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

@alf_Josiah hug for those lows and all the problems of calculating insulin dosages. I find Elsie a nightmare but the attached is by far the best post I have ever read on here and makes me aware that I just need to grit my teeth and live with Elsie for as long as humanly possible. We do go through phases and for a few months it has been miserable, I can't lie. I also attach my reply which applies to you and anyone on insulin. (I have zero idea what the phrase in remission actually means btw)
 

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Creative little soul ain't ya? Like most of Elsie's wizard wheezes devoid of any kind of joy. Abandon hope all ye who eat this way, style of thing. Oh, c'mon fella, spam fritters, chips and beans versus Diet Drs cabbage casserole? Only a true believer would take that swap by choice. Eat to yer meter and feel as though you live to 90000000. Yes Billy, honesty IS so hard to find - UK shelves strangely bare - and absolutely what I need from you. I think the Age of Optimism email must be in my spam tray/tin Wait, keto teriyaki sauce, keto sushi?
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Ooh! Great recipe find - duly saved. Must also have this on Fish day https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/braised_cabbage_in_a_72453
 
Fbg 6.7

To keep you updated, after emails etc, the sound processor has been posted back to the hospital. Long gone are the days when if there was a problem you could just drive there and turn up. Covid has a lot to answer for. After my initial shock of not knowing if it was processor or implant (I still don't), and me being quite upset and actually grieving the loss of external sound,, I'm now loving the peace from the neighbours.I am actually more confident in my deafness. I am more reliant on subtitles/captions, or videos on YouTube etc being stand alone without the need for hearing. I don't have noises startling me now. If this was to continue, but it could be resolved yet, then I still have a couple of sounds I need a visual alert for. Still experimenting with the technical options on that one which is made harder by no one ringing doorbell and knocking on widows (despite written notice)...but, another option might even involve a trip to a dog rescue. But not yet.

EDIT: by the way, I never have silence, my tinnitus has various day/night long parties 24/7

Creative for today.
I decided to put soap in the mister water spray as an experiment. Because I use my fountain pen or other black pens I have, I have to draw on the dry paper first and then spray. This is same black pen as yesterday, which has purple hues when sprayed with water. The soap in the water makes for a lot softer painting when sprayed.
Is it finished? Well it is for the moment, because I intend, at a later time, to cut it in two to create two postcard size paintings to work on yet again, that I can use for postcrossing. And this might be the fate of a lot of pics in this sketchbook...
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

To keep you updated, after emails etc, the sound processor has been posted back to the hospital. Long gone are the days when if there was a problem you could just drive there and turn up. Covid has a lot to answer for. After my initial shock of not knowing if it was processor or implant (I still don't), and me being quite upset and actually grieving the loss of external sound,, I'm now loving the peace from the neighbours.I am actually more confident in my deafness. I am more reliant on subtitles/captions, or videos on YouTube etc being stand alone without the need for hearing. I don't have noises startling me now. If this was to continue, but it could be resolved yet, then I still have a couple of sounds I need a visual alert for. Still experimenting with the technical options on that one which is made harder by no one ringing doorbell and knocking on widows (despite written notice)...but, another option might even involve a trip to a dog rescue. But not yet.

EDIT: by the way, I never have silence, my tinnitus has various day/night long parties 24/7

Creative for today.
I decided to put soap in the mister water spray as an experiment. Because I use my fountain pen or other black pens I have, I have to draw on the dry paper first and then spray. This is same black pen as yesterday, which has purple hues when sprayed with water. The soap in the water makes for a lot softer painting when sprayed.
Is it finished? Well it is for the moment, because I intend, at a later time, to cut it in two to create two postcard size paintings to work on yetView attachment 51856 again, that I can use for postcrossing. And this might be the fate of a lot of pic in this sketchbook...
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Glad to read that you are relaxing into the peace and quiet from your neighbors - silver lining from the potentially faulty processor. Loving these inky experiments. Interesting hues coming out of that ink. I have a couple of Pentel ink cartridge brushes so am thinking of seeing what happens with them. Chinese ink does not seem to produce such effects, maybe because it contains glue.

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Good morning everyone from a wonderfully quiet and wind free start here in the dark and dangerous north.
The wonder wheel of some thick homemade roasted red pepper and tomato soup with a FibreFlour spam toasty (I know) came in at 5.4 this am. Interesting that if you roast an onion, halved but with the skin left on, it produces a better bit of onion to go into the soup - just peel after the roasting like with the garlic cloves.

Email awaiting this morning - I am in danger of losing my British Airways Avios due to inactivity - no s**t Sherlock - so, I have five months better get planning - OR NOT! Just another one of those ‘saving’ cons - “buy three shirts from this unfeasibly expensive shirt bloke on Jermyn Street and get the third one free!” - get lost. Good news in the form of two nice letters - first, my latest guinea pig test by those nice people at Imperial College London indicates that I have again tested negative for Covid - or was it Colic? Next, prize of prizes, the latest winner of the NHS bowel cancer screening test and a special prize is even now winging it’s way towards me like Thunderbirds are go! The latest kits are not nearly as good as the previous ones with the three lollypop sticks in - no AA Milne reenactments here. Results of our reunion last weekend are in and we made just shy of £900 to be split between three charities. Nice. Girl in the bubble is still snoozing upstairs - so is Mrs Miggins. Tricking and treating gangs about this evening - watch your sweetie bowls, get the spelling wrong and productive toxt will turn them all sweaty.

