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

[Krystyna23040]

5.8 this morning. Apparently there was a really spectacular storm at 1am last night which woke everyone up except us. Lovely to see that it had rained a lot. We definitely need the rain here in central Norfolk.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hello everyone from a damp Breckland after the very loud thunderstorm overnight. Thanks for the art @dunelm and the virtual travel with your sister sounds amazingly thoughtful. @gennepher hug for no online ordering of meds - didn't you get the gigabit broadband we were all given?; thanks for the images and I hope the appointment goes well. Will it be in one of the 40 invisible new hospitals staffed by the imaginary 50k extra nurses laying on one of the make believe free beds now social care is fixed? How do people like Him and Trump get away with it? Please, please, please let the Cincinnatus reference be wrong. I'm off for more chemo today where in the actual world proper heroes and heroines do amazing things for others every day with love, honesty, humility and far too low wages. Maybe the journey there will stop me seething. Do have a great day but be oh so careful.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Hello everyone from a damp Breckland after the very loud thunderstorm overnight. Thanks for the art @dunelm and the virtual travel with your sister sounds amazingly thoughtful. @gennepher hug for no online ordering of meds; thanks for the images and I hope the appointment goes well. Will it be in one of the 40 invisible new hospitals staffed by the imaginary 50k extra nurses or in one of the free beds now social care is fixed? How do people like Him and Trump get away with it? I'm off for more chemo today where in the actual world proper heroes and heroines do amazing things for others with love, honesty, humility and far too low wages. Maybe the journey there will stop me seething.

Good luck with the chemo. Rest up after.

 

[ianpspurs]

Good luck with the chemo. Rest up after.

Thanks Alf and thanks in advance to anyone else.

 

[jjraak]

Hello everyone from a damp Breckland after the very loud thunderstorm overnight. Thanks for the art @dunelm and the virtual travel with your sister sounds amazingly thoughtful. @gennepher hug for no online ordering of meds - didn't you get the gigabit broadband we were all given?; thanks for the images and I hope the appointment goes well. Will it be in one of the 40 invisible new hospitals staffed by the imaginary 50k extra nurses laying on one of the make believe free beds now social care is fixed? How do people like Him and Trump get away with it? Please, please, please let the Cincinnatus reference be wrong. I'm off for more chemo today where in the actual world proper heroes and heroines do amazing things for others every day with love, honesty, humility and far too low wages. Maybe the journey there will stop me seething. Do have a great day but be oh so careful.

Best wishes for the day ahead

As for last part of post.....
Couldn't agree more .

 

[Celtic Angel]

Good morning everyone from under a bright an cloudless sky here in the dark and dangerous north. The planned walk into town was cancelled yesterday. Rain stopped play. So - car. We don’t mind a bit of rain but the girl in the bubble was in her toddler trike and there is no rain cover for it. Boo hoo! So, toast and butter was consumed by said toddler and all was right in the world. Jolly hockey sticks yesterday in the Commonwealth games but no so for our gals tiptoeing outside the lines in their baton dash. Oh well. It’s all been marvelous and they will now all be dashing over to Munich as long as they have their passports organised, paperwork pilled up and are camping out overnight at the airport in the hope of cadging a lift on a plane. Might be easier flying to Dublin first. Anyhow, art bit. A new day, a new tree in the making. Have a marvelous Monday if you can. I shall continue by drinking Koffy and then hanging some washing on the line now that I have complete my level 1 domestic chores part A.

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I love reading about your day..
The picture of the tree is flipping good too I used to love art when I was younger, I do the photo taking now though, I found I had to be in a certain frame of mind to do drawing else it would go wrong...I'd love to see how this tree turns out, since you mentioned it as being the start of a new tree..

 

[jjraak]

I had a bad day on Saturday.
Went to collect my meds.
Many people waiting a long time.
I waited an hour and a half.
Many people had missing meds.
They were told not available anywhere and unobtainable.
Finally guy in front of me. His turn. He opens the tiny paper bag he is given. Where's my meds he says. Unavailable and unobtainable, there are none anywhere, he is told. But I need them, I need them now, I haven't got any left he says. Nothing I can do about it says the counter assistant. Next, she says (which is me). I stay where I am because the customer is fuming. A right ding dong ensues. I can't escape. Customer asks for prescription back. No can do says counter assistant. More ding dongs. Customer is enraged, slings something at the counter assistant, shouting "You sort it". And storms out.

