What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[gennepher]

Woke before 8 to the sound of the men working on relaying the paving stones on our driveway, over the repaired water pipe. That’s speedy!
After the water company guys had left, I realised that when they’d removed the stones to get at the pipe, they’d simply thrown them on top of my lavender bushes. So the bush at the end is still healthy and looking good, the other 3 are squashed and flat. Just as well I didn’t see it. In case we have another burst pipe. I was very angry and might have alienated them for ‘the next event.’
Today I get an injection of happiness in the form of a foster dog arriving to stay for 4 months. I’ll see whether this affects my bg!
This morning if was 6.5 which is a definite improvement on the figures of the past week. Aiming now for the 5s.
Having my eyes checked at the end of the month- Dr Happy will demand to know what my bg is.
Time for a cuppa.

I am still finding stones and cement 'hidden' from my waterboard work...grrr

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[gennepher]

Happy birthday gennepher have a lovely day

Thanks

And thank you for the flowers and card!

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[alf_Josiah]

I'm worried I might be becoming a low carb zealot.
I made myself a chicken sandwich and felt guilty about the bread.

 

[Freema]

6.8 due to high carb foods these packing stuff days ..

 

[Viv19]

Mine was a glass of house red! Spot on with the red though not usually the house wine.

Mine was house red too.

 

[Viv19]

Morning All. 5.7 this fine morning.
@SaskiaKC love the poem,it is brilliant, all our besties got a mention.
@Goacher hug for the low. Hope you are better now.
@pavlosn have a great time in London. Any seated concert I have ever been to nobody uses them and everyone is on their feet. The sales are on top form atm so your wife might need your help carrying everything lol.
@Viv19 cant believe they destroyed your lavenders, you should complain.
@gennepher hope you and Popeye have a relaxing day in the shed.
Have a great Friday everyone. Stay well, stay safe.

I’m hoping that some TLC (water with a good feed) might resurrect the poor plants. They’re relatively ‘young,’ ie not yet woody so they will hopefully recover.

 

[Viv19]

5.4 for me around 6am. I’m pretending not to notice Dennis chewing a drinks coaster he’s managed to get hold of, so I can post here. Yesterday he chewed the inner out of Mr Cs shoe - his own fault as he left them on the floor rather than in the box on the chair.
@pavlosn have a wonderful time in London, and at the concert - looks like a rain free event which is always a bonus for anything outdoors in UK
@Viv19 great that your water pipes have been sorted so quickly but oh dear, your poor lavender. I can’t believe they’d be so thoughtless. Enjoy your 4 months with your foster buddy. I’m sure you’ll both get a lot out of it, and it’s so much nicer than kennels for him.
@Krystyna23040 glad your Lab’s foot is ok today -10 months in a crate, it’s barbaric! I’m so glad he’s found a happy forever home with you.
@Cumberland - have a hug back for your tooth. Hope it gets fixed well today.

I had a text from middle daughter this morning saying her stool sample result had come back abnormal. It was a faecal calprotectin test, used to distinguish IBS ( which is what we thought she had, and IBD ( inflammatory bowel disease ie Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis) so I’m quite worried now. I’m glad I told her not to leave the GP surgery until he’d sorted a referral to a gastro team though - he dismissed her symptoms as the result of her ‘fad diets’ !! (She had tried keto and fodmap WOE to try to control the symptoms) it’s small vindication that it’s come back as abnormal.

I hope she has a ‘lesser’ diagnosis. Crossing fingers.
Among well trained efficient GPs there are still some dinosaurs to be found, who dismiss health concerns with an arrogant brush off.
There is a problem when the ‘only’ qualification to enable a person to study medicine are high enough exam passes. There should be a personality check too to sift out the ones who have no concept of communication and poor empathy.

 

[SaskiaKC]

6.7 Friday morning. Late fireworks from the parking deck across the street last night had the KittenCat taking refuge under the sofa, poor baby. I coaxed her out with a trail of treats, as it was partly my fault for opening the window the better to watch such close-up pyrotechnics. I'd forgotten just how noisy fireworks are close-up! I felt so guilty for not thinking about her -- they hadn't bothered her at all when the window was closed earlier.

Note to animal owners: you can't smell punk from a couple of hundred yards away so don't bother opening the window.

 

[pavlosn]

In the end after breakfast (full english of course) I decided to catch up on some sleep

Tested again just before lunch to be met by a 4.1; not hypo but definitely low for me.

Time for a nice juicy steak for lunch.

So far all I am doing is eating and sleeping

 

[PenguinMum]

@DJC3 sorry to hear your daughter’s test came back abnormal but try not to worry. At least now they will do more tests and hopefully fnd out whats going on.

 

[ianpspurs]

In the end after breakfast (full english of course) I decided to catch up on some sleep

Tested again just before lunch to be met by a 4.1; not hypo but definitely low for me.

Time for a nice juicy steak for lunch.

So far all I am doing is eating and sleeping

Great numbers @pavlosn. May not make for a great sight seeing holiday if it continues but perfect for bg.

 

[PenguinMum]

6.7 Friday morning. Late fireworks from the parking deck across the street last night had the KittenCat taking refuge under the sofa, poor baby. I coaxed her out with a trail of treats, as it was partly my fault for opening the window the better to watch such close-up pyrotechnics. I'd forgotten just how noisy fireworks are close-up! I felt so guilty for not thinking about her -- they hadn't bothered her at all when the window was closed earlier.

