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Type 1'stars R Us

helensaramay said:
As I sit in my attic office listening to the rain pound on the roof, I am grateful my commute to work is just 14 stairs.
That way I can avoid getting drenched by the rain (my road has more water flowing along it than some streams) and I don't have to wait for my BG to rise before I can leave the house. I woke with the alarm at 3.3. After a couple of GlucoTabs and 30 minutes unplugged, I had risen to 4.4.
I don't know why. Maybe it was the excitement of hearing the rain or I'd spent the night running a marathon in my dreams or I'd been sleep bolusing. Or maybe it just was.
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Weather change can do it!
 
Tonto, my Tandem pump is performing well. It beeps to remind me to make sure i did give my insulin bolus before breakfast (have you ever become engrossed in something, had breakfast and only later as the BSLs rise you realise you forgot the before meal short-acting insulin)?
It also reminds me to test 2 hours after I have changed over my insulin cartridge, and 2 hours after a bolus for a BSL greater than 10 mmol/l.
Being run by a rechargeable battery I can just plug Tonto into a power point whilst I have a shower and it tops up the battery. Being one of the newer lithium batteries you do not need to have it run low before recharging.
I carry a small power pack in my going out kit which will charge both insulin pump and /or mobile phone if need be.
Now if I was really going to overplan my going out kit it would be waterproof, bouyant, carry a torch, waterproof matches, a small, foldable solar panel .......... and rugged enough to withstand the attentions of Australian parrots, crocodiles, bull ants, being run over by a semi-trailer and surviving the Aussie surf. etc. Sounds like a challenge for the Aussie army.
 
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kitedoc said:
Hi @smc4761, ? any exercise late afternoon or early evening?, are the nighttime and morning levemir doses too high? just some thoughts and the zany effects of season change and weather?
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Hi Kitedoc, now you are just being silly, me and exercise, absolutley not. Think the most exercise I get is walking upstairs to toilet

Morning and Levemir doss have been pretty much the same for months maybe a slight drop down in dosage

Got a bit of sore throat and coming to end of a cold, but BG had been highish all day and night, around 8--10. Think I just need t put it down to wearing black boxer shorts that day :)
 
becca59 said:
@Tony337 Mega cute reindeer! What is amazing is that each one has a different personality.
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I have learned over the years that to just shift the eyes and nose together then move the angle of the head combined with an extra half inch on the leg and you have a completely different animal!
Its all part of the fun.
A friend of a friend came to my house last year and bought 3!
She said it was a family of mum dad and child.......well of course I hadn't made or seen them like that!

Thank you

Tony
 
Morning fellow disciples at the glorious temple of 'My Pancreas Just Can't Be Ar*ed'

Out last night with the gang, great night but totally misjudged the carbs :rolleyes: so shoved some more insulin in last thing, which glad I did, woke up to a 14.8 :***::confused: ~sigh~

Never mind.

So 20 units of Aspidistra then another 3 after breakfast, and now sat here at 7.5 and level, which is a surprise was expecting a downward trend, but no. Best keep an eye on it :shifty:

@karen8967 That shot of the poppies was it in the Anglian Cathedral or a more local one? Still fab.

@Tony337 Cracking job on those reindeer.
 
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Tony337 said:
I have learned over the years that to just shift the eyes and nose together then move the angle of the head combined with an extra half inch on the leg and you have a completely different animal!
Its all part of the fun.
A friend of a friend came to my house last year and bought 3!
She said it was a family of mum dad and child.......well of course I hadn't made or seen them like that!

Thank you

Tony
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The photos are really lovely, Tony, they are so cute.

It's really nice to see the talents of people here, maybe we can get a photo of @SueJB tulips when they are flowering, and other things people are doing, it's always nice.
 
smc4761 said:
Hi Kitedoc, now you are just being silly, me and exercise, absolutley not. Think the most exercise I get is walking upstairs to toilet

Morning and Levemir doss have been pretty much the same for months maybe a slight drop down in dosage

Got a bit of sore throat and coming to end of a cold, but BG had been highish all day and night, around 8--10. Think I just need t put it down to wearing black boxer shorts that day :)
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Hi @smc4761, It must be the black boxers. So wearing black bowers = lower insulin doses that day. If only life was that easy!!
May you recover soon !!
 
@Knikki I too Mels cat upped last nights bolus, partly because the novorapid cartridge didn't have enough left in it, so did that bit, didn't want dinner getting cold, then did the rest 'a bit later' - and miscounted the carbs then went out - before bed wasn't a pretty number put it that way, however 7.1 this morning :happy:
 
Morning friends. Nice smooth night around 5 which was something of a relief after the Alp on my graph following the pod coming away yesterday afternoon. Didn’t get much sleep though, too many wasps in my brain buzzing around. Had a lovely meal of fish pie with roasted vegetables and a really good Rioja with my husband and son - it was the twentieth anniversary of my mum’s sudden passing away and we wanted to mark it. Just to avoid any confusion, this was my adoptive mum I’m talking about here - my birth mum is also a very major part of my life, so when I talk about doing stuff with my mum, that’s the one I mean. Anyways, lots of fish protein and 12 g carbs meant a dose of 1.2u as I sat down to eat, plus 2u over two hours for 40g fish protein. Nice smooth line after, so my formula for small amounts of carb and lots of protein seems to be working ok. Bizarre timing with this anniversary - mum died of a heart attack in our family home, and the ambulance didn’t get there in time to be able to resuscitate her. My community first responder role will be to get to a patient before the ambulance and start CPR - I really hope that I might be able to get there in time for someone and save their family from going through what we did if I can keep their heart going for long enough.

@Tony337 - I just love those reindeer, they’re so expressive! I love seeing what you all make. My thing is silver jewellery engraved with handwriting :)
 
kitedoc said:
Hi @Fairygodmother, Just a technical question: How do you transport a sleigh full of reindeer?? (Or am I asking a rhetorical question)??
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You put them on the polar express, of course.
Looking at an earlier post of yours kitedoc, you need a backpack with a panel of photovoltaic cells?
There’s a YouTube showing how to make one but I daren’t put it up here as it has overtones of ‘Don’t do this at home’.
 
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