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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat


She'll be back tomorrow evening for a sleep-over and can finish it off. She added some more sweet stuff (caramel sauce) and had a few tastes but then decided not to have anymore and put it in the fridge for further thought. I'll tell her your suggestion Antje. She also wants to make another liquorice cake - not sure if that will be tomorrow/Saturday or another occasion.
 
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She'll be back tomorrow evening for a sleep-over and can finish it off.
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And of course more of the broken honeycomb kitkat pieces to decorate too. Caramel sauce sounds perfect to me in this recipe!
She'll just need to cut small cubes after it has set and they'll make a very interesting kind of praline!
 
We have had / still having a big elecritcal storm most of the night, we have had 75 mls of rain since 9:00 am yesterday, we have had 50 mls in the last hour or so to bring the total up at the official BOM weather guesser station at the local airport.

Power went of for about ten minutes when a big lightning crash went off nearly over head, had to wait for my modem / router to retrain and come back online.

My partner has the lychees hidden, I can't find them in either fridge so it's going to be a ration out item.

I have nothing from the base hospital yet, I will check the mailbox out when it stops raining to see if they posted it by snail mail.

@Antje77 my next door neighbour is cooking up some sort of curry for breakfast.
 
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@Antje77 my next door neighbour is cooking up some sort of curry for breakfast.
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Doesn't sound like the kind of weather to travel half the globe in, so I'll have to pass this time. Too bad, as your neighbour's curry would have been a perfect reason to feed my boring tomato soup to the cats and dogs (all of them absolutely love my tomato soup!).
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My partner has the lychees hidden, I can't find them in either fridge so it's going to be a ration out item.
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Very thoughtful of them, although not less frustrating. Lychees are sooo good!
 
Antje77 said:
Very thoughtful of them, although not less frustrating. Lychees are sooo good!
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She'll be right later on, and give me some from where she is hiding them.

I love the Wide Bay area for the diversity of fruit, veggies and nuts that grow here, best move we made.
 
Blood cholesterol update may be of particular interest for @DJC3 @Goonergal and @Rachox
Well results of my week ago bloods are in and all key ones liver, kidneys, hbaca1 etc all normal and very similar to previous 4 years - a relief as I am definitely eating more unprocessed carbs especially vegetables and nuts etc I’m still keeping low but not measuring weight of foods and have stopped adding carbs up - I go with the flow a bit more these days - so good to see not had a negative impact on my blood work.
Interesting my lipids have gone down a bit but still coming in as abnormal on their reckonings so no doubt will have statin talk yet again!

Here are last years and this years I’m happy with them btw
Total lipid score 2021 8.2. 2022 7.6
HDL. 2021 2.6. 2022 2.8
Non HDL. 2021 5.6. 2022 4.8
Serum cholesterol/HDL ratio. 2021. 3.2. 2022. 2.7
Trigs. 2021 1.0. 2022 0.8
LDL. 2021 5.1. 2022 4.4

So can actually say to DN look at breakdown of figures statins can only lower LDL and mine has gone down naturally! I’m also going to participate in some heart research next month that hopefully will give me even more information to discuss in future satins talks!Thank you @AndBreathe for initial info on this one. When I was on statins on initial diagnosis I was really badly affected by muscle problems so I’m not keen to go down that road unless someone can point out any real benefits for me.

As it’s the food chat thread - I opened my first fermented jar of red cabbage and beetroot today it’s very very yum as is my 36 hour incubation time home made yoghurt grown with specific live bacteria strains rather than using a commercial yoghurt starter.im loving the experimentation and the tastes - hope my microbiome is liking it too! Maybe if Zoe project eventually arrives in U.K. I’ll be able to get a test done of my microbiome too as long as not too pricey? I often feel we are all on this forum an experiment in progress and it’s good to have observable numbers as well as how we feel.

Apologies if a bit long my OH couldn’t cope with another cholesterol discussion so my way of chatting about it feel free to ignore!
 
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Ooooh excellent. I'm sure you'll get a lot out of participating in the research.

Obviously it is a highly, highly professional and efficient process, but all of the staff involved are committed to ensuring that those participating have a really positive experience, and are made to feel comfortable and at the heart (see what I did there?!? ) of everything going on.

My lipids were, as usual, in the uncomfortably high total category with with excellent breakdowns. No mention of statins, so I brought it up, mentioning it'd usually be about this point I'd be told statins were in m future. The Doc's response was he saw no reason whatsoever t recommend statins. (He did say his recommendation would be different if I had cardiac issues, or had an historic CV event.)

Let us know how you get on on your day.
 
Thank you so much it’s the end of March - the 23rd - know that there will be some difficult tests but I’m quite excited as I have had years of the heart risk calculator scores used with my lipid total scores to scare me IMHO - so will be a relief to find out if am I really at risk especially as my dad had heart disease - although he was a face worker in grimethorpe coal mine so had similar lungs to heavy smokers due to coal dust, so it may be an environmental thing in which case not genetic says she crossing fingers......,
 
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The way I look at it is if there's anything to be concerned about it, better to know and get it investigated, treated/monitored or whatever.

The tests are easy, in that for the exercise stress test, you just do your best. No judgements are made. As for the rest, just go along with the flow. You'll be told what's going on and what to expect, and you will always be provided with a way to call a halt, should anything get too much.

You'll be fine. Honestly, their greatest priority is for you to be safe and you have a positive experience. None of it is about torture.

You'll soon be in the little group who have observed their own hearts beating.
 
