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

Morning.

FBG just under 8.
Been like it last few days

Did too much Thursday.
Wrist has been aching constantly.

Had tried reducing meds, but now back on and upped by docs, for now anyway

So yeah, stress/illness..that covers the rise.

Thank you all for the ideas of stress balls.

If I might ask
I have looked, and sizes do seem to be off by a large amount .

Am I right in assuming I'd need balls of a sufficient size to rotate in Hands ?

Some I see, look rather too large.

A guess that ping pong ball size would be close ?

Other then that it's been two days feeling rather exhausted, as sleep due to aching had been hard to come by.

However I lay my arm wrist is either pressed up or down, sufficient enough to induce pain
Undecided on strapping
Have tried strapped up & left uncovered
Both have their faults. But wrist strap on wins a finely decided contest...just

The sheer frustration of not being able to find a comfortable position to lie in, ggrrr .

Also rather annoying is the round robin of info I keep getting

Hospital A..Close to crash site but miles from my home

Hospital B..not my nearest but closest for trauma care.

Spent last few weeks being told if I want referral

...I...ME ?...must tell my GP.....
Err .ok .I do that....mmhh

Then told.. I ..ME ? Must inform hospital A.
Mmhh.

Now told I have no authority to ask for referral, it MUST come from Hospital B.

And last week I had referral to nearby unit, who very politely explained they didn't offer the kind of treatments I needed...and I should get hospital B to try to get me referred there .

Okey dokey...

Hoping I can get some resolution this month.
Fingers crossed

Have a good day all.
Nice & sunny here in Londongrad.

dunelm said:

Wonderful night time story and the inclusion of a villain! Smashing colours again but I think that Popeye is losing it about hiding places.

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Thanks @dunelm
I will have to have a word with his Lordship...

jjraak said:

Morning.

FBG just under 8.
Been like it last few days

Did too much Thursday.
Wrist has been aching constantly.

Had tried reducing meds, but now back on and upped by docs, for now anyway

So yeah, stress/illness..that covers the rise.

Thank you all for the ideas of stress balls.

If I might ask
I have looked, and sizes do seem to be off by a large amount .

Am I right in assuming I'd need balls of a sufficient size to rotate in Hands ?

Some I see, look rather too large.

A guess that ping pong ball size would be close ?

Other then that it's been two days feeling rather exhausted, as sleep due to aching had been hard to come by.

However I lay my arm wrist is either pressed up or down, sufficient enough to induce pain
Undecided on strapping
Have tried strapped up & left uncovered
Both have their faults. But wrist strap on wins a finely decided contest...just

The sheer frustration of not being able to find a comfortable position to lie in, ggrrr .

Also rather annoying is the round robin of info I keep getting

Hospital A..Close to crash site but miles from my home

Hospital B..not my nearest but closest for trauma care.

Spent last few weeks being told if I want referral

...I...ME ?...must tell my GP.....
Err .ok .I do that....mmhh

Then told.. I ..ME ? Must inform hospital A.
Mmhh.

Now told I have no authority to ask for referral, it MUST come from Hospital B.

And last week I had referral to nearby unit, who very politely explained they didn't offer the kind of treatments I needed...and I should get hospital B to try to get me referred there .

Okey dokey...

Hoping I can get some resolution this month.
Fingers crossed

Have a good day all.
Nice & sunny here in Londongrad.

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I hope this photo of some my balls will help your ball size problem @jjraak

The yellow squeeze ball on the photo on the box is my favourite. It has gone on a walkabout, so I cannot show you that one. But the yellow is the softest to squeeze. The other two colours are too hard for my hands. They are different degrees of squeeziness.

The tennis ball is far too hard and big for my to squeeze with my hands. I just put it here for comparison.

The two green balls in front are attached to their own pice of elastic and Velcro to go round the finger. They can be squeezed and are quite soft, even though nearly the size of the tennis ball. And you can drop them, either accidentally or deliberately, and flick the elastic up and then catch them with your hand. Try doing one for each hand and co ordinate them.....

