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

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.2

*Rest in Peace Your Majesty.
And thank you.*


Last night I was getting in bed, when suddenly a cracking sound. One of the wooden bed slats had gone.
I got back out to check it but the mattress is extraordinarily heavy.
Got back in bed carefully.
Crack, a second slat went.
I need a plank/sheet of wood.
Racking my brains for an hour.
Lightbulb moment.
Took the bottom shelf out of my wardrobe.
Wedged mattress up. Looked properly at broken slats. It is a weird double layer system, not meant for repair. Pushed the wardrobe shelf in with difficulty.
Ouch ouch ouch.
Hurt arms pushing it in.
Painkillers needed.

Bed is very high, I have to literally climb into it.
Gingerly climb into bed. Repair job holds.

Creative today is a little frog out in the pouring rain yesterday. I had gone out to check on Midnight, to see if I could persuade him to come in, but he was nice and dry on the swing. Midnight does come inside when he wants to. He has taken up mountaineering over all my things, and surprisingly (given his size), doesn't knock anything over.

I had my phone camera with me, so took a couple photos of the frog, which is probably the reason the fox is constantly searching in his quest for food.

Enjoy your cuppa this morning...

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Good that you had the lightbulb moment but hope that your arms recover really quickly. Mattresses are so heavy.

Good that I re-read the post before posting it because predictive text decided that mattresses are happy not heavy.

Hello everyone on a damp, dull, autumnal start to the first full day of the reign of Charles iii. Bell ringing, special church services and sport on hold seems about right to me as a mark of respect. If we have to have a monarch Elizabeth ii was about right, warts n all, as they say. Given the people we elect and those other nations have as leader we were well served. Hug for the bed incident @gennepher but winner for the solution and amazing creative. @SlimLizzy hug for all those stress causing issues, especially your grandson's health. Thoughts and prayers with you. Mark this moment in your own way but I implore you to do so safely and with due respect for "the other" which in my opinion was the hallmark of our late Queen as opposed to certain other people who enjoy(ed) power with no responsibility.

SlimLizzy said:

08.09
Oops forgot to post this morning, well yesterday morning if you are being pedantic. Anyway.
8.05am FBG 5.7
Goodnight all

09.09
7.35am FBG 5.4
Weight 53.1 kg
Lunch. Diabetics nightmare, sliced white bread left by the houseguests.
Am turning it into that traditional French snack Croque Monsier, and serving it with salad. We are eating this once a week until the bread is gone. Neither of us enjoys the sweetish taste of this bread. Cutting off the crusts reduced the carbs to about 32g. A just passable amount for me, but definitely not either nutritious or really enjoyable.
MrSlim is hard at work repointing the end wall. The scaffold started at about 10m high, reducing as the work progresses. Today he took down the top layer, unfortunately somehow the satellite dish got knocked out of alignment and we then spent several hours resetting it.
"What's it like now?
"Still showing weak signal message"
How about now?
It's gone black !
Each communication involved running outside and shouting up the scaffold.
Both of us got a bit fed up with it but we managed to get it going just in time to hear about the queens health problems.
Which were then followed by her departure from this life.
Have had a rather worrying phone call re my 4 year old grandsons health. He has emergency appt for ultrasound scan of a lump on his neck and the doc has ordered blood tests. The child is terrified of doctors having had previous experience of blood being taken forcibly. Along with another invasive and painful procedure. (I can't remember the name) where a sample was taken from the fluid surrounding his hip bone. The situation is not helped by the doctors attitude towards his mother who stopped just short of saying that she was guilty of neglect!

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That is really worrying news about your 4 year old grandson's health @SlimLizzy

Good morning everyone on a particularly sad morning throughout the country and for lots of folk around the world. Good innings, RIP. Had to turn the tv off though.
Not much going on today although I must pack a bag as I am off to France tomorrow to see my parents and my sister. My mother has just bought a mobility scooter so I may be borrowing a set of my grandson’s shin pads. Mrs Miggins informs me that we have visitors early evening - “not dinner, just do nibbles” - sigh! Antipasti ? Peanuts? Best bet is to hand the ball to Mrs Miggins and have an afternoon nap.
Art bit - finished adding definition, nearly finished. Have a fabulous Friday if you can. I have finished my koffy and the girl in the bubble will be round shortly.

