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

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 6.8

Nighttime Wildlife video
I took the Christmas lights down because I thought they might be affecting the wildlife
Badger Willow foraging around...
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEDhsuyIS-P/?igsh=MjR3d2xkdmRycWFx

Same video on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdkL6XGH/

Creative....a Laboscope kaleidoscope of my thermos which is now empty and I need to get up to make more...and lunch, which will have to be in the microwave because the thing I actually fry & cook lunch in has just gone west... so I ordered another one which will come in tomorrow, today is microwave! The green is my water flask.

I stayed in bed this morning because I do hurt when I move around, although there are no external bruises, usually I am black and blue and yellow after a fall... knowing how to roll, and those thick rubber mats on the path, and the Witchhazel helped a lot. It actually began as an absolutely perfect roll, it was just I encountered something else on the path that had been moved and left by the badgers which interrupted my roll.

So I will continue to move today when I can and then rest in between and hopefully no bruising will develop, it has usually started by now so maybe I'm extremely lucky.

You have a good day, take care of yourselves.

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I'm genuinely overwhelmed, very much in a good way, by how matter of fact you are in describing your aches and pains from the fall, the device you use for cooking breaking down and still share a kaleidoscope and video. They may well help you deal with your situation but to me they seem amazing even without all the love and care you shower on the wildlife. So yes, overwhelmed is a good word.

 

[gennepher]

I'm genuinely overwhelmed, very much in in a good way, by how matter of fact you are in describing your aches and pains from the fall, the device you use for cooking breaking down and still share a kaleidoscope and video. They may well help you deal with your situation but to me they seem amazing even without all the love and care you shower on the wildlife. So yes, overwhelmed is a good word.

Thank you, @ianpspurs

I am proceeding a little more slowly (quite a bit more slowly) than I usually do, and I can let that bug me, but not this time... anything achieved today is actually a big bonus.

You take care of yourself and enjoy whatever it is you do and however it turns out. It will be a good day regardless of what the day throws at you.

Take care.

 

[Lamont D]

Last night I had a fall.

My fault.

I should not have gone out after dark in my back garden.

I had been out earlier when it was light to put something in the potting shed. And I knew the path was clear to the potting shed.

By 9:00 p.m. I changed my mind and I thought I'll go and get it back indoors again. Only, unknown to me, the badgers I presume, had undergone a reorganization all the way along that path in the early hours of evening, moving branches from where I have put them to across the path. It seems they thought they were beavers and were trying to block the path with wood.

I am flying forwards, going into my Aikido roll. Let my crutches go flying. And I execute a perfect roll, except that the badgers have created another obstacle in the path so I fall before I could finish the complete roll, but my head is protected, my hands and wrists are protected, my chest and ribs are protected - all the really important things are protected.

I had promised after my last fall to have always had my phone on me. But I didn't, it was in the bungalow. The other thing I had done was to put garden chairs all the way around the path so if I fail I had something I could pull myself up with. Only problem was I had moved a couple of the chairs to store something on.

I didn't have a light on me (because my hands are on my crutches, and because well it's simple walking from the bungalows to the potting shed on a path to the potting shed which was clear a few hours earlier).

And I fell on the patch of earthstar fungi, so I think I have destroyed quite a few of those.

I spent the next few minutes trying to negotiate with my body the best way to get up from the ground. First attempt failed, gave myself a few more minutes tried again and only just made it.

Got inside. Change of clothes first because I was muddy, and I'm probably covered in fungi spores...

I lathered the painful areas with witch hazel...that helped

Then I realize the main thing which probably saved me from scrapes and injuries, were those holey rubber mats which I have on the entire path which circles my garden, and I also have them in front of my swing. They are covered in autumn leaves, and they all need sweeping, clearing, and tidying up, but the mats still protected me, and they are pretty thick...

The badgers have rearranged some of them, so that is my next project to sort out those mats, when I feel up to it....

So, I am still here to mither you for another day....


EDIT: @Krystyna23040
Your exercises you posted helped strengthen my legs, particularly my left leg,which was pivotal in getting me back up again, because I had nothing near me to hold my hands on to pull myself up.... when I realized it had the potential to support me to get up, I put every ounce of my belief into that leg, as a standalone thing to actually mentally pull myself up. I have not been able to do that for years and years.

