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

I've missed you guys - even though I've only been cut off for a day. We switched our ISP from BT but we found that the previous router that we had (BT want their one back) wasn't sufficiently up-to-date so Neil had to go to town to get a new one - not what he wanted, but the only one available in this one-horse-town. It does work though, but won't connect the phone - for that we need to get another gadget - probably on the internet.

BG at 03.20 was 7.5 and has been in that region ever since.

Neil got my desktop PC connected to the network, but I'm still struggling with my little tablet and the laptop. This won't solve the issues we have with bandwidth because we still have the copper wire connection. Neil did hear, somewhere, that BT is installing fibre lines in this area, so who knows...maybe one day in a year or so, we might get a fibre connection.
 
No FBG.
Lots more happening for Mrs L, despite Mrs L 's grumpiness today.
The care company has sent an assessor to see how much Mrs L needs.
While a carer was with her this afternoon, I managed an hour doing the lawn and deadheading the Autumn plants and general tidy up, foliage down to a manageable size.
A frosty start with a very cold wind. But no rain.
Best wishes to you lot as always.

Khan!
 
Fbg 6.9 for Friday

The next page in my sketchbook
An acrylic painting.

My day (Friday) is not going as planned...

I went out this morning expecting to be back for 10: 30. Not a hope.

There were traffic works and so I was held up. Finally got to my destination. Check the parking restrictions, tells myself I have to be out within 2 hours to be safe.

Because it was a freezing cold day, it seemed to me that all the disabled spaces were taken up by able bodied people who leap out of their cars. Run into the shop, paid for their goods, run back to the car, And I'm still struggling getting out of the car...

So the point is I had to park rather a long way from the usual disabled spot to be able to go and pick up my parcel and it took me a long time, that extra walking getting the parcel and coming back to my car. I had a couple more specific items to get, then I came home.

And I got caught in a terrible traffic jam on the way home... Road works... I had just got to the traffic light to the roadworks and they went to red. So I'm waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and there's a massive queue behind me and nothing is going through any which way... I could see the traffic on the other side of the traffic lights, and there was a digger in the side road, but they weren't letting us through.... Half an hour later, we are all still waiting, And by this time my head is falling asleep. I thought I can't stay here any longer. I'm going to fall asleep at the traffic lights... Why did I not think of this before? I suppose because no one else did in the queue behind me because I would have seen them in my wing mirror. Do a U-Turn I told myself, Go back the way I came, get some fish from the chippy and then go the country route back home...

I have no idea why no one behind me was doing a U-turn. There's nothing legally to prevent me..... I gave it a couple more minutes and so I did a U-turn. The guy behind me stared and stared at me and then I went past all this long queue of cars... I bought some Whitby fish at the chippy And came back the country route...

I got back for 2:00 p.m. And I was exhausted so I went to bed and went to sleep...

I woke up just as a text came through from the doctor's surgery... From the same Practice Nurse as yesterday who kept phoning and phoning as I was driving. Yesterday I had figured out a way to reply to the text, a facility offered by the surgery, but it was a one-time thing only. They told me I could not do it again. And in it I explained what happened but the diabetic nurse had seen me a week early and told me I did not need to keep this appointment on Thursday.

The text reply from the Practice Nurse insisted that the diabetic nurse had insisted on a re-review and blood test in four weeks time. Well yesterday was only one week from that date and in any case the diabetic nurse wrote down on a piece of paper everything I needed to do which was write a letter in 4 weeks time to her and tell her how I was getting on with the new drug, and to go for a blood test in 4 month's time.

Now this practise nurse is telling me I have to have the blood test in 4 weeks time, and I should have attended the appointment yesterday which was Thursday. But the Thursday, yesterday, was only a week after being given the new medicine.

Again, this was a no reply text. What am I meant to do now because I cannot actually communicate with her. I cannot use the same facility as I used yesterday because it's only allowed me a one-time use to go online and send a message to them. It won't allow me to use it again. I have no idea if or when it resets to allow me to send another message..

This is completely confusing because I have now been given two completely different timelines. I cannot physically use the phone and they did not give me an email or a reply option.

