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Fbg 6.2

Another page in my sketchbook...
Painted in acrylics, pastel and a white gel pen.

Today did not go as planned at all...
A very frustrating day. I've got no work done in my bedroom.

I was going to treat myself to a breakfast this morning, but all the traffic on the main road at the bottom was a gridlock so that put paid to that and so I just went to Tesco's and had to pay high prices then I would've done this morning. I had no desire to sit in a traffic queue.

But as I was walking to Tesco from the car, I was pushing my wheelie, when suddenly a hand clapped itself in the middle of my back quite hard... I turned around and there was a tall man in what looked like a builders jacket. And he said to me, "I was asking you if you were alright." I had never seen him before and as far as I can tell I wasn't looking in need of any help. I was just walking to Tesco's. I haven't done my shopping yet.... he said some other stuff I could not make out what he said so I just said I'm fine, thank you. But it shook me that somebody would do that....

So when I get home, I was a bit out of sorts because that was a shock to my system and I went to bed and went to sleep for a few hours.

I woke up to a text from the doctor's surgery, from the diabetic nurse saying that she wanted me to come in a week early, that was this week and could I confirm?... well it is a Noreply text so how the heck can I confirm that I am coming in to this change of date. There is no email to this surgery., and I was not going out this afternoon or indeed tomorrow to the surgery saying I can make it for Thursday. So I wrote a letter saying she give me no options to reply to her. She had not given me a reply route., and so I was sending a letter as the best alternative...the post box is just round the corner...

Then in the mail was another one of those government CDs which the government persist on sending me even though I've told them I cannot hear the words on them. I've tried many routes to the government, explaining I am deaf and I need either a transcript to the CD or I need the normal type letter which gives you information. It was the lady from Council, last year I think, when I asked her if she could tell me what was on the CD and she said she could not because that was confidential information for me. Well, it is so confidential it stays on the blooming CD hidden away from its intended recipient, and I have no idea what it is.... but the lady from the counter told me that the government has to pay for all the letters it sends out to all of us people, but if it's a disability thing like for someone who's blind or other stuff because they send it by alternate means that is this CD to a blind person, then all this goes free for The government, and they don't have to pay for any of this...

And that wasn't the end of complications for my day...

I went to my bank app to pay for a credit card statement... and in this section it's only entries I've made personally for people I pay money to. Well, there was an extra entry and I'm thinking, but I never made that entry.... but it worries me. I could've just deleted it because in this section I have to make the payment each time for anything.... so I went to the section that would allow me to delete it. But it refused to be deleted.. I close down the app and left it a bit and tried again but it still won't be deleted so here is me going onto that stupid infernal chat bot it which doesn't even have the brains of a rock. I told it to get a real person for me.... again I had to wait more than the 30 minutes before anyone replied and again it was a bit of a tortuous conversation with a longer gap in between each message before I got a reply.... they could not tell me why this entry had been made, but they deleted it from their end. However, I think it is when the banks went down and when everything came back up again, some things were done wrongly while everything was trying to restore....

That still was not the end of all the problems of my day... I did mention about a week ago only half of an Amazon parcel arrived. Two of the items were missing (two shirts).... but when I went into the Amazon stuff, it would not let me complain about it or ask for a refund refund or even report what happened. Because it was all insisting that it had been delivered... but it had not, and I was getting Amazon telling me oh look in your back go and knock on the neighbours door. But that didn't help me when it's half the parcel that is missing and I have only received one half... I tried every day, but I got nowhere and I was in that infernal loop of bot messages. Finally something came up but it had not been dispatched, but it still had no separate tracking number to the stuff that says it has been delivered.. Finally I went onto ChatGPT and asked for help how to deal with it... he went through all the options...I said I had done them all so then he gave me an email address, and dictated me a letter to write which explained everything and that's what I have just done, but the whole thing took about four hours. So as you can see, I have not been able to achieve anything in my bedroom today and I am totally fed up with everything.... I just feel like saying why flipping bother....

So hopefully I will get a reply from my email to Amazon within 24 hours. There was no automatic response to say that they had received that email.

So I've done nothing today that is useful, but you could say all that was useful that I've done, but it's all Internet computer stuff, mismanaged computer stuff, mismanaged Internet stuff, and inefficient systems... and I have had to navigate all that...

