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

7.3 at 06.15 today. 6.15! Didn't get to bed until just after 02.00 but still - that's about 4 hours. Had to get up then though before I stiffened up completely.

Expecting visitors on Friday so must do a small amount of baking today to cover that. No point leaving it until tomorrow - it's a day when I have t go out so there will be little energy left for baking.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who like some continentals dunk their toast into their morning koffy.

Blood sugars this morning were 7.9

Busy day today, working on the first of the children's bench seats .

I wonder how @ianpspurs and @jjraak are?

To all our posters, have you had your telling off from your partners yet? Me, me’s and myself have, two in-fact, yep call me greedy if you want.

Have a great day all, smile, life is beautiful.
 
Good morning all. A sunny start with blue skies and lots of birdsong to lift our spirits. My fbs this morning was 10.0. I discovered a large painful blister under my top lip following yesterday's two dental visits so have attempted to send pictures of it to the practice to ask for advice. Not a pretty sight! The quiz night was OK. Our little group came joint 3rd out of 5 groups so not too bad for 4 oldies. LOL There are 6 sections with different subjects. It was the music section that let us down. We recognised the songs but couldn't identify all of the artists. It is only for fun and a chance to exercise our brain cells. Have the best day you can with my best wishes. :)
 
dogslife said:
Good morning all. A sunny start with blue skies and lots of birdsong to lift our spirits. My fbs this morning was 10.0. I discovered a large painful blister under my top lip following yesterday's two dental visits so have attempted to send pictures of it to the practice to ask for advice. Not a pretty sight! The quiz night was OK. Our little group came joint 3rd out of 5 groups so not too bad for 4 oldies. LOL There are 6 sections with different subjects. It was the music section that let us down. We recognised the songs but couldn't identify all of the artists. It is only for fun and a chance to exercise our brain cells. Have the best day you can with my best wishes. :)
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You may not have come first in the quiz, but your attitude deserves a big win. Hug for the blister. Sounds nasty!
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who like some continentals dunk their toast into their morning koffy.

Blood sugars this morning were 7.9

Busy day today, working on the first of the children's bench seats .

I wonder how @ianpspurs and @jjraak are?

To all our posters, have you had your telling off from your partners yet? Me, me’s and myself have, two in-fact, yep call me greedy if you want.

Have a great day all, smile, life is beautiful.
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No partner to give me a telling off, but a disapproving look from Neil when he saw the state of the small freezer which we are defrosting today. He likes organized. Even if it is a chaotic kind of organized. It's his Asperger's that does that.
 
Morning all. Fbg yesterday was 4.8 according to that element of the results of my blood test. Didn't even need to leave the car. Awake at 5.30 this morning as JKP had to be in Ipswich for 7.30 for an operation to help with her spinal stenosis. #1 son took her as his partner is in the same hospital having been rushed to hospital on Tuesday for an emergency operation for CES :eek: I will be in charge of two dogs, a 96 year old MIL and JKP (after discharge) for the foreseeable: what could possibly go wrong? I don't have a sensor so this may be the last time I post for a while. @alf_Josiah thank you for the kind thoughts yesterday. Peace be with you all.
 
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5.3 at 03.45 today.

Leg day today. Not sure how I woke up sufficiently, but I was in the shower by 07.00. Just breakfast and pills to have and I'm ready to go. Already on my second lot of painkillers and my second cup of coffee.

We have decide to start looking around for a new freezer - one that fits under a counter. When we get it, we will put Neil's under counter fridge on top of it to give us more flexibility in our freezing regime. He reckons that most of the time, his little freezer only holds his boxes full of soya margarine (we have to buy in bulk from the mainland) so he doesn't really need a whole freezer to himself. The "big" freezer in the back porch is the newest of them all. It's a Frigidaire and is not as big as our first tall freezer. That was Scottish made (North Star or something) and had a 16 cub ft capacity. The Frigidaire only has 121/2 cub ft capacity. But it's drawers were all wire baskets with plastic fronts, which, of course, broke fairly rapidly and the baskets freeze into the ice on the shelves. Not the best buy I ever made.

Later we'll look for 2 new under-counter fridges to replace the big one in the back porch. Same reason - more flexibility in temperature control plus its back feet have collapsed and it seems to leak from time to time. Only after that is done will we look to replace the old Bosch fridge freezer in the kitchen.

Trouble is in finding anything, even good names, with anything above an E rating. I have found a couple - a C and a D but they are makes I don't know. There's only one shop in Stornoway that sells electrical goods so there won't be much choice there.
 
Morening one and all

Blood sugars this morning were 5.8

Another busy day at the coal face of life here in Tilehurst Towers and not a good day to sleep through the alarm clock ‍.

My thoughts go out to those who are having testing times, now if nobody minds I, me, me’s and myself have to try and dress properly, finish my morning tea, make koffy, drink it and hope my friends Chaos and Mayhem’s parole board is more successful than the last one.

Stay safe all life is beautiful, smile and if you suffer from flatulence, hope it is silent flatulence ‍
Now I must sign out Mrs J is ………
 
5.3 this morning.

Today's classes were on Zoom as my Norwich venue was a polling station.

It was rather nice not to have to travel to Norwich but I have done much to much sitting at my computer.

My fitbit watch kept reminding me to move.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all. Fbg yesterday was 4.8 according to that element of the results of my blood test. Didn't even need to leave the car. Awake at 5.30 this morning as JKP had to be in Ipswich for 7.30 for an operation to help with her spinal stenosis. #1 son took her as his partner is in the same hospital having been rushed to hospital on Tuesday for an emergency operation for CES :eek: I will be in charge of two dogs, a 96 year old MIL and JKP (after discharge) for the foreseeable: what could possibly go wrong? I don't have a sensor so this may be the last time I post for a while. @alf_Josiah thank you for the kind thoughts yesterday. Peace be with you all.
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Hope all goes well with JKPs recovery and that your son's partner is recovering well from her op for CES.
 
6.4 at 03.45 today.
In the 5's at the moment.
The plumber should be arriving in about an hour and I'm organized ready for him. Makes a change not to be running around like a headless chicken at the last minute.

EDIT: He arrived at 08.30 and is currently installing a new cubicle. The shower itself is fine, as is the base. In 2017, when the Community Care man arrived to take away the shower-wheelchair they had provided for Tom, he managed to knock the shower door off its hinge and broke just a tiny part. We tried for ages to get that part, with no success so we just propped the door into position when needed. It's a nuisance, but it works. However, when the current Community Care man came to see if they could supply any equipment to help me, he noted that the shower door was just propped up. I explained what had happened and he decided that since they broke it, they should fix it. The only fix that can be done, it seems, is a new shower cubicle, so that's what he arranged and that's what the plumber is doing. Seems like an expensive solution to a tiny problem, but, I suppose, nobody repairs things these days, they just chuck them out and replace them. It's not a process I approve of. A waste of resources and of money. Still, I'm grateful for what is being done for me.
 
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6.3 this morning which I'm reasonably happy with, especially as I was seeing 10's a few weeks back.

At the moment anything under 8 is ok, under 7 is nice, and under 6 rare but welcome!
 
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