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

Krystyna23040 said:
5.6 this morning.
I managed a rather spectacular somersault down the stairs. Not sure how it happened but luckily no broken bones. Just quite a lot of sore places.

Now a sensible person would cancel classes this evening and tomorrow - but as you know I am not that sensible person. Have done lots of icing and actually do feel better moving around.
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Oh dear... @Krystyna23040 ..... it is so easily done... I hope you're using something like witch hazel on the sore spots...
If you realise you are hurting tonight, then please cancel tomorrow's appointments...
Please take care xx
 
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MrSlim has started to decorate the utility room. It's amazing how much a simple coat of paint improves it.
Of course there is still the shower to fit and the toilet and washbasin to take out and replace, but it feels like real progress.
Sensible eating, not today. Way too many carbs of the homemade cake and biscuit vatiety. Tomorrow we are going to investigate a second hand furniture sale, if we can work out where it is being held.
No doubt Google maps will know.
 
gennepher said:
Oh dear... @Krystyna23040 ..... it is so easily done... I hope you're using something like witch hazel on the sore spots...
If you realise you are hurting tonight, then please cancel tomorrow's appointments...
Please take care xx
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Thank you @gennepher. I am using lots and lots of arnica cream which seems to be helping. I am back home icing multiple areas.
I switched between sitting and gently walking around the classes. No demonstrating except for gentle release work that really helped the sore areas.
If tomorrow morning i am more sore I will be sensible and cancel classes.
 
Lamont D said:
I thought I would write a line.
I am okay but in a horrendous situation.
Mrs L. In an attempt to be healthy as possible, has been in a mental state of serious concern.
Everyone especially her mental health nurse has been excellent. But it is taking time.
I have been told I need respite.
Mrs L needs hospitalisation for a consistent basis of supervision for her mental state of extraordinary mood swings. And a complete rethinking of how her life can be changed. She has become a danger to herself and her family.
Finally. Social services are concerned about myself.
We have become desperate although I can ring a helpline or the doctors who again have been brilliant.
I am a prisoner to my wife's mental illness.

I really do hope and wish, you lot and your families are as healthy as is possible. My bestest wishes for each and everyone. I will be around but I may not be conversational. I don't have the time to read everything.
So I apologise, if you have been concerned for Mrs L and myself. This will get sorted one way or another.
I will try and update.
I do miss this thread.
And that is a line?
Best wishes.
Lamont.
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I wish I had the words to make this more bearable for you all.

if life is a journey, at this part it's like a sea voyage with a brewing storm.

You can't face into the wind in a storm like this.

And sailing back to yesterday isn't possible, sadly.

Best you can all do is find a safe harbour for you both.

For Mrs L that is getting the best help & advice that those more knowledgeable can provide & offer.

AND
For you, despite herculean efforts ... ( Yes I know, it's just what you do, it's what everyone does ,..blah blah blah )

You just have to accept YOU making those efforts day after day IS NOT normal nor something anyone can sustain endlessly.

SO getting the help YOU need IS part of the help Mrs L needs too.

Without you she is like a queen with no knights.

And you have been and are her knight.

Take the rest where & if offered .


God bless You both.

It's very unfair the journey being asked of you.

I can only say, being up close and personal with this wicked disease.

As hard as it is,
Know that each & every day you can look back, hold your head up and say of it proudly "I did all that was humanly possible of me"

frankly mate, I'm in awe of how resilient you are.

Prayers & best wishes.
 
Fbg 6.5

The badgers have had a party in the night...

And I have only seen the side passage I have not seen the back garden yet.....

The magpie has not flown up the side passage this morning...yet... this particular magpie has banged on my kitchen window if there was no food down there, he can get very aggressive, he probably has babies to feed, and there is not enough food for everyone, but I cannot encourage an aggressive magpie onto my property.....no matter what the need. I cannot even put food in the front garden for him because there are nesting blackbirds, nesting bluetits, and nesting sparrows, and a magpie will go for those young if there's not enough food.