Then we go on to the steel balls, a heck of a weight by comparison to the others. Three sizes here. Large, medium and just under medium size.

I bought the large ones first from my local Chinese shop. You need the small ones the guy tries to explain to me. No, I can do the large ones I said.

Don't get the large ones, they are a heck of a weight, and don't stand up to roll them around in your hand because a) my hand was not big enough and b) one large ball dropped off my hand on top of the bare left foot (the right foot was sensible enough to keep out of the way) and I had a third ball the size of a tennis ball to juggle with after that (and none of my shoes would fit).

My advice is go for the medium or small size of the metal balls. Possibly the small one is the size of the ping pong ball you mentioned, to start with, and graduate to the medium size, which you might be able to do quite quickly after practicing with the small ones.

And then at the top square are my green and black juggling balls. i used to be able to juggle these 3 balls in a previous life. But they are made of leather, smaller than the tennis ball (which is most uncomfortable in my hand to hold and try to squeeze), and are comfortable to hold and squeeze. They are filled with sand and so are very hard, but the leather makes them comfortable to attempt to squeeze.

And that is all I am going to talk about balls today.

I am now turning internet off, going on internet blackout, and going into my potting shed with real books...

See you sometime...

Hi @gennepher

thank you SO much.

Such an informative post
And the pic really helped. x

jjraak said:

Hi @gennepher

thank you SO much.

Such an informative post
And the pic really helped. x

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Glad I could be of help @jjraak

Good morning,

Fbg at 8am was 5.8
Yesterday it was 6.4!

I think it's because I started my monthly cycle Yesterday. It sometimes causes my fbg to rise in the mornings. I'm trying not to let it stress me out. The wonders of being a woman lol

Anyway still rainy in syd. Hope you all have a great and dry day!

ianpspurs said:

enjoy Blickling Hall and it is only right and proper Mr K has the bestest sausage roll NT can offer after that soaking. Our labs, badly labelled as Springadors, would have dealt with #turdgate in the same manner.

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We had a lovely walk around the Blickling Hall Estate and Mr K really enjoyed his sausage roll.

I wonder why our dogs love fox turds. Our previous lab also loved rabbit droppings. She really thought that they were a great delicacy.

Good morning everyone on what looks to be a promising day under a clear sky here in the dark and dangerous north.
Managed a walk into town yesterday thank’s to girl in the bubble and her amazing pram. Return was a bit of a struggle - slowly, slowly and such a fuss over a mere slope of an incline. Our kitchen is now all Old Mother Hubbard, well the first verse anyhow - no coats no hats no wigs no shoes …What a palaver @jjraak with hospitals and doctors admin folk leading you a merry dance - I hope that it is quickly resolved and also that the excellent information from @gennepher gets your hand moving better.
Art bit today - not entirely as I would have wished so will have another go in a while. Have a great day if you can. Best get some koffy organised before the kitchen fitters arrive.

Fbg 6.7

I stayed in the potting shed watching the night sky after it got dark.
The potting shed is out of the way of intermittent security lights of the neighbours.
Consequently I can see stars in the sky.
The temperature dropped below freezing, and the night sky was absolutely clear, and the stars were massive!
So I stayed in my cosy bed in my potting shed bed and just watched.
I had my hearing processor on and everywhere was quiet.
Until about 11pm, when something spooked me mooching around in the garden. It came to the open potting shed door, but I could not make anything out. I am sitting in darkness...

I came in.

Creative today is a kaleidoscope...again!
In Laboscope app, pointed to the sky.
Popeye may almost be too small to see...not sure yet...

Got to get on with the day..
More tea and coffee first...

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a wonderful sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north
Bit of a disaster darling last night as girl in the bubble decided that 2am was time for breakfast and did that special cacophony that infants do until her demands were assuaged. Luckily she then settled back down and we all slept until well gone 8. Kitchen fitters tomorrow so dining room table is being turned into a camp kitchen complete with kettle, microwave and slow cooker. We may be eating out (gasp!).
Art bit - another large sheet of unsized rice paper. I hope that your Sunday is especially good to you. Meantime, I simply must replace my empty tea mug with a full koffy mug.