This is causing me stress... I have had a long day and I have done nothing what I really intended to do.

What I have done is written a letter explaining the two instructions contradict each other, and would the surgery confirm in writing which set of instructions I am meant to adhere to?

I will post that around the corner in the post box on Saturday morning...

A link to my painting...
www.blipfoto.com

My next painting in my sketchbook... | gennepher

My next painting in my sketchbook... In acrylics. My day is not going as planned... I went out this morning expecting to be back for 10: 30. Not...
www.blipfoto.com
 
22.11
9.05am FBG 5.5
MrSlim removed the worst of the mould damaged unit and then went back to his current job.
He is decorating the front hall.
We are so posh - front and back hall with double doors in between. Front hall accesses the front door ( naturally) plus the dining room and salon (still unusable, but in progress)to left and right.
Back hall has the stairs, with cellar door underneath, kitchen and utility, plus back door. Tthere has been considerable work done here. Wallpaper stripped, then walls filled, replastered and first coated. Doors renovated and currently in undercoat. Deliberate choice, so much dust still - gloss paint would get contaminated. Huge improvement from mouldy peeling wallpaper.
Plus entirely new oak floor replacing rotten parquet.
Our current salon is in what should be a back bedroom, on the north side of the house, above the kitchen. Something to do with pipe runs means the radiator isn't very efficient and even with the thermostat turned fully up the room feels chilly. Not a comfortable place to sit in the evenings any more. So we are going to relocate again, back to the dining room, which was the first habitable room, after a thorough clean, and which is always warm even with the radiator on a low setting.
The heaviest pieces of furniture that belong in the salon, and are impossible for us to get upstairs, are already in the dining room, it's a little crowded, but if we shrink the dining table it will be possible to fit one more chair, the tv will go on the huge heavy coffee table already in situ opposite the extremely heavy armchair. Minimal disruption for winter comfort.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9 for Friday

The next page in my sketchbook
An acrylic painting.

My day (Friday) is not going as planned...

I went out this morning expecting to be back for 10: 30. Not a hope.

There were traffic works and so I was held up. Finally got to my destination. Check the parking restrictions, tells myself I have to be out within 2 hours to be safe.

Because it was a freezing cold day, it seemed to me that all the disabled spaces were taken up by able bodied people who leap out of their cars. Run into the shop, paid for their goods, run back to the car, And I'm still struggling getting out of the car...

So the point is I had to park rather a long way from the usual disabled spot to be able to go and pick up my parcel and it took me a long time, that extra walking getting the parcel and coming back to my car. I had a couple more specific items to get, then I came home.

And I got caught in a terrible traffic jam on the way home... Road works... I had just got to the traffic light to the roadworks and they went to red. So I'm waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and there's a massive queue behind me and nothing is going through any which way... I could see the traffic on the other side of the traffic lights, and there was a digger in the side road, but they weren't letting us through.... Half an hour later, we are all still waiting, And by this time my head is falling asleep. I thought I can't stay here any longer. I'm going to fall asleep at the traffic lights... Why did I not think of this before? I suppose because no one else did in the queue behind me because I would have seen them in my wing mirror. Do a U-Turn I told myself, Go back the way I came, get some fish from the chippy and then go the country route back home...

I have no idea why no one behind me was doing a U-turn. There's nothing legally to prevent me..... I gave it a couple more minutes and so I did a U-turn. The guy behind me stared and stared at me and then I went past all this long queue of cars... I bought some Whitby fish at the chippy And came back the country route...

I got back for 2:00 p.m. And I was exhausted so I went to bed and went to sleep...

I woke up just as a text came through from the doctor's surgery... From the same Practice Nurse as yesterday who kept phoning and phoning as I was driving. Yesterday I had figured out a way to reply to the text, a facility offered by the surgery, but it was a one-time thing only. They told me I could not do it again. And in it I explained what happened but the diabetic nurse had seen me a week early and told me I did not need to keep this appointment on Thursday.