I am listening to Hildegard's Voices of Angels to try and calm down. I presume it is in Latin and so consequently my brain can make no sense of it and so it doesn't try to work out the words. And this allows my brain to relax and quieten down. I can't listen to the songs on here that have music attached to them, because my brain is trying to make sense of the music and it makes sense of music in inappropriate ways which is not relaxing at all, for example the first one in the celestial whatever it was all I could hear was wasps... my brain interpreted that music as wasps. The Cochlear implant is not particularly designed for music.... but the voices in a language I do not know, my brain can just rest, all the neural pathways can just rest... but I cannot keep the Cochlear sound processor on overnight... apparently it is dangerous and can cause an overload in the brain... I am streaming these voices directly into my brain... so I cannot hear any outside noise... at the moment I would love to keep this on all night in my sleep... but I can't....

Night night from me...

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Oh Gennepher, what an awful day you had. Love the horse, by the way. Something very special there.

Actually, it worries me that these techie systems seem to work so badly and all the while, we are being forced to rely on them more and more. I've noticed that a few of the websites I use have problems at the moment - not just me. When I contact the ones that can be contacted and ask why, I only get told that, yes they know about the problem and are trying to fix it, but that never happens. My brother finds the same thing, but he, at least has a son and a son-in-law who work in the tech industry and can sort things out for him. So it seems that, in order to live in this brave new world of ours, we need to have an IT specialist on hand. How many of us have that? Neil is pretty good, but he is an amateur and doesn't have access to some of the information he would need to deal with these things.

BG at 03.25 today was 7.1. Odd, because when I hauled myself upright this morning, the Libre was yelling at me that I was too high (that would be over 8).

Still trying to sort through things that Neil brings in from the container. He found Em's box of paints and old pictures yesterday. I've sorted through them, thrown out the junk (old pens that don't work, brushes with bent and useless bristles and so on) and put them into a new box to see what she wants of it. He found a box full of cake decorating things (re-usable boards, tools for icing and so on). There are about a dozen 9", plastic cake drums which I used to use when baking for a local cafe, years ago. Not sure what to do with them. They are too good to throw out, but I can't see a charity shop having any use for them.
 
Morning all. No known fbg to share here just "touching base" and sharing a poem. @gennepher what a nightmare day but you did achieve so much, just not what was intended. Thank you for giving us all the gift of your art and inspiration not to be cowered into acceptance . @alf_Josiah I hope you enjoyed the meal so kindly prepared - on Sunday wasn't it? @LouT congratulations on starting the day in single figures. @dunelm thank you for sharing that poetry. Have a simply spiffing Tuesday if possible but it is is also ok not to be ok. A poem - lest we forget: RIP Ben P and all the others.
Thank you very much @ianpspurs

That was indeed a nightmare day...I soldiered through it, which was the only avenue open to me, But there were points where I was totally at the end of my endurance....
Thank you very much for your lovely painting compliments of my horse....
 
Oh Gennepher, what an awful day you had. Love the horse, by the way. Something very special there.

Actually, it worries me that these techie systems seem to work so badly and all the while, we are being forced to rely on them more and more. I've noticed that a few of the websites I use have problems at the moment - not just me. When I contact the ones that can be contacted and ask why, I only get told that, yes they know about the problem and are trying to fix it, but that never happens. My brother finds the same thing, but he, at least has a son and a son-in-law who work in the tech industry and can sort things out for him. So it seems that, in order to live in this brave new world of ours, we need to have an IT specialist on hand. How many of us have that? Neil is pretty good, but he is an amateur and doesn't have access to some of the information he would need to deal with these things.

BG at 03.25 today was 7.1. Odd, because when I hauled myself upright this morning, the Libre was yelling at me that I was too high (that would be over 8).

Still trying to sort through things that Neil brings in from the container. He found Em's box of paints and old pictures yesterday. I've sorted through them, thrown out the junk (old pens that don't work, brushes with bent and useless bristles and so on) and put them into a new box to see what she wants of it. He found a box full of cake decorating things (re-usable boards, tools for icing and so on). There are about a dozen 9", plastic cake drums which I used to use when baking for a local cafe, years ago. Not sure what to do with them. They are too good to throw out, but I can't see a charity shop having any use for them.
Thank you very much for the lovely horse compliment... I was in a flow moment when I did that... And just sort of completely disappeared into it... I really badly need to do more artwork. It helps me... I won't allow myself to start more artwork until I have finished my bedroom.. this is really a massive and clear out. It is for my next 30-year plan... I always have a 30-year plan... Which might sound a bit odd now I'm 76, but I'm still doing my 30-year plan...and I still have 2 more rooms to do...

