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

ianpspurs said:

Good morning everyone from a dry but chilly start to Monday in Little America where houses are already suited and booted for The Holidays. Indeed, some have been since about the start of the month, replete with huge blow up Santa on the front lawn. Thursday should be a no fly day for Thanksgiving, Local butchers rubbing their hands over two chances to sell turkeys at >£100 a go. Yesterday's family meal and tea with the birthday boy went well. Today is mindbendingly difficult trying to make an LC, gut microbiome friendly menu fit in with late autumn/early winter. My default setting is cold food. That is probably because I can make the macros, nutes and vits.work but minerals can be a nightmare. I now have a fortnightly detailed blood analysis and follow up consultation to be considered. Interesting figures, graphs and feedback on the minerals. At no stage has cholesterol been tested but serum glucose is always tested. Tomorrow's armful also includes a PCT test to check I'm good to resume my full regime. The venue is a secret location at the back of Addenbrookes (CUH) with a phone call and code word to gain entrance to the isolation room. All the hot food I would enjoy is quite carby/high in potassium/silenium/phosphorous and sodium in its best form. In a modified form it is something other than food IMHO. Magnesium has the opposite issue and the supplements cause spectacular failure on the Bristol Stool Chart. @dunelm enjoy the shopping with your friend. Will you be using snares, shotguns or rifles for the fullish English hunt? Finally adding colour to your art totally transforms them but in a subtly different way each time. Thank you. @gennepher Midnight is certainly a whopper. Thank you for the creative, video and photo. To continue the impossible riddle theme do I watch the football later while JKP is having the baby 4x4 handbrake button fixed? Enjoy your day and I'll work through my first world problems with some tea, kefir, Faghe and blueberries then some kimchi, mackerel in olive oil minus the forgotten avo.

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Good luck with your appointment tomorrow @ianpspurs. I agree that minerals can be a nightmare.

Krystyna23040 said:

Good luck with your appointment tomorrow @ianpspurs. I agree that minerals can be a nightmare.

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Thank you for the good wishes. I really just need an all clear on covid from tomorrow to get a go ahead for Friday.. Results are usually on line very quickly.

ianpspurs said:

Good morning everyone from a dry but chilly start to Monday in Little America where houses are already suited and booted for The Holidays. Indeed, some have been since about the start of the month, replete with huge blow up Santa on the front lawn. Thursday should be a no fly day for Thanksgiving, Local butchers rubbing their hands over two chances to sell turkeys at >£100 a go. Yesterday's family meal and tea with the birthday boy went well. Today is mindbendingly difficult trying to make an LC, gut microbiome friendly menu fit in with late autumn/early winter. My default setting is cold food. That is probably because I can make the macros, nutes and vits.work but minerals can be a nightmare. I now have a fortnightly detailed blood analysis and follow up consultation to be considered. Interesting figures, graphs and feedback on the minerals. At no stage has cholesterol been tested but serum glucose is always tested. Tomorrow's armful also includes a PCT test to check I'm good to resume my full regime. The venue is a secret location at the back of Addenbrookes (CUH) with a phone call and code word to gain entrance to the isolation room. All the hot food I would enjoy is quite carby/high in potassium/silenium/phosphorous and sodium in its best form. In a modified form it is something other than food IMHO. Magnesium has the opposite issue and the supplements cause spectacular failure on the Bristol Stool Chart. @dunelm enjoy the shopping with your friend. Will you be using snares, shotguns or rifles for the fullish English hunt? Finally adding colour to your art works totally transforms them but in a subtly different way each time. Thank you. @gennepher Midnight is certainly a whopper. Thank you for the creative, video and photo. To continue the impossible riddle theme do I watch the football later while JKP is having the baby 4x4 handbrake button fixed? Enjoy your day and I'll work through my first world problems with some tea, kefir, Fage and blueberries then some kimchi, mackerel in olive oil minus the forgotten avo but with blue cheese and some cheddar.

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Thank you @ianpspurs and only a bit of stalking in the wet grass was necessary to snag the Full English. I hope that the PCT goes well for you and it’s good that they are taking the care to carry the test out.

gennepher said:

Very mysterious with the colour and moon @dunelm

Enjoy all that food shopping....

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Thanks @gennepher and he did manage to get everything that was on the list sent over by his boss (wife).

jjraak said:

Pic...sat here watching, awaiting the arrival of van helsing ...

Good on ya, showing our US Cousin, our finest cuisine.

They might lead the world right now, but will they have the legacy of their world domination stamped ?
Or even be represented by the accolade of a "Full American", when their reign is over...?

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Oh the lad is from Leeds - we joined the Army together in 1968. He just happened to end up in LA and popped over for a reunion do. He is off to Germany tomorrow to meet up with his family for a couple of days and then they will all fly home to La La Land.