So, thank you Krystyna x
By the way I can do 6 seconds plus on my right leg (standing at the counter on one leg, with my hands hovering above counter), but my left leg the stronger leg I still cannot do more than one second with that exercise....

OMG @gennepher I hope you are feeling better now and resting up now.
there is nothing that can't wait until you feel up to it.
I know with Mrs L how difficult it is to get up again and that is with me helping, never mind on your own.
I'm not going to advise you to see someone to look you over, but if it feels worse at any time in the next 24 hours, if you can, get to the hospital or get an ambulance out.
stay safe.
stay indoors, it is foggy and cold out there.
but I could be talking to the wall..... I know....

 

[Lamont D]

Still just about within the time frame to wish you all good morning. Hug for @gennepher following the tumble and for @JohnEGreen for the post car incident impact. Misty, murky and generally dreary outside here and not likely to improve as it is nearly midday. @dunelm thank you for sharing the photograph and your splendid art. I read a piece on the modern condition overwhelm which has a root cause of too many shoulds. I then come on here, read your mileage, yesterday being a prime example, @gennepher's ongoing heroics, @Krystyna23040's Duracell Bunny lifestyle, @Lamont D's kenosis, the humour of @alf_Josiah, the baking and care of @Annb and the determination of @jjraak and suddenly feel all the symptoms of overwhelm and then some. Gee thanks guys how can I ever thank y'all? There's a concept known as particularity so I'm taking that four times a day, with tea obviously, as the only known antidote, Smile and wave boys, smile and wave.

I had never heard of kenosis, and having just googled the meaning of the word. It is very Christ orientated?
my writing is my version of the Buddhist theological reflection of how our lives can be a part of others memories, even though, we will be not there.
it is something that I have encountered with having a huge family.

 

[Lamont D]

7 at 7.
#4 birthday or #1 granddaughter, who is currently buying everything in Liverpool 1.
As all teenage granddaughters should. She was also looking forward to the footie yesterday.

It has been laundry day today, as well as everything else. As per.
And said, not going out today, for quite a few reasons, but still had to go shop, and our bins had to be out out for early emptying tomorrow.
It is still foggy. It is cold. It is very wet on all surfaces outside @gennepher!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Mrs L got through boxing day, better than I thought.
And this morning accused me of being a stop out.
And the duck needs cooking!
However, I said. I can't cook a ....ing duck, chuck. It is in a truck with any luck.
Anywho, yesterday morning , I was in the back garden, and I couldn't believe my ears, #8 was listening and asked what the loud squaking was. As he always tells me that a plane is above us, from just taking off.
I was mystified, cos, even tho, it was foggy and couldn't see across the footie pitches could clearly hear geese flying. With that squak, as they do, do.
what's geese grandad?
Birds.
Like gulls, grandad?
Yeah.
He is 3years old. But not developed the why questions yet.

Have a friendly, freefalling, festive Friday.
My friendliest best wishes.

 

[gennepher]

OMG @gennepher I hope you are feeling better now and resting up now.
there is nothing that can't wait until you feel up to it.
I know with Mrs L how difficult it is to get up again and that is with me helping, never mind on your own.
I'm not going to advise you to see someone to look you over, but if it feels worse at any time in the next 24 hours, if you can, get to the hospital or get an ambulance out.
stay safe.
stay indoors, it is foggy and cold out there.
but I could be talking to the wall..... I know....

It is cold and froggy here too @Lamont D
The fog started last night...
I do have to get the wheelie bin and recycle out now so that would be my last job today and then I will rest till tomorrow....
Thanks x

 

[ianpspurs]

I had never heard of kenosis, and having just googled the meaning of the word. It is very Christ orientated?
my writing is my version of the Buddhist theological reflection of how our lives can be a part of others memories, even though, we will be not there.
it is something that I have encountered with having a huge family.

Kenosis is a Greek word for emptying, now mostly used especially of "emptying" one's self for others out of love, not expecting any reward. Very much doing exactly what you do on a daily basis. @gennepher and her care for those animals is also an example. The root of that love is a matter of debate (full disclosure, my position is very clear) but it certainly isn't Darwinian in either of those cases. Happy birthday #4.

