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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

How is the name “Ix” pronounced, @Antje77 ?
Izz? Icks? Something else?
 
How do you tell them apart @Antje77?
Ours were easy as one is a boy and the other a girl and they had just been neutered so had been shaved in different places. Then they grew different body shapes, he is slim she had a tummy, but it is still only us who can tell them apart
 
It was easy once they came out of hiding!
Nacht is slightly bigger and fatter, bolder too. Starts to purr if you do so much as look at him. His mew sounds a little deeper too.
Ix has the very shiny coat, much shinier than his brother's. He also approaches the world with a little more apprehension: when in doubt about a new thing, hiss first just to make sure!

I see the difference right away when they are together but sometimes need to look twice if there's only one in view.
Nacht also has a little tell tale white spot below his chin.

And here's todays picture.



Today's adventures were more focused on dogs than on cats.
Our local hunter used to bring the geese he shot to my neighbour who died last summer, and tried to do so yesterday evening as well. Only to be told by neighbour's wife she wasn't interested, but try my neighbour-in-the-garden.
Neighbour-in-the-garden is happy to try his luck with smoking goose breasts, so he laid out the dead geese on a couple of pallets to work on today.
So my very small chihuahua type dog stole a dead goose last night!

I was wondering about her odd behaviour late last night, wanting to go outside and back in and out again, she must have been trying to get me to come out and help her with her prey because it was too large for her to bring inside!
I found out this morning when I went out to feed guinea pigs, bunnies and chickens, the dog was feasting on the goose together with my grown up cat and a brown chicken!
She did manage to pull the goose right to the dog entrance too, very happy that getting it inside proved too difficult.

So far they brought both wings and the head upstairs, so I let them keep a wing to chew on, threw the other wing away (all those feathers!).
I drew the line with the head so I asked neighbour's son to come get it. and remove the carcass from my doorway as well. I'm having a cold and feel rather rubbish, which greatly affects my ability to deal with gruesome stuff so I'm very happy my young neighbour did the honours.

Still, I'm pretty proud of my little dog, somewhere inside her ridiculously small body resides the soul of her forebears.
 
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Sorry to hear you are going down with a cold. Wrap up well and have plenty of drinks. That little chihuahua has the strength of a much bigger dog. Well done her.
 

I would call them “baubles” or ”Christmas baubles”



My mini claim to fame was that this photo of Rosie went viral on Twitter and was published in a national online magazine
 
Sadly, I feel I'm as much addicted to the act of smoking as to the nicotine itself.
I think some may come under Dutch healthcare but it doesn't matter much, paying out of pocket would be a lot cheaper than smoking anyway.

I don't think this is a bridge I'm ready to cross yet.
 
The nicotine replacement allows you to concentrate on changing the habits without the curse of cravings. In my case I totally changed my morning habit. Rather than the school run then home for coffee and a ciggies, I did the school run then went swimming. I found by having my first later and later it got to the point it wasn't worth having one at all.
But,as you say, the initial motivation has to be there. When you are ready I'm sure you'll find as much support around as there is for diabetes
 
I was sorly tempted to eat this forbidden banana yesterday, my partner got a lot of new season stone fruit yesterday, and they had these big bananas as well.

A good friend of mine came around and cleaned our ceiling fans for us for the price of a box of beer, as I cant do them any more. They go a lot faster and are circulating more cool air

 
I realise I again posted an invitation to take the other thread off topic, I don't seem to learn!
So taking it here again.
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Oh goodness, poor chap.
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Yes, such bad luck!
He works (worked) in construction until some heavy thing fell on his hand at work last winter.
Surgeon wat quite enthousiastic about a complex repair plan taking multiple operations, so that's been going on since february.
Couple of weeks ago was the final operation, the one that should have given him use of his index finger once again with the help from atendon taken from his forearm.
Seemed to work too, he could carefully move his finger for the first time in 10 months!
And now the infection has made it all worthless.

On the up side, neighbour is quite optimistic and very happy it'll just be one more simple operation without the need for months of rehabilitation, he's pretty much had enough after the past year.
And having the offending finger out of the way means things will be much easier, a sticking out finger is very annoying and getting in the way of everything, so it will be a big improvement!

He felt very sorry for the poor surgeon too, who has dropped by a couple of times being very upset about this bad luck on his work.

And he already planned how he will dry and preserve the finger to make into something to wear on a necklace to shock people asking about his lost finger.
The idea of pulling his finger from beneath his shirt announcing he didn't lose it at all seems to bring him a devilish pleasure!
Now only to get the infection over and convince the hospital to let him take his finger home...

I have a very special neighbour living in my garden!
 

I’ve been through the whole gamut of emotions reading this, but what a brilliant attitude this chap has. You do have a very special neighbour - but so does he!
 
Good neighbours indeed!

We too are blessed with our neighbours. Out of 10 houses we have 4 couples under 70 and 6 widows over 80. Our grande dame is 96, and is our ringleader on fun and social events. Last night she had us playing "pass the parcel" with much hilarity.
 
Long overdue a kitten picture (apologies @MrsA2 )
Efraïm my grown up cat doesn't like the kittens much, but he doesn't object to them pushing their heads in his food either!
In this case greedy enough to have some of the food landed on a head too, I was still serving when little heads were pushed in.

 
I was longing for a banana roll the other day, both of which are very forbidden. I resisted, despite Hubby having a banana. White bread roll with butter and a slightly squished banana on it. It was a favourite of one of my brothers.
 
@Annb , thought to take it here before I get a telling off by my colleagues.

In both our countries, as a rule of thumb T1s are treated by an endo/diabetes specialist nurse team through the hospital, and T2s are treated by GP/GP diabetes nurse.
This isn't a rule set in stone, some T1s are under GP care and some T2s are under specialist care, especially if they are on a basal/bolus type of treatment like yourself.

I was given the choice when after 2 years of T2 I was rediagnosed with T1.
My treatment already went well and I liked my GP's practice nurse but I still chose to switch to a hospital team, mainly because I felt they would be more up to date than my practice nurse if ever I wanted something unusual, she was already out of her depth with the way I was dosing.

GP's and GP's diabetes nurses tend to not be as familiar with the complexities of insulin dosing, most of their patients are on orals or a twice a day insulin with strict rules on eating.
They do not know about prebolusing, bolusing for Foot on the Floor or Dawn Phenomenon, how to adjust doses with increased activity, how to correct or how to do a basal test in someone on mealtime insulin as well.

Which is why you've learned so much about those things through the forum over the past couple of years, things are so much better now you've gained confidence and experience with dosing in different circumstances!
And your practice nurse is likely out of her depth with what you are doing because you're using quite a lot "T1" techniques by now.
 
maglil55 said:
I was longing for a banana roll the other day, both of which are very forbidden. I resisted, despite Hubby having a banana. White bread roll with butter and a slightly squished banana on it. It was a favourite of one of my brothers.
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I used to love that too - comfort food when feeling ill!
 
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