The text reply from the Practice Nurse insisted that the diabetic nurse had insisted on a re-review and blood test in four weeks time. Well yesterday was only one week from that date and in any case the diabetic nurse wrote down on a piece of paper everything I needed to do which was write a letter in 4 weeks time to her and tell her how I was getting on with the new drug, and to go for a blood test in 4 month's time.

Now this practise nurse is telling me I have to have the blood test in 4 weeks time, and I should have attended the appointment yesterday which was Thursday. But the Thursday, yesterday, was only a week after being given the new medicine.

Again, this was a no reply text. What am I meant to do now because I cannot actually communicate with her. I cannot use the same facility as I used yesterday because it's only allowed me a one-time use to go online and send a message to them. It won't allow me to use it again. I have no idea if or when it resets to allow me to send another message..

This is completely confusing because I have now been given two completely different timelines. I cannot physically use the phone and they did not give me an email or a reply option.

This is causing me stress... I have had a long day and I have done nothing what I really intended to do.

What I have done is written a letter explaining the two instructions contradict each other, and would the surgery confirm in writing which set of instructions I am meant to adhere to?

I will post that around the corner in the post box on Saturday morning...

A link to my painting...
www.blipfoto.com

My next painting in my sketchbook... | gennepher

My next painting in my sketchbook... In acrylics. My day is not going as planned... I went out this morning expecting to be back for 10: 30. Not...
www.blipfoto.com
Click to expand...
Horrible day, wonderful piece of art, thank you for sharing. Was the fish good? Hold on to the small wins in life. Your life so often sounds the epitome of the infamous Mike Tyson quote. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Life is what happens while we are busy pretending our plans matter diddly squat. No, I don't believe as flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods, they kill us for their sport but a healthy dose of Cnut like realisation of our inability to control the world is a useful tool in Narnia :D Y'all have a great Saturday, I'm organising a Wake for Ashes Down Under 2025/6. Several elite young athletes will need very careful handling of their mental health by better people than I sense are currently doing the job. Yes, I care - far too many Lions being led by Donkeys over the past 2 decades in all walks of life.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9 for Friday

The next page in my sketchbook
An acrylic painting.

My day (Friday) is not going as planned...

I went out this morning expecting to be back for 10: 30. Not a hope.

There were traffic works and so I was held up. Finally got to my destination. Check the parking restrictions, tells myself I have to be out within 2 hours to be safe.

Because it was a freezing cold day, it seemed to me that all the disabled spaces were taken up by able bodied people who leap out of their cars. Run into the shop, paid for their goods, run back to the car, And I'm still struggling getting out of the car...

So the point is I had to park rather a long way from the usual disabled spot to be able to go and pick up my parcel and it took me a long time, that extra walking getting the parcel and coming back to my car. I had a couple more specific items to get, then I came home.

And I got caught in a terrible traffic jam on the way home... Road works... I had just got to the traffic light to the roadworks and they went to red. So I'm waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and there's a massive queue behind me and nothing is going through any which way... I could see the traffic on the other side of the traffic lights, and there was a digger in the side road, but they weren't letting us through.... Half an hour later, we are all still waiting, And by this time my head is falling asleep. I thought I can't stay here any longer. I'm going to fall asleep at the traffic lights... Why did I not think of this before? I suppose because no one else did in the queue behind me because I would have seen them in my wing mirror. Do a U-Turn I told myself, Go back the way I came, get some fish from the chippy and then go the country route back home...

I have no idea why no one behind me was doing a U-turn. There's nothing legally to prevent me..... I gave it a couple more minutes and so I did a U-turn. The guy behind me stared and stared at me and then I went past all this long queue of cars... I bought some Whitby fish at the chippy And came back the country route...

I got back for 2:00 p.m. And I was exhausted so I went to bed and went to sleep...

I woke up just as a text came through from the doctor's surgery... From the same Practice Nurse as yesterday who kept phoning and phoning as I was driving. Yesterday I had figured out a way to reply to the text, a facility offered by the surgery, but it was a one-time thing only. They told me I could not do it again. And in it I explained what happened but the diabetic nurse had seen me a week early and told me I did not need to keep this appointment on Thursday.