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I love this swirling upwards @dunelm
I like the curl of smoke...
Something different and intriguing about this one....

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on what looks to be a promising day under a clear sky here in the dark and dangerous north.
Managed a walk into town yesterday thank’s to girl in the bubble and her amazing pram. Return was a bit of a struggle - slowly, slowly and such a fuss over a mere slope of an incline. Our kitchen is now all Old Mother Hubbard, well the first verse anyhow - no coats no hats no wigs no shoes …What a palaver @jjraak with hospitals and doctors admin folk leading you a merry dance - I hope that it is quickly resolved and also that the excellent information from @gennepher gets your hand moving better.
Art bit today - not entirely as I would have wished so will have another go in a while. Have a great day if you can. Best get some koffy organised before the kitchen fitters arrive.

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Today's is very majestic @dunelm

Enjoy your coffee...

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.7

I stayed in the potting shed watching the night sky after it got dark.
The potting shed is out of the way of intermittent security lights of the neighbours.
Consequently I can see stars in the sky.
The temperature dropped below freezing, and the night sky was absolutely clear, and the stars were massive!
So I stayed in my cosy bed in my potting shed bed and just watched.
I had my hearing processor on and everywhere was quiet.
Until about 11pm, when something spooked me mooching around in the garden. It came to the open potting shed door, but I could not make anything out. I am sitting in darkness...

I came in.

Creative today is a kaleidoscope...again!
In Laboscope app, pointed to the sky.
Popeye may almost be too small to see...not sure yet...

Got to get on with the day..
More tea and coffee first...

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Lovely colours @gennepher. Yes, I spotted Popeye.

4.9 this morning. Have just had one of my 1:1s cancelled so I have a longer break between classes in the lovely pub across the road. Have already decided on my food - chicken topped with crispy bacon and melted mozzarella and cheddar cheese with a lovely mixed salad with avocado.

Krystyna23040 said:

Lovely colours @gennepher. Yes, I spotted Popeye.

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Thanks @Krystyna23040
I thought maybe he had gone too small...

Krystyna23040 said:

4.9 this morning. Have just had one of my 1:1s cancelled so I have a longer break between classes in the lovely pub across the road. Have already decided on my food - chicken topped with crispy bacon and melted mozzarella and cheddar cheese with a lovely mixed salad with avocado.

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Delicious!
That sounds a great idea.
You are making me hungry @Krystyna23040

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.
Mrs J would like me, me’s and myself to pass on her thanks for her birthday wishes, Mrs J is onto her third ( I think ) day of celebrating and another three planned, it appears my function in all of this is to act as paymaster, situation normal after 43 years of marriage.
Blood sugars this morning were 5.1 and that’s after an indian takeaway, but a carefully selected takeaway.
Well fellow posters and painters my day is spoken for and absolutely no possibility of escaping to my shed / workshop.
Stay safe all.

Good morning all. fbs at 7.20 am was 9.6. Have a good week everyone.

Greetings one and all from what is a fairly typical early March day in this region weatherwise - cold and dreary. KISS - keep it short Ian you Clownshoe. @jjraak hugs, sympathy and prayers for the problems of pain and finding someone to take responsibility for fixing you. If it were as simple as Coldplay make out we, here, would be on it like a car bonnet. @gennepher so kind of you to post those images and another wonderful kaleidoscope. reminded me of a Tudor Rose. @Jojo85 hug. @dunelm thanks for the art and best wishes for kitchen upgrade. @Krystyna23040 great news about yesterday and the cancellation. Your food choice sounds wonderful, healthy and tempting in equal measure. Yesterday was as uplifting a family day as could be without the missing and very missed Southampton loved ones. I had a low carb Sunday roast but as always the compromises and nagging concern for just what impact/damage to my bg and wider health was being inflicted detracted from the joy. Obviously my body needs me to pay attention to bg management and nutrition but it casts a long shadow over the basic functions of eating and drinking. St Paul’s idea of personal “prisons” providing opportunities is surely relevant here? Make the most of your day.

