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

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and those that played truant on the school register.

Blood sugars this morning were 9.1 now they are like a rebellious teenager at 16.3 post lunch, one should say whoops, sorry and get sent to my room, but as with teenagers that’s no punishment.

I had things I hoped to get done today, but as with all plans they will not get done and Mrs J approves.

Now I will wish you all the best and sign out.
 
7.4 yesterday, 7.2 today.
Mrs L has had another manic situation.
It is not good.
I was the target of the verbal and physical abuse, not the first time and probably not the last.
The family, our sons and in laws were quickly around. And helped.
This afternoon Mrs L is visiting her middle son. Just as a way to help me have a bit of me time.
I'm tifed, I don't believe I have been anything but this year!
Sorry about the news, but, I feel I up to put it in writing.
I think I will be making a few phone calls tomorrow.
 
5.5 yesterday. 5.8 today.

Yesterday I decided to change our email passwords on 3 email accounts as I hadn't changed them for 6 years and I thought it was good idea for security reasons.

It wouldn't take more than half an hour - would it. Oh yes it would. Much longer.

I am very pleased I did it. Much stronger passwords.
 
Lamont D said:
7.4 yesterday, 7.2 today.
Mrs L has had another manic situation.
It is not good.
I was the target of the verbal and physical abuse, not the first time and probably not the last.
The family, our sons and in laws were quickly around. And helped.
This afternoon Mrs L is visiting her middle son. Just as a way to help me have a bit of me time.
I'm tifed, I don't believe I have been anything but this year!
Sorry about the news, but, I feel I up to put it in writing.
I think I will be making a few phone calls tomorrow.
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Difficult situation there but thank you for the birthday wishes, I have passed that on.
 
It's 06.00. BG is 8.9. I did go to bed about 01.30, having sat too long working on my writing project so I had worked through being tired to that point beyond where you can't get to sleep at all. Gave up about 03.00 when my joints let me know they weren't going along with the attempt to doze off. Took painkillers and sat in the chair with TV on hoping it would lull me to sleep. But it hasn't worked. I'll probably fall asleep when I want to be awake now. Ah well, I did get a fair bit of my writing done, so all is not lost.
 
Good morning everyone on an up with whatever passes for larks at this time of year - bats maybe?
5.9 this early doors, didn’t light my fire. Mr Liver probably now fly tipping derivatives of glucose.
Two Thirty - in search of the lost filling - must phone the painless Pole this morning and make an appointment for some professional torture. Yes, there is Fuji 9 but let’s not go there.
Hope your day manages at least a smile. I shall sit here for a moment wondering why my diastolic crawled in at 51 this morning - legs like jelly. That’s another phone call later - must sort out some koffy.
 
Annb said:
It's 06.00. BG is 8.9. I did go to bed about 01.30, having sat too long working on my writing project so I had worked through being tired to that point beyond where you can't get to sleep at all. Gave up about 03.00 when my joints let me know they weren't going along with the attempt to doze off. Took painkillers and sat in the chair with TV on hoping it would lull me to sleep. But it hasn't worked. I'll probably fall asleep when I want to be awake now. Ah well, I did get a fair bit of my writing done, so all is not lost.
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Been up and down since 0300hrs - was it you?
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on an up with whatever passes for larks at this time of year - bats maybe?
5.9 this early doors, didn’t light my fire. Mr Liver probably now fly tipping derivatives of glucose.
Two Thirty - in search of the lost filling - must phone the painless Pole this morning and make an appointment for some professional torture. Yes, there is Fuji 9 but let’s not go there.
Hope your day manages at least a smile. I shall sit here for a moment wondering why my diastolic crawled in at 51 this morning - legs like jelly. That’s another phone call later - must sort out some koffy
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So. Down to the GP surgery after 10 minutes of, “you are eleventh in the queue” and new instructions issued:
Ditch the Amlodipine. Keep taking the Losartan but take at night rather than in the morning. Follow up booked for 4 weeks time.
Visit to Orin Scrivello for some builders caulk in my teeth on Thursday.
Oh happy day!
 