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my dad had heart disease - although he was a face worker in grimethorpe coal mine so had similar lungs to heavy smokers due to coal dust,
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@shelley262 Did your Dad ever play in the Grimethorpe Colliery brass band? My dad was a big fan of the industrial bands from the UK and had a good collection of their records.

I have listened to a fair bit of the brass bands after watching "Brassed Off" I keep meaning to look on Amazon Music for them but always seem to forget.
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You'll soon be in the little group who have observed their own hearts beating.
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I have seen mine going during a echo ultra scan, had audio on it as well.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
I keep meaning to look on Amazon Music for them but always seem to forget.
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Found about ten albums and one radio station of Grimethorp, Westcoe and I think Carlton brass bands.

Got them added to my music list, playing the radio station at present.
 
Hiya I love brassed off and grimethorpe colliery band but unfortunately my dad wasn’t musical although he enjoyed listening ! They were stars and Dad too had their records - the pit was very much central to my childhood.
 
Em stayed overnight but, having accidentally knocked the jar containing liquorice onto the floor, and spilling the lot, we couldn't make the cake she was planning, so she changed her mind about cooking at all.

She did have a brief lesson about Roman numerals - she didn't quite understand what they were about, despite having seen that the kings and queens associated with Stirling Castle had them attached to their names. Neil joined in, of course (odd, but he always does when Em is being taught anything) and it started to turn into a longer lesson on the origins of counting, how numbers were formed and the various shapes of numbers and counting through history (as well as why those particular cultures created the kind of numbers they did use) and those in use at present. But at that point Em made it clear that she had had enough and changed the subject. Not as fascinating as both Neil and I find it.

She was in more of a caring mode today and insisted on trying to look after me, escorting me to the chair when I was struggling, tucking a blanket around me, making cups of tea. Unfortunately, lots of sharp pains today, over and above the usual so I was startled into ejaculating ouches and aarhs several times, resulting in Em rushing to my aid each time.
 
My eldest Grandson loves Roman Numerals. He does arithmetic with them. He can convert quite large numbers and even requested a watch with Roman Numerals. He soon spotted on timepieces that 4 is mostly shown as IIII rather than IV. I tried him on them recently and he still remembered them. No idea why he is so fascinated by them.
 

I don't know how Em has reached the advanced age of 9 without knowing the Roman numerals - there may be a connection to the fact that her elder sister (now aged 27) still can't cope with them - she just panics and blanks the whole concept. Having said that - I have reached my advanced age without ever noticing that clocks and watches show 4 as IIII. My kitchen clock does just that and I've only just looked to see. Something I've learned from this forum!

We were also showing Em that it's not really necessary to read the numbers on a clock because most folk would normally just look at the position of the hands. I showed her a watch that I have - the numbers are all jumbled at the bottom of the dial with no indicator of their correct positions. At the top of the dial it says "Well whatever, I'm late anyway." She was very amused at that. Suits Island life.
 
I stopped wearing a watch after I got my first smart phone.

The watch is a Seiko chronometer multi function thingy, the main face had hands, with a small inset for digital time. I picked it up in a duty free shop at Changi Airport in Singapore in MCMLXXXV

I had it cleaned and new button seals put in by Seiko in Brisbane, I also told them not to put a battery back in as it would not be used again, and have put it away in the safe.

I liked learning about the Roman empire at school when I was a kid, still interested when they discover something new from those times.
 

@shelley262 I’ve been meaning to mention to you my experience with Nicotinic Acid, otherwise known as Vitamin B3 or flush niacin. NB this is the ‘flush’ form, not to be confused with Nicotinamide, which is B3/Niacin but doesn’t cause a flush.

I’ve been taking it as part of a protocol I’ve been following for Long Covid. I didn’t realise at first, but have learned along the way that it is sometimes used to help with reducing LDL and increasing HDL. This has happened to me! I’ve always had good trigs and good ratios since going low carb, but my lipid panel breakdown from the relevant test drawn during my participation in the heart study you mention, showed a change even over the results from my diabetes review less than a month before. My trigs were down to 0.35, so I’m now looking into how low is too low - or whether that’s even an issue! Total cholesterol score, for what it’s worth was 4.9 - I’ve usually run in the 6s, or occasionally 7.

This isn't a recommendation, rather an interesting observation. And I’m taking high doses of the flush niacin (steadily built up) - I didn’t get a flush until I got to a reasonable dose.

Editing to add a link to a video which says more. Start at 44.38:
 
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Done quite a few of yesterday's tasks (which got left when I ran out of steam) - dish washer emptying and filling, washing dishes which don't go into the dish washer, putting bags of rubbish out (Neil was gong to do it, but I stopped him because it's one of the jobs I can still do, as long as I use my rollator), doing a little bit of cooking, re-lining bins. Stripped my bed yesterday (damp patch where Em had slept - that's unusual) but couldn't re-make it before bed-time and couldn't lay down anyway, so that remains to be done and there is a huge amount of washed linen and clothes dried and needing folded and put away. So I will see how much of that I can get through. Might just start by prepping my meal for tonight and then see what can be done.

Neil was going to help me, but he's got other things on his mind now; he bought 2nd hand a 1985 musical keyboard which is apparently quite special, for refurbishing - that's his hobby, refurbishing electronic equipment and is one of the reasons our house is so cluttered. He has done dozens of them and other electronic things, and then just puts them on a shelf, repaired but never used. Once he gets started on this kind of job, he keeps going until it's done.
 
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