The text reply from the Practice Nurse insisted that the diabetic nurse had insisted on a re-review and blood test in four weeks time. Well yesterday was only one week from that date and in any case the diabetic nurse wrote down on a piece of paper everything I needed to do which was write a letter in 4 weeks time to her and tell her how I was getting on with the new drug, and to go for a blood test in 4 month's time.

Now this practise nurse is telling me I have to have the blood test in 4 weeks time, and I should have attended the appointment yesterday which was Thursday. But the Thursday, yesterday, was only a week after being given the new medicine.

Again, this was a no reply text. What am I meant to do now because I cannot actually communicate with her. I cannot use the same facility as I used yesterday because it's only allowed me a one-time use to go online and send a message to them. It won't allow me to use it again. I have no idea if or when it resets to allow me to send another message..

This is completely confusing because I have now been given two completely different timelines. I cannot physically use the phone and they did not give me an email or a reply option.

This is causing me stress... I have had a long day and I have done nothing what I really intended to do.

What I have done is written a letter explaining the two instructions contradict each other, and would the surgery confirm in writing which set of instructions I am meant to adhere to?

I will post that around the corner in the post box on Saturday morning...

A link to my painting...
www.blipfoto.com

My next painting in my sketchbook... | gennepher

My next painting in my sketchbook... In acrylics. My day is not going as planned... I went out this morning expecting to be back for 10: 30. Not...
www.blipfoto.com
Click to expand...
Oh Gennepher. Again. I really don't understand what the world is coming to. Nobody seems to care about anybody but themselves. Selfish, thoughtless, ignorance abounds. I do wish there was something that could be done from a distance to help.
 
BG 7.1 at 04.25 today. Sensor ran out while I dozed in the chair so I put a new one on but the needle part of it is still sticking out. However, the reader seems to think it is OK so I've just covered it with a plaster to stop it catching on things and hope for the best. We'll find out in about 40 minutes when I'll try to get a reading from it.
 
Good Morening fellow posters and painters.

Now in Mordor, luckily watching my youngest grandchild.
I must sign out the effects of my painkillers kicking in.

Unfortunately I was banned from bringing my orc basher.
 
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I'm fed up with Amazon! Since I can't get into shops in Stornoway without great difficulty (for Neil) I don't do any shopping there myself and when I want something that Neil can't select for me, I go to Amazon. Usually it works pretty well, I have to admit but this time, I ordered a few things, including a pack of 6 rather nice looking Christmas cards. The box arrived today (badly packed and falling apart) with the pack of Christmas cards in it, with other things, but they were the wrong cards.

They were rubbish cards that I never would have chosen to insult the children in my family with. I went to the returns page of the Amazon site to get the cards replaced with the ones I had ordered but there was no option on their digital help page for what I wanted and trying to find alternative options I went round and round in circles to the same pages, over and over again. I wanted to get at least a chat line (AI) but there seems to be no option whatever to make an individual link for a specific problem.

I ended up re-ordering the cards that I do want, which will now come later than I had hoped - that's if the right ones are sent this time, and will just throw these others away. It's only £7 something or other, so not the end of the world, but it is so annoying/frustrating. Then a little questionnaire came up asking for a rating for how likely I would be to recommend Amazon to friends or family! You can guess my reply. Not that anyone will read it.

I know it's only Christmas cards, but it's the poor service that bothers me, not the actual goods.

You guys are the first of those to whom I will not be recommending Amazon in future. I'll have to try to find an alternative supplier.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Another page in my sketchbook....

In acrylics.

Not a good day today.
I was coming back from the post office when my mobile phone rang. It should not have rang at all, because the mobile phone ring is turned off and the pixel phone with me being deaf and so I do not answer phone calls, and it is only on vibrate always.

But like the Apple phone in 2019, when they did the alerts in an unexpected update with no warning, so they directly streamed all alerts directly into your head is the only way I can describe it, and it was a horrendous loud noise. And I was driving then and was parking my car when it suddenly went off in my head.... it caused me to drive in the wall in front of me... thousands of cochlear implant users reported similar experiences at the time.

Loud noises through the cochlear sound processor, through the microphone are just loud noises.. as they are for any hearing person. but if something is streamed directly to your head and it's a loud noise, it is something from hell.

