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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Nighttime wildlife videos
Yesterday I grumbled TicTok put some inappropriate music to the fox and badger chasing each other. So, I checked a box on TicTik which said no music...but it has now given me no sound. Can't win...try again tomorrow...
I don't think there is sound on instagram either.
TikTok offered me a 'bargain'. You give us £3 and we will promote your video, and we can guarantee you at least 600 views, I think it said. And then there is a sliding scale of more money more views.
WOW!!!!
Really?
All they have to do is just slide that number counter up to the appropriate number.
I am doing quite nicely without paying that, thank you TikTok.
My views, apart from one which was a 'miserly' 200+ views (but even that is a blooming substantial number), are between nearly 600 and nearly 1000 views for each video.

Nighttime wildlife videos
Fox eating berries
They are berries on my pink fuschia tree.
Foxy Loxy has been visiting since 2022 (when I first started running the trail cameras).
At the end of this video is a much smaller fox hiding under the garden chair. I have not seen this fox before. I have never seen a fox cub in my garden before.
I am guessing he must've come in with Foxy Loxy, and so maybe his son or maybe his brother.

On instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBub3SnIHm7/?igsh=MTdtYWEzazNocnE1aQ==

On TicTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd8x56oS/

Creative... I am tidying up at the moment and so any paint and paper or odds & ends of things, or odds and ends of paintings I've begun, I will be choosing one of those and finishing it off each day...or creating from scraps.
This is scrunched up layout paper, soaked with different colours, dried, glue down to a postcard, and then a tiny little bit of detail with a black Biro!

Have your best day...
I am doing a here when I'm meant to be there kind of day....

Take care....

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Foxy Loxy looks really happy @gennepher . Yes, there is sound on Instagram.
I do love your creative @gennepher
 
5.4 this morning.
Early morning dog walk, then weekly shop done at Aldi. It is so nice to be released from house arrest now we are both testing negative.

Relaxing with a coffee with yesterday's 'i' newspaper before doing a bit more coursework.
Sister is back doing admin this afternoon. So nice to be back to normal.

Mr K is hoovering up the leaves in the garden.
 
Morning all from L.A. where #1 son and #1 grandson still sport t-shirt and shorts: no, me either. @gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing you creative gifts be they moving images, artwork or linguistic. This thread affords (this) one an opportunity to vicariously experience lives vastly different to one's own, yet essentially so similar. Thank you all and thank you D for bringing us together. Here, there are two different grandchildren to care for today - so pumpkin carving supervision (and in my case tongue biting) plus feeling uncomfortable with my family watching Halloween films. Returned the sleepover pair through the Fens in the dark last evening. Huge agricultural machines loomed out of nowhere, worst of all was the very large, highly lit harvesting equipment, still working, at times appearing as though something fatal was heading our way. Later today much time will be given to appearing full of fury but signifying nothing while ignoring the elephant in the room: A Trump victory will have a bigger impact on our prosperity than Rachel Reeves giving a tweak to her fiscal rules. I won't claim my ramblings make sense to others, sorry, nor have any answer to the essential tension twixt my "calling?" and the - fatuous? - contemporary notion that life should be fun/the best: yes Jim, welcome to my world, won't you come on in? If it is possible after that I sincerely hope you all enjoy your Wednesday. In my own seemingly perverse way I too will absolutely enjoy the dialectic (surely wholly apt for Stoicism week?) Our journey's are all unique, this is mine so no hugs or advice required. Think that tops and tails this post neatly - laters dudes.
 
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Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, well today is another day and another hospital appointment.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.2

So many negative things ( -ve ) things are said and written about our NHS, but I can truly say if it wasn’t for our NHS I would have died many years ago, my wife would have been a widow with 3 young children to bring up and been a burden on the state, but the NHS cured me, enabling me, me’s and myself to earn a living, pay a mortgage and amass a legion of people who, well best not said…..

Stay safe all.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, well today is another day and another hospital appointment.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.2

So many negative things ( -ve ) things are said and written about our NHS, but I can truly say if it wasn’t for our NHS I would have died many years ago, my wife would have been a widow with 3 young children to bring up and been a burden on the state, but the NHS cured me, enabling me, me’s and myself to earn a living, pay a mortgage and amass a legion of people who, well best not said…..