Note to animal owners: you can't smell punk from a couple of hundred yards away so don't bother opening the window.

Hugs to the KC I am sure the treats went a long way to forgive you! Our Ginger hated fireworks at Guy Fawkes in neighbours garden and would get under the baby cot right in the corner against the wall and quiver. However Bobs and Daisy dont react probably it was the least of all evils before they were rescued by the shelter.

 

[SaskiaKC]

@Cumberland thank you for the hug. Back atcha!

 

[pavlosn]

Not my first time in London by a long shot so sightseeing is not a major priority. Relaxing and getting mind off recent health worries much more so. And trying to get my wife to stop worrying so much about me.

Just finished a great lunch just across from Hyde park and now heading there for an afternoon walk prior to returning there for tonight's concert.

Great numbers @pavlosn. May not make for a great sight seeing holiday if it continues but perfect for bg.

 

[karen8967]

 

[SaskiaKC]

 

[DJC3]

I hope she has a ‘lesser’ diagnosis. Crossing fingers.
Among well trained efficient GPs there are still some dinosaurs to be found, who dismiss health concerns with an arrogant brush off.
There is a problem when the ‘only’ qualification to enable a person to study medicine are high enough exam passes. There should be a personality check too to sift out the ones who have no concept of communication and poor empathy.

Agree. Women especially seem to be given the brush off a lot. I worked with a young girl who was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s after years of being told it was just something she’d eaten, or might be lactose intolerance. By 26 yes old she’d had half her bowel removed and a colostomy bag and was on lifelong steroids. Another young woman, daughter of a friend was told to get some relaxation tapes by her GP - she had MS and kept falling over, she died before she was 30. Makes me so cross that medical opinion seems stuck in the Victorian era when women were called hysterical

 

[DJC3]

I hope she has a ‘lesser’ diagnosis. Crossing fingers.
Among well trained efficient GPs there are still some dinosaurs to be found, who dismiss health concerns with an arrogant brush off.
There is a problem when the ‘only’ qualification to enable a person to study medicine are high enough exam passes. There should be a personality check too to sift out the ones who have no concept of communication and poor empathy.

Agree. Young Women especially seem to be given the brush off a lot. I worked with a young girl who was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s after years of being told it was just something she’d eaten, or might be lactose intolerance. By 26 yes old she’d had half her bowel removed and a colostomy bag and was on lifelong steroids. Another young woman, daughter of a friend was told to get some relaxation tapes by her GP - she had MS and kept falling over, she died before she was 30. Makes me so cross that medical opinion seems stuck in the Victorian era when women were called hysterical

 

[DJC3]

@DJC3 sorry to hear your daughter’s test came back abnormal but try not to worry. At least now they will do more tests and hopefully fnd out whats going on.

Yes, that’s what I said to her too.

 

[gennepher]

Agree. Young Women especially seem to be given the brush off a lot. I worked with a young girl who was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s after years of being told it was just something she’d eaten, or might be lactose intolerance. By 26 yes old she’d had half her bowel removed and a colostomy bag and was on lifelong steroids. Another young woman, daughter of a friend was told to get some relaxation tapes by her GP - she had MS and kept falling over, she died before she was 30. Makes me so cross that medical opinion seems stuck in the Victorian era when women were called hysterical

I agree @DJC3
I was called hysterical by male GP's in the 70's and early 80's. My young children would find me collapsed and unconscious. They called GP. I was a single mother.
GP always said I was suffering from hysteria and all I need was smelling salts and pull myself together.
Finally in about 1983 I saw a female doctor, who said, and I still remember her words, 'You silly girl, your'e suffering from asthma. Didn't you know?'
How the heck was I supposed to know? I didn't know what asthma was. And it was the words 'You silly girl...' that really got me.
I ended up with 2 inhalers.
And the damage was done with my children, because these authoritative male doctors told them I was a hysterical mother who needed to get a grip of herself.

Then many years later in the mid 2000's I kept having problems with my throat constricting and severe breathing problems. My current GP then, kept saying I was having panic attacks, but I knew it wasn't that. But I had no idea what it was. I was being belittled and humiliated again. He refused to send me for further investigations.

But I was attending the dental hospital in Liverpool at the time, and I explained to my specialist there, a woman. She examined me, said she thought she knew what it was, and referred me for an endoscopy. To cut a long story short, I was diagnosed with poor throat muscles which seized up, and when that happened the breathing tube which runs alongside it, seized up also, and I passed out. The specialist told me by passing out what happens is the body relaxes, and my throat muscles and breathing tube relaxed and I could breathe again. The specialist told me not to be scared of it. I ended up with meds, sprays and strategies. Which I still have to use. And I have never passed out again.

I reported my doctor...and he became the subject of an investigation. It wasn't me, but another investigation of a much higher profile person who died because of my GP, caused my GP to lose his job...

Why are these GP's allowed to call women hysterical?
I have an older friend who was told she was having panic attacks. But her neighbour took her to the hospital. And she was diagnosed with throat cancer. She was lucky, she survived.

But these stories never stop...

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