6.1 this morning. Lovely sunny morning at the moment but rain is forecast so will pop down to our little post office to do some banking of cash and cheques.

We are so lucky to have a post office in walking distance.

dunelm said:

Good innings, RIP. Had to turn the tv off though

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Yes I felt exactly the same as you.

dunelm said:

Not much going on today although I must pack a bag as I am off to France tomorrow to see my parents and my sister.

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Hope you have an enjoyable trip to France @dunelm

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who are growing webbed feet.
A delicate 6.5 this wet morning.
Unfortunately me, me’s and myself overslept again and my self imposed schedule is in tatters, a phrase springs to mind “ O dear, how sad, never mind “ I wonder where that came from.
Stay safe, stay dry and relish the hosepipe ban.

dunelm said:

I thought that white sliced bread lasted forever? Satellite saga sounded like a Brian Rix number. Big hug for the scare with your grandson and hope that he fares well.

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White sliced bread will last forever in the freezer, however we don't want it taking up space. Still have about a dozen hotdog rolls and the same of burger buns to deal with somehow.
Will know more about the boy in a week or so.
Thanks to everyone for hugs

Morning .

Sad news indeed.

Not a royalist, but Like many, the only queen I ever knew.

So fitting she's remembered today.

We all make mistakes, but I think she served the country to the very best of her abilities, in ways many coming after could only hope to match.

A little more poignant here today.
I always heard how my mum looked like the queen. (Quite a similar look )

so it's very much seems like the closing of a book...sigh.

God speed your majesty.
May you Rest in Peace.

Krystyna23040 said:

Hope you have an enjoyable trip to France @dunelm

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Thank you @Krystyna23040

7.8 this morning the best in ages .

dunelm said:

Excellent repair job @gennepher - will you do something a bit more permanent? Love this frog art, marvelous.

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Thanks very much @dunelm
The bed is one of those electric ones that rises at the top and rises at the bottom to trap you like a sandwich...the objective was to make it easier for a disabled person to get in and out of the bed. Consequently the slats are not fixed to a wooden ledge on the side of the bed, but some movable floating thing independent of the bed frame. Or it did move until it gave up the ghost 10 years ago. The slats are incredibly thin, not made of wood, any wood replacement would break that thin.

It is not possible to repair as such.
This may be the repair....see how long it lasts.
An improvement would possibly be to get a piece of thick MDF delivered, cut to size of the underneath of the mattress, and sweetly smile at the delivery person/s hoping they will place it under the mattress. I don't mind a hard bed. But this would need to be done before my current repair job goes.But there again it may last...

Once I have recovered from this fall and I am able to lift again, I will wedge up the mattress (it is never turned anyway, because of the electrics, which are disconnected now) from the other side, and see if my assessment of it is right....

I am sure I would be able to come up with something...

Krystyna23040 said:

Good that you had the lightbulb moment but hope that your arms recover really quickly. Mattresses are so heavy.

Good that I re-read the post before posting it because predictive text decided that mattresses are happy not heavy.

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Thanks @Krystyna23040
I am still sore from the fall, normally I would be able to wedge something better. This mattress was never meant to be turned. It is incredibly thick and heavy...

That is a new thing...'A happy mattress'. I wonder how many mattresses are happy with the pummelling they get, and the nightly expressions of wind...

ianpspurs said:

Hello everyone on a damp, dull, autumnal start to the first full day of the reign of Charles iii. Bell ringing, special church services and sport on hold seems about right to me as a mark of respect. If we have to have a monarch Elizabeth ii was about right, warts n all, as they say. Given the people we elect and those other nations have as leader we were well served. Hug for the bed incident @gennepher but winner for the solution and amazing creative. @SlimLizzy hug for all those stress causing issues, especially your grandson's health. Thoughts and prayers with you. Mark this moment in your own way but I implore you to do so safely and with due respect for "the other" which in my opinion was the hallmark of our late Queen as opposed to certain other people who enjoy(ed) power with no responsibility.