Stay safe all.
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Hope all goes or went as well as possible with the hospital appointment and well done on giving the NHS its due in your life journey. Long may that journey continue.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Why is it when every one’s focused on losing weight my doctor has decided I should be taking protein shakes all of a sudden I’m not exactly skinny after all.
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Hi mate,
I would be very careful with any concentration of protein wether in a shake it just too much protein.
The reason is the concentration, which usually means higher than usual BG levels.
Just look at the labelling.
Many contain hidden sugars and sweetners.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, well today is another day and another hospital appointment.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.2

So many negative things ( -ve ) things are said and written about our NHS, but I can truly say if it wasn’t for our NHS I would have died many years ago, my wife would have been a widow with 3 young children to bring up and been a burden on the state, but the NHS cured me, enabling me, me’s and myself to earn a living, pay a mortgage and amass a legion of people who, well best not said…..

Stay safe all.
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If not for my endocrinologist, I defo wouldn't be here.
I myself, have nothing but praise for those in the NHS.
I have two SiL's, who work on the front line of NHS services.
We need to look after this really important facet of this country.
 
6.6 this budgie day.
Won't make much difference to most of it for us.

#8 is playing again. Had some time in my pretty soggy garden. No rain today, but forecast mid teens temps are ridiculously OTT. Only in single figures here. Apparently wettest year so far according to boffins.

Phone call from dsn this morning. Checking up on Mrs L, ensuring I had her meds and BG levels were good with the changed meds.
Everything was about Mrs L.
It wasn't until the dsn went, did I realise, never asked about myself. Huh!
A bit of bulb planting this morning, which will are to the daffs and bluebells, hopefully more pink bluebells.
Grass has had a spurt cos of the temp and rain, but there is no way to give it a trim, far too wet.

Hope you have a pleasant evening.
Many bestest wishes.
 
@dunelm thanks for the link to Stoicism Week. Plenty there on which to ponder. After reading, watching, listening and reflecting on the material so far I have genuine questions - not being a wiseacre. To whom or what do Stoics offer their prayers ( Monday's Serenity Prayer for e,g,) and to what avail anyhow if everything is as it should be and one should align oneself with things as they are? Tuesday's mind the gap offering was troublesome - why would I knowingly board a train I know to be going in the wrong direction despite societal, cultural, peer or whatever pressure? zoned out from that talk at that point. I know I'm pretty obtuse but I'm genuinely crosswaffled. All help gladly received, I genuinely want to give it a fair hearing.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a dull start to pre-bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. A trip to Richmond yesterday - no, not that one, the nice one in North Yorkshire. There is a German Schnellimbis (fast food place) inside the old covered market so it was currywurst mit pommes frites for lunch. Mrs Miggins just had a bratwurst im brötchen and took the lions share of the frites. All very nostalgic. Mrs Miggins is taking her wheelchair bound sister out for lunch today together with their other two sisters - they do try and get her out every week. An eatery is about a ten minute wheelchair push away from her house and I suspect that they have been through the menu several times now. Art bit - two trees and some rocks. Hope your day is warmer than it is here. I must be desperately ill - I poured my koffy into my tea mug.
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I bet the tea mug was not very happy having coffee in it...

I had to put the heated steering wheel on this morning because my hands were cold @dunelm

I like the Art bit very much...
 
Lamont D said:
Hi mate,
I would be very careful with any concentration of protein wether in a shake it just too much protein.
The reason is the concentration, which usually means higher than usual BG levels.
Just look at the labelling.
Many contain hidden sugars and sweetners.
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Yes the shakes have about 39 grams of carb in them Keiran looked at them with contempt and said your not going to use them are you granddad there are far better shakes with hardly any carbs I may use them but if they spike me I will ditch them, trouble is when the doctor prescribes them you sort of feel obligated to use them.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Yes the shakes have about 39 grams of carb in them Keiran looked at them with contempt and said your not going to use them are you granddad there are far better shakes with hardly any carbs I may use them but if they spike me I will ditch them, trouble is when the doctor prescribes them you sort of feel obligated to use them.
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No, I just wouldn't mate.
a doctor is usually unaware of the effect that these products have on a lot of us.
there are other low carb shakes..... There is other alternatives.....
why give yourself symptoms that make you ill?
your doctor wants to solve another issue, by causing harm, by completely ignoring your being prone to rollercoaster BG levels and the symptoms of that.
Which is definitely not healthy for you
Never mind, what the effect could have on your other conditions and meds.

I know from my experience with sport nutritionists that shakes are used to give short term protein boosts, but to make it possible to digest, other sugar or sweetners, additives are added.
And they are not diabetic friendly.

I would tell your doctor, the first time you tried you be and really ill, and didn't realise how much sugar is in it.