 

[Lamont D]

Kenosis is a Greek word for emptying, now mostly used especially of "emptying" one's self for others out of love, not expecting any reward. Very much doing exactly what you do on a daily basis. @gennepher and her care for those animals is also an example. The root of that love is a matter of debate (full disclosure, my position is very clear) but it certainly isn't Darwinian in either of those cases. Happy birthday #4.

Cheers mate.
I do think it is human nature to do this.
Otherwise we wouldn't have maternal instincts and morality, volunteers, charities, and of course carers, nurses, doctors etc.
Society is based in every community and family to care and love for each other.
To me it is not a religious belief, but nature, nurturing caring and our duty to each other to do so.
Christ is an example of it, but it is there in many other beliefs.

 

[ianpspurs]

Cheers mate.
I do think it is human nature to do this.
Otherwise we wouldn't have maternal instincts and morality, volunteers, charities, and of course carers, nurses, doctors etc.
Society is based in every community and family to care and love for each other.
To me it is not a religious belief, but nature, nurturing caring and our duty to each other to do so.
Christ is an example of it, but it is there in many other beliefs.

Didn't the lady is not for turning say there's no such thing as society all those years ago?

Community?

When the Stranger says: " What is the meaning of this city?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"
What will you answer? " We all dwell together
To make money from each other"? or " This is a community"?
T S Eliot Choruses from "The Rock" (poem, not Dwayne)

Today's rhetorical question

 

[Krystyna23040]

Last night I had a fall.

My fault.

I should not have gone out after dark in my back garden.

I had been out earlier when it was light to put something in the potting shed. And I knew the path was clear to the potting shed.

By 9:00 p.m. I changed my mind and I thought I'll go and get it back indoors again. Only, unknown to me, the badgers I presume, had undergone a reorganization all the way along that path in the early hours of evening, moving branches from where I have put them to across the path. It seems they thought they were beavers and were trying to block the path with wood.

I am flying forwards, going into my Aikido roll. Let my crutches go flying. And I execute a perfect roll, except that the badgers have created another obstacle in the path so I fall before I could finish the complete roll, but my head is protected, my hands and wrists are protected, my chest and ribs are protected - all the really important things are protected.

I had promised after my last fall to have always had my phone on me. But I didn't, it was in the bungalow. The other thing I had done was to put garden chairs all the way around the path so if I fail I had something I could pull myself up with. Only problem was I had moved a couple of the chairs to store something on.

I didn't have a light on me (because my hands are on my crutches, and because well it's simple walking from the bungalows to the potting shed on a path to the potting shed which was clear a few hours earlier).

And I fell on the patch of earthstar fungi, so I think I have destroyed quite a few of those.

I spent the next few minutes trying to negotiate with my body the best way to get up from the ground. First attempt failed, gave myself a few more minutes tried again and only just made it.

Got inside. Change of clothes first because I was muddy, and I'm probably covered in fungi spores...

I lathered the painful areas with witch hazel...that helped

Then I realize the main thing which probably saved me from scrapes and injuries, were those holey rubber mats which I have on the entire path which circles my garden, and I also have them in front of my swing. They are covered in autumn leaves, and they all need sweeping, clearing, and tidying up, but the mats still protected me, and they are pretty thick...

The badgers have rearranged some of them, so that is my next project to sort out those mats, when I feel up to it....

So, I am still here to mither you for another day....


EDIT: @Krystyna23040
Your exercises you posted helped strengthen my legs, particularly my left leg,which was pivotal in getting me back up again, because I had nothing near me to hold my hands on to pull myself up.... when I realized it had the potential to support me to get up, I put every ounce of my belief into that leg, as a standalone thing to actually mentally pull myself up. I have not been able to do that for years and years.

So, thank you Krystyna x
By the way I can do 6 seconds plus on my right leg (standing at the counter on one leg, with my hands hovering above counter), but my left leg the stronger leg I still cannot do more than one second with that exercise....

Thank goodness that you had those mats on the path @gennepher and that you did the Aikido roll.

