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

jjraak said:
Left phone at home yesterday.

Straight to sleep when I got home.

Fbg Friday AM 8.3

Trending downwards so happy with that.

2 years of filling my inner pot of excess glucose back up.

I think I see it as a positive, that cutting back is making the body scavenge & skim the inner pot of glucose, to deliver that unwanted (but necessary) glucose dump.

Soon retrain it, that the loss of its sugary intake is deliberate and I'm not laying lost & hungry in some desert.....I hope.

Good to be back hunting that elusive :
Less glucose IN.
+
The dumping + skimming from that inner pot
= A better sugary/glucose diabetic equilibrium.

( Small prayer )
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I gave you hug, but I need to give you 2 emoji's HUG and WINNER x
 
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Morning T2D massif.

Fun express to office
Having to get used to everyone being dressed..lol.

Fbg 8.4
Draining the swamp hopefully .

Water weight dropping 225 lbs.

Not a fast but nowhere near my usual intake.
And wasn't hungry & feel ok, before anyone asks .

Enjoy your day, as best you can folks.

Not another one like this due this side of that heavenly veil awaiting us all.
 
Lamont D said:
As a townie, we made all sorts of weaponry!
The usual kids stuff, but some that had the potential to eradicate the whole population of my town. Ha!
Teenage kids in areas like mine were so resourceful. And can acquire things, that most of the population couldn't imagine.
Instead of what we used to make, the kids are so competent in computer science now!
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We used to make ‘Bobby arrows’ - fired using a knotted piece of string - similar principle to a spear thrower. Best not to go into the baking of sugar and fertiliser when my brother and I blew the warming oven door off the Aga. Still have the marks on my backside.
 
Good morning everyone on what hopefully will be a rain free day here in the dark and dangerous north. Rained all day yesterday so that’s the garden sorted, the cars washed and the gutters cleaned. Phew, I need to slow down a bit. I have some transport to arrange today - bus, train, both - not sure yet. Mrs Miggins is going to do a couple of errands this morning; in northern parlance, “a few messages”. Yes, and all sweets are called ‘spice’. We have a rendezvous for lunch - it’s very exciting. She will wear a boutonnière in the colours of her clan tartan (hopefully other things as well) and I will wear my Fedora and carry a copy of Brief Encounter by Nöel Coward. Art bit, second blockbuster video card run of the same scene as yesterday. Just realised that it’s Saturday today so hope that your journey through the day is a good one. Now, more koffy needed.


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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who shortly will be tiptoeing through tulips wearing boover boots.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.7

Not sure how the day here in Tilehurst Towers is going to pan out, but yesterday when all my troubles seemed so far away, ahem a slight digression there. Me me’s and myself avoided the dreaded haircut and beard trim, whew, but I am sure Mrs J will renew her campaign now her latest artwork is complete.

Have a jolly spiffing day all and don’t go tiptoeing through the spring flowers.

Stay safe all.

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AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH
My car will not start It let me in screens went black and then I found I couldn't lock it to come back in the house because there's no keyhole in the car door

AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH

The text number to ring RAC is now defunct so I had to download the app


AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH
 
gennepher said:
AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH
My car will not start It let me in screens went black and then I found I couldn't lock it to come back in the house because there's no keyhole in the car door

AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH

The text number to ring RAC is now defunct so I had to download the app


AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH
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Hope it is sorted pronto
 
I had a message from my GP’s surgery this morning inviting me to participate in the discover me study where they will be collecting health data together with genetic data of thousands of patients in order to determine links between certain illnesses and genetic makeup not sure if I should do it or not.
 
RAC
Nice man. Came very quickly.
It turns out that my car is a hybrid model as far as batteries are concerned.
Two batteries, one is 12 V and then the normal 48 V

The 12 volts runs the locking mechanism and a pile of other little things in the car. The RAC man said the 12 V one was knackered. It was broken, and it was such a poor quality, 12 V one, and he said that's what they do nowadays, but the cheapest stuff they can in the car. This car is only barely 6 months old and they put parts in it that don't even last six months...

Don't worry said the RAC man, I have put a much better quality 12 V battery in for you that will last he said.

No words for this shoddy parts scam by the car manufacturers, because that is what it is....

Now to go out and get my meds.