Best wishes.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from L.A. where #1 son and #1 grandson still sport t-shirt and shorts: no, me either. @gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing you creative gifts be they moving images, artwork or linguistic. This thread affords (this) one an opportunity to vicariously experience lives vastly different to one's own, yet essentially so similar. Thank you all and thank you D for bringing us together. Here, there are two different grandchildren to care for today - so pumpkin carving supervision (and in my case tongue biting) plus feeling uncomfortable with my family watching Halloween films. Returned the sleepover pair through the Fens in the dark last evening. Huge agricultural machines loomed out of nowhere, worst of all was the very large, highly lit harvesting equipment, still working, at times appearing as though something fatal was heading our way. Later, today much time will be given to appearing full of fury but signifying nothing while ignoring the elephant in the room: A Trump victory will have a bigger impact on our prosperity than Rachel Reeves giving a tweak to her fiscal rules. I won't claim my ramblings make sense to others, sorry, nor have any answer to the essential tension twixt my "calling?" and the - fatuous? - contemporary notion that life should be fun/the best: yes Jim, welcome to my world, won't you come on in. If it is possible after that I sincerely hope you all enjoy your Wednesday. In my own seemingly perverse way I too will absolutely enjoy the dialectic (surely wholly apt for Stoicism week?) Our journey's are all unique, this is mine so no hugs or advice required. Think that tops and tails this post neatly - laters dudes.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
I am definitely having one of those kind of days today...

I urgently needed the toilet when I was shopping in Lidl. I locked the toilet door by putting the handle upright at 12 o'clock.
Then immediately, came into the toilet was a very large tall black man, with his back to me. 'Excuse me,' I said, 'but this toilet is already occupied, I am sitting on it'. He is fiddling with the door handle and he is inside the toilet as I am doing my business. There is no way I can stop. Get out I yell plus quite a bit more. I say 'Can't you see I'm doing a number two?'.
He gets out, and the other shoppers are peering round him looking interestedly at me as he is opening the door to get back out and shut it.
I am using the toilet paper when in comes another man, a white man this time, and he fiddles with the door handle. Get out I tell him..
I wash my hands dry them and go out. I was furious and said so. But we've been called to repair the door handle said one of them. Can't you see that someone is actually using the toilet, can you not wait, I say... If you know the door handle isn't working then stand outside and wait until the person inside has finished their business and left, and then you repair the door handle.

I couldn't be bothered making an official complaint because I was already late.... But I can't believe that workman actually come into the disabled toilet as you are doing your business to repair the door handle...

I come back home to several inane stupid letters is the only way I can describe it.

One of them was TV licensing. I have already told them in July a couple of months or so ago that I do not have a TV licence and I don't need one because I am not watching the TV etc. An email came back saying okay we won't bother you now until 2025.

I have that confirmation email.

This letter today's was dated 2 Oct and said I did not have a TV licence and that I had until 23 Oct to respond. And if I did not respond by 23rd of October 24 then an Enforcement officer would be calling. It is the 30th of October today the day I received this letter.
What games are they playing to try and confound and upset and distress an old profoundly deaf disabled 75 year old lady.

The TV licensing gives me a link on line which gives me only two options to respond to this letter I received by post today. One option is to move a TV license to this address. The second option is to buy a tv license. There are no other options for me to press from their link. The letter says they have information that something has changed at my address, but don't tell me what in this letter. I am referred to on this letter as 'the legal occupier'. Up to now each year they've always referred to me under my actual name by email, so why this letter by post, I have no idea. I need to find an actual address to write to, and there is not one on the letter. There is a phone number but because I'm profoundly deaf I cannot use the phone number.

They should remember what happened 17 years ago when they sent an Enforcement officer, who forced his way in, he pushed past me, shouldered me when I opened the door and searched my property and was extremely rude and denigrating to me, and insisted he had proof I was watching the BBC without a license. And he hed said he was going to watch me over the coming weeks to have more proof I was watching the BBC without a licence. I sued them and won. Since that day I never opened the front door to any unexpected stranger again.
The actual front door became door as the front door because that is behind a locked iron gate.

I have been only going out to my locked gate, and not even right up to it, but I won't even be doing that now.

To be honest, this makes me a little worried and scared to working in the front garden in case I face one of these bully boy people again. More so worried for them, because I would be bl**dy flurious if they came again.

