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

jjraak

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Freudian slip there dunelm, you mean a corvid?
I thought it might be of the genus Turdus spp but the ink blob threw me. :)
D.
Well if we are talking mythical birds..

I believe you both are confused,
A common mistake and
It's not a dodo....its a Harding ( less known of the Dido family.

Last spotted 6 months ago...believe experts thinks it's extinct, though searches are going on in the Cayman Islands and Panama.
Where many such creatures are still spotted.

Hth :bag:
 

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Hi Folks
Missed the walk as my new Windows tablet was delivered at lunchtime. Yes it doesn't have the ease of Android apps, but I need it for some ""Windows only" downloads. First order of business now is to download a spare Norton security package. Just finished the updates and set-up.
BG at 6.6 mmo/lt 2 hours after a Greek salad lunch. Still doing research on how to suppress FBG. I've always been a morning person. Loved a job where I started work at 6.00 a.m. Those were the days!
 
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Well I've just given myself a kick up the backside tested my blood sugar at 1.30 after a whole shed load of carbs and it came in at 13.8 ! I took myself off for a 5 mile walk and 2 hrs later got my BG down to 5.9
 

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good evening all :)

4.9 today

we were supposed to get a smart meter fitted today but when we got our phone call before the engineer arrived we had to fill in a questionaire and because we're over a certain age ;) and there are a high level of cases locally the engineer called it off. He would have attended at our own risk if we had insisted but we didn't :angelic:
He explained that we would have to rebook when things have settled down and then I commented that covid must be making his life a bit odd, he told me that ours was the second cancelled appointment today, the first was to have been to a couple who had both tested positive and were in quarantine :(

We used the time to do a bit of a job on mum's gate that needed repair so that's a win.

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - I love today's Popeye, he looks so diligent :joyful: glad no 'meeces' currently and I
hope things went well today :)

@dunelm - is that the gold flecked yellow paper they have on their website? Looks lovely, as does your tree, good bark texture :)

@Muddy Cyclist - Happy birthday to mrs MC :joyful: and I hope things went smoothly for you today :)

art bit -
trying out a touch of a couple of new colours I got in the latest batch.

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Freudian slip there dunelm, you mean a corvid?
I thought it might be of the genus Turdus spp but the ink blob threw me. :)
D.
Well if we are talking mythical birds..

I believe you both are confused,
A common mistake and
It's not a dodo....its a Harding ( less known of the Dido family.

Last spotted 6 months ago...believe experts thinks it's extinct, though searches are going on in the Cayman Islands and Panama.
Where many such creatures are still spotted.

Hth :bag:
I heard from the experts it's almost impossible for experienced trackers to trace! ;)
D.
 
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Krystyna23040

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Busy day - classes went really well.

Got a letter from NHS inviting me to take part in an antibody testing research study. They will send me a testing kit. Will sign up to it tomorrow.
 

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Good Morning and 5.4 for me today.

Today is Mrs MCs birthday and the weather is looking fine. Under normal circumstances we would be off visiting some place, NT property or Winter Gardens and have a meal out, this year a Walk and Picnic is our only option.

First though I have an opticians appointment. Was not sure it was a good idea but it is due and since my Health Centre have not examined me with my Diabetes since June 2019 and not likely to this year with the way Covid is running I though getting my eyes checked is expedient, I keep questioning should, shouldn't I, even with all the Covid precautions they proclaim to have in place.

Keep safe, fill your day, time ticks on.
Happy Birthday to the other half!

@Muddy Cyclist I felt like that with my opticians last September. The diabetic retinopathy tests have been cancelled in Wales, So I debated with myself like you are. But since I'd had that laser treatment for eye pressure at the eye hospital, and my important return visit to the hospital got cancelled because of Covid last March, that when I got the optician's appointment September and he offered an extra check up procedure scan for a tenner (which I took him up on, but that £10 got refunded against my new pair of glasses), I went. But I was worried and deliberated hard about the optician's appointment in September, however I went because of the cancelled important hospital check up at that time. And he did lay my mind at rest. Because I was worrying about my eyes.