I had a creative idea last night, and I hung some bunting from side to side along that passage. And I don't think he likes that, it's probably too distracting to his sense of perception.

Maybe that has worked, and hopefully he will go somewhere else... I will find out later this morning....

Last year the magpie came with his wife and his grown-up babies, and I had given Mr. Magpie food while they were in the nest, and there was food in the back garden for them but none of them were aggressive, nor did they poop like this aggressive magpie does.

The mother blackbird is not bothered about the bunting, she just comes in hopping on the ground to get any cat food she can get...her nesting tree is in my front garden...

Creative is the Lilac of yesterday made into a kaleidoscope.

I'm going to be busy today, so I won't be looking in... I'll check in tomorrow morning, probably...

Take care


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Krystyna23040 said:
Thank you @gennepher. I am using lots and lots of arnica cream which seems to be helping. I am back home icing multiple areas.
I switched between sitting and gently walking around the classes. No demonstrating except for gentle release work that really helped the sore areas.
If tomorrow morning i am more sore I will be sensible and cancel classes.
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Hope you are being gentle with yourself while you recover from your tumble down the stairs and that your bruises respond to the arnica cream really well
 
Yikes 10.1 this morning - and that is after hardly any carbs and not much food yesterday. The tumble down the stairs definitely caused lots of stress hormones to course through my body. I still feel a bit shakey.

It does feel that everything is less painful this morning. I am making sure that l am keeping the fascia hydrated with gentle movement as suggested by the latest research. It does seem to decrease pain levels.

Off to classes shortly.
 
24.05
8.55am FBG 6.5
higher fasting BG was not the only consequence of over indulgence in shortbread. I had a disturbed night with considerable digestive upset .
So comfort eating led to discomfort later.
Kiki woke MrSlim with a warcry such as we have never heard from her before.
It was Mittens, once again outside the cat door, while Kiki made her threats from safely inside. Am finding this encouraging, Kiki is begining to have a little more confidence.
Some of the eight cats who used to share this garden have abandoned it entirely. Now I think there are only the four who live next door. Mittens, another big tabby and two younger cats, one charcoal grey and a beige fluffy one.
A few days ago Kiki was enthralled by a squabble among three of them, watching safely from a rooftop vantage point. Until one of them released a warcry, whereupon she swiftly retreated down the ladder and into the house. Coward! They probably didn't even know she was observing and could not possibly reach her. But she has always been a nervous creature, I suspect instinct took over.
She will always choose flight over fight.
But Errant would stand his ground and fight, perhaps because he had been a stray for so long, with no safe territory.
He even attacked dogs if they wandered into our garden.
We are going to a second hand and upcycled furniture sale, if my stomach has settled enough for it to be safe to leave the house.
 
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jjraak said:
I wish I had the words to make this more bearable for you all.

if life is a journey, at this part it's like a sea voyage with a brewing storm.

You can't face into the wind in a storm like this.

And sailing back to yesterday isn't possible, sadly.

Best you can all do is find a safe harbour for you both.

For Mrs L that is getting the best help & advice that those more knowledgeable can provide & offer.

AND
For you, despite herculean efforts ... ( Yes I know, it's just what you do, it's what everyone does ,..blah blah blah )

You just have to accept YOU making those efforts day after day IS NOT normal nor something anyone can sustain endlessly.

SO getting the help YOU need IS part of the help Mrs L needs too.

Without you she is like a queen with no knights.

And you have been and are her knight.

Take the rest where & if offered .


God bless You both.

It's very unfair the journey being asked of you.

I can only say, being up close and personal with this wicked disease.

As hard as it is,
Know that each & every day you can look back, hold your head up and say of it proudly "I did all that was humanly possible of me"

frankly mate, I'm in awe of how resilient you are.