Like you, I fear for the future with all this internet stuff. I am only a relative newbie to the internet. I bought my first computer, it was a little netbook in about 2010, But I spent most of the time being totally stuck and not knowing how to do anything. I then bought an iPad, might have been one of the first, because I needed something to communicate with my friends online while they were helping me to repair my netbook or sort out my netbook.. the iPad allowed me to communicate with my friend in the States (And we are still friends online), who I had only met online, to actually access my netbook and repair it. It was terrifying watching that cursor move all by itself. Obviously with hindsight that was a heck of a chance I took, But I have been very lucky because I had no one there to help me.
I do fear for the future with all this internet stuff getting more and more convoluted. I can see the day when I will retire to the hills, and not using any services at all, and I will be a total hermit....

Like you @Annb I do have a lot of specialist to get rid of... I have been to the charity shops and they don't want a lot of stuff I have. They tell me it is too specialist. So then I drive to the nearest Oxfam which is some considerable miles away and I try there. If they don't take it after my effort of doing that, I am afraid my items get shoved into the nearest street litter bin. Yes it is sad I do that, but I have expended as much time and effort as I am able, to find it a home. I make no apologies for doing that, and I do not need any kind ideas from other people on other ways to find it at home, because my time is valuable and I do not have any more time to do that...

Good luck in trying to find a home for your stuff and find some charity shops that will take it... But you are a bit restricted where you live...
 
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Fbg 6.2

The next page in my sketchbook.....
In acrylics, pastels and a black posca acrylic pen...

I got a lot of tidying, sorting and throwing out done today...

Ready for sleep now....


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Good early evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
A nice paintings @gennepher and @dunelm
Here in Tilehurst Towers we had a fantastic and extremely rare event occur.
Mrs J and myself cleared out our shoe box.
I donated 2 pairs of boots and a pair of carpet slippers, Mrs K I never counted how many pairs of footwear, but the bag was very full and heavy. I hope the Salvation Army can use these items.
Have a good evening all.
 
9.5 at 04.15 today and didn't drop far before breakfast - still in the 9's. However, the very wrong breakfast I decided to have (just a pile of cheesey crackers) seems to have helped as BG has dropped to 4.9.

That was fairly early this morning and I obviously forgot to press the "Post" button.

More cheesey crackers around lunchtime and BG stayed low. Still low after a meal around 6 pm - at one stage it was in the 3's but recovered into the 4's and up into the 6's now.
 
Good early evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
A nice paintings @gennepher and @dunelm
Here in Tilehurst Towers we had a fantastic and extremely rare event occur.
Mrs J and myself cleared out our shoe box.
I donated 2 pairs of boots and a pair of carpet slippers, Mrs K I never counted how many pairs of footwear, but the bag was very full and heavy. I hope the Salvation Army can use these items.
Have a good evening all.
Thanks @alf_Josiah
 
9.5 at 04.15 today and didn't drop far before breakfast - still in the 9's. However, the very wrong breakfast I decided to have (just a pile of cheesey crackers) seems to have helped as BG has dropped to 4.9.

That was fairly early this morning and I obviously forgot to press the "Post" button.

More cheesey crackers around lunchtime and BG stayed low. Still low after a meal around 6 pm - at one stage it was in the 3's but recovered into the 4's and up into the 6's now.
@Annb The 'Cheesey Cracker Diet'!!!
 
Fbg 7.1

Another painting...
This one was done with some brightly coloured children's crayons...and for some reason I found the black crayon among some pens and pencils I was sorting out today...

I was making some soup today in my little soup maker, and I had a bit of a disaster. The tomato skins for some reason caused the rotating blade to jam and some safety sensor must have failed and it overheated during the jam, and the speed control malfunctioned and then the blade span like mad and forced my soup out of the spout, all up the wall...

It was so lucky I was in the kitchen the moment all this happened, it happened in seconds, and I couldn't get it to stop, and so had to pull the plug out of the wall...fortunately the lid stayed on...