So, in my case I was glad I went to that optician's appointment in September because I wasn't constantly worried about my eyes.

It is not for me to say, because Covid puts lots of worries in our minds, but if it was me I would go.

Take care
 
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gennepher

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Good morning everyone from a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of “who finished off the chicken” came in at 5.2 this am

Art this morning on a sparkly piece of yellow rice paper about 9x4 inches. Hope everyone has a spiffingly good pre-bin day. Slurping koffy and then a couple of laps round the park

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I love your painting and the paper!
I look forward to seeing them each morning @dunelm
 
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@gennepher - I love today's Popeye, he looks so diligent :joyful: glad no 'meeces' currently and I
hope things went well today :)

art bit -
trying out a touch of a couple of new colours I got in the latest batch.

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Thank you very much @geefull

Wow, I am really loving your painting today.
And loads of depth to it. Brilliant!
 
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Morning all...
Swipey says 4.8 ➡️ and... seemed to work throughout the night despite the fact I am sure I was sleeping on the side of sticky pain. Ho hum. Thinking of having a swipey once a month only to save money and see what's what for two weeks in every month. As I manage with a combination of low carb and meds and I think I have been relatively stable since the run up to my last bloods and..not gonna lie to y'all - you know money is squeezy-tight for freelancers - I think it is the most prudent thing to do just now.

Also I could do with giving my arms a couple of weeks to heel up thanks to the miracle properties of Betnovate and BioOil.

So I will just admire pics and blether some randomness as the next two and a half weeks are going to be spent trying to knock my professional journalism portfolio into shape.
I have a ton of radio clips to sort out... and that can become very over-whelming in terms of feeling that I haven't achieved anything in a day so my plan is to do one bit of written stuff for the portfolio (I have four tournaments from the LTA and the two pieces of work commissioned for British Rowing) and then spend the rest of the day working through the clips. Once I have updated the written stuff, then I am returning to my Linguaphone French, then German (as refreshers) and then teaching myself Spanish.

There will be occasional stuff for Britwatch as well - footy guy will still be writing and then will start the ramp up for the Australian Open.

Sounds like a plan. Now... if any of you fine folk can cure me of crippling arthritic pain in my right hand, I'd be very grateful!
 
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Heard some medics very properly having second Pfizer jabs.

Since one dose does not reach the more than barely acceptable level of protection of only c.50% for a vaccine, it seems very proper.
I hear many medics having second jabs have felt quite unwell so probably a delay for the elderly is appropriate.

I see one of the foreign vaccines is being said to be barely acceptable at c.50% effectiveness so its interesting double standard to Pfizers instructions.

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Good Morning and 5.8 for me today.

I am so behind on posts so will spend some time today's catching up. I did not look at the forum yesterday, it was Mrs MCs birthday we spent time looking back through photo albums, oldletters and cards a sort of day of reminiscing.

My opticians appointment went well and the scan of my eyes shows that no change since my last scan 2 years back. My cataracts have got worse though but not bad enough to remove. Whilst there I asked about a hearing test, which they did straight after, hearing so down I need Hearing aids, so choices spend a lot of money for one or take the NHS route?

Wet here so day indoors and re look at the Eulogy I have done for my friends funeral. His younger brother phoned me yesterday and also emailed me some letters that my friend wrote whilst travelling when he was 20 so more information to think about and possible include.

Keep safe and use the day as you wish.
 
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gennepher

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No stressful appointments for a bit, and appear to be winning that mice battle. So maybe I should be able to get back on track within a few days. Goal is to get back to the 6's

Yesterday. My eye hospital appointment.

i hadn't let on the last few days how much I didn't want to go. I was stressed over everything possible about it. The distance. The nighttime driving coming home. Crossing the border from Wales into England. Checking the rules about attending hospital appointments on the Welsh government site. Checking the eye hospital's site about whether to attend or not, since my appointment was sent out just before all these upgrade lockdowns. The eye hospital site said if you have an appointment with us, then attend it, do not cancel. Having every negative thought under the sun. Fighting all this mental stuff and more.