Prayers & best wishes.
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I'm just in awe myself of the replies recieved.
Since moaning again on here Mrs L has had a couple of okay days.
But I'm not convinced that Mrs L is gonna get better.
And to add, my kids have been brilliant. Couldn't wish for anything else.
And getting back with the thread FBG.
For some reason. My recent results have been mid 7's.
I thank you all. Too many to mention. Just keep being you.I'm getting sentimental now.
Bloody idiot I am.
Just got to go . Mrs L for a change, ha, wants me!
 
Lamont D said:
I'm just in awe myself of the replies recieved.
Since moaning again on here Mrs L has had a couple of okay days.
But I'm not convinced that Mrs L is gonna get better.
And to add, my kids have been brilliant. Couldn't wish for anything else.
And getting back with the thread FBG.
For some reason. My recent results have been mid 7's.
I thank you all. Too many to mention. Just keep being you.I'm getting sentimental now.
Bloody idiot I am.
Just got to go . Mrs L for a change, ha, wants me!
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I am glad things appear to be improving... @Lamont D
And I hope that you can get all the help that you possibly need at the moment xx
 
BG 7.1 at 03.50 today. Woke up a bit earlier than usual these days because I was in so much pain. That's after being busy yesterday on top of going out to the surgery on Thursday. I was expecting it because I knew that I was overdoing it but that doesn't make me feel any better about it. Very, very sore today.

Weather is chilly and breezy but not too overcast. That's OK by me - I'm not going anywhere. Alistair is a lot more comfortable in this kind of weather, so it's all good.
 
Good happy Saturday afternoon all.
It is still a waste of electrons writing what my blood sugars are, yes I know the electrons are not harmed, but given the medication they have stopped, altered, and changed.
The They in this are the RBHospital diabetic clinic.
They have put me on a sensor and made certain that they have access to readings, they are also dictating my insulin dosage, far too low in my opinion, but all the time I am ill I must smile sweetly and do what They say.

All my other results are within range, liver, kidneys etc

Oh I forgot my sanity levels, still off the scales. Yippee.

Mrs J has just asked how old is Paul Gambaccini ?
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good happy Saturday afternoon all.
It is still a waste of electrons writing what my blood sugars are, yes I know the electrons are not harmed, but given the medication they have stopped, altered, and changed.
The They in this are the RBHospital diabetic clinic.
They have put me on a sensor and made certain that they have access to readings, they are also dictating my insulin dosage, far too low in my opinion, but all the time I am ill I must smile sweetly and do what They say.

All my other results are within range, liver, kidneys etc

Oh I forgot my sanity levels, still off the scales. Yippee.

Mrs J has just asked how old is Paul Gambaccini ?
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76 - born 4 years after me. Not exactly a spring chicken any more, but then, nor am I.
 
25.05
Mothers day here in France.
6.45am FBG 5.3
That's more like it.
A few days ago watched the florist opposite wrangle an enormous, colourful bouquet. Well over a metre wide - I was trying to guess it's potential recipient when two more women came to assist. One of them bringing a step ladder. It took all three to get it into position.
Not a bouquet at all, but a new decoration to go over the shop door.
Yesterday they set up three extra displays outside the shop. Presumably expecting more trade than usual. Today they have started around seven am setting up in the drizzly rain. I hope their efforts are well rewarded.
The French seem to buy flowers far more frequently than the English. This small town supports two florists.
During our time here my focus has been, first, on getting the house liveable and then the garden under control. Not that any garden ever is controlled, but getting out most of the weeds before they seeded seemed important for the future. Today it is raining, this means I will have to help with the decorating. Yes MrSlim has progressed that far in the utility room. I love the colour we chose together.
The smaller of the two dressers we bought is to go in there, it has been in the dining room, used as kitchen and very useful too. Now it is to be emptied repainted and relocated to its permanent position in the utility room. Am going to transfer all the crockery to the bonnetière, a piece of single wardrobe sized furniture, that has shelves and ventilation.
 
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