Art bit - saw a photo of some rocks on a beach so made them look bigger. Have the most wonderful day of the month today - you have earned it! Koffy is already in the pot.

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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a wonderfully quiet and wind free start here in the dark and dangerous north.
The wonder wheel of some thick homemade roasted red pepper and tomato soup with a FibreFlour spam toasty (I know) came in at 5.4 this am. Interesting that if you roast an onion, halved but with the skin left on, it produces a better bit of onion to go into the soup - just peel after the roasting like with the garlic cloves.

Email awaiting this morning - I am in danger of losing my British Airways Avios due to inactivity - no s**t Sherlock - so, I have five months better get planning - OR NOT! Just another one of those ‘saving’ cons - “buy three shirts from this unfeasibly expensive shirt bloke on Jermyn Street and get the third one free!” - get lost. Good news in the form of two nice letters - first, my latest guinea pig test by those nice people at Imperial College London indicates that I have again tested negative for Covid - or was it Colic? Next, prize of prizes, the latest winner of the NHS bowel cancer screening test and a special prize is even now winging it’s way towards me like Thunderbirds are go! The latest kits are not nearly as good as the previous ones with the three lollypop sticks in - no AA Milne reenactments here. Results of our reunion last weekend are in and we made just shy of £900 to be split between three charities. Nice. Girl in the bubble is still snoozing upstairs - so is Mrs Miggins. Tricking and treating gangs about this evening - watch your sweetie bowls, get the spelling wrong and productive toxt will turn them all sweaty.

Art bit - saw a photo of some rocks on a beach so made them look bigger. Have the most wonderful day of the month today - you have earned it! Koffy is already in the pot.

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Hi Dunelm,
Sad to hear there has been a mass poisoning of sea life off Redcar.
They are not sure if it's actual man based poison or due to a bloom.

In the week the water companies need to step up to the plate and stop putting neat sewage in rivers or farmers putting slurry in rivers. Some hope we have in the climate summit.
When more land was given over to sewage wetlands the rivers were in a better state as was the countryside before death dealing silage took over from the hay meadows which was a living habitat with a marvellous variety of birds and insects.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
Hi Dunelm,
Sad to hear there has been a mass poisoning of sea life off Redcar.
They are not sure if it's actual man based poison or due to a bloom.

In the week the water companies need to step up to the plate and stop putting neat sewage in rivers or farmers putting slurry in rivers. Some hope we have in the climate summit.
When more land was given over to sewage wetlands the rivers were in a better state as was the countryside before death dealing silage took over from the hay meadows which was a living habitat with a marvellous variety of birds and insects.
D.
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We have had crabs and lobsters washing up for a couple of weeks now. First thoughts were that it was due to dredging in the estuary. Next it was storms. Water samples have been taken along the coast and we await results but so far nothing concrete. At this time of year, crabs take to deeper waters so this is quite worrying.
 
dunelm said:
Glad to read that you are relaxing into the peace and quiet from your neighbors - silver lining from the potentially faulty processor. Loving these inky experiments. Interesting hues coming out of that ink. I have a couple of Pentel ink cartridge brushes so am thinking of seeing what happens with them. Chinese ink does not seem to produce such effects, maybe because it contains glue.

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Thanks @dunelm
I am enjoying the experiments.

I have those Pentel brush pens somewhere @dunelm
J bought them me well over 10/15 years ago. Will they still work, or will they have dried out...I shall find out.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a wonderfully quiet and wind free start here in the dark and dangerous north.
The wonder wheel of some thick homemade roasted red pepper and tomato soup with a FibreFlour spam toasty (I know) came in at 5.4 this am. Interesting that if you roast an onion, halved but with the skin left on, it produces a better bit of onion to go into the soup - just peel after the roasting like with the garlic cloves.

Email awaiting this morning - I am in danger of losing my British Airways Avios due to inactivity - no s**t Sherlock - so, I have five months better get planning - OR NOT! Just another one of those ‘saving’ cons - “buy three shirts from this unfeasibly expensive shirt bloke on Jermyn Street and get the third one free!” - get lost. Good news in the form of two nice letters - first, my latest guinea pig test by those nice people at Imperial College London indicates that I have again tested negative for Covid - or was it Colic? Next, prize of prizes, the latest winner of the NHS bowel cancer screening test and a special prize is even now winging it’s way towards me like Thunderbirds are go! The latest kits are not nearly as good as the previous ones with the three lollypop sticks in - no AA Milne reenactments here. Results of our reunion last weekend are in and we made just shy of £900 to be split between three charities. Nice. Girl in the bubble is still snoozing upstairs - so is Mrs Miggins. Tricking and treating gangs about this evening - watch your sweetie bowls, get the spelling wrong and productive toxt will turn them all sweaty.

Art bit - saw a photo of some rocks on a beach so made them look bigger. Have the most wonderful day of the month today - you have earned it! Koffy is already in the pot.

