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

Morning all

No testing today

Mind meld ala Spock with therapist ...good session.

Something came up yesterday.
Getting very frustrated trying to sort out the gym
Can afford to do gym, but I won't get the input of a therapist unless I pay extra ..so just hanging on for a definitive answer of yay or nay from whichever ever of them is passing the buck today .

(Yes, I do have to mind & temper what I say these days )

But there comes a time, and yesterday it came to me what that meant ..

"I'm just beyond telling everyone everything's ok .when it's not ok "
Poor chap on end of text, replied straight away after ignoring me for weeks when I left voicemail )

Anyways ..meditated then & now.
So a cool little Fonzie, just like Samuel L requested ...

A good day to you.
Just off to hobble Frankie around park before the 3pm forecast rain arrives

Ttfn.
 
Oh dear, for the poor chap at the end of that voicemail...and I know what you mean when your back is against the wall and you are being ignored...just this minute sent an email to a similar kind of effect...and now waiting for response...

Hope you made it before the rain @jjraak
 
That tractor crash was so scary. How on earth did the car driver escape relatively unscathed.
 
Good that you are getting back to normal @gennepher. A bit scary yesterday.
 
Thanks @dunelm
I am afraid I do not understand why it is supposed to be good for us that we do not have a good reaction to the vaccine...
Who says it's good to have a bad reaction? It just leads to people not wanting to repeat the experience. If people think that, it must come from the idea that the worst tasting medicine is best for you. I don't believe that either for much the same reason.

I am just grateful that in the past, and so far today, I haven't reacted badly. Last time I did react badly was when I had to have a Yellow Fever jab to go to the Middle and Far East. That was bad for 3 days!

But I am odd. I wasn't given the polio vaccine at school because when tested they discovered that I had had polio, without knowing it (my elder brother was affected by the disease); same with TB (my dad was the same - an XRay showed lesions on his lungs, but he had never been aware of having the disease). I may have had childhood illnesses but never showed symptoms, other than rubella and even that was very mild. It took diabetes to floor me.
 
That is interesting @Annb
We have a lot more in 'difference' than we realise...
 
White rabbits, white rabbits, pinch, punch. Good morning everyone on a surprisingly clear and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. I am being bombarded with news of items that are literally “flying off the shelves” because they will drastically lower my fuel bills. These include kitchen gadgets, throws, electric blankets, little mini heaters that defy physics and the return of bri -nylon bed clothes and sheets that combined, will turn your bed into a sauna - noooooo! We will stick to our plan of getting out the piles of candles collected over the years and now lurking in cupboards, turning the house into a palace of enlightenment. It will be like Diwali every night for months. One candle in a snow hole or igloo with stop the air freezing - will we need a snow hole?
Art bit - adding a bit of texture - a bit slow but I am far too busy putting on layers of clothes and then taking them off, and putting them on, and taking them off - it’s all go keeping warm by wearing everything in your wardrobe. Hope you all have a perfectly wonderful 1st day of the month. I shall drink koffy.


 
Welcome to October everyone. Until I came on here I had never heard anyone use white rabbits to greet day one of a month. All sorts of ideas on the origin but none very convincing. @dunelm a wonderful critique of the spam industry, the probalms of dressing for the season in the UK and a sublime development of your art. That piece is shaping up to be your magnum opus - absolutely no pressure now Yesterday one needed more layers than an onion in order to keep warm, today is bright, sunny and ultimately a sweltering 19c. By Tuesday it could be 20c: be still my beating heart. Have a great day if you can or just rest, go off grid and gather strength for another assault on the bat pooh crazy modern world .To a great extent mine will be heavily influenced by the NLD. I never claimed to be anything except irredeemably shallow.
 
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It's a double heavy sweater day today so far. One thick but loose high necked one covered with a heavy knitted poncho made for me by DIL. There's room for both myself and Em in it. But it is beautifully warm (especially with 2 of us in it). Cold legs and feet though - need to double up on the trousers and try to get my feet into some kind of slipper with all these bandages englarging them. Just heavy socks so far.

FBG 9.5 at 4.30 am. Only one cup of tea so far but I may have to take some pain killers soon. Just my normal morning though, side effects of the jabs seems negligible - slight ache in the arms and a couple of odd dreams. Neil is feeling a bit under the weather though - not much, just not quite right.

Edited to fix typo.
 
When I was in the military and out temperatures low enough to freeze the toes off a polar bear, tights were the thing to keep legs warm - thick denier tights under your trousers. For your feet you could try searching for “cast socks” used by people with a pot on their foot or “big foot socks” - or both!
 
A,little something for these darker nights. Interrobang is a wonderful word which fits the Mad Lizzy and Crazy Kwasi era perfectly so far. Anyone else find laughter is a good form of heating? If you start reading and become apoplectic with vegan bacon rage don't take it so heavy Dearie or just ignore it/me and move right along without a second thought..
 
Brilliant texture on the Art bit @dunelm

Plenty of gentle exercise in taking your clothes on and off...
 
Oh well, I finally made it to the party this morning.
Covid jabbed arm deciding to give more grief again...

Fbg 7.8

Managed to get my head together to work on a YouTube video last night from my Trail Cam videos. Was up half the night. But I needed mentally to do it, to achieve something, after that horrid void day after the Covid jab.
And here it is...
The best I can do at the moment.
I did a short as well, and it is after the above video.
I do need to improve on this, but hey I got it up!

The sparrows are grumbling very vociferously on the lack of fat balls. But there is plenty of other stuff out there for them. So, I caved in. Ordered fat ball logs last night from Amazon...and they are coming today. I hope they like them. If they don't then tough luck, I am not going out in the car yet. And I ordered a treat for myself. I deserve it!

Creative is from yesterday's sunflower in a kaleidoscope.
Now I need a hot cuppa tea...
Have your best day.

 
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