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.6

This morning, the midnight creatures had polished off all the dry cat biscuits.

'gennepher's cat diner' operates 24 hours. But night time hours is dried cat biscuits only.

And so I went out to replenish them and to add the daytime menu of wet food.

Horror of horrors. A turd in the dry cat biscuit bowl. I know who I suspect from this pointy turd, but I took a photo and asked Google to ID. Google says confidently, that is a slug. Well, you know what I think of Google now.

I check out on the Wildlife Trust the ID of wildlife turds. It was Foxy Loxy. The ingratitude! And so all bowls are in a bucket of hot soapy water in the garden. Ginger (cat) comes in, and looks at me.'I can't eat soapy bubbles,' 'You'll have to have a word with Foxy Loxy', I tell him. Ginger takes a determined path into the undergrowth.

I come out with a couple of prepared clean dishes from the bungalow, and Mrs Blackbird is hopping round my feet impatient for the dried cat biscuits. I explain to her because of the fox and the turd, 'gennepher's cat diner' is closing for nighttime dining for the next few nights. But it will be fully open in day time hours from 7am until 5pm. 'Oh that's okay', says Mrs Blackbird, 'I can store some in my spare nest'. And proceeds to take the dry cat food as I am still trying to pour it out. 'Oh by the way,' I say, 'Could you tell the hedgehogs, that the soup kitchen will be open from 6pm to 7 pm, until nighttime service is restored. And I will put the kitten dry cat biscuits out just for one hour for them.' Mrs Blackbird flies away.

A turd in the food bowl indeed! And after polishing off the dry food. That is not on.

Creative today.
The next set of kaleidoscopes will be from my back garden. In the Laboscope app. Popeye thinks he has a good hiding place ?!?

Time for loads of coffee and tea....

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Ooh yuk, fox mess is awful. We had a dog who loved to roll in it and was almost impossible to get the smell out, even after several baths.
He is long gone now, but the memory lingers.

jjraak said:

Morning.

FBG just under 8.
Been like it last few days

Did too much Thursday.
Wrist has been aching constantly.

Had tried reducing meds, but now back on and upped by docs, for now anyway

So yeah, stress/illness..that covers the rise.

Thank you all for the ideas of stress balls.

If I might ask
I have looked, and sizes do seem to be off by a large amount .

Am I right in assuming I'd need balls of a sufficient size to rotate in Hands ?

Some I see, look rather too large.

A guess that ping pong ball size would be close ?

Other then that it's been two days feeling rather exhausted, as sleep due to aching had been hard to come by.

However I lay my arm wrist is either pressed up or down, sufficient enough to induce pain
Undecided on strapping
Have tried strapped up & left uncovered
Both have their faults. But wrist strap on wins a finely decided contest...just

The sheer frustration of not being able to find a comfortable position to lie in, ggrrr .

Also rather annoying is the round robin of info I keep getting

Hospital A..Close to crash site but miles from my home

Hospital B..not my nearest but closest for trauma care.

Spent last few weeks being told if I want referral

...I...ME ?...must tell my GP.....
Err .ok .I do that....mmhh

Then told.. I ..ME ? Must inform hospital A.
Mmhh.

Now told I have no authority to ask for referral, it MUST come from Hospital B.

And last week I had referral to nearby unit, who very politely explained they didn't offer the kind of treatments I needed...and I should get hospital B to try to get me referred there .

Okey dokey...

Hoping I can get some resolution this month.
Fingers crossed

Have a good day all.
Nice & sunny here in Londongrad.

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Sympathy for the painful wrist, your description reminds me of the time i had tennis elbow and how impossible it was to find a comfortable position in bed. So many hugs and hope the wrist recovers enough to allow peaceful nights soon. How very frustrating the hospital runaround must be.

07.03
8.35 FBG 4.7
Breakfast, two slices of toast, ( approx 12g carbs) 2 eggs scrambled with butter, 2 cups tea with semi skimmed milk.
9.30am BG 7.3
10 30 am BG 4.1 Liver seems happy with that breakfast as well. It did not approve of the peanut butter on crispbreads I had yesterday.