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Rocks on a beach are amazing inspiration @dunelm
I love this bit of art...
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all inhabitants of the 3rd rock from our local fusion reactor.

A very surprising 5.1 for me and me’s on this wonderfully wet morning. I might have been intimidating my meter, we had little speaks punctuated with a little carpentry hammer waving, but that meter has a mind of it’s own.

Have your clocks gone back? I will be taking mine back later this morning when the rain stops and if I can find the receipts. Oh and if Mrs J allows.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers it’s time for me and me’s to wish you all a great day, stay safe
 
gennepher said:
Thanks @dunelm
I am enjoying the experiments.

I have those Pentel brush pens somewhere @dunelm
J bought them me well over 10/15 years ago. Will they still work, or will they have dried out...I shall find out.
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The smaller pen was my mothers and probably as old as yours - I gave it a soak in water, dried it and put in a new cartridge - works a treat.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

To keep you updated, after emails etc, the sound processor has been posted back to the hospital. Long gone are the days when if there was a problem you could just drive there and turn up. Covid has a lot to answer for. After my initial shock of not knowing if it was processor or implant (I still don't), and me being quite upset and actually grieving the loss of external sound,, I'm now loving the peace from the neighbours.I am actually more confident in my deafness. I am more reliant on subtitles/captions, or videos on YouTube etc being stand alone without the need for hearing. I don't have noises startling me now. If this was to continue, but it could be resolved yet, then I still have a couple of sounds I need a visual alert for. Still experimenting with the technical options on that one which is made harder by no one ringing doorbell and knocking on widows (despite written notice)...but, another option might even involve a trip to a dog rescue. But not yet.

EDIT: by the way, I never have silence, my tinnitus has various day/night long parties 24/7

Creative for today.
I decided to put soap in the mister water spray as an experiment. Because I use my fountain pen or other black pens I have, I have to draw on the dry paper first and then spray. This is same black pen as yesterday, which has purple hues when sprayed with water. The soap in the water makes for a lot softer painting when sprayed.
Is it finished? Well it is for the moment, because I intend, at a later time, to cut it in two to create two postcard size paintings to work on yet again, that I can use for postcrossing. And this might be the fate of a lot of pics in this sketchbook...
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I do like your painting @gennepher - adding soap has worked really well. Hope the hospital can sort out your sound processor.
 
Confusion abounds. What day is it, so many choices? 22nd Sunday after Trinity, Fourth before Advent, All Saints Day Eve or Sunday ...... Sunday? It gets worse. Which clock to believe? Why in 2021 would any clock require changing - build back better my fundament. Dark, damp, windy start here - just the dark inside. Potentially good news on the processor @gennepher and some blessed relief from Duracel Bunny B the B, tempered by the perpetual tinnitus. I admire your creativity. I associate today's colours with sorrow and suffering - Church thing I guess. @dunelm those implements look mighty fine sir. Oh, you've had the Avios and shirts emails, huh?. I don't feel so elite now:angelic:. Thanks for the artwork which in my mind would look good etched on glass - I'm a (Pussers) rum cove. Soup and bread sounds good. Who put the idea of a spam toasty into that over fertile mind of thine? @lindisfel your concern for the environment and wildlife does you great credit. I'm not sure how any politician or farmer trades that off against affordable food and/or a tax burden we "the people" will accept or indeed can bear. "it has not escaped observers that moving the emphasis on trade away from the EU has a negative impact on the UK’s targets for reducing carbon emissions" William Keegan. Brexit not the fault of Brexit - Private Eye headline:woot:
I'm a Halloween refusenik which was an issue when kids were young. I don't go as far as putting up a sign, we do have treats and live in an area surrounded by Uncle Sam's finest and their families so I'll play along and S and W. Mea culpa .......
 
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5.6 this morning. Relaxing with coffee and more coffee as it is much too wet to go anywhere today.

The dogs enjoyed their trip to the pet food shop event yesterday. They had their photo's taken by the rep from the dog food company - which will probably go on the company Facebook page.

Have caught up with all the admin and all I have to do today is lesson planning. I am really tired after all that work but thank goodness for half terms as it is so good to catch up.

Hopefully this is a link to a picture of Archie enjoying his visit to the 20 Church Wardens this week.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/RtGq3Eoz6dPIM96BB2zYyFATcp68vrqMdyiPzwz6lRb
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.6 this morning. Relaxing with coffee and more coffee as it is much too wet to go anywhere today.

The dogs enjoyed their trip to the pet food shop event yesterday. They had their photo's taken by the rep from the dog food company - which will probably go on the company Facebook page.

Have caught up with all the admin and all I have to do today is lesson planning. I am really tired after all that work but thank goodness for half terms as it is so good to catch up.

Hopefully this is a link to a picture of Archie enjoying his visit to the 20 Church Wardens this week.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/RtGq3Eoz6dPIM96BB2zYyFATcp68vrqMdyiPzwz6lRb
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Have a relaxing day. My, but Archie is a handsome fella - takes after Mr K obviously. I'm not a fan of carpets but I quite like that one.
 
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