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6.9 at 04.00 today.

Two appointments today - podiatry at the hospital - I've asked them to have a look at some odd little growths on my right foot. The "podiatrist" I have been seeing in the town doesn't know what they are but doesn't think they can be very important. The leg bandaging nurse also thinks they're probably nothing much.

I put the word podiatrist in quotation marks because a GP I saw a few weeks ago dismissed her as "a nail cutter". She clearly doesn't think much of private podiatrists.

Second appointment is with the leg bandaging nurse.

Legs are very sore today but I think I'll manage to walk down the ramp and to the car.
 
Annb said:
6.9 at 04.00 today.

Two appointments today - podiatry at the hospital - I've asked them to have a look at some odd little growths on my right foot. The "podiatrist" I have been seeing in the town doesn't know what they are but doesn't think they can be very important. The leg bandaging nurse also thinks they're probably nothing much.

I put the word podiatrist in quotation marks because a GP I saw a few weeks ago dismissed her as "a nail cutter". She clearly doesn't think much of private podiatrists.

Second appointment is with the leg bandaging nurse.

Legs are very sore today but I think I'll manage to walk down the ramp and to the car.
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Some things are referred to as “nothing much” by so called medics of varying colours until they are “something concerning”.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who remember fondly the days when they climbed trees just to see if they could.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.7 a record for me just recently, the hospital won’t be pleased.

Today is full of promise, I have nothing out of the ordinary planned, just a delight in the fact all is quiet apart from the radio playing. Oh no Mrs J is on the move, doors are being opened, muttering, stairs are creaking.
Make my tea is the demand, ah life in Tilehurst Towers. Yes dear.

Must go, grab the day and find an opportunity to smile

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Disaster darlings disaster, I forgot to mention national bin day.
 
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Good morning everyone on a quaintly quiet start to international bin day here in the dark and dangerous north where we wait excitedly in anticipation of the bin lorry cavalcade and the orange clad bin twirlettes. Wonder if they can get sponsorship from Trumpty Dumpty?

Somewhere ‘cross the desert.
Sometime in the early hours.
In a restless world.
5.3 was recorded.

Eye slit lamp clinic yesterday went something like this:
“Do you have someone to drive you home?”
“Yes, my emotional support person brought me and will take me home”
“we are putting normal drops in and also some Pheylephrine to really enlarge your pupils”.
“Ah, so eyes and haemorrhoids as well then”?
Exam begins:
“You have cataracts in both eyes”.
“Blimey hope I don’t fall into one and drown”.

Whatever crazed designer came up with such a mess and named it “human” needs a couple of billion years on the naughty step and a letter sent to the parents.

Oh well. Hope your day contains some pleasing entertainment. I shall make koffy and await whatever unfolds.
 
dunelm said:
Some things are referred to as “nothing much” by so called medics of varying colours until they are “something concerning”.
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The podiatrist took a photo for reference and then went to see her senior colleague who immediately told her what I have is "lymphodeama nodules" and they are nothing to worry about. Fair enough, just so long as they are not likely to cause any infection in my feet. Proceeded to get my legs and feet covered again for another week.

I guess I must have made a mistake with my insulin this morning. I dosed for carbohydrates (which was the major part of breakfast) but just after we left the house an hour and a half later, BG dropped into the 3's. I had one of my cans of sweetened coffee and that brought it back up to 5.5 by the time we got to the Health Centre half an hour later, but while there it dropped again and I had to ask for a biscuit. 3 little biscuits later it was still dropping. Then Neil arrived to collect me and I had access to more coffee. 3.1 became 6.2 in about 20 minutes. I'll have to keep an eye on it. That insulin seems to be acting in hours rather than minutes.
 
Annb said:
I guess I must have made a mistake with my insulin this morning. I dosed for carbohydrates (which was the major part of breakfast) but just after we left the house an hour and a half later, BG dropped into the 3's. I had one of my cans of sweetened coffee and that brought it back up to 5.5 by the time we got to the Health Centre half an hour later, but while there it dropped again and I had to ask for a biscuit. 3 little biscuits later it was still dropping.
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Not the first time you've had BG dropping when going out for health care appointments.
Is it possible that this is not an insulin mistake but simply a pattern where this particular activity drops you so you need to adjust your insulin before?

I always have a sharp spike before going in for my yearly endo visit, no matter how much I like her, so I've learnt to dose in the parking lot before going in. Not all rises and drops are due to food or insulin.

FBG in the high 5's, followed by a sharp spike without food despite dosing before getting out of bed. Quickly back to the 5's though.
 
Antje77 said:
Not the first time you've had BG dropping when going out for health care appointments.
Is it possible that this is not an insulin mistake but simply a pattern where this particular activity drops you so you need to adjust your insulin before?

I always have a sharp spike before going in for my yearly endo visit, no matter how much I like her, so I've learnt to dose in the parking lot before going in. Not all rises and drops are due to food or insulin.