I've had the soup maker maybe 4 years now. And I have never had tomato skins jam the rotating blade before...

It brought to mind an incident over 40 years ago when I was staying with some friends in Glastonbury for awhile, and Rita was making soup for all of us, green soup, and she forgot to put the lid on the liquidiser before she turned it on. Green stuff covered us all, the floor, all 4 walls and the ceiling.... at least I only had some tomato stuff on one wall, and the counter...

Amazon does not sell it anymore, but I found it on eBay, same price and I will be buying it directly from the manufacturer...it will be coming next Tuesday... so I will be soupless for my tea until then...oh what shall I do?

Good night from me... and I will never use real tomatoes in my new soup maker. It will be tomato paste from now on....

A link to my painting, this site won't upload it from my iPad...
 
Sorry to report Mrs L is once again in hospital.
Another infection.
Hospital all day today and yesterday.
Sorry to hear Mrs L is suffering another infection and is in hospital. It's hard on her, but I suspect, harder still on you. Let's hope she recovers quickly and gets home again soon.
 
Sorry for the soup disaster. I make lots of soup in an ordinary saucepan. Is that an option for you. Being a lazy cook, I bung everything in, add water/leftover gravy/ meat juices, bring to simmer, switch off or reduce heat right down, add lid and let it all brew. Electric cooker so retains heat - with gas you'd have to keep it on simmer.
 
6.7 at 03.25 today.

Leg bandaging day today, so it's a fairly early start. Walking is being a bit difficult today, but I will manage to get to the car, however long it takes me. Just hope the car starts - it's sat in the cold since last Thursday but it'll be OK - Neil carries a spare battery, just in case.
 
Morning all from what is a gorgeous late autumn day here in L.A., far from what certain Charlatans want to gaslight us into seeing as a nationwide Hellscape. @Lamont D hugs for Mrs L and especially yourself. MIL, 95, was blue lighted to hospital last Saturday and JKP has to visit daily. You too must be under strain - do please remember to look after you. Thanks be to God that medical science and tender care are helping her mum but the travel, parking issues and lack of facilities in West Suffolk - acros and dodgy roofs included - are taking their toll. I believe the commentariat refer to that as a symptom of our en****tification. @gennepher RIP soup maker V1 - long live the MKii. We bought a soup maker last year, bit of a beast and a pain to clean despite claims the machine was self cleaning but a good investment. Thank you for continuing to share your art. @Annb I hope the car starts easily and leg day goes well. Here, I am not monitoring my fbg as I am on steroids, at least temporarily. They gave me hiccups at times for two days but that has thankfully gone now. I am ravenous and have ballooned to 74 kg (11s 9Lbs ) - I'm now a miniature 5 feet 11 ins due to shrinkflation of the body corporeal. The steroids make me feel warm which I like and going somewhat off piste has greatly improved my sleep, transit system and general demeanour. However, I have also increased my fluid intake by drinking this - I've always avoided fizzy water - and increased the dose of pregrabalin whilst avoiding co codamol. I have no idea what is working but something is as I am more mobile, stable and can actually sit in peace. Sorry if this is TLDR and I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday - just don't plough to the margins.
 
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5.5:this morning.

My new text book arrived today. I am so looking forward to studying it. It should really help me to be a better teacher
Anyone who reads your posts or comes into contact with you would know instantly that you are already an excellent teacher. That field is ploughed enough. Have another coffee and chill out.
 
I am going to hospital later and Mrs L is slightly better than yesterday but her moods and sleeping are much worse. This morning in discussions with the main specialist, afterwards fluids added intravenously, and another course of antibiotics started. There is a plan in place now. Which includes her T2 meds and her pain meds. But this last couple of days Mrs L has become a lot more frail.
And obviously confused.
Had my next counselling appointment it went okay and I need to look after myself despite the good hba1c result of 46, along with lower other stuff like cholestrol, etc.
I just so anxious.
And my daughter and eldest sat me down and bollocked me.
I deserved it.
Gonna feed myself. I feel like chicken tonight! OMG!
 
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.

Busy old day for an old retiree in his 70’s. Never mind.
Best wishes to @Lamont D.

When I logged on I found I had about 3 pages to catch up on and the time here in Tilehurst Towers is 19:45, hey ho different time realities.
 
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