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Scrambled eggs on RyVita for breakfast. Coffee. 2nd meal will be the rest of the lamb shoulder (it was only a little piece) made into a tagine - dumped the original veg and have added some onion and some tomato - just realised that I forgot the fruity element but never mind. It's in the oven...

10.1 at 05.00 today. When I went to "bed"(Chair) at 02.10, it was 10.7. That was because I had a couple of Jacob's crackers quite late on in the evening. Em's brother will be visiting today - don't see him very often. He is into those kind of fancy dress events where people try to look like...

I've warned them about that but they have assured me that it will be OK. We'll see about that.

I just sorted through the DVDs and have kept only a handful of them. The rest will go to the charity shop. No time to actually watch anything at present. I have 3 books on the go atm and should finish them before I look at any DVDs - a Bob Mortimore one, a David Mitchell one and a much...

BG was 7.9 at 05.00 today. That wasn't my getting up figure - I slept in the chair, as for all this week and woke at 05.00, check BG, got a cup of coffee and fell asleep again. Woke again at 07.00. BG still at 7.9, but very quickly rose to 8.2 (Libre told me so). Took painkillers at that...

Woke later than usual but just couldn't shake off the grogginess - no surprise after a week of less than even my normal 3-4 hour nights and no possibility of laying down at all. BG in the 7's despite walnuts, so - jury still out after all. May just be related to the lack of sleep. Breakfast...

Ah. Good point. They are slow release ones, so the effect would be rather spoiled if I do chop them in half. I'll try to find out if they are available in a smaller dose. Meantime, I might take one every second day and see if that helps. That was about an hour ago, and I forgot to click on...

Legs bandaged up again - that's me for another week. 9.5 today at 05.20. I sat in the big chair from about 24.30 and woke again at 02.40 but I didn't bother getting a BG reading at that stage. At 05.20 I needed to take some painkillers so checked it at that point. Either Libre didn't warn me...

Dairylea cheese on RyVita for breakfast. Running late as usual on a Thursday. BG high and staying there, despite insulin enough to normally cover the RyVita. Stopping Metformin has eased the bowel symptoms somewhat but it is making the BGs harder to control. I have 400mg Metformin tablets at...

Even bigger hug than last time: How is the wait to see a suitable doctor to be managed? Is it going to be lots of painkillers and rest or the same but with exercise?

Just back from an appointment with the optician - ordered new reading glasses which will come in about a week. BG had gone up to 9.6 before we went out but those 4 pecans seem to have worked. After a few minutes, BG started to drop and was below 7 for the first time in a week or more. Got...

Breakfast: yoghurt with raspberries. Coffee. BG still higher than I would like - in the 8's. Just had 4 pecan nuts to see if they help in the same way as walnuts. Things went a bit out of kilter yesterday. Neil brought several boxes of videos through for me to sort through. I had told him...

I tried to sleep in my bed last night - and failed. Far too painful. So it was another night in the big chair in the kitchen. BG was 8.2 when I tested it (Libre insisted) about 03.00. Eye test today. I might need new reading glasses, although my vision seems to come and go (something to do...

Good that surgery isn't needed after all. Let's hope that exercise (+ morphine when needed) will do the job.

My moussaka is based on the real thing, but kind of differs from what a Greek person would recognise. Many moussaka recipes don't use potato but the one I used to use was recommended by a Greek priest and it did have a layer of potatoes. However, potatoes are now out and I don't actually like...