And one of the other letters (how come you can get so many stupid letters in one day) is from the Gas Safe people, buildings regulation compliance, for the gas boiler etc being done under the eco 4 schemes. The work I had done last year 2023. This certificate is a self declared certificate by the installers.
It seems the people who did the work on my property were a gas safe registered business and they have self declared to the Gas Safe Register that the work carried out complies with the gas safety regulations and meets relevant building regulations etc.
There are some inaccurate facts in this letter, the main one being that the installers have written down a date for this year, 2024, that the work was carried out, but in fact it was carried out a couple months earlier in 2023. I do not know the reason for this, I only saw them on the one day last year.

What do I do? The letter says I have to get told of the installer myself who put the gas central heating in to change the letter if there are inaccurate details. But I am unable to because the contact details I had been given turned out to be inaccurate. It gets even more complicated because the person who was the intermediary is not available anymore. Which is why I involved the ombudsman, among other things. I suppose all I can do is send him this latest development...
This Gas Safe statement/certificate, is not worth the paper it is written on..

I have decided that the manager of Lidl in the Retail Park is going to get an email off me tomorrow complaining of the disgusting treatment I had from their staff in their disabled toilet.

Please, no more insanity...
 
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jjraak said:
I'd politely disagree.

Your walking posts must have one or two Pics that's worthy of comment, even if it's just seeing another part of this sceptered isle.

We have all posted in what likely seems irrelevant or mundane to us at times, because "that's what everybody does around here".

Yet none of us with few exceptions ARE from around here, ( wherever that is )

I think you'd be surprised how the little bits of our daily lives that we share, can lighten up someone else's day.
I know mine is by the multi varied topics and creatives many share on here.


But of course that choice is always yours to make.

I think you might find most of us very supportive whatever you posted., imho.

Hugs for the funerals, and of course you've barely begun the mourning process for mum .

Best wishes to you both.
Sounds like you are both doing very well.
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Thank you @jjraak. Our walking groups take place in the same two locations each week, one through local woodland with roughish terrain and some inclines and the other on level pathways which is much easier. We started a year ago with short 15 minute walks on the flat and gradually increased to approximately 2+ miles which are enough for me with my slipped disc but have helped a lot not only physically but socially too as we have met many new people. The autumn leaves and trees are beautiful at this time of year. I attempted to post a few pictures taken with my husband's phone.but they were apparently too large. Thanks again for your interest.Best wishes.
jjraak said:
I'd politely disagree.

Your walking posts must have one or two Pics that's worthy of comment, even if it's just seeing another part of this sceptered isle.

We have all posted in what likely seems irrelevant or mundane to us at times, because "that's what everybody does around here".

Yet none of us with few exceptions ARE from around here, ( wherever that is )

I think you'd be surprised how the little bits of our daily lives that we share, can lighten up someone else's day.
I know mine is by the multi varied topics and creatives many share on here.


But of course that choice is always yours to make.

I think you might find most of us very supportive whatever you posted., imho.

Hugs for the funerals, and of course you've barely begun the mourning process for mum .

Best wishes to you both.
Sounds like you are both doing very well.
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gennepher said:
I am definitely having one of those kind of days today...

I urgently needed the toilet when I was shopping in Lidl. I locked the toilet door by putting the handle upright at 12 o'clock.
Then immediately, came into the toilet was a very large tall black man, with his back to me. 'Excuse me,' I said, 'but this toilet is already occupied, I am sitting on it'. He is fiddling with the door handle and he is inside the toilet as I am doing my business. There is no way I can stop. Get out I yell plus quite a bit more. I say 'Can't you see I'm doing a number two?'.
He gets out, and the other shoppers are peering round him looking interestedly at me as he is opening the door to get back out and shut it.
I am using the toilet paper when in comes another man, a white man this time, and he fiddles with the door handle. Get out I tell him..
I wash my hands dry them and go out. I was furious and said so. But we've been called to repair the door handle said one of them. Can't you see that someone is actually using the toilet, can you not wait, I say... If you know the door handle isn't working then stand outside and wait until the person inside has finished their business and left, and then you repair the door handle.

I couldn't be bothered making an official complaint because I was already late.... But I can't believe that workman actually come into the disabled toilet as you are doing your business to repair the door handle...

I come back home to several inane stupid letters is the only way I can describe it.

One of them was TV licensing. I have already told them in July a couple of months or so ago that I do not have a TV licence and I don't need one because I am not watching the TV etc. An email came back saying okay we won't bother you now until 2025.

I have that confirmation email.

This letter today's was dated 2 Oct and said I did not have a TV licence and that I had until 23 Oct to respond. And if I did not respond by 23rd of October 24 then an Enforcement officer would be calling. It is the 30th of October today the day I received this letter.
What games are they playing to try and confound and upset and distress an old profoundly deaf disabled 75 year old lady.