This was when I abandoned the iPhone and went over to Pixel phone.

So far, the pixel phones have never done anything like what the Apple iPhone did.

Until today.

My pixel phone is set only to vibrate for any alert... except the government emergency alerts will override that....

So on days of government emergency alert when we get warnings, I do not wear my cochclear sound processor at all...

But my phone began ringing as I was driving home... but it wasn't an external sound. It was an unexpected direct neural stimulus.
I had to stop the car for safety.

I checked who rang and it was the doctor's surgery... despite it being on my notes that I cannot hear the telephone....

Because this sound was unexpectedly streamed directly into my cochclear Implant, it bypasses all the normal acoustic dampening, it bypasses volume controls, it lands directly in the auditory nerve, and it can be 100 times more startling than any external sound.

But the strange thing was, it rang several times, and when it stopped ringing it carried on like a snooze alarm does reminding you that you're supposed to have already got up... my vibrating alarm does that.

When i it had definitely stopped, I drove home but I have been shaky all day...

I checked my pixel phone settings, and it was still set to vibrate only, no ringing. I went onto ChatGPT to ask him to check with me.... and he agreed the phone was set to vibrate only.

Later, when I got a text, it turned out that was also the doctor's surgery, and they were asking why I did not attend my appointment today. They had also attempted to ring me several times as I was driving home. I attended the appointment last week and I think I mentioned it on here because the diabetic nurse had brought my appointment forward a week, and when I was there, I checked I did not need to attend today and she said no because I attended last Thursday....

But why did the phone call from the surgery bypass my phone settings? Nothing else does that apart from the government emergency alerts.

I have had more phone calls today spam, and they have all gone onto the normal vibrating alert...

So why did this happen? I just don't know.. I still haven't quite recovered from it.

A link to my painting
www.blipfoto.com

Another page in my sketchbook | gennepher

Another page in my sketchbook.... In acrylics. Not a good day today. I was coming back from the post office when my mobile phone rang. It should...
www.blipfoto.com
Click to expand...
A stunning painting @gennepher. Have only just read your post about the phone call from your surgery. I do hope you are ok now.
 
Annb said:
I'm fed up with Amazon! Since I can't get into shops in Stornoway without great difficulty (for Neil) I don't do any shopping there myself and when I want something that Neil can't select for me, I go to Amazon. Usually it works pretty well, I have to admit but this time, I ordered a few things, including a pack of 6 rather nice looking Christmas cards. The box arrived today (badly packed and falling apart) with the pack of Christmas cards in it, with other things, but they were the wrong cards.

They were rubbish cards that I never would have chosen to insult the children in my family with. I went to the returns page of the Amazon site to get the cards replaced with the ones I had ordered but there was no option on their digital help page for what I wanted and trying to find alternative options I went round and round in circles to the same pages, over and over again. I wanted to get at least a chat line (AI) but there seems to be no option whatever to make an individual link for a specific problem.

I ended up re-ordering the cards that I do want, which will now come later than I had hoped - that's if the right ones are sent this time, and will just throw these others away. It's only £7 something or other, so not the end of the world, but it is so annoying/frustrating. Then a little questionnaire came up asking for a rating for how likely I would be to recommend Amazon to friends or family! You can guess my reply. Not that anyone will read it.

I know it's only Christmas cards, but it's the poor service that bothers me, not the actual goods.

You guys are the first of those to whom I will not be recommending Amazon in future. I'll have to try to find an alternative supplier.
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mine was almost exactly the same problem as yours. Half my Amazon parcel was missing and I went round and round on the automated route.
No time to reply how I did it because I have a hospital appointment in a few hours... when I get back, I'll send you my details and I got my refund of £40...
 
22.11
9..10am FBG 5.4
The relocation of kitchen supplies has created yet another issue. The drawer unit has partially collapsed due to "overloading." Any ideas where to store food products? And crockery ? Am thinking we probably need to completely redesign the kitchen. Without using the conventional flat pack furniture which has proved to be insufficient for the task. What a waste of money and time it has been.
 
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