Annb said:

Just back from my meeting with Kirsty Wade at the Sports Centre. She seems to be a very nice woman. She will be inviting me to join a class for people with very limited mobility after Christmas and meantime will contact me on Zoom once a week to see how I am getting on with the exercises that the physio gave me. Not a very productive meeting for me - mostly just giving my medical history. Of course, I couldn't remember dates very accurately - in my mind, once it's gone, it's gone and I forget it - not enough space in my brain to hold on to irrelevant information.

BG now dropped to 5.0 but my current cup of tea will probably push it up a bit.

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Steady as you go, pre-class zoom calls are good as is that BG reading so have a mindfull time sipping that tea.

mojo37 said:

Oh I wish I could eat pasta even a small amount twice cooked seems to affect my BG .

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Does the pasta cause a big difference? For me pasta did not cause a big jump...a small blip...Also i ate about 75g of cooked pasta. However half that amount of rice, or half a slice of bread causes a big jump.
I did start eating a bit of pasta for a couple days because the Libre 3 showed that my BG level was dangerously low. It turned out that the Libre3 was giving a lot of wrong and very low readings. I changed to a Libre3 sensor and it worked a lot better, but still quite different from the blood test strip tests, which are showing higher numbers.

gennepher said:

Glad that they have sorted the reserved car park out better @ianpspurs

I remember a tremendous amount of crop spraying when I was a child. And you were standing under it happening...

Thanks for your good wishes.

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If I remember rightly the sprays then cause big losses in birds of prey due their shells being thin.
I think it was the chlorinated hydrocarbons Dieldrin and Aldrin that persisted.
Rachel Carlson wrote the book Silent Spring in States as a result.
We nearly lost all our Sparrow Hawks in Lincolnshire.

Good morning everyone from a wonderfully quiet start here in the dark and dangerous north. The wonder wheel of lies and japes after an exotic yet carefully chosen Thai restaurant meal blurted out a 5.3 this am. Gardening. Mrs Miggins has been “sorting” out shrubs - it’s like a scene from a Monty Python film. There is now a space in the shwubberwy for a small blue spruce that she has decided will be planted up and decorated at the end of each year in support of glitteritis. Evidently a dwarf variety - only time will tell. Art bit, another starter for ten. Have a marvelous day if you can, I simply must go and make some koffy.

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from a wonderfully quiet start here in the dark and dangerous north. The wonder wheel of lies and japes after an exotic yet carefully chosen Thai restaurant meal blurted out a 5.3 this am. Gardening. Mrs Miggins has been “sorting” out shrubs - it’s like a scene from a Monty Python film. There is now a space in the shwubberwy for a small blue spruce that she has decided will be planted up and decorated at the end of each year in support of glitteritis. Evidently a dwarf variety - only time will tell. Art bit, another starter for ten. Have a marvelous day if you can, I simply must go and make some koffy.

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Some amazing ancient time worn steps @dunelm

So, a living sort of Christmas tree to be decorated each year...

gennepher said:

Some amazing ancient time worn steps @dunelm

So, a living sort of Christmas tree to be decorated each year...

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Yes - very worn steps and a living Christmas tree - the excitement of it all - especially that tree.

Fbg 6.5

Yesterday a Hitchcock sized swarm of starlings descended on the sparrows feeders, driving the sparrows off. I did put tape on the old feeders to stop the starlings, and it worked. But now the starlings have discovered my new fatball feeders...

I was in my nice warm comfy bed with a very large living fur blanket. I was not moving. The sparrows were going to have to sort this out themselves. And they did. The sparrows regrouped and edged along all the branches towards the starlings, who suddenly found themselves outnumbered by sparrows. And one by one the sparrows got back on the fatball feeders, thus pushing the starlings away.

Did the starlings come back? Yes, but not so many of them. And the sparrows did the same strategy again, and drove them off.

What happens today? We shall see...

And what did Mrs Bluetit and Mr GreatTit and Mr Robin do in all this?
They just went over to the half coconut full of suet. They are able to hang on to that.

Ghost cat number two is feeding under the swing. Jade has already eaten the best bits first from those dishes an hour ago, she is now on the swing like Midnight used to be, overseeing the cat diner. Jade is now becoming a nice solid cat. She has built up her winter fat reserves.

Midnight did not go out last night, not to the back garden (the trail camera told me), so Jade got the swing all night, but she is very good at tucking herself away, so you cannot see her. Last few nights the trail camera has recorded below freezing temperatures. I did make a temporary scarecrow type figure to replace Big Ted. But it is pathetic to look at, however Jade pushes herself into that and it provides warmth. I still have plans for a more imposing figure which will be seat belted to the back of the swing so that darned badger KissyKissy will not be able to pull it off the swing and pummel it. Nothing at the charity shops in the way of large toys...

