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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
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Annb
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I don't seem to have checked in today.
BG at 05.20 was 7.9. Up to 9.0 before breakfast. Haven't checked since because my Libre sensor expired and I'd put on a jumper with sleeves too tight to be rolled up. So I didn't do anything about it all day. I will change the sensor when I go to bed.
My cold is easing, but is still making me feel a bit "off" (tickling throat and runny nose and chest slightly uncomfortable when I breathe in). No worries though, it's just because it's evening and I'm tired. It's been fairly reasonable all day. Had my leg rebandaging done (student nurse was unsure how to do it) and that was all I could manage to do all day. I did wear a mask to avoid spreading the cold virus; whichever one it is. I don't know where the cold came from but I certainly don't want to pass it on to anyone else. Unfortunately, I think Neil might have succumbed - he's been clearing his throat a lot today.
BG at 05.20 was 7.9. Up to 9.0 before breakfast. Haven't checked since because my Libre sensor expired and I'd put on a jumper with sleeves too tight to be rolled up. So I didn't do anything about it all day. I will change the sensor when I go to bed.
My cold is easing, but is still making me feel a bit "off" (tickling throat and runny nose and chest slightly uncomfortable when I breathe in). No worries though, it's just because it's evening and I'm tired. It's been fairly reasonable all day. Had my leg rebandaging done (student nurse was unsure how to do it) and that was all I could manage to do all day. I did wear a mask to avoid spreading the cold virus; whichever one it is. I don't know where the cold came from but I certainly don't want to pass it on to anyone else. Unfortunately, I think Neil might have succumbed - he's been clearing his throat a lot today.
dunelm
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Every now and again.Mashed potatoes always spend a night in the fridge and not too much - mainly shredded cabbage and lardons.
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Good morning everyone on a red sky in the morning start here in the dark and dangerous north - shepherds beware! 5.4 this a.m. Lunch went well yesterday. Getting one of Mrs Miggins’ aunts into the car was interesting but her flash new walker folds down quickly and compactly to go into the car boot. Other perambulatory equipment included walking sticks and a wheelchair - what fun. Staff were wonderful and received a handsome tip - something about driving through Dallas in an open topped car. Girl in the bubble stayed last night. She excitedly told us of her impending flight to Spain (tomorrow) and what type of plane it might be on - blue, red, orange - she is well up on avionics. Jobs to do this morning that require a vehicle - boo! Art bit - still messing about with paint pigments. Hope your day goes well, best get the koffy on.
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Version I know has spring onions and masses of butter. There should be little puddles of it to discover as you eat.
Like the sound of your version though. Added potatoes to the shopping list. Have lardons to use and cabbage. (bought for coleslaw, using up the half jar of mayonnaise) With an impending extended visit to UK have been eating up perishable foodstuffs, opened packets and jars. As well as home frozen foods. Some of the cupboards are almost empty now.
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04.10
No FBG this morning, groggy from early morning disturbances, forgot and reached for the coffee.
Convoys of tractors roaring past since before six am. Am hoping they will be cutting the fields surrounding our house today. Cannot think that the noise, dust and constant procession of tractors will help to sell the house if they are cutting those fields tomorrow.
Have discovered at the back of the fridge a half jar of sundried tomatoes. This has caused me to decide that today's dinner will yet again be pasta. Along with the extra hot tomato and red pepper sauce from the freezer ( Sept 23 vintage, using up from freezer also)
Shopping list is usually very short, usually fresh veg, a little fruit this week
but really I should investigate fruit in the freezer further, milk, sometimes cream and the pain drakkar which is only 33g carbs per 100g. So easily allows two slices of the small loaf.
Pasta is now cooked, rinsed and cooling. I should do some preparation for the viewing tomorrow.
No FBG this morning, groggy from early morning disturbances, forgot and reached for the coffee.
Convoys of tractors roaring past since before six am. Am hoping they will be cutting the fields surrounding our house today. Cannot think that the noise, dust and constant procession of tractors will help to sell the house if they are cutting those fields tomorrow.
