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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I thought that my psyche already calmly perceives any information, but I'm very anxious right now, so if you don't mind, I'll just speak out here. My friend was supposed to arrive an hour ago, but I can't get through to her and my brain is completing the worst-case scenarios. In general, it's normal that there is no connection outside the city and most likely she just got into a traffic jam, but I can't stop thinking that she is driving through the border zone, which is sometimes subjected to shelling, alone with an unknown driver. I can't find a place for myself at all...
 

I have some mag citrate on order but I’m going to start with one as I’m aware of the laxative effect it can have, but it may prove useful in that area too!
 
Rachox said:
I have some mag citrate on order but I’m going to start with one as I’m aware of the laxative effect it can have, but it may prove useful in that area too!
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Meanwhile check out the Pauline cox podcast she’s excellent I’ve edited previous reply to add a link
 
Alistair thought that DIL would be able to take me to my hospital appointment tomorrow - assuming that Neil won't be fit. But he has just phoned to say she is still too ill and weak to be able to help. I suspect that Neil will be the same. He tells me that his sarcoidosis is getting worse again as well. So, I guess I'll be phoning the hospital tomorrow to put that appointment off as well. BG currently 15.9 - after no food since breakfast.

Just broke off to take a phone call from a friend who has visitors to the Island and wanted to bring them to visit me (I was a friend of their parents). I had to say no. Not sure that our house is covid free. In fact, I don't think it is. Pity - maybe next time they come. This covid thing is still being a pain in the neck!
 
Rachox said:
Ah thanks I did wonder where to start looking!
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Hiya @Rachox i relistened to the episode last night to check memory right and it is a really excellent one about magnesium and different types benefits etc you just need to have patience as Dan chats a fair bit especially in beginning but bear with it she gets to Magnesium after a few supplements in and will help you to understand differences between magnesium types and why we especially need bisglycinate.
https://uklowcarb.buzzsprout.com/87...ecial-with-pauline-cox-paulinejcox-ep-110?t=0
 
Did your friend arrive and did you have your sushi?
 
Neil's feeling a lot stronger, but still doesn't feel well enough to drive to Stornoway, or push me around in the wheelchair, so I phoned to cancel my US scan appointment. His cut head looks quite dramatic; the bump has gone down but it is now bruising and the gash itself is from almost at the hair line right down to the eyebrow; wide but not all that deep. He is stuck together with steristrips and that seems to have allowed it to stop bleeding. But he is up and about now, I'm glad to say.
 
Antje77 said:
Did your friend arrive and did you have your sushi?
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My friend arrived when it was already very late, but everything is fine with her. I told her we'd order sushi later, but she decided to buy me some goodies anyway because she believes that for the fact that she will live in my flat for a few days it is necessary to pay with something. The convenience store is far enough from my house and I told her to take a taxi, but she decided to walk (the area here is not completely safe), and since I was scared for her, I took my shocker and went to meet her. As a result, we did not eat sushi, but drank tea with cookies under my indignation that she does not think about her safety at all.After all I presented her my brass knuckles in the form of a cat and calmed down. I'm such an alarmist!
 
I am keen on investigating my family history and spent quite a lot of time on it yesterday because I found a very rich vein to mine and something very odd struck me - one of my ancestors way back in the 12th century was said to have had a daughter (also my ancestor) aged 68! Now I don't think that can be right and checking her birth year against her daughter's birth year it appears she was 53. Even so, that strikes me as pretty elderly to be having a child, especially way back then. And this appears to be the only child she had - of course, there may have been other pregnancies that were lost before that. I think the 68 must have been when she died, so she had 15 years to enjoy motherhood. She was also about 15 years older than her husband. Quite a lady!

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My friend said that I with a glowing brass knuckles in my hands in the middle of the night (I have a shocker in the form of brass knuckles and with a built-in flashlight, which I shone) - this is the scariest thing that happened on her trip Am I really that scary? (I have never beaten a single person not in the ring)
 
Looking again at this family history stuff. It seems that it wasn't a daughter she had at the age of 53, but a son - my ancestor - and she seems, according to the records to have born another son at the age of 68! Can't be right. Trouble is, as with the census returns, people write things down wrongly. Her name seems to have been Jacosa Packington and after such an interesting life, she seems to have died at the age of 98 - also quite unusual at the time. I reckon it would be sensible to add at least 20 years to her date of birth, which would make her DoB 1372 (I was mistaken when I put her in the 12th century - that was another ancestor a couple of hundred years before).
 
I have been on fluid restrictions for the pst 18 momths, I am allowed 1.5 litres of fluids a day. This includes gravy, jelly, fruit and no salt or salty foods etc. I had a selction of no fuid / salt / reduced salt alternative recipes / foodstuffs to choose from supplied

When I waas admitted to hospital I was around the 120 Kgs + mark, with Afib, shortness of breath, pains in the chest. Included was bloated legs from bad circulation. They put a catheter into my bladder (pulled out on discharge day) and filled me full of Forosemide to either by injection ofr dripped in to get me urinating which had slowed to a trickle.