Oh RAC man showed me a hidden slider which I need a penknife for (of course all good Brownies carry a penknife...) where I can open or lock the car if this 12 V battery ever fails agin, but I have put a good quality 12 V one on for you...
 
JohnEGreen said:
I had a message from my GP’s surgery this morning inviting me to participate in the discover me study where they will be collecting health data together with genetic data of thousands of patients in order to determine links between certain illnesses and genetic makeup not sure if I should do it or not.
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Gut reaction in me says NO
But get other people's opinions first.
Good luck.
 
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7.5 at 0345.

@gennepher, glad you got your car fixed. Typical of many businesses these days - cheapest components possible - "never mind the quality, feel the width" kind of attitude.
@JohnEGreen, depends on whether you want to keep your personal data to yourself. If everything about you is in someone else's database, it is vulnerable.
@alf_Josiah, that's quite a striking image of a forest floor. The "winner" is for Mrs J.
@dunelm, that's another winner. Very wintery. That little man could probably do with a hot cup of coffee to keep him warm.
 
Morning all from dry Saturday early in what probably won't be totally dry January here but I'll be unlikely to reach 14 units all month. That may count for some but will take no self control from me. Birthday girl alive and almost kicking for the visit of 2 granddaughters and a great grandson from Surrey and a surprise afternoon tea later. The cake has been decorated - no, not 94 candles. Tomorrow will be a down home Sunday roast with our #3 son and 2 great grandchildren possibly #1 son and 2 other great grandchildren. @JohnEGreen personally I would be keen to participate in that research if only if at all possible to help my boys, grandchildren or anyone else avoid the **** which has and will come my way but YMMV. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art - I very much like this series. @alf_Josiah thank Mrs A J for sharing her art. @gennepher the journey to car improvement may have been unconventional but the destination is so much better. There seems to be a pattern emerging here. @jjraak a less eventful journey to work. Well done on returning to testing and seeing the upside of life. @Krystyna23040 take it easy - as if. Here's _ possibly - a wonderful photo of dockey time in the Fens for some soon to be horny handed sons (and daughters) of toil. I can't promise y'all a Pedro Porro sized ear to ear beam but have a good day with as many little epiphanies as possible. The key seems to be not looking for them and defo not working to achieve them - they happen.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what hopefully will be a rain free day here in the dark and dangerous north. Rained all day yesterday so that’s the garden sorted, the cars washed and the gutters cleaned. Phew, I need to slow down a bit. I have some transport to arrange today - bus, train, both - not sure yet. Mrs Miggins is going to do a couple of errands this morning; in northern parlance, “a few messages”. Yes, and all sweets are called ‘spice’. We have a rendezvous for lunch - it’s very exciting. She will wear a boutonnière in the colours of her clan tartan (hopefully other things as well) and I will wear my Fedora and carry a copy of Brief Encounter by Nöel Coward. Art bit, second blockbuster video card run of the same scene as yesterday. Just realised that it’s Saturday today so hope that your journey through the day is a good one. Now, more koffy needed.


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So, that is what winter really looks like?
Brilliant.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who shortly will be tiptoeing through tulips wearing boover boots.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.7

Not sure how the day here in Tilehurst Towers is going to pan out, but yesterday when all my troubles seemed so far away, ahem a slight digression there. Me me’s and myself avoided the dreaded haircut and beard trim, whew, but I am sure Mrs J will renew her campaign now her latest artwork is complete.

Have a jolly spiffing day all and don’t go tiptoeing through the spring flowers.

Stay safe all.

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I like it!
 
JohnEGreen said:
I had a message from my GP’s surgery this morning inviting me to participate in the discover me study where they will be collecting health data together with genetic data of thousands of patients in order to determine links between certain illnesses and genetic makeup not sure if I should do it or not.
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Wonder if the doctors know you are an alien?

it's only a blood sample isn't it?
could be very interesting.
 
Annb said:
7.5 at 0345.

@gennepher, glad you got your car fixed. Typical of many businesses these days - cheapest components possible - "never mind the quality, feel the width" kind of attitude.
@JohnEGreen, depends on whether you want to keep your personal data to yourself. If everything about you is in someone else's database, it is vulnerable.
@alf_Josiah, that's quite a striking image of a forest floor. The "winner" is for Mrs J.
@dunelm, that's another winner. Very wintery. That little man could probably do with a hot cup of coffee to keep him warm.
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what @Annb said.
 
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