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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

Been playing with Kaleider kaleidoscope.
Great to play with on sleepless nights...
Same bunch of flowers as yesterday, but in room settings...looks like a football in a tunnel bouncing through the walls...
It was a video, but this is a shot from it.

Have your best day


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Brilliant - it’s the corridor to the room where all the surrealists live.
 
6.4 at 04.30 today. Up a bit with pills and tea, but back down to 6.1 now that I have had breakfast.

Hands are pretty well back to normal now. Achy and sore, but nothing like they were. While they were bad, the veins stood out beautifully although the hands were swollen. It would have been a good opportunity to get blood for a blood test, but I couldn't have stood a needle going in to get it.

Energy levels fairly high this morning. I'll have to see which of the numerous jobs I can tackle today. Neil is still pretty much out of it with his back.

The opthalmologist that I saw the other day said they (the GP, optician and hospital opthalmologist that I saw last time) thought my problem could be either my thyroid (scan says not) or MG but she said they have decided that it isn't Optic MG but may be something that acts like MG. Whatever that might be, I have no clue. I don't want it to be MG but the symptoms are very similar. Ah well, que sera, sera, as Doris Day sang (showing my age).
 
Good morning everyone on yet another all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.5 this am and already the washing that I whimsically left on the washing line last night is nearly dry. Tragedy yesterday as my cafetière decided to identify as Johnny Weissmuller and did a pretty good reenactment of a Tarzan dive off the work top - all went well until the floor decided to get in on the act. Travel cafetière to the rescue and a trip to a shop later today but meantime, cafetière is laying in state - a right old state - in the dustbin which in Wales is known as a wheel-y-bin. Art bit - some more marks. Have the best day that you can. I shall pour my koffy and weep at the unexpected expense of a new yet important kitchen item.
 

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Annb said:
6.4 at 04.30 today. Up a bit with pills and tea, but back down to 6.1 now that I have had breakfast.

Hands are pretty well back to normal now. Achy and sore, but nothing like they were. While they were bad, the veins stood out beautifully although the hands were swollen. It would have been a good opportunity to get blood for a blood test, but I couldn't have stood a needle going in to get it.

Energy levels fairly high this morning. I'll have to see which of the numerous jobs I can tackle today. Neil is still pretty much out of it with his back.

The opthalmologist that I saw the other day said they (the GP, optician and hospital opthalmologist that I saw last time) thought my problem could be either my thyroid (scan says not) or MG but she said they have decided that it isn't Optic MG but may be something that acts like MG. Whatever that might be, I have no clue. I don't want it to be MG but the symptoms are very similar. Ah well, que sera, sera, as Doris Day sang (showing my age).
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Could be a hole or a tear or something else, will you be having a specialist having a closer look at it?
 
Well Thursday went as well as such a thing can go was a nice service but everyone there was so much older than I remember them being.
Jen had chosen the music she wanted played and this is the one from the end of the service when we were all leaving to view the flowers though there was not that many as most of us had made donations to cancer research as requested over 400 pounds being collected.



My fbg this morning was 5.4
 
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5.5 this morning.
Carried on with the catching up yesterday. The pile of paperwork on my desk has been dealt with and my desk is so tidy now.

Will carry on with the relaxing but will also be mulling over how to incorporate the new stuff I have learnt into how I teach.

Interestingly my brain is already working on this in the background.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Thank goodness you had a travel cafetiere @dunelm - otherwise it would truly have been a disaster.
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Ahem young lady. A broken cafetiere is just an opportunity to drink a superior hot beverage or help the economy by buying a coffee machine - ideally voice/wireless/AI controlled :playful: A disaster would be when a teapot breaks or the staff are derelict in their duty to order enough tea. Such distinctions in the choice of words are important. One despairs at times:).
Krystyna23040 said:
5.5 this morning.
Carried on with the catching up yesterday. The pile of paperwork on my desk has been dealt with and my desk is so tidy now.

Will carry on with the relaxing but will also be mulling over how to incorporate the new stuff I have learnt into how I teach.

