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

Annb said:
A lovely idea to stay at the inn. Hope you enjoy it when you get there.

I have seen a picture of the house in Weston Turville that my family lived in for about 200 years. Although it was rented all that time, it still has their name today. It's a private house now, although it was a pub for some years after my ancestors left there, so we couldn't really ask to visit. Not that I could now anyway. When my brother and SIL were her yesterday, I asked whether they had ever been to Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire (they live in Wiltshire and visit Gloucestershire frequently). They haven't but when I told them they should since it is our ancestral seat they said they would go and stake their claim. Good luck on that one. :blackeye:
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We must definitely be distantly related as if I were to shake my family tree a few Berkeleys would fall out, Berkeley Castle of course is where Edward II met his grisly end.
 
JohnEGreen said:
We must definitely be distantly related as if I were to shake my family tree a few Berkeleys would fall out, Berkeley Castle of course is where Edward II met his grisly end.
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Poor old Teddy II. Whether he really did die the way the story tells it (shudder) or some other way, he was killed one way or another there at Berkeley. I mean, I know that he was considered to be homosexual and that it would have been very much disapproved of, but really! People were very brutal in those days. Not that some of my current relatives wouldn't be as bad, if they thought they could get away with it. Unforgiving bitterness is the name of the game unfortunately, especially in my father's family. Chips off the old block, many of them.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those of you that didn’t do the zip wire ride down K2
Blood sugars this morning were 6.7

I feel that I must doff my cap to that old fellow greaser @dunelm on two points firstly his painting today and secondly for the eloquent way he described social media.

Now stay safe all, avoid zip wire rides and the media. Koffy is calling along with Mrs J.
 
Morning all from a same day different t-shirt start here in L.A. Ideally I'd have been to Aldi for Olive oil before people on this forum snap it all up and hunter gathered some rotisserie chicken. Something about the moistness of the bought ones we've never quite been able to match. I think it may be the effect of lined bags - but events dear boy, events have put the kibosh on all that. No grandchild care duties planned for nine days so JKP can slumber longer. For a while now I have been a man with a plan but suddenly life has come over all Spaghetti Junction and the sat nav needs updating. Nothing bad, quite the reverse but it feeds into my ongoing internal debate about how I leave the stage "properly." A major strand of this is my ongoing doubts over Elsie Keto as Gillette - Is it, is it really though? Anyoldhow, @dogslife good to hear from you but hug for the hypo symptoms. @gennepher thank you for sharing yesterday's creative - I liked the pastel/washed out effect. Some of us have an endless propensity to make the perfect the enemy of the good and modern technology throws out too much data. Data, information, knowledge and wisdom are very different - link just for good manners to acknowledge the source. I'm also much more comfortable in that kind of space than anything creative.
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Y'all enjoy as much of Saturday as humanly possible
 
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LivingLightly said:
Yes, indeed @Krystyna23040. Another plus!


Friday's FBG 4.7 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
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It is an amazing price for such good quality. As I am taking it for health reasons I wanted the best I could buy - which I thought would be from Waitrose. Thank goodness I saw the Which report on Aldi's oil just before setting off to Waitrose to buy oil.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on yet another all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 this a.m. after a day of luxurious ease. Only one task yesterday - walk into town and collect a prescription for Mrs Miggins. That out of the way and, after a chat with my mum, some indulgent nothingness, a bit of reading and paint splurging. Funny old dream last night - I pay them no mind unless I get a stress dream which rarely happens. Very few things cause me stress, especially if it’s something that is not under my own control. Two years of CBT (founded upon stoic ideas) helped me enormously. So too does not paying much mind to TV news or the under house waste pipes that are Social Media. Anyhow, art bit, not as I envisaged but never mind. Find strength in your own imperfections - the Japanese Call it Kintsugi - it’s mainly about mending broken pottery with powdered gold but the principle works for your mind also. My day tells me that there are wonders to see so probably a walk through the woods and down to the sea. I could collect some Sycamore helicopters for The Girl In The Bubble. First though, some koffy.
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I do love your painting @dunelm
 