Pharmacist hands me my paper bag, and I know immediately there are things missing. Open the bag please, I tell the pharmacist. Where's my eye drops I ask? Not available anywhere, unobtainable I am told. And where's my Januvia (diabetic med), and two more things. Unobtainable, he says. My eyes flash at this point, my brain trying to work out the feasibility of grabbing him by the lapels. I tell my brain to shut up. But it is the powerlessness in this situation of the individual. Come back next week and see if there is anything in, the pharmacist says.

I definitely feel like I live on the wrong side of the track.

I email a friend when I get home. Start a revolution, she says, get a campaign going, hand out cards secretively into people's hands inside and outside the chemist's, to join your campaign. And then she send another email (well thought out) of a 12 point campaign for me. If I hand out cards secretively into people's hand's round here with those security cameras every hundred metres or oftener, I would find myself in the local clink behind bars, with a bucket for bathroom facilities. This is a very high druggie area.

Obviously she wants to do a revolution and is quite happy to incite others.

I went to bed depressed when I got home and to sleep feeling very frail.

This morning, Monday, I drove to a sleepy Welsh village which has a pharmacy. And a nice village shop. I told the pharmacist about my regular chemist and my experiences on Saturday. I know, it is terrible there said the counter assistant. And a customer behind me explained she used to go to my regular pharmacy, but it was not good and had a bad reputation. But now she drives to this village pharmacist to get her meds.That was just about at flashpoint on Saturday I said. Anything could have happened.

You come here, says the other customer. The pharmacist says to me, bring in your paper prescription, write a letter of authorisation for the pharmacy to be changed to us. Bring it in 10 days before you need the meds, and we will sort it out for you.

And they have a different meds supplier to my regular pharmacy. I will just have to see what happens.

Much more positive this morning.

Hence the naughty but nice thing which has no nutrition label, so therefore it is carb free!

P.S. The other very local pharmacies round here all have queues coming out of the shops, just like my regular pharmacy has....

Horrid day, @gennepher

As for revolution.

My pitchforks been polished & waiting a while now.

Hope it's sorted asap,
New chemists sounds just the ticket.

 

[jjraak]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who will tell Boris the Beast to put his end of term peerages when the sun don’t shine, those who will accept, see you at the ceremony .
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Bloods sugars this morning were a 6.3, I know why and if I told you…..you would know too.
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Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away, well nearly. There I was sitting in the waiting room waiting for my diabetic eye test, when I get informed due to illness my appointment has been cancelled and will be rescheduled, the up side of this is I managed to get lots done in the afternoon and Mrs J managed to trim my beard so my facial hair now matches my demeanour, prickly.
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Today I am totally unsupervised for most of the day, which brings to mind another song “there may be trouble ahead”.
Talking of trouble ahead, I wonder if those isolated idiots that live in the village of Westminster will spring a snap election? My guess a few will loose their seats.

Stay safe all.
Special mention for @ianpspurs…..thank you, sorry not on playlist, neither is morning has broken, but “happy birthday” is in my loosen up the fingers routine.

Sorry to hear the wasted time over cancellation... particularly having turned up, as well, rather then a text before leaving home .

However Pleased to hear the time returned was wasted in more fitting ways ....

Enjoy the day

 

[jjraak]

Morning all.

In a jumble of things to like & dislike with our new forum variant B.52.2 (Unexpected)

I wonder if others are finding the same.

Usually for the more involved pictures, @gennepher kaleidoscope, @dunelm pictures, I like to expand and take a more detailed look.

This meant a tap on said image and it expanded.
Once done, tap on image again and everything returns to normal.

However, now when I do that, I simply get a series of pictures posted on forum, with little discernable increase in size

It is easily rectified, on my mobile
( I tend to use mobile rather more since accident, that it's become my default choice for forum)I I simply double click to expand any image, so I'm not really inconvenienced, just curious if others have found the same issue.?

 

[alf_Josiah]

How goes fings @jjraak , fellow greaser, hope you are still making slow but steady progress.

 

[jjraak]

Hi all.

BG...a sneaky 7.7
Must mean something somewhere in the world.

Using painkillers a tad more of late, been doing more, so it hurts more, kinda makes sense.....ish.

Busy week or so

Big bike needed MOT....(tax running out, rather then ability to ride )

Good friend came over to ride it for me.

A bit of a kerfuffle once at shop, not booked in, they said .