The TV licensing gives me a link on line which gives me only two options to respond to this letter I received by post today. One option is to move a TV license to this address. The second option is to buy a tv license. There are no other options for me to press from their link. The letter says they have information that something has changed at my address, but don't tell me what in this letter. I am referred to on this letter as 'the legal occupier'. Up to now each year they've always referred to me under my actual name by email, so why this letter by post, I have no idea. I need to find an actual address to write to, and there is not one on the letter. There is a phone number but because I'm profoundly deaf I cannot use the phone number.

They should remember what happened 17 years ago when they sent an Enforcement officer, who forced his way in, he pushed past me, shouldered me when I opened the door and searched my property and was extremely rude and denigrating to me, and insisted he had proof I was watching the BBC without a license. And he hed said he was going to watch me over the coming weeks to have more proof I was watching the BBC without a licence. I sued them and won. Since that day I never opened the front door to any unexpected stranger again.
The actual front door became door as the front door because that is behind a locked iron gate.

I have been only going out to my locked gate, and not even right up to it, but I won't even be doing that now.

To be honest, this makes me a little worried and scared to working in the front garden in case I face one of these bully boy people again. More so worried for them, because I would be bl**dy flurious if they came again.

And one of the other letters (how come you can get so many stupid letters in one day) is from the Gas Safe people, buildings regulation compliance, for the gas boiler etc being done under the eco 4 schemes. The work I had done last year 2023. This certificate is a self declared certificate by the installers.
It seems the people who did the work on my property were a gas safe registered business and they have self declared to the Gas Safe Register that the work carried out complies with the gas safety regulations and meets relevant building regulations etc.
There are some inaccurate facts in this letter, the main one being that the installers have written down a date for this year, 2024, that the work was carried out, but in fact it was carried out a couple months earlier in 2023. I do not know the reason for this, I only saw them on the one day last year.

What do I do? The letter says I have to get told of the installer myself who put the gas central heating in to change the letter if there are inaccurate details. But I am unable to because the contact details I had been given turned out to be inaccurate. It gets even more complicated because the person who was the intermediary is not available anymore. Which is why I involved the ombudsman, among other things. I suppose all I can do is send him this latest development...
This Gas Safe statement/certificate, is not worth the paper it is written on..

I have decided that the manager of Lidl in the Retail Park is going to get an email off me tomorrow complaining of the disgusting treatment I had from their staff in their disabled toilet.

Please, no more insanity...
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I was giving the TV licensing statement consideration and thought that their "letter says they have information that something has changed at my address, but don't tell me what in this letter. I am referred to on this letter as 'the legal occupier'. " instead of by my actual name as they always do on the emails.

I am now checking credit things like Experian and some others, but my credit rating is still excellent and there's nothing that has been taken out on anything. And I will continue to check daily until this is sorted with the TV licensing. Just in case. What do the tv licensing think they have?

I am not going to be able to sleep tonight, I am well tighter than a coiled spring. I need to get to the bottom of this with TV licensing.

Just going to have a cuppa, then try a yoga technique which should send me to sleep....

EDIT: Practical considerations before sleep...
Found TV licensing address.
Composed letter.
Will print it in morning and get proof of posting.

Now sleep yoga...
 
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Lamont D said:
No, I just wouldn't mate.
a doctor is usually unaware of the effect that these products have on a lot of us.
there are other low carb shakes..... There is other alternatives.....
why give yourself symptoms that make you ill?
your doctor wants to solve another issue, by causing harm, by completely ignoring your being prone to rollercoaster BG levels and the symptoms of that.
Which is definitely not healthy for you
Never mind, what the effect could have on your other conditions and meds.

I know from my experience with sport nutritionists that shakes are used to give short term protein boosts, but to make it possible to digest, other sugar or sweetners, additives are added.
And they are not diabetic friendly.

I would tell your doctor, the first time you tried you be and really ill, and didn't realise how much sugar is in it.

Best wishes.
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Yes mate I do agree the shakes were prescribed without consulting me out of the blue as it were, but I am in a bit of a quandary as a med I am on for pulmonary fibrosis plays havoc with your appetite and makes everything taste yuck so am having trouble eating so the shakes may help but I think I will ask Keiran to recommend some shakes and self fund them the meds slow down the progress of PF but do not stop it and the hospital keeps phoning up to check on me to make sure that I’m not losing to much weight this is a separate issue to the doctors reason the wound I have on my back is around the area of the coccyx and I don’t have much padding there so a bit of a conundrum swings and roundabouts don’t you know.
 
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