Lamont D said:
it does sound as if it's similar to a sugar crash. A rapid drop in BG levels.
hope your scan goes well.
I have up and down liver and kidney function results.
having a lot of water pre blood test for a couple of days before, will help with the results.
got that from a doctor who specialises in renal conditions.
Best wishes.
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Thanks for the advice@Lamont D. I am instructed not to eat for 6 hours before the scan but it is an early morning appointment so I will take a breakfast snack with me for afterwards. I have non alcoholic fatty liver syndrome and am experiencing a lot of abdominal pain. They have asked for a repeat blood test for cholesterol which is also high. Awaiting an appointment at the Endocrinology department as I have proved intolerant to all attempted statins and alternatives over time. Heh ho! Will just have to wait and see what if anything they come up with. My best wishes to you.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on yet another all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 this a.m. after a day of luxurious ease. Only one task yesterday - walk into town and collect a prescription for Mrs Miggins. That out of the way and, after a chat with my mum, some indulgent nothingness, a bit of reading and paint splurging. Funny old dream last night - I pay them no mind unless I get a stress dream which rarely happens. Very few things cause me stress, especially if it’s something that is not under my own control. Two years of CBT (founded upon stoic ideas) helped me enormously. So too does not paying much mind to TV news or the under house waste pipes that are Social Media. Anyhow, art bit, not as I envisaged but never mind. Find strength in your own imperfections - the Japanese Call it Kintsugi - it’s mainly about mending broken pottery with powdered gold but the principle works for your mind also. My day tells me that there are wonders to see so probably a walk through the woods and down to the sea. I could collect some Sycamore helicopters for The Girl In The Bubble. First though, some koffy.
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A beautiful copse of trees. I am loving this new series @dunelm
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a same day different t-shirt start here in L.A. Ideally I'd have been to Aldi for Olive oil before people on this forum snap it all up and hunter gathered some rotisserie chicken. Something about the moistness of the bought ones we've never quite been able to match. I think it may be the effect of lined bags - but events dear boy, events have put the kibosh on all that. No grandchild care duties planned for nine days so JKP can slumber longer. For a while now I have been a man with a plan but suddenly life has come over all Spaghetti Junction and the sat nav needs updating. Nothing bad, quite the reverse but it feeds into my ongoing internal debate about how I leave the stage "properly." A major strand of this is my ongoing doubts over Elsie Keto as Gillette - Is it, is it really though? Anyoldhow, @dogslife good to hear from you but hug for the hypo symptoms. @gennepher thank you for sharing yesterday's creative - I liked the pastel/washed out effect. Some of us have an endless propensity to make the perfect the enemy of the good and modern technology throws out too much data. Data, information, knowledge and wisdom are very different - link just for good manners to acknowledge the source. I'm also much more comfortable in that kind of space than anything creative.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
dogslife said:
Thanks for the advice@Lamont D. I am instructed not to eat for 6 hours before the scan but it is an early morning appointment so I will take a breakfast snack with me for afterwards. I have non alcoholic fatty liver syndrome and am experiencing a lot of abdominal pain. They have asked for a repeat blood test for cholesterol which is also high. Awaiting an appointment at the Endocrinology department as I have proved intolerant to all attempted statins and alternatives over time. Heh ho! Will just have to wait and see what if anything they come up with. My best wishes to you.
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I am intolerant to statins also but a Consultant at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital told me not to worry because if I could take statins it would only increase my lifespan by approximately 4 days maximum. I don't know where he got that figure from but it did make me feel a lot better about it.
It is very confusing though, because another Consultant at the same hospital told me that statins were vital as I had diabetes.
Hope the scan goes well.
 
Fbg 6.5

Wildlife nighttime video...
Badgers ...a lot of different ones...
57 secs...

Creative...mixed media, several black pens & brushes

Still doing this bed making lark...washed some under blankets...they are on the washing lines...one more under sheet to wash...washing lines are full...

Bought some stuff (safe for pets & I suppose that includes badgers & foxes, & even childrens plushie toys the instructions said) to debug the swing, not that I have ever seen any bugs on it. But these are wild animals who sit on the swing. I wore goggles and a mask (it didn't tell you to), sprayed the swing, put an animal blanket on swing, in case Midnight decided to sit on swing. Midnight got his monthly dose of bug killer on his neck. He was disgusted.

I came in took mask and goggles and plastic gloves off. Blimey, the scent of that spray was strong. I was choking...And the instructions even say it is safe to use on your mattress for bed mites... not on your nelly...I will stick to my mixture of essential oils which I always use when I change my bedding (which my aromatherapy book says is safe for pets).

Well gone are the days when I used to lug a mattress out into the bright sunshine once a year. I had always done this, when my Pakistani neighbour told me to do this especially in rented property. I was only 18, and she passed on lots of hints and food advice to me...

So now it is a spray of essential oils on the mattress at bed changing time...

Now I am exhausted...I need a nap...

Maybe I ought to eat first, and then have my siesta...

Hope you are having a good day.

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JohnEGreen said:
~~We must definitely be distantly related as if I were to shake my family tree a few Berkeleys would fall out, Berkeley Castle of course is where Edward II met his grisly end.
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I think that we all are related - as family trees tend to loop back on theirselves.The ispopoint for Europe is about 1000AD. Which means that anyone with European ancestry today is a descendant of everyone from the 10th century who had descendants. Going back only 33 generations (about 1224AD) would give 2 n x 33, over 8 billion ancestors.​
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