.....oh how we laughter afterwards ..lol.

Anyway... management on scene, corporate decision made, mot undertaken

Failed...loose chain,
Mmhhh....that wasn't loose earlier...mmhh

Turns out it was,...guess all the standing around this year, a little rust had held it tighten, & the run to shop loosened it.

More kerfuffle to get it retested..

Again manager brilliant..."just test chain."

So end of day...she passed.
Taxed & up to date...happy boy.


Able to do more, so mentally good for me to be tinkering with bikes.

Spoken to so many who thought I'd moved away..been nice.

A little tidying up of scooter, which was always my intention ..main reason for buying it to learn a little skills in the running & repair of these unknown beasts.

Similar but different to the motorcycle.

Due to confined space around engine, can't do much spannering due to my hand at moment.
Turned my eye to the more presentational.

Makes little odds , I won't be riding for a while but after so long untended a little TLC, won't harm it .

Therapy going ok.
Just for interest, I've learnt a lot about how the mind works during this process

Two sides of brain need to communicate
(I likened it to Amazon delivering a package as one side of brain, and other side being homeowner refusing to open door)

Package keeps getting sent, but isn't being accepted..= inability to process trauma and move on.

Very simplistic view, but best I can do.

Anyway, regressing over incident.
Nest step is to 'alter' the narrative


Create a storyline that isn't the horrific original, but one that links all the major elements into a timeline that isn't quite so traumatic

As in a " I get hit, but am able to get up and bash driver" type way.

Some acceptance I am not so powerless at those moments that day as I lay there .

Will it work...?
Who knows

I'll update as & when.


Today's the day, we literally lose ourselves down the rabbit hole.

Hang on tight, it's gonna get bumpy .

Stay safe, ya all.

 

[jjraak]

How goes fings @jjraak , fellow greaser, hope you are still making slow but steady progress.

Thank you @alf_Josiah

I am doing ok .

Have the best of days

 

[jjraak]

I love reading about your day..
The picture of the tree is flipping good too I used to love art when I was younger, I do the photo taking now though, I found I had to be in a certain frame of mind to do drawing else it would go wrong...I'd love to see how this tree turns out, since you mentioned it as being the start of a new tree..

Hi & welcome @Celtic Angel .

Indeed.

The intended idea behind of threads founder

While some find solace in simply sharing BG numbers, here we share a little more .

Enjoy, hopefully you'll find it a pleasant place to visit more often.

 

[gennepher]

That looks really hopeful @gennepher. It sounds like a much nicer pharmacy. Worth the drive to get to it if it means that you get your meds. The shop sounds nice also.

Thanks @Krystyna23040
I will probably just make a morning of it and go for a tiny drive at the same time.

 

[gennepher]

Hello everyone from a damp Breckland after the very loud thunderstorm overnight. Thanks for the art @dunelm and the virtual travel with your sister sounds amazingly thoughtful. @gennepher hug for no online ordering of meds - didn't you get the gigabit broadband we were all given?; thanks for the images and I hope the appointment goes well. Will it be in one of the 40 invisible new hospitals staffed by the imaginary 50k extra nurses laying on one of the make believe free beds now social care is fixed? How do people like Him and Trump get away with it? Please, please, please let the Cincinnatus reference be wrong. I'm off for more chemo today where in the actual world proper heroes and heroines do amazing things for others every day with love, honesty, humility and far too low wages. Maybe the journey there will stop me seething. Do have a great day but be oh so careful.

Thank you Ian .
The appointment went much better than usual. I'm usually dreading this appointment and today it went very well.

I hope your chemo went very well, and that you're resting now with a cup of tea.

 

[ianpspurs]

Thank you Ian .
The appointment went much better than usual. I'm usually dreading this appointment and today it went very well.

I hope your chemo went very well, and that you're resting now with a cup of tea.

Glad your appt. was better than expected. Chemo went fine thanks. Sugar free Ribena here, usually flat lines but I'm neither wearing Swipey nor using Stabbo for now. Decided not to do my steps today

 

[gennepher]

Morning all.

In a jumble of things to like & dislike with our new forum variant B.52.2 (Unexpected)

I wonder if others are finding the same.

Usually for the more involved pictures, @gennepher kaleidoscope, @dunelm pictures, I like to expand and take a more detailed look.

This meant a tap on said image and it expanded.
Once done, tap on image again and everything returns to normal.