And then on Sunday when my Australian daughter Skyped, I talked/ranted/went on non stop for a full hour and a half that I wasn't going, I didn't want to go, that the hospital had a bad rating on one site for Covid, etc etc etc...

My poor daughter fell asleep with me ranting I wasn't going to go with every argument I had at my disposal. She had not been able to get a word in edgeways.

I turned off the Skype call...

So, I knew at this point on Sunday I was going to have to change my attitude if I had any chance attending that eye hospital appointment on Tuesday. And I was still hoping we would get a bad snowfall so I was unable to attend.

It wasn't easy. This kind of thinking couldn't continue. It certainly wasn't healthy for me. With every negative thought or argument with myself I had to put a positive thought in its place. So I was doing 2 days of this continuously.

Come Tuesday morning, a beautiful sunny day. That bad weather snowfall I was hoping for let me down...

So I did all my precautions, got everything together. And got on the motorway. My early morning driving practice last week had stood me in good stead. I was confident with my driving (I have done virtually no distance driving in this new car since lockdown in March). Well. Not so much as confident, I don't think that is the right word, but I went back to my usual automatic mode that we all have after a lifetime of driving.

I was shocked at the amount of traffic on the motorways. Lorries and wagons moving goods, well yes, but all these private cars like mine?

Got to Liverpool, the tunnel was fine. I had been worried I might get turned back or questioned because I use my FastTag to get through the tunnel, and that obviously shows to the computer that I live in Wales.

Got into LIverpool and the vicinity of the hospital. No parking for me, so I had to go in search of a parking space. Again I am totally shocked at the amount of buses they have (practically all our buses, in Wales, have been cancelled), yet there was bus after bus after bus going past me. I am literally opening my eyes in wonder. So many people, some wearing masks, many not, some socially distancing, some blatantly not. So I had to wear my face/mask protection in the street on the way to the hospital. I hadn't wanted to do that so early because I knew I was going to struggle to keep my mask on in the hospital for the length of time I was going to need it on (my asthma, but I still wear a mask for my protection, and I took several spare ones, so I could put a fresh one one when needed, and sanitising face wipes to clean my face and hands between each change of mask).

There was a nurse at the eye hospital entrance and she took my name. Oh by the way I had made a sign with my deafness etc and some more details on the back, to make it easier for all. I had done it in a rushed 5 minutes before I had set off. This will be my art contribution for today with my name blacked out, I can see how maybe to improve it a bit better, but it worked fantastically in the hospital. I had it on display in front of me at all times between the different people I saw, and different name calls which I have no chance hearing anyway, but in these mask wearing times I might as well be blind and deaf for knowing what is spoken and asked of around me.

To cut a very long appointment short in terms of words, and I would love to describe the positivity (and hilarity, there were senses of humour too) of this visit at St Paul's eye hospital (but I would take up an entire day's thread if I did). So I will say this.The whole eye appointment was kind nurses who all had the time for you (they didn't before Covid, it was all rushed and mad and no one explained properly and I was left bewildered with the pre Covid appointments). Sometimes I had two nurses in attendance because of my deafness with them trying to explain. But everyone explained carefully every test and step of the way. They were doing this with all patients. Not just me, because usually eye patients have careers for helpers and that wasn't allowed in these Covid times. The specialist was brilliant too. I cannot talk highly enough of the care and consideration at St Paul's Eye Hospital. I would actually go as far as to say, that for me a s a deaf person, that this was the best visit ever at St Paul's Eye Hospital in all the 20 years plus I have been attending there.

Driving home in the Liverpool rush hour traffic in the dark and headlights and motorways was a doddle. I feel okay about driving again.

My eyes. I do have some problems and the specialist prescribed some new stuff. I see them again in 6 months time. But will I these Covid times?

I would like to say this. You need to attend your hospital and specialist appointments despite the fear mongering on the news etc. Project fear takes over with these continued enforced lockdowns. Especially with those of us who live on our own and have no contact with others. I need my car to get about with being mobility impaired, and I need my eyes in a condition that enables me to drive.

It was a very good and positive day yesterday. I have blacked out my name, obviously, and I will redesign it a little, but it was simple and immediately effective. My piece of graphic design for today!!!

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