Have discovered at the back of the fridge a half jar of sundried tomatoes. This has caused me to decide that today's dinner will yet again be pasta. Along with the extra hot tomato and red pepper sauce from the freezer ( Sept 23 vintage, using up from freezer also)
Shopping list is usually very short, usually fresh veg, a little fruit this week
but really I should investigate fruit in the freezer further, milk, sometimes cream and the pain drakkar which is only 33g carbs per 100g. So easily allows two slices of the small loaf.
Pasta is now cooked, rinsed and cooling. I should do some preparation for the viewing tomorrow.
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JohnEGreen
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Fog today at 07.30 was 4.5 but now LibreLinkUp is telling me 3.2 should I be concerned I don’t know best have some breakfast in a while maybe.
Excursion to tha doctors yesterday was ok sunny and reasonably warm it was to have the dressing changed on my back according to the nurse the wound is no better but no worse have been going twice weekly now since June must admit getting a little hatched off with it.
When I got back as it was not raining and Alexa had assured me that no rain was expected I left my mobility scooter uncovered the later in the day happened to look out side and found it to be raining so had to put the cover on in the rain but it only rained for a short while so that’s ok.
Over heard telephone conversation in the doctors waiting area the other day young man asking his girlfriend’s father to do him a favour take the machetes in the plural and the half dozen or so other knives he had down to the woods and bury them as the police were coming to the house his girlfriend was swearing at him for getting her father involved all this going on in the somewhat crowded waiting area all the other patients looking amazed and concerned no one could believe it the world has just gone crazy.
Excursion to tha doctors yesterday was ok sunny and reasonably warm it was to have the dressing changed on my back according to the nurse the wound is no better but no worse have been going twice weekly now since June must admit getting a little hatched off with it.
When I got back as it was not raining and Alexa had assured me that no rain was expected I left my mobility scooter uncovered the later in the day happened to look out side and found it to be raining so had to put the cover on in the rain but it only rained for a short while so that’s ok.
Over heard telephone conversation in the doctors waiting area the other day young man asking his girlfriend’s father to do him a favour take the machetes in the plural and the half dozen or so other knives he had down to the woods and bury them as the police were coming to the house his girlfriend was swearing at him for getting her father involved all this going on in the somewhat crowded waiting area all the other patients looking amazed and concerned no one could believe it the world has just gone crazy.
gennepher
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Fbg 6.8
Wildlife nighttime video
The Badgers & the Cats
46sec
I have had some problems with YouTube recently. They appear to have been throttling (is that the right word) my views, and I was just getting 1 or 3 views for days on end instead of a few hundred for each video. So I went through all YouTube's explanations for this. And I was initially flummoxed. Seems that their AI/Bot/or whatever was thinking that I was infringing YouTube guidelines for posting.
But I was not infringing anything, so I watched each of my relevant videos with abysmal viewings. And I realised that the first clip on each of those with abysmal viewings was of the Fox coming in. This is Foxy Loxy. He comes in in exactly the same manner, exactly the same angle, and looks at the swing in exactly the same way, and then turns left into the bushes in exactly the same manner and the same way. I came to the conclusion that the AI or bot was assuming I was repeating my clips... and if YouTube thinks you are repeating stuff, they come down on you like a ton of bricks in one way or another.
Fortunately, I still had the originals of most of these videos. So I deleted all of those which just had 1, 2 or 3 viewings (apart from a couple which had some comments on them ) Then to my sadness, I had to take out Foxy Loxy from the beginning of pretty much most of them.
My foxes and badgers and cats are not paid actors, they do their own thing and I can't help it if they are creatures of habit and do exactly the same thing each time they come in my garden. AI seems to be interpreting that as I am repeating my clips.
Now, my viewings are back up to the hundreds again. And that was my answer... I shall have to have a word with the beasties to come in, in a different manner.... actually the answer is to put a few peanuts in a location for them to come in and smell and eat, and then they will go for the peanuts and then come back into the garden in a slightly different manner. I only need some subtle variations for YouTube AI/Bot to see it is a different clip of Foxy Loxy each time he comes in the garden...
