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Thanks that's really good to know @helensaramay My fitngers are getting quite bruised with all the extra testing
 
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Morning my pancreatically challenged chums, hope you all had a good night

Last night for about 30 minutes we had torrential rain, it was really bouncing off the roads. The roads themselves were flooded quite badly before quickly draining away

Usual Saturday night for me, Chicken Bhunna and a smallish piece of nan bread and 4 pieces of pakora. Bloods great between 6pm and bed at 11.30 with a final BG of 6.1 going to bed. I had dual bolused on pump at 6 pm for 5 hours so that should be OK. Once again a big fat NO. Woke up at 5.15 to a BG that had risen constantly and and settled at 13.6. Bunged in 5 units and woke at 9am to BG of 6.2.

I know its only 1 day a week but I need to get a handle on the rising BG when I have an Indian
 
@helensaramay that's fine for the reminder. Funnily enough, when first diagnosed I was told not to use my thumb or the finger next to it, don't know why, possibly something to do with doing buttons up with.
So I've only been using 6 digits, heavy work load.
 
In other news....

Planing a "naked" lamb burger & salad tonight & a quiet night in listening to euro metal..

Just found this well produced gem.. A sort of "I will survive" for the head bangers out there..

Enjoy!


I love Archenemy! I saw them at Wembley Arena a couple of years ago and they were brilliant She really does sing like that - it's not dubbed or anything.
 
I think I spent the whole night in the 4's. It's not something I aim for, as a bit too close to hypo territory for comfort but I still love it when it happens . Finger prick said 4.9 upon waking, Libre said 3.9 with an almost perfectly straight line between 3.1 and 3.9 (all in annoying red of course) so I suppose I've been hovering between 4 and 5.
Wish I knew how I pulled that trick off though. If I knew I would repeat it every night but just the slightest bit higher

The walk yesterday morning may have helped but I don't think it's very likely as it hasn't happened before on days with about the same intensity of exercise. Had a late and quite carby dinner and I was kind of annoyed with myself for eating so late that my after dinner numbers had only about settled when I went to sleep, so food isn't a likely cause of the flat line either.

Back to the color of my underwear I guess (haven't worn socks for weeks so we can rule that out).
I'm afraid I'll never be sure, but I'll scan my sensor a bit more often than usual today, only to admire that pretty line on the screen again
 
Oh, and good morning everyone! I have to make seitan bacon today, which is worth it just for the fact I like to have it with my weekday brekkies. Other than that, my lappie reports that it's very sorry but it could do with a little more storage space please, so I think I'll have to do some shuffling onto backups. I'd love a bigger solid state drive in there but I'll need to buy one first, so that husband can instal it for me.
 


If it's not your socks it's your knickers, stands to reason!
 
I tend to pick which finger (side of pad, not pad itself) according to how much of a bleeder I know it is there. Ring fingers bleed like the clappers, gushing fountains of the stuff - very useful on freezing days when most fingers are looking at me and laughing. If I'm warm in bed then it's baby fingers, 'cos they don't bleed all that freely. The rest are in betweenies, and get used more or less at random.
 

I'm starting the DAFNE course this week, (well the general fist course meeting is this week,) so I'll let you know. I've bought some kinesiology tape that was recommended here so it's waterproof enough to swim with. It's bright pink.
 
Bacon pressing nicely; in about half an hour it can go in the oven. I make some flavoured one way and natural white colour, and another batch flavoured differently and very pink/red (smoky paprika, tomato paste, liquid smoke & soy sauce). Then roll out in pieces and layer the pieces so I get pink/white/pink. Oddly the white bits are oilier than the pink. I end up with stripy seitan bacon!
 
@ert I tried using kinesiology tape for swimming but abandoned it as I couldn't find a way to wrap it round my own arm and keep it on. If you've got someone to help, should be fine. I abandoned it as I already use transparent plaster (originally Tegaderm, now Hydrofilm - I get mine from the diabetes nurse at my GP's surgery so I take whatever they're allowed to give out. I know some people on here don't have helpful surgeries and buy Tegaderm from a pharmacy). That on its own worked fine for me; getrs a bit tatty after a week or so and then I trim it and bung another one on top. I guess it may also depend on how long you stay in the water; usually about half an hour for me.
 
Sorry to hear that.. You have my commiserations.

Is it more a scratch, or have the panel/s been creased?
Luckily just a scratch.
Lady in the next road over may have solved the mystery for me. Just chatting and she mentioned our road being blocked off last week to a removal van that was “struggling to get into a space.”
 
I love Archenemy! I saw them at Wembley Arena a couple of years ago and they were brilliant She really does sing like that - it's not dubbed or anything.

Certainly one of the most coherent vocalists of that genre..
 
Oh, I've just cut a small rectangle and placed it over the sensor. It said on for two weeks in just baths.
 
Hello friends, I feel like death from a few hours sleep. But diabetes not too bad - 7.1. I am quite hungry so @Wutwo’s stripy seitan sounds good. I’ll go find the biggest bowl
I was going through photos from summer last year and I looked different - cleaner skin, longer hair & makeup was on point too. I have an eyeshadow palette called blood sugar so I packed it on my eyes so much. I guess not the natural day look
 
Brilliant, thank you so much. I'll give it a go because although I know I need to vary the fingers, i forget what the last one I used was
 
Luckily just a scratch.
Lady in the next road over may have solved the mystery for me. Just chatting and she mentioned our road being blocked off last week to a removal van that was “struggling to get into a space.”

You seem to be doing the detective work.
But it's going to be hard work getting the company the vehicle was registered to, to accept responsibility...
 
Luckily just a scratch.
Lady in the next road over may have solved the mystery for me. Just chatting and she mentioned our road being blocked off last week to a removal van that was “struggling to get into a space.”

All you have to do now is find out who remembers which company the van was from. They'll have logs of which vehicle went where when, so that could be very helpful!
 
All you have to do now is find out who remembers which company the van was from. They'll have logs of which vehicle went where when, so that could be very helpful!

Alas, @WuTwo . I feel the leverage of a reliable eye witness will be needed the company may not give that information freely?

Many years ago, I was sat stationary in a line of queuing traffic. A lorry coming the other way & turning left hit me with the tailgate as he swung round, then drove on.. I jumped out, chased the lorry on foot & caught up with the guy at some lights..
I scared the guy as I yanked the door to his cab open..

Now, I got his full name, description, reg & company name.. That was all the leverage I needed. But they still initially tried it on, saying the driver had not reported an accident..
Lol, they knew I hadn't pulled his details out of thin air... They paid up eventually after I got my insurance to deal with them.
 
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