I asked.
He said, imagine, the worst it could be, for you. Then imagine it being worse, then imagine it being hot and humid and wet and everything covered in slime. Then it you can imagine that. It's a lot more worse than that. Hungry, tired, sweating, insects, everything damp, but the worst was the fear. Then actually fighting the Japanese. You too would have nightmares! He then said afterwards. Your dad won't talk, majority of those who fought in Burma won't, so please don't ask. It would be too hard on him.

I am feeling more like myself today and in a better mood.
Thanks @jjraak.

6.2 this freezing Friday, sorry, Mrs L hasn't caught up with how the days work.
Gotta find one of those daily calendars, you rip the date off, and place it on mantelpiece. It will help with the other post it notes littered around.
Chores and shopping done twice, cos Mrs L fancied a small tin loaf for toast, after I had already been for her and grandkids treats at the bakers.
No footie today.
But keeping an eye on results.
Was gonna start on outside lights, but after getting permission from Mrs L, it has been postponed till warmer climes occur, okay, midweek! Then chrimbo tree and her ornaments!

Mrs L having a nap, so I'm off to finish washing and start the cooking for tea.

Best wishes to you all as always.

 

[dunelm]

Morning all from frosty the no show, except for blowup versions, snowman (yet) L.A. Seasonally impractical for much of the UK who need to live somewhere cheap enough then travel miles to work or shop with woeful/non existent public transport. Fbg of 4.7 at 4.36 or 5.3 at around 8.02. @dunelm thank you for sharing the stunning art and the word festooned but not attic - very long story and also a word I don’t think I have ever actually heard said. @gennepher thanks for sharing the kaleidoscope which reminds me of some early 70s dresses - in a good way. @Krystyna23040 take the offer of a lift - isn't the F Pace 4x4? @lindisfel hug for not eating most of yesterday. One way or another I've averaged around 1200 cals per day over the last 7 days and I think my body has decided to inflate bg at times to supplement things. I read the Sciency/Mathsy bits and ..... one body many members (gifts?). Now Jude the obscure, indeed all Hardy, animates me. Have a poem - very fitting for this weather. @Annb I hope DIL is gradually recovering and Alistair isn't trying to do too much. In a previous version I would already have walked the dogs for hours in the early morning ice, come back, showered and had the log burner roaring. Now I'm left waving and feeling auf Wiedersehen pet. I don't like Streisand much but that song is now lodged in my head. Have a tattyfilarious day - but

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Thank you @ianpspurs

 

[alf_Josiah]

I always knew that there was nothing glorious in war.

To slightly mis quote professor Issac Asimov
“ Violence is the last resort of the incompetent “

Or perhaps it’s incontinent or both and also Pink Floyd’s narrated by professor Steven Hawkins “ Keep Talking “

 

[Lamont D]

You mean it doesn't happen if we don't see it.
Like if a tree falls in a wood it doesn't happen if it's not seen!

Don't know!
Who knows.
Other than the clock or sun, how do you know the time?
As I get older time gets faster.
As a kid, summer days went on forever.
I often say to myself, how did it get to teatime?
When you go back to where you once lived. When did that get built or when was that demolished? ohh! It looks better now! Etc.
And it has been quite a while since Mrs L celebrated her 30th birthday, but it happens every year!
I once bought a birthday card with that on. I regretted it!
The illusion of time is indeed conceptual. Ha!

 

[dunelm]

01.12 FBG 5.8
02.12 FBG 5.1
Have been prescribed vitamin D.

Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency may include:

• Fatigue.
• Not sleeping well.
• Bone pain or achiness.
• Depression or feelings of sadness.
• Hair loss.
• Muscle weakness.
• Loss of appetite.
• Getting sick more easily.

No bone pain and haven't noticed hair loss, but certainly the fatigue and feelings of weakness, sadness and almost total loss of appetite plus an infection seem spot on.
Was expecting a pack of twelve pills, instead got this.
View attachment 64674Some difficulty in working out how to take this single dose supplement. Google to the rescue.
Also do I now have to get monthly repeat prescription ?
MrSlim and I are both very happy to surprise medical professionals with a list of zero medications. Seems this is unusual.
Very frosty morning, -2°C. Not really liking that MrSlim has gone to look at and possibly buy a gate for our field. Drive of about an hour each way.
We have a dinner invitation for tonight.
Am not going to be the perfect guest...No alcohol and low appetite. Cannot even contribute amusing conversation. Not been anywhere and hardly done anything to talk about. Will have to rely on questions.

You must be quite low in vit D for such a megadose. Wondering if that is going to be monthly or even weekly until your levels improve. Whatever it may be, I hope that it does the trick for you. All the best with fieldgate and sure that your company will be appreciated.

 

[Lamont D]

Like I harped on about the Specsavers optician lady @Lamont D that I saw on Monday who said I had cataracts, but yet she leaves me dangling and says I have to go back this coming Thursday for her to examine me. She could have done the examination she was going to do this coming Thursday there and then last Monday because I was still within my appointment time. I'll start harping on it again if I am not careful because obviously it is in my mind at the mo.
Now, I haven't told my daughter in Australia, which I would normally do if there was a more serious health problem, because she is literally thousands of miles away, cannot do anything about it, and no point in worrying her about it at this stage (or maybe at any stage in this) because she knows my eyes are important to me with lipreading they are my ears, so there's no point in me, giving her another worry. So instead, I mithered you lot about it to relieve my stress n it...and to shed off a burden helps, helps articulation, and at leaves my mind free to make any possible plans et cetera et cetera.

So you can mither us all as much as you like @Lamont D
We all need some outlet that is not our nearest and dearest, and this thread satisfies the need for that. The founder of this thread who all of us fondly remember, who were there from the start, was very careful to put the parameters in this thread, so that we could freely talk about and discuss just about anything...so thank you Harrison wherever you are now.

By the way my ex husband was a postie in Liverpool in Copperas Hill, when it was still there, so you can imagine jokes/pranks that got played...ex was just an innocent serious Welshman from Swansea with no concept of practical jokes...

Thanks @gennepher , really appreciate the support.
My first thought when you mentioned your lip reading, and described your eyes are you ears!
Literally, ears where your eyes should be and vice versa?
Not going to get that picture out of my head.
One of my nicknames was Mr potato head, that was my second thought. Ha!

I had a young lad in my team in the car factory, deaf and dumb. I did have to learn rudimentary sign language, but a pen and paper was always handy. He was a very good worker and a joy to be with!

It's 3pm, it's minus three, and it's raining! Not quite sleet, not snow but freezing rain! If it goes colder (eh!) tonight it will be like a skating rink. You would think we were in Snowdonia!

 

[Lamont D]

Fbg 6.7

Creative today is a kaleidoscope of the Mahonia from yesterday. This is the only sunshine in my garden.
Freezing outside again. It was -5C outside in the early hours. I closed my bedroom window because the cold was creeping rapidly indoors. I like sleeping with an open window,


Wildlife nighttime video.
Cats Midnight & Jade on the swing together & 2 Badgers
53secs

Me, I need a nap, was working on videos in the early hours. This latest iPad up date has messed up my device lots...

Some clouds in the blue sky here. Rain predicted soon...

I found a bag of seeds. Put them on the little bird table which is now covered in sparrows, bluetits, many greattits, and a male robin. I put cat biscuits and peanuts as well.

Have your best day.

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Very kaleidoscopic!