I am so pleased that you are ok and hopefully not too bruised and really great news that the exercises had strengthened your legs.

You are really doing well with your balance work.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.0 this morning.

We are back home now after our lovely Christmas break. Daughter and family are safely back in Surrey.

Neither of us have eaten anything much since breakfast. We are still so full after 3 days of completely over-indulging.

 

[ianpspurs]

Anyone else been to the sales?

 

[gennepher]

Thank goodness that you had those mats on the path @gennepher and that you did the Aikido roll.

I am so pleased that you are ok and hopefully not too bruised and really great news that the exercises had strengthened your legs.

You are really doing well with your balance work.

Thank you @Krystyna23040

It seems to be just that my joints hurt now, a few strained muscles or ligaments. I think my back got stretched quite a lot when I went into the roll, and it was most certainly not used to that.

Thank you for the balance work compliment.

 

[jjraak]

Massive hug for the fall @gennepher .

Despite the resilience of the paratrooper roll, that level of unexpected activity always carries a toll on the ol' muscles, ligaments, etc.

Thank goodness it wasn't any more serious than it was....nasty as it is.

The stewards inquiry after always helps but sometimes mysterious forces have already come In to play, to protect us.

But despite how many cat lives you were awarded, best not to abuse the issuing, right ?

Head torches, etc a good idea.
The notes to wear one, even better.

We bought some rechargeable lights recently.

Can be set to always on, on when you're in zone (daylight setting)
On when in zone (night time setting only)

Unsure (pretty sure not) if suitable for outdoors re waterproof.

But likely to be others such like that are available online.

Ours are Light, wireless & pretty useful.

I might, if it was me be inclined to add where I could & place inside a small tupperware / food item/ takeaway food box screwed to wall / shed and covered with cling film to keep rain out & afford easy swapping for recharging ....mmmm



Until I could find a decent waterproof type for outdoors

* Just had to check if they'd still operate in container as above. Worked fine

(Box empty, screw or glue base to wall or surface, open part pointing out, hang light inside, cling film over & secure with elastic band )




Take it easy @gennepher
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

 

[jjraak]

Hi all and Merry Christmas to everyone.
Unfortunately I have not been feeling my best over the last week or so and have not been on line for a while so have a lot of catching up to do.
A week or so somebody drove into the side of us causing some damage to my new car which is now in a garage for repair and I am not likely to get it back for a few weeks
Don’t know my Fbg as did not check it today.
Adrian is booked on a flight from Dublin on Friday and is coming to spend a week with us looking forward to seeing him.

Good to see you posting again @JohnEGreen .

Sorry You haven't been well ( related to accident ? )

What an awful moment
New car as well, but if everyones ok, that's what counts..metal can be restraightened after all .

Bonus is you had Adrian coming over, must have put a better light on things with his arrival.

Best wishes you improve & begin to feel more like your old self asap

Take care, fella

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from a perfectly silent start to watching the sun appear in a blue sky start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am after yet another Christmas dinner at our daughters. It had to be done, they needed help disposing of leftovers and as they don’t do turkey, cold or otherwise, we just simply had to help. Priority for the day is wandering into town to the pharmacy to pick up repeat prescriptions. Later, an open house thing and then collect the Girl In The Bubble for an evening of fun with what will probably be her new hobby, playing Ludo - and not just any old fold out board that we loved so well back in the ancient times but an all new plastic contraption with a die in a plastic dome popping thing in the centre to prevent you learning the important life skill of rolling dice like Rain Man, he’s an excellent driver. Art bit, red roofs. May your day be a memorable one. “Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered” Marcus Aurelius. May need another koffy now but maybe not.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thank you @Krystyna23040

It seems to be just that my joints hurt now, a few strained muscles or ligaments. I think my back got stretched quite a lot when I went into the roll, and it was most certainly not used to that.

Thank you for the balance work compliment.

I hope the achy joints settle down really quickly. Thank goodness that you didn't break anything.

My hairdresser friend fell over in our market town just before Christmas and broke her arm and shoulder in 4 places.

So you were lucky, and so was I when I had the dizzy spell and fell over and twisted my ankle after Covid.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.6 this morning.