Phone call from GP receptionist. Blood test results back and the only thing commented on was signs of anaemia (no, spellcheck, I refuse to spell it anemia) so iron pills are being prescribed. Why don't they ever remember that iron pills never agree with me? Once again I will try taking them and see what happens.

Still didn't sleep so I should make up for it tonight.

BG has hung around the 7's and 8's all day.
 
I would like to reply to most of the posts but I will have to try and get it in one short post.
I have just sat down to write this.
I have every sympathy with those in pain, whether in hands, mouth of just general areas of pain management. And there are many when you add anxiety and not knowing why it does.
Sorry, no FBG, but haven't eaten today, so I expect it to be in the 7s as it has been the last week or so, ish.
Been on the phone for the majority of the working day, since 8.30am.
Docs, pharmacy, docs again, mental health practitioner, carers, carers again, doc arrived, pharmacy twice, docs, and finally around 4.30 the mental health practitioner. Looking after Mrs L who has calmed quite a bit, but is still a bit confused. More drugs again, different antibiotics, arriving at 5.30.
And some important communication with all these above and also trying to keep family involved.
Day is not over, quick supper, and after the carer, bed I hope.
I'm really tired.
No shopping, not been out the door, no weather report, no washing, just bare essentials.
Gotta go
Best wishes.
 
No FBG for me either, but I couldn’t read your post & run @Lamont D, I hope that you soon get some peace & the help you & your lovely wife deserve. I know myself being a full timer carer, often on my own. I have to take care of myself first. I learned this the hard way. So please try to be good to yourself too. You need to eat & breathe. It was likened to me, if you don’t put your own oxygen mask on first then you can’t help the person next to you.

Rest & eat when your wife is resting or her carers are here, that’s what they’re for. To give you a break from the caring, everything else will wait for another day.

Take care of yourself :)

Editing to add
I’m sure you will have but have you had a carers assessment yourself? I found it very helpful & my local carers association had volunteer sitters etc. it is a good resource for carers

www.nhs.uk

Carer's assessments - Social care and support guide

See if you can get support from your council, such as extra money or a break from caring.
www.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk

www.carersuk.org

Carers UK homepage

We’re here for unpaid carers with expert information, advice and support and also campaign to make life better for carers.
www.carersuk.org www.carersuk.org
 
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Lamont D said:
I would like to reply to most of the posts but I will have to try and get it in one short post.
I have just sat down to write this.
I have every sympathy with those in pain, whether in hands, mouth of just general areas of pain management. And there are many when you add anxiety and not knowing why it does.
Sorry, no FBG, but haven't eaten today, so I expect it to be in the 7s as it has been the last week or so, ish.
Been on the phone for the majority of the working day, since 8.30am.
Docs, pharmacy, docs again, mental health practitioner, carers, carers again, doc arrived, pharmacy twice, docs, and finally around 4.30 the mental health practitioner. Looking after Mrs L who has calmed quite a bit, but is still a bit confused. More drugs again, different antibiotics, arriving at 5.30.
And some important communication with all these above and also trying to keep family involved.
Day is not over, quick supper, and after the carer, bed I hope.
I'm really tired.
No shopping, not been out the door, no weather report, no washing, just bare essentials.
Gotta go
Best wishes.
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Fbg 5.5

I just wanted to second what @lovinglife has said. I’ve been there as well. At the time I insisted I was fine and coping. With hindsight now I wasn’t.

Please get the support you need and post here whenever you need to.
 
Lamont D said:
I would like to reply to most of the posts but I will have to try and get it in one short post.
I have just sat down to write this.
I have every sympathy with those in pain, whether in hands, mouth of just general areas of pain management. And there are many when you add anxiety and not knowing why it does.
Sorry, no FBG, but haven't eaten today, so I expect it to be in the 7s as it has been the last week or so, ish.
Been on the phone for the majority of the working day, since 8.30am.
Docs, pharmacy, docs again, mental health practitioner, carers, carers again, doc arrived, pharmacy twice, docs, and finally around 4.30 the mental health practitioner. Looking after Mrs L who has calmed quite a bit, but is still a bit confused. More drugs again, different antibiotics, arriving at 5.30.
And some important communication with all these above and also trying to keep family involved.
Day is not over, quick supper, and after the carer, bed I hope.
I'm really tired.
No shopping, not been out the door, no weather report, no washing, just bare essentials.
Gotta go
Best wishes.
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We all sympathise and want to know how things are going for you and for your dear wife but don't feel that you have to take time for us. Any time you have spare is for YOU. Of course, if like me you find that this forum is a good sounding box to help relieve frustrations and address concerns, do keep using us for that.