Creative...Brusho powder pigments. On a blank postcard. Mixed some pigments into watercolour paints. Fine water spray, either before or after I apply the paint with brush or credit card. Drew the willow tree (using The Mustard Seed Garden for inspiration and instruction) when postcard dry with my black fountain pen (mislaid my multitude of Japanese brush pens for the moment). Then Brusho pigments. Sprayed the willow tree with water (I was fearful it might bleed, but my fountain pen ink appears to be waterproof) then picked up a few grains of pigment and sprinkled them. Repeat a few times for more leaves. Then leave to dry...
Have a good day.
Windy here with bright sun (which awoke in red clouds at dawn) and blue skies...
Wildlife nighttime video
The Badgers & the Cats
46sec
I have had some problems with YouTube recently. They appear to have been throttling (is that the right word) my views, and I was just getting 1 or 3 views for days on end instead of a few hundred for each video. So I went through all YouTube's explanations for this. And I was initially flummoxed. Seems that their AI/Bot/or whatever was thinking that I was infringing YouTube guidelines for posting.
But I was not infringing anything, so I watched each of my relevant videos with abysmal viewings. And I realised that the first clip on each of those with abysmal viewings was of the Fox coming in. This is Foxy Loxy. He comes in in exactly the same manner, exactly the same angle, and looks at the swing in exactly the same way, and then turns left into the bushes in exactly the same manner and the same way. I came to the conclusion that the AI or bot was assuming I was repeating my clips... and if YouTube thinks you are repeating stuff, they come down on you like a ton of bricks in one way or another.
Fortunately, I still had the originals of most of these videos. So I deleted all of those which just had 1, 2 or 3 viewings (apart from a couple which had some comments on them ) Then to my sadness, I had to take out Foxy Loxy from the beginning of pretty much most of them.
My foxes and badgers and cats are not paid actors, they do their own thing and I can't help it if they are creatures of habit and do exactly the same thing each time they come in my garden. AI seems to be interpreting that as I am repeating my clips.
Now, my viewings are back up to the hundreds again. And that was my answer... I shall have to have a word with the beasties to come in, in a different manner.... actually the answer is to put a few peanuts in a location for them to come in and smell and eat, and then they will go for the peanuts and then come back into the garden in a slightly different manner. I only need some subtle variations for YouTube AI/Bot to see it is a different clip of Foxy Loxy each time he comes in the garden...
Creative...Brusho powder pigments. On a blank postcard. Mixed some pigments into watercolour paints. Fine water spray, either before or after I apply the paint with brush or credit card. Drew the willow tree (using The Mustard Seed Garden for inspiration and instruction) when postcard dry with my black fountain pen (mislaid my multitude of Japanese brush pens for the moment). Then Brusho pigments. Sprayed the willow tree with water (I was fearful it might bleed, but my fountain pen ink appears to be waterproof) then picked up a few grains of pigment and sprinkled them. Repeat a few times for more leaves. Then leave to dry...
Have a good day.
Windy here with bright sun (which awoke in red clouds at dawn) and blue skies...
gennepher
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Interesting world @JohnEGreen
I use lipreading to eavesdrop from across the room...get some interesting conversations because they think I am too far away to hear...
ianpspurs
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Morning all from a very blue skied, clear and dry L.A. where it was cold enough at 7.50 am to trigger the heating. Not really cold - 17.8 ºC where the thermostat is when the target then is 18 ºC. Once again no known fbg here. The last Libre was fairly consistently in the 4s for fbg until the steroids and antibiotics kicked in from about 11/12 until 5/6 pm then returned to 4s/ low 5s from around 8 to 9.00pm where it stayed all night. I do wonder if wearing a Libre and eating LC are tools for an entirely different version of IanP. That is part of a bigger picture of ruminating upon just how any gifts I think I have are completely irrelevant to this version of me. Unfortunately, I "know" God gives me the tools to deal with my life “as is” so I must be way off beam and just not seeing some gifts - probably too stubborn/proud (ok, sinful) to see the obvious. Two people with gifts which are perfectly relevant and used wonderfully are @dunelm and @gennepher. Thank you both for sharing these gifts. @JohnEGreen a very disturbing conversation. @Annb that cold is certainly lingering, hug for that. As per REM I think I've said too much, I haven't said enough but the song title is way off for me. I hope you all manage to enjoy at least part of your Friday.