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Thank you Ian.
I really could've done without that last night. It was almost the straw that broke the camel's back.
Glad you liked the frog's treatment...
Take care...

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a particularly sad morning throughout the country and for lots of folk around the world. Good innings, RIP. Had to turn the tv off though.
Not much going on today although I must pack a bag as I am off to France tomorrow to see my parents and my sister. My mother has just bought a mobility scooter so I may be borrowing a set of my grandson’s shin pads. Mrs Miggins informs me that we have visitors early evening - “not dinner, just do nibbles” - sigh! Antipasti ? Peanuts? Best bet is to hand the ball to Mrs Miggins and have an afternoon nap.
Art bit - finished adding definition, nearly finished. Have a fabulous Friday if you can. I have finished my koffy and the girl in the bubble will be round shortly.

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I find driving a car is much easier than driving a mobility scooter. And it shows when I am driving the scooter...

I hope you have a good trip.

I fully concur with the afternoon nap...

Mysterious stairway upwards to where?

5.7 this morning. Really enjoyed the walk home from the park this morning. Lots of lovely puddles too splash in so that I arrived home with really clean walking shoes.

Hello everyone reading this. Damp but dry here today (oxymoron?). Noticeably darker and cooler mornings here so autumn lighting, autumn weight tracksuit bottoms and lightweight top for a couple of hours. @Krystyna23040 we'll just have a private audience, eh? Are you an aficionado of Peppa Pig and the muddy puddles episode? Out grandson called them muddy cuddles. We had to buy him an all in one waterproof for dog walking as he would sit in puddles, especially near "heaven." Heaven was a fallen church with a graveyard just beyond the bridge under which the Troll lived. Apparently Trolls breed like rabbits and swarm all over the internet. Some write newspaper columns, present radio and tv shows and have even been elevated to the cabinet and beyond. @dunelm have a safe journey and as wonderful a time as possible with family in France. Absolutely brilliant art today. So kind of you to brighten our days with your talent. Laters peeps.

Fbg 6.5

I had been researching what I could put on Midnight's skin, because where it had been very matted when he first came to me, it was still dry and flaky. Coconut oil appeared to be good for just about everything externally on a cat, as well as just about everything internally for the cat. (I am going to explore this for humans next...)

So, I am sitting next to Midnight on the swing, starting with his head with the coconut oil, rubbing it into every bit of skin. Midnight was okay to start with, but then he thinks what is this, and tries to groom it off.

He is so occupied with grooming it off, that he takes no notice of me rubbing this into his skin. I am finally finishing every bit of skin, (nearly an hour later), when Midnight suddenly realises I am responsible for this oily stuff he is trying to groom off himself. And he gives me the most impressive blood curdling snarl.

Well, I did something I shouldn't have done. I laughed, because it was so impressive. I knew he meant it, it was just a one only time warning to me, no more chances, that if I touched him one more time with coconut oil, he would shred me from top to bottom.

His poor little face was so confused. He had given me his best most impressive snarl that should have sent me running. And I laughed. He was actually emotionally upset and hurt that I laughed.

He wouldn't talk to me after that, no friendly eye blinking, I wasn't allowed to touch him, or put my hand anywhere near him.

Bedtime came, and he was still ignoring me. He refused supper, turned his head away from me. I wasn't allowed to say goodnight.

This morning, he was in overdrive with the friendly slow eye blink, and I was invited to stroke him from top to bottom. And I was invited to put food down for him. He was being so so friendly.


Creative is the two things that made me laugh at Midnight yesterday. His impressive snarl, and his new look. He looked as if he had been Brylcreamed to within an inch of his life. A natural mid way parting of fur had occurred down his head, and also all the way down his back to his tail. My hand is a bit wobbly for drawing, so this is my best effort...

His fur this morning however, feels soft and silky as though it has been conditioned well. It was very worth that effort yesterday.

The article I read about the coconut oil, suggest I rub it into the cat's fur daily...