Interestingly my brain is already working on this in the background.
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An even more egregious example of the above. :playful:
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on yet another all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.5 this am and already the washing that I whimsically left on the washing line last night is nearly dry. Tragedy yesterday as my cafetière decided to identify as Johnny Weissmuller and did a pretty good reenactment of a Tarzan dive off the work top - all went well until the floor decided to get in on the act. Travel cafetière to the rescue and a trip to a shop later today but meantime, cafetière is laying in state - a right old state - in the dustbin which in Wales is known as a wheel-y-bin. Art bit - some more marks. Have the best day that you can. I shall pour my koffy and weep at the unexpected expense of a new yet important kitchen item.
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Oh dear oh dear, the antics in your kitchen @dunelm

Art bit coming along nicely...
 
gennepher said:
Not getting much sleep...I hurt too much...my hands hurt too much...my fault...
Will take it very easy to do the rest of that ivy, even if it takes a month.
It is a bind growing old and having arthritis...
But I am still very pleased I got that much of an inroad done...showing the job was possible.
It will make it much easier to do that turn/swing out of my driveway when those 2 idiots are parking opposite each other...
Just drinking a cuppa tea...waiting for the pain relievers to kick in......
And the badger (Pa Badger) is looking at me through my full length glass door into the garden which is right besides my bed. Cat Midnight is sitting right by the window looking at him....how many people get this closeness to nature's beasties in the night...even though I might say a few naughty words in the morning when I find out what mischief he's been up to...
Back to sleep. Hand massager is now on my other hand...I feel like a Borg with this arm extension...this one goes half way up my arm (I have 3 different ones)...
Night night, sleep tight...don't let those bed bugs bite...
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Does Lucuitus know you are hiding away?
or are you the Borg Queen?

Take it easy, will you?
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

Been playing with Kaleider kaleidoscope.
Great to play with on sleepless nights...
Same bunch of flowers as yesterday, but in room settings...looks like a football in a tunnel bouncing through the walls...
It was a video, but this is a shot from it.

Have your best day


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surreal!
like it!
never seen a yellow footie tunnel.
not even Norwich, Mansfield, etc.
 
ianpspurs said:
What sort of brute savage are you man, making tea with teabags and in a cup/mug? :eek: Mrs A J was quite right to complain even absent heinously leaving said bag. Behave yourself today young man - that lovely lady has put her trust in you, don't let her down twice in one day. One fears the worst after such a start.:playful:
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I totally agree, cups not mugs, tea leaves not bags, brewed in a pot with a cosy, sipped not glugged, pinky at 45degrees. Tea poured first then if you are adding afterwards. Cups should be warmed beforehand.
We don't live on a building site!!!!!
shocking, you deserve the abuse @alf_Josiah Alf








However, I'm not posh, and I like mine in my mug with the tea bag left in. No milk, no sugar, tho I use to enjoy the Liptons lemon brew, in hot weather straight outta the fridge.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.5 this morning.
Carried on with the catching up yesterday. The pile of paperwork on my desk has been dealt with and my desk is so tidy now.

Will carry on with the relaxing but will also be mulling over how to incorporate the new stuff I have learnt into how I teach.

Interestingly my brain is already working on this in the background.
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The trick is to plan ahead, but be flexible, expect the unexpected and have a plan b, in case plan A goes awry.
Keep paperwork to a limit, and always be ahead.
I do believe that you have the nous to be able to concentrate on your training.
Never believe you have succeeded.
Continuous improvement is the way to be able to maintain success.
I think I'm preaching to the choir here @Krystyna23040
 
ianpspurs said:
A disaster would be when a teapot breaks or the staff are derelict in their duty to order enough tea.
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I did have a disaster with tea once. I made tea for the builders who were working on our house.

They loved tea but when they started drinking it I was puzzled by the look of sheer horror on their faces. They were standing there like statues frozen to the spot.

Then I realised that I had made them Redbush tea by mistake. I love Redbush tea but they obviously didn't.
 
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