FBG in the high 5's, followed by a sharp spike without food despite dosing before getting out of bed. Quickly back to the 5's though.
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Never thought of that. Hmm.
 
5.1 this morning.
Bonnie had a vet check up at 8.30am. She is healing exceptionally well after being spayed on Tuesday.

She was so excited to be back at the vet. I was surprised as I thought she might have been scared. Perhaps it is something to do with the treats she gets there.
 
5.8 at 04.20 today.

Trying to decide whether or not to get rid of my lovely teak dining table. It's been used as my kitchen table for years (well protected) but it is really unsuitable and a bit too big for the space. I have another old oak (Art Deco) table which MIL damaged the surface of by using it as an ironing board many years ago. Alistair had it for a while and his family managed to damage the surface even more. Neil did plan to repair the damage but has never go around to it. I can cover it meantime. However, Tom bought the teak table in 1972 and he loved it. Plus it is worth a good deal of money now, but I could never get a very good price for it on the Island. It feels wrong, disloyal, to just give it away, even to a charity shop. I really think it has to go though. I'm not really attached to it at all. It's just thinking about what Tom would think.
 
5.4 yesterday.
6.4 today, after a sleep disturbed night, and a cup of strong coffee.

@Annb , regarding possessions that are no longer useful. I am of an age and stage of life where I am working may way through possessions and redirecting them to either recipients who would be grateful, family who would treasure the heirlooms (even those that are not of monetary value) charities, overseas aid, or the local tip. It can be tough, because possessions can and do have sentimental value. I see it as a favour to my kids, to save them having the job when I am gone. Having had to clear out possessions from parents, and grandparents, I know how tough that can be. If I am truthful, though, having less ‘stuff’ around makes my life far more comfortable, too, and I can help the younger generation, and needy folks financially from any profit made.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who remember………. “censored by the author”

Blood sugars this morning were 6.6 another low number, the medics at the hospital are not going to be ‘appy, at this moment my blood sugars are 5.9 hey ho.
I am unsupervised for most of the day, in days gone by I would team up with my pal Chaos and Mayhem, but as I have written before they locked up in prison. I do miss them.

Mrs J has completed another of her paintings, paint by numbers for adults they are incredibly complicated, I shall attempt to add it to this post.

Have the best day you can.
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Lakeslover said:
6.5 this morning.

Wet, windy and grey here

@Annb when I’m in that situation I think about what my husband would have wanted. I’m pretty sure he would have wanted you to do whatever makes life easier for you.
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You're right, of course. He never did attach himself to any possession anyway. He would never have a duplicate of anything - even clothes. He had what he needed and got rid of anything extra - even an expensive, heavy tweed suit I'd bought for him once. He gave it to a tramp who only had ragged clothes since he had 2 good suits to go to work in.

Pipp said:
5.4 yesterday.
6.4 today, after a sleep disturbed night, and a cup of strong coffee.

@Annb , regarding possessions that are no longer useful. I am of an age and stage of life where I am working may way through possessions and redirecting them to either recipients who would be grateful, family who would treasure the heirlooms (even those that are not of monetary value) charities, overseas aid, or the local tip. It can be tough, because possessions can and do have sentimental value. I see it as a favour to my kids, to save them having the job when I am gone. Having had to clear out possessions from parents, and grandparents, I know how tough that can be. If I am truthful, though, having less ‘stuff’ around makes my life far more comfortable, too, and I can help the younger generation, and needy folks financially from any profit made.
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My sons are going to be a bit fed up with me. I have stuff from generations back which I treasure because they are family history. They are never used or even out of the cupboards. Nobody will value them when I'm gone. It will be for Neil and Alistair to decide how to deal with them. Not fair on them really. But it's the big stuff that is the current problem. Who will want a solid Danish teak dining table which extends to 8 feet these days? Who has a house big enough to take it? I've more or less decided that it has to go though. Neil has decided that he's going to get rid of all the scaffolding he bought when he was renovating Alistair's house, so that will free up space in the shed. We had an old bow topped wooden and metal chest which has been needing repaired. It went to the tip yesterday with lots of bits that were being kept "just in case they ever come in useful".

I think we have lived up to the maxim of an old neighbour: keep everything for 7 years, then take it out and have a think, then put it away again for another 7 years. If you haven't found a use for it by then, you can throw it out. He had a huge wooden shed in which he kept all the bits and pieces he had saved (he was a very inventive re/upcycler). Just a few months before he died, there was a gale which flattened his old shed with all its contents. His nephew had to clear it all away when he inherited the property.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who remember………. “censored by the author”

Blood sugars this morning were 6.6 another low number, the medics at the hospital are not going to be ‘appy, at this moment my blood sugars are 5.9 hey ho.
I am unsupervised for most of the day, in days gone by I would team up with my pal Chaos and Mayhem, but as I have written before they locked up in prison. I do miss them.

Mrs J has completed another of her paintings, paint by numbers for adults they are incredibly complicated, I shall attempt to add it to this post.

Have the best day you can.
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Beautiful
 
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