We are having a relaxing day today. We were surprisingly tired last night and had a lay in today - which is something we never do.

Even Poppy didn't mind - so she must have been tired also.

 

[gennepher]

Massive hug for the fall @gennepher .

Despite the resilience of the paratrooper roll, that level of unexpected activity always carries a toll on the ol' muscles, ligaments, etc.

Thank goodness it wasn't any more serious than it was....nasty as it is.

The stewards inquiry after always helps but sometimes mysterious forces have already come In to play, to protect us.

But despite how many cat lives you were awarded, best not to abuse the issuing, right ?

Head torches, etc a good idea.
The notes to wear one, even better.

We bought some rechargeable lights recently.

Can be set to always on, on when you're in zone (daylight setting)
On when in zone (night time setting only)

Unsure (pretty sure not) if suitable for outdoors re waterproof.

But likely to be others such like that are available online.

Ours are Light, wireless & pretty useful.

I might, if it was me be inclined to add where I could & place inside a small tupperware / food item/ takeaway food box screwed to wall / shed and covered with cling film to keep rain out & afford easy swapping for recharging ....mmmm

View attachment 71076

Until I could find a decent waterproof type for outdoors

* Just had to check if they'd still operate in container as above. Worked fine

(Box empty, screw or glue base to wall or surface, open part pointing out, hang light inside, cling film over & secure with elastic band )

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Take it easy @gennepher
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Hi @jjraak
Yes, it took its toll on muscles ligaments etc...
I am very lucky it was nothing else much in terms of damage to me.
Although I am still a bit tired from it. The unexpected activity as you say...

You and me seem to think alike some things. I was trying some ideas before Christmas as regards lights and rechargeable lights for outside. I did try some solar lights but they only work in the front because the sun reaches the front, no sun reaches my back garden lower down until about march...

So my first idea got relegated to the front of the bungalow which was not really where I wanted it to be.

Second idea...which seems to be something similar as to what your suggesting. I got these...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rechargeable-Cupboard-nightlight-Removable-Wardrobes/dp/B09M3VZPRY
Tried to attach them along the path in a Heath Robinson contraption, much like yours, but they were not bright enough to make a difference. So they got relegated to the bathroom for nighttime use because we do get power cuts, only very short ones but we do get power cuts in the night. They were useless, not even bright enough for the bathroom in the dark. I cannot even see Midnight with them on.....

What am I missing here? Am I getting something that's not bright enough?

Then I tried these. The photo on Amazon of them in an alleyway looked as though they could be effective. And I was prepared to buy a second set if they were.. .
To charge them, my plan was to put them in the kitchen window where the sun is, then put them in the back garden (whatever Heath Robinson way I come up with), then the second set would be charging in the kitchen window and I would swap them round.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/KMASHI-Decorative-Waterproof-Wireless-Outdoor/dp/B08DLNDGPV

Another failure, I could not stand the lights that came from them. A clear plastic covering has got these facets in it which give a weird dotted light which could trigger a migraine.

Failure number three. And I haven't even found a use for these yet.

Do you think that the ones you have chosen for you would be better than the ones I have chosen for me so far? I am willing to try again.....

Thank you very, very much for your suggestions and can you keep suggesting something?..... please....

I am still quite tired from the fall, which is a bit weird, but I think my body is just healing itself.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone from a perfectly silent start to watching the sun appear in a blue sky start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am after yet another Christmas dinner at our daughters. It had to be done, they needed help disposing of leftovers and as they don’t do turkey, cold or otherwise, we just simply had to help. Priority for the day is wandering into town to the pharmacy to pick up repeat prescriptions. Later, an open house thing and then collect the Girl In The Bubble for an evening of fun with what will probably be her new hobby, playing Ludo - and not just any old fold out board that we loved so well back in the ancient times but an all new plastic contraption with a die in a plastic dome popping thing in the centre to prevent you learning the important life skill of rolling dice like Rain Man, he’s an excellent driver. Art bit, red roofs. May your day be a memorable one. “Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered” Marcus Aurelius. May need another koffy now but maybe not.

A great landscape for your art bit @dunelm
I hope that elusive coffee appears when you need it...