When I was discharged after nearly six weeks I weighed around 85Kgs, I was still taking Furosemide till the end of last year till I got a bladder infection that made urinating a problem, when I was told to stopmy the Nurse Navgator, so my palliative GP gave me antibioticsand Spitactin 100 twice a day to help the beat the infection.

To cut a long story short, I have finally got rid of the excess fuids in both legs, and the cronic wound in my right leg has shown signs of inprovement.

Urine output in litres since discharge on the 24th July.

July 2020 - 405.8
January 2021 - 447.3
July 2021 - 359.5
January 2022 - 232.2

I now weigh 65.0 Kgs (steady on this mark for the past week) so have dropped half my former bodt weight that I got upto. I have lost a fair bit of weight due to the bowel cancer as well.

I have not always followed the food instructions as I will eat what I want to now, but have kept my drinking in check two mugs of coffee in the morning first up, 2 x 600 mil of bottled water, and I have cut beer out, and just a malt whisky at nights During summer I increaed water intake to 2 litres a day, but have been on 1.5 for while again.

I use a mouth spray called Biotene Moisturizing Spray 50ml on the recommendations of my Nurse Navigator to stop feeling thirsty / dry mouth / tongue / lips at night. Highly recommend this stuff a couple of squits and it;s nearly a bottle of water drunk instead.

It's available from Amazon UK with free Prime delivery.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/biotene-dry-mouth-spray/s?k=biotene+dry+mouth+spray
 
My neighbor almost called the police yesterday when he saw my friend trying to open my door with a key (I gave her the keys so she could move freely while I was at work), I had to explain that she was not a thief, but my friend. Where did he even see thieves coming with a bag of groceries from the store?
I hope we can eat sushi at least today, because my diabetes does not tolerate cookies that my friend bought very well
 

That looked like such a good idea for both my brother and myself but, checking the ingredients shows saccharin so, sadly, it's no-go for me. I'll send the link to my brother though - he may be able to use it.
 

@PenguinMum I wondered if this spray might be useful before your next fasting test if it’s mid afternoon again?
 
Annb said:
That looked like such a good idea for both my brother and myself but, checking the ingredients shows saccharin so, sadly, it's no-go for me. I'll send the link to my brother though - he may be able to use it.
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When you are doing a perish with a dry mouth, tongue, lips, and thirsty for any moisture you will use anything to fix the problem. No time to get fussy all of a sudden when you are trying to get rid of excessive fluid out of your body.

DJC3 said:
@PenguinMum I wondered if this spray might be useful before your next fasting test if it’s mid afternoon again?
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I have used it before a proper fasting session, namely for a cardio version and a colonoscopy and it has not effected my bgl. I also had the hospitals blessings to use it at the time
 
It's not a question of fussy. When my tongue feels like sandpaper and I can't swallow because my throat is so dry and my lips are cracking, I would use the product if I didn't know it would cause me 3 or more days of migraine and/or diarrhoea. Even water burns my throat when it's like that. But it really isn't worth using a saccharin product. A throat pastille with sugar in it is the best bet so far, even though it does have some sugar in it.
 
The same thing happened with my son @Annb . He wasn't in tge medically induced coma as long as your brother but he had a similar tale. He was aware we were there but he found himself in strange settings and no one could hear him His "moment" was when he was aware of sitting alone in what he felt was a large warehouse. There was large open doors where sun was coming through but, he said that he knew he didn't want to go through these doors. He said he got up and left That was when he came out of the coma the first time. They had to put him under again after a day as he was hallucinating. He kept asking why black men were dancing at the bottom of his bed (turned out the shaded window to the nurses station and he was seeing the shadows of the nurses moving about). What we couldn't account for was why he thought we were Nirth Korean spys and that the doctors and nurses were trying to poison him! Once they brought him out slowly with the help of a drug he was fine! He did say it was all very scary though.
 
That must have been awful for your son, as it was for my brother. The thing that I think must be most upsetting is that the person in the coma is helpless and unable to move, even though they are desperate to do so. And, of course, it isn't like a dream that is over fairly quickly, it goes on for as long as the patient is in the coma. My brother thought the medical staff were trying to poison him but he couldn't fight them off, his mind being reasonably alert but his body being paralysed by the drugs. When I have my suffocating dreams, at least I can force myself out of it and that is disturbing enough.

Got into another rich seam of family history information last evening and ended up after what I thought was about an hour, noticing that it was 2 am, I did wake up again at 4.30 am and had to get up to move around to loosen my joints but went back to bed and didn't wake up until about 9.30, still feeling kind of groggy. Haven't really been very alert all day.
 
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