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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I had lunch with childhood friends yesterday - it was a really good old fashioned Christmas dinner and made us feel very nostalgic.

Today seems like a good day to do the tip and charity shop runs - the sun is actually coming out now and again! I'm struggling to get started though. Maybe that's me procrastinating again - I'm going to do at least one run though, even if it's a bit later.
 
Breakfast: totally unsuitable - a couple of little squares of an orange cake. Struggling around, trying to get ready to go to get my legs sorted again but very stiff and sore. Just grabbed what was there. I did dose with what I thought was a suitable amount of insulin. Using the fingerprick testing method in the absence of a Libre sensor, so while accurate, it doesn't keep track of what BG is doing.

Felt fine until I got back into the house when I started to shake. B G 3.8. I shouldn't have been shaking at that point, but it was time to do something about it. 2 digestive biscuits and another square of the cake and a cup of tea, should have done the job. I'd collected my new sensors from the pharmacy and stuck it on and it has just warned me that BG is now 2.8. Another biscuit and we'll see how that goes. 2.9. A tiny step in the right direction but not out of the woods yet.

Neil came back from the shops with some lamb's liver, so I'll use some of that for my 2nd meal today. There's a lot in the pack so I'll probably make some pate with the rest.

EDIT: after 2.9 the reader refused to have anything to do with the sensor. I phoned Abbott and they said to leave it for 2 hours and it might just decide to settle down. About and hour later, it came to life with the alert that BG was too high (9.1). Just now it's reading 4.2. It's not yo-yoing, it's trampolining.

Decided that the time had come to arrange for Royal Mail to collect my Christmas card mail - I can't get into the Post Office counters - not exactly easily accessible, so I use the mail collection service. I had set up 10 and the site said I had to stop but then it just hung there and there was nothing I could do except cancel the whole lot. I'll ask Alistair if he was given Christmas stamps this year and beg them from him. Of course, with the new owner, Royal Mail might not be giving their employees free stamps this year.
 
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Breakfast was mushroom omelette and tea.

Just about to take some painkillers because I've been on my feet a lot already today and it's hurting. I've been asked to go along to a pot-luck "supper" being held for some immigrant families with small children. So it's not really supper, more afternoon tea time but it will be supper dishes. It's a last minute thing and all that I have available that is vegetarian (safest way to go since some may be vegetarian) is mushrooms and rice, so mushroom risotto it is. Not sure what there will be there for me to eat, so I may just make do with a cup of tea and wait until I get home to eat.

Being realistic, by the time I get home, I won't be in any state to cook, or even prepare much so it might be back to the ham, cheese and crackers again.
 
Of course I didn't get out to the tip yesterday! Today I felt energised but spent the energy on deep cleaning the bathroom, which needed doing but wasn't the thing I really needed to do first. It's a weird psychological thing - unless that part of the house is completely sparkling, I can't move on to anything else. And the rest of the house is so far from sparkling that I have dust tumbleweeds all over the place.

I did clean and declutter the corner of my dining room that was my home office and is now my woman cave the other day, because I had a new computer, monitor and tv setup to organise. I'm hoping there'll be a ripple effect and the cleaning and decluttering will radiate out from that area like some magic spell!

We won't talk about breakfast or lunch (at least smaller amounts than I used to eat) but I'm having fried fish and vegetables for tea.
 
Got home about 7.30 pm. The mushroom risotto was very good, even if I do say so myself, as shouldn't. How do I know? I had a hypo and when I was asked if I would eat anything I said "yes any carbohydrate". So risotto it was. BG still didn't rise at all so I dug a digestive biscuit out of my bag and had that as well. Then BG came up to a reasonable level (4.5). However, by the time I got home it was 8.5 and it topped out at 11.9, when I took some insulin. Now down to 10.4. Not sure how far it will drop now. I'll have to keep an eye on it. Luckily, my Libre reader came to life yesterday after all, so it will keep an eye on it for me. The real problem now is, I am very hungry. That's what carbs do to me.
 
Had about an hour in bed but I was too sore to stay there and got up at about 2.30. Libre didn't sound an alarm but I checked BG and it was 2.3! That made up my mind for me to get up properly and go to the kitchen to find something to eat. It's been low all day, despite digestive biscuits and breakfast of 4 Jacob's crackers with ham.

Only basal insulin early this morning - none since.

Evening meal was beef stew with carrot, swede, onion and celery. Still no insulin and BG still been in the 3's. 2 more digestive biscuits when it dropped into the 3's and that has brought it up to 5.3. I am kind of expecting it to drop again during the night so will take some digestives to the bedroom - no emergency supplies left there after the last couple of nights.
 
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