When you can, whatever else is happening, do take time to rest, to eat, to relax as much as you can. Others are there to give you some relief at least some of the time, so try to take advantage of that time for your own needs. Your own needs are not the same thing as household chores, many of which can be left for another day (perhaps when someone else from the family might be able to help to do them). A body, however strong and fit, can only take so much and the very best thing you can do for Mrs L at the moment is to make sure that you are not a casualty of her condition as well.

Both you and Mrs L are in my thoughts and prayers all the time. I don't know if that means much to you, but from this distance it is the only thing I can do.
 
Lamont D said:
7.4 yesterday, 7.2 today.
Mrs L has had another manic situation.
It is not good.
I was the target of the verbal and physical abuse, not the first time and probably not the last.
The family, our sons and in laws were quickly around. And helped.
This afternoon Mrs L is visiting her middle son. Just as a way to help me have a bit of me time.
I'm tifed, I don't believe I have been anything but this year!
Sorry about the news, but, I feel I up to put it in writing.
I think I will be making a few phone calls tomorrow.
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Aw mate...that's just SO hard on you.
You know you have my sympathies AND respect .

I absolutely agree with the many posts suggesting more help for you.

(And where else can you let out that pressure cooker you're living in, without causing those close to you, to face a reality, they are not yet ready for

So DO please, when you can or need to , let this be your relief valve
The place you say the things others may not need to hear from you)

It's all good advice, but of course it's understandable how so much self care, goes out of the window when one is caught up in the whirlwind that 'miss rememberitis' as you called it, brings to one and all in the home.

My story you know, but just to remind you, my mum did similar to my dad

At first I took it as slightly exaggerated, because when I dashed over (early hours)
Mum was much calmer..

It was only the time I arrived, and she was still in full flight, did I get the enormous pressure dad must have been under.


My lovely sweet old mum, was venous In her anger at the delusions that was driving her

I couldn't believe my eyes or ears

The spitting anger, the gnashing of teeth, the contorted face, the words I never expected my mum to ever have in her vocabulary let alone pass her lips.

I mean no disrespect, but it really was an : exorcist ' moment .

It was then, I knew we couldn't care for mum alone.

The point I'm making so badly is:
NONE of what Mrs L says is about you.

It's a version she's fermented that is eating away at the reality around her, that the rest of us see.

The anger isn't caused by anything you've done or said

It's sadly just another symptom of Mrs L illness.

I couldn't say I understood any of it fully, but it did break my heart, knowing just how confused my mum's mind must have been, to see her turn with such intense anger & hurling abuse that had no right coming from her mouth.

And horrified the victim, was the one who loved her the most and was killing himself trying to care for her.

I'd truly love to offer some morsal of comfort, but I can't in all honesty.


Best wishes &
Kindest regards
James & Lauren.
 
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7.9 at 04.30 today.

I have been having difficulty knowing what the time is when I wake up in the night. I'd replaced my old bedside clock with a small digital one. It was so small, it kept getting pushed aside and knocked onto the floor (under the bed). Added to that, despite being backlit, the figures were so small that I couldn't see anything of the time with my middle-of-the-night non-working eyes. So I bought another clock - digital again and backlit. Much bigger and brighter. Neil fixed it on the wall above my bedroom door yesterday but it didn't stay lit! Then we discovered, it only lights up when you make a noise. Very clever. Not what I intended, but clever. I have to make a sharp, pretty loud noise to wake it up. It works though and when I clapped at it during the night, I could actually make out what the time was.
 
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