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I have found that I am lip reading a lot more these days problem is you can’t do it on the television so subtitles on permanently on these days I had put my increasing loss of hearing down to the damage done while serving in the air force even though I had been told that the loss of hearing caused by that would stay the same but have recently become aware of studies that have shown that MG can cause deafness asit damages parts of the cochlea in fact it is now used as a diagnostic tool for MG.
Keiran however when he was young from about three years on just had a natural ability to lip read due to the fact that he had serious hearing loss when a child and for quite some time used hearing aids but I did find it cool that I could ask him what people at a distance where saying and he could tell me. His hearing after some surgery being carried out was mostly restored but still does have a small amount of loss due to residual scarring but he is really still good at lip reading so you have to be careful about what you say around him.
Annb
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BG at 02.20 was 8.2.
Despite being tired, I couldn't sleep and got up at 02.20 and came to sit in my chair in the kitchen. Sat until 05.20, watching News on TV and then "Salvage Hunters". Then the power went off. Pitch dark, but at least I hadn't put up the leg rest on the chair, or I'd have been trapped. Made my way to the sideboard, where I keep a torch, but just as I got there, Neil came through with his big torch and got the lantern down for me (on a hook on the ceiling, where I can't reach). It's not a big light, but it is something at least. I did doze off around 06.00 but woke again when the power came back on at 07.30 - TV blaring suddenly and the strip light lighting up the whole room, even though it is really just meant to backlight some glassware on top of the dresser. Well, I needed a drink to clear my throat anyway.
I've been trying, without success, to get an appointment to see a GP for the last month. On the Health Centre website it says that advance appointments can be made but when I try to make one, I'm always told that it can't be done. I decided to try again and this time got a receptionist I know well. Lovely lady; from Thailand and married to an Island husband. Unfortunately, despite having lived here for more than 30 years, her English, sometimes, is not easily understood. Uses the language differently and has a very sing-song voice. However, I did manage to get from her that the advanced booking service only works on certain days. This week there will be appointments available from Monday, but they will have to be booked on Sunday. I couldn't figure out if the appointments are only on Monday, or if they can be booked on Sunday for any day from Monday. I never thought their phone line would work on a Sunday - it is usually switched off. I'll try though on Sunday - early. Yupin says the line is open from 07.30 - we shall see.
Despite being tired, I couldn't sleep and got up at 02.20 and came to sit in my chair in the kitchen. Sat until 05.20, watching News on TV and then "Salvage Hunters". Then the power went off. Pitch dark, but at least I hadn't put up the leg rest on the chair, or I'd have been trapped. Made my way to the sideboard, where I keep a torch, but just as I got there, Neil came through with his big torch and got the lantern down for me (on a hook on the ceiling, where I can't reach). It's not a big light, but it is something at least. I did doze off around 06.00 but woke again when the power came back on at 07.30 - TV blaring suddenly and the strip light lighting up the whole room, even though it is really just meant to backlight some glassware on top of the dresser. Well, I needed a drink to clear my throat anyway.
I've been trying, without success, to get an appointment to see a GP for the last month. On the Health Centre website it says that advance appointments can be made but when I try to make one, I'm always told that it can't be done. I decided to try again and this time got a receptionist I know well. Lovely lady; from Thailand and married to an Island husband. Unfortunately, despite having lived here for more than 30 years, her English, sometimes, is not easily understood. Uses the language differently and has a very sing-song voice. However, I did manage to get from her that the advanced booking service only works on certain days. This week there will be appointments available from Monday, but they will have to be booked on Sunday. I couldn't figure out if the appointments are only on Monday, or if they can be booked on Sunday for any day from Monday. I never thought their phone line would work on a Sunday - it is usually switched off. I'll try though on Sunday - early. Yupin says the line is open from 07.30 - we shall see.
gennepher
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Thanks @ianpspurs
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Yes you do have to be careful what you say if there is a lip reader around @JohnEGreen .....
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Thank you @gennepher
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Lovely piece of artwork. I wonder how long those Brusho pots last - I just poke a hole into the middle of the pot lid with a cocktail stick instead of opening the pots.
dunelm
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Thank you @ianpspurs - REM - I’m not losing anything that I don’t already have but then that’s me in the corner.