However, now when I do that, I simply get a series of pictures posted on forum, with little discernable increase in size

It is easily rectified, on my mobile
( I tend to use mobile rather more since accident, that it's become my default choice for forum)I I simply double click to expand any image, so I'm not really inconvenienced, just curious if others have found the same issue.?

I've looked on my Android phone, and my collage of this morning and @dunelm 's drawing are both full size. I uploaded mine full size, as I assume @dunelm did post his full size.

Ian put a picture on, but I assume he put it on as thumbnail which you would have to click on it to enlarge.


Is this the answer to your question? I am a bit tired at the mo...


Edit: No, I have not answered your question. Just tried double tapping dunelm's drawing and got my knickers in a twist, I got into a massive picture on my Android phone, and couldn't get out of it...then this row of pictures happened ...er try double tapping and see if you get a very large picture . I am tired. This is beyond me at the mo...going back to sleep...

 

[gennepher]

Glad your appt. was better than expected. Chemo went fine thanks. Sugar free Ribena here, usually flat lines but I'm neither wearing Swipey nor using Stabbo for now. Decided not to do my steps today

Sounds wise not doing the steps today.

Yes, take it easy.

 

[gennepher]

Hi all.

BG...a sneaky 7.7
Must mean something somewhere in the world.

Using painkillers a tad more of late, been doing more, so it hurts more, kinda makes sense.....ish.

Busy week or so

Big bike needed MOT....(tax running out, rather then ability to ride )

Good friend came over to ride it for me.

A bit of a kerfuffle once at shop, not booked in, they said .

.....oh how we laughter afterwards ..lol.

Anyway... management on scene, corporate decision made, mot undertaken

Failed...loose chain,
Mmhhh....that wasn't loose earlier...mmhh

Turns out it was,...guess all the standing around this year, a little rust had held it tighten, & the run to shop loosened it.

More kerfuffle to get it retested..

Again manager brilliant..."just test chain."

So end of day...she passed.
Taxed & up to date...happy boy.


Able to do more, so mentally good for me to be tinkering with bikes.

Spoken to so many who thought I'd moved away..been nice.

A little tidying up of scooter, which was always my intention ..main reason for buying it to learn a little skills in the running & repair of these unknown beasts.

Similar but different to the motorcycle.

Due to confined space around engine, can't do much spannering due to my hand at moment.
Turned my eye to the more presentational.

Makes little odds , I won't be riding for a while but after so long untended a little TLC, won't harm it .

Therapy going ok.
Just for interest, I've learnt a lot about how the mind works during this process

Two sides of brain need to communicate
(I likened it to Amazon delivering a package as one side of brain, and other side being homeowner refusing to open door)

Package keeps getting sent, but isn't being accepted..= inability to process trauma and move on.

Very simplistic view, but best I can do.

Anyway, regressing over incident.
Nest step is to 'alter' the narrative


Create a storyline that isn't the horrific original, but one that links all the major elements into a timeline that isn't quite so traumatic

As in a " I get hit, but am able to get up and bash driver" type way.

Some acceptance I am not so powerless at those moments that day as I lay there .

Will it work...?
Who knows

I'll update as & when.


Today's the day, we literally lose ourselves down the rabbit hole.

Hang on tight, it's gonna get bumpy .

Stay safe, ya all.

I am finding this new layout so confusing. I am trying to reply to people and I cannot tell what I m doing.

Good the bike passed.
Good you can manoeuvre to do a tiny bit of TLC on it even if it is not the amount you really wanted/needed to do.

That is an interesting analogy with the two halves of the brain, using the Amazon delivery not being received. So, shutting the trauma out because it cannot be processed by the other half of the brain. I am thinking you will come up with many different new narratives over this. Different ones on different days, depending on whatever, or if someone has said something. And gradually through this process, a narrative will emerge that will lead you to a place of peace. This will take some time. And some days will be better than others. You most certainly will find yourself in a much better place oneday, that you can then proceed forward from that point on.

But be very patient and kind to yourself in the meantime xx

 

[dunelm]

I love reading about your day..
The picture of the tree is flipping good too I used to love art when I was younger, I do the photo taking now though, I found I had to be in a certain frame of mind to do drawing else it would go wrong...I'd love to see how this tree turns out, since you mentioned it as being the start of a new tree..

welcome @Celtic Angel to this smashing little corner of the forum and thanks for your art comments.