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Type 1'stars R Us

At the 'tender age' of 64 I am being gently (or not so gently) reminded that late nights/early mornings are not conducive to ideal BSL control. I guess it is the upset to my system of late awakenings, combined with exciting viewings of TV series etc, even though I put up the pump's basal readings some 30% for 4 hours or so during the viewing.
The adage: All things in moderation springs to mind. Or Nothing to extremes.
Stability is the purview of the cautious, wise and boring aspects of life.
It is needed but so are adventure, interest, passion and risk.
Bon voyage !!
 
Good morning y'all and happy Yorkshire day

6.2 waking from 7.6 to bed, and a big sigh of relief breathed out highlight of the day so far was reading a post on another thread with predictive text writing about 'porcupine insulin' and me Googling it as I'd not heard of hedgehogs being used before
 
Morning everyone just ‘lazing in bed’ after spending a few days in hospital being treated for a tooth abscess that decided to go a bit wild - looked like I had half a tennis ball in my cheek! I found it quite ironic that, despite having T2D on my board, I was always asked if I wanted sugar in my tea or coffee!
 
Ha! insulin injections can equate to plenty of prickles. maybe that is the connection ??
 

Get well soon Daphne and wishing you a speedy recovery X
 
Jaylee said:
That wasn't a league of gentlemen shirt perchance..?
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Yes it was

So pizza and gym last night, note not at the same time, split dose for pizza all night in the greens

Gets up at a 7.4 works all the carb cobblers out, sticks all the info in the various apps sits down stuffs face, all well with the world.

Gets to work quick check feeling off 17.7 :***:

Guess I forgot to inject my bolus, balus, nova or whatever

Right half litre of Nova and a coffee ~sigh~
 
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@Robinredbreast what a horrendous experience - not what you need when you have been as ill as you have and are still recovering. As a civil servant myself I know that there is a great ability by our lords and masters to devise a ‘one size fits all’ process when, in reality, we all know it doesn't and some of the rules and regs are, quite frankly, idiotic. We have a phrase for it where I work ‘bureaucracy at its best’.
 
Good morning friends Well, it's sick note/fit note day today. Also I will be contacting, or trying to contact my MP about my Job Centre/UC experience and also found a template regarding the horror of claiming Universal Credit and the Job Centre online, so I may have a busy day online, my heckles are up now and my fight is back
 
Go for it!!
 

After yesterday's experience and feeling like a scrounger/liar. a 3rd rate citizen, my fight it back
 
Now at 20.2 and going up on Etch A Sketch and another 5 units gone in :***: now at 22 units.

It might be overkill but I hate being high like this (yes own stupid fault) and would much rather it now crashes.

There you go, any new people looking, even us old timers get things wrong or forget sometimes.
 
Robinredbreast said:
After yesterday's experience and feeling like a scrounger/liar. a 3rd rate citizen, my fight it back
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If your MP doesn’t help then it’s time to get the BBC and Channel 4 involved
 

Sympathy like!
 

Sounds good.

Is your MP a Conservative? that would be good, they really do need the negative feedback on Universal Credit, especially from people like you who have worked most of their lives.

If they are Labour it's useful to do too, but a Conservative one would be even more fun.
 
There is merit in our faultiness!! Who wants to be perfect all the time, where is the challenge in that!! And whoever piloted a less than optimal pancreas without some crashes, air pockets and water skiing along the way ??
 

Yes she is a Tory and is well known too, her initials are M M.
 
Morning all! Just checking in while I burn Ferocious dog CDs for the car... @Jaylee - have you come across them?

@kitedoc - you do get an extensive array of alarm sounds, but sadly no option to choose an Alarm gig, which is a shame. Missed opportunity there... I usually have Siri shouting URGENT! HIGH GLUCOSE!!! at me, which is fun. At 3am. I only run the alarms at night, I can keep an eye on my watch when I’m awake.

@Robinredbreast - good luck with the day’s battles. Trying to work out who MM is now! Mary McCloud?

Went to bed with a 4.9 and a glucose tablet. Stayed in the 5s almost all night, which makes me very happy. Took a unit at half three, and another two at eightish, currently at a 6.7 and slowly falling. Not got a great deal on today, work is very slow (anyone want any silver handwriting jewellery making? ), so I’m going to do some more sewing repair work on my ancestral patchwork quilt that’s falling apart. Always fun to see what effect a complicated job has on my levels...

Omnipod day tomorrow. Slightly bricking it, it’s the biggest change to my healthcare regime in 20 years. I’ve installed Nightscout on the husband’s phone, with an alarm set at 3mmol, so he can keep half an eye on me as I’m alone/driving/working with blowtorches a lot. Just while I get used to it.
 
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