Midnight is enjoying the warmth from my heated pad over my tummy. I got cold seeing to the animals first and sorting out the outside cat dishes, and fatballs.


I am still catching up on my trail camera videos, this is from about a week ago.

Cat, Midnight, on the swing while wind chimes play. And there are other noises. I am not sure what they are because I am deaf. I cannot identify the noises. I would love to know what he is looking upwards at..the foxes and badgers look up at the same spot...


Creative is autumn done in Procreate.
I did several versions of this, and liked the earlier prettier, more colourful, ethereal version. But sadly I had not saved them when I thought I had...
So, you get this overworked one...
9am now.
Time for a nap with that cat, who is already twitching in his dreams.
The tea flask is besides me...

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, a cold and damp one here in Tilehurst Towers.

A stonking neither here nor there 5.7 this morning.

Mrs J is awake and talking at me, being the dutiful husband I am I listened attentively until until I heard those words…garden centre…..you can come too….Christmas presents at that point my listen to the wife switch activated, her lips were moving making what sounds I know not, I just hope I am not committed to going anywhere, my shed beckons.
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Good luck to those in the next few days who will be undergoing medical procedures and clinic visits, I know the procedure I have 4 booked for December.
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Stay safe all

alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, a cold and damp one here in Tilehurst Towers.

A stonking neither here nor there 5.7 this morning.

Mrs J is awake and talking at me, being the dutiful husband I am I listened attentively until until I heard those words…garden centre…..you can come too….Christmas presents at that point my listen to the wife switch activated, her lips were moving making what sounds I know not, I just hope I am not committed to going anywhere, my shed beckons.
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Good luck to those in the next few days who will be undergoing medical procedures and clinic visits, I know the procedure I have 4 booked for December.
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Stay safe all

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Hugs are for the schedule of medical procedures @alf_Josiah
All needed, but incredibly time consuming for all the necessary around each visit.
More hugs.
Disappear into your shed with a cuppa...

5.5 this morning. Got really wet on the dog walk. Should have worn my waterproof trousers but didn't realise it was raining so heavily. It didn't help that Archie tried to dry himself off on my trousers the moment we got back into the house.

9.5 at 3.45 am. Tea and pills led to 12.8 but another cup of tea at 6.30 only led to 12.9.

Yesterday was recycling bin day and I omitted to put it out early, which I usually do and lo and behold, for the first time ever, the recycling lorry came around early. Another 4 weeks before the next collection. I was waiting to put the bin out when we left the house to go to my appointment, to save my legs. Ah well, too bad. I also missed the dustbin collection 2 weeks ago - just couldn't make the legs do it and Neil wasn't aware of that, so they had to go out this week. I made sure Neil knew that I couldn't put them out today, so he did. We are told to separate compostable material from other rubbish and we are very careful to do that but I watched the binmen this morning and they just dumped both bins into the same part of the lorry, totally ignoring the organic section. I wonder why we bother.

Time to think about breakfast.

Good morning everyone which is a traditionally polite greeting but from the foregoing an alternative truth in some cases. Testing times for me today in order to determine where the immunotherapy element of my treatment resumes, , and keep tabs on a raft of data contained in my blood. @dunelm thanks for sharing the start of your latest journey to your mental and artistic happy place. @alf_Josiah get thee hence to the Garden Centre "as soon as." Methinks you and @dunelm doth both protest too much about things you actually adore and wouldn't change for all the koffy in wherever, even that expelled by Civets. @Annb hug for missing bin day and 4 weekly collections. @Krystyna23040 hug for getting wet. @gennepher hug for the lost creative but thanks for sharing that one which holds the promise of brighter days ahead. Talking of which, a semblance of reality over the (banned) B word is growing in certain parts. These two stories offer tiny glow from the Light of the World. Battling like a Toc H lamp in the Stygian gloom but huge glow and improvements to some lives and still light and hope . Very seasonal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63707689
and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/22/treatment-for-alzheimers-lecanemab-dementia-research. That light is very much inspite of not because of the B word or the last 12 years of industrial scale gaslighting and (pre?) determined wrecking the joint. Even those clownshoes can't take back control from the real ruler of the world or even "the market", despite their delusions of grandeur. Lift not up your horn on high. Enjoy your day even if you let Elsie plan your menu.

@ianpspurs
Excellent result from your designated nurse, it’s fine to be sceptical and time is the final proof.
As for the garden centre, on yer bike, you traitor to the male gender, garden centres pah hehehehe

Annb said:

9.5 at 3.45 am. Tea and pills led to 12.8 but another cup of tea at 6.30 only led to 12.9.

Yesterday was recycling bin day and I omitted to put it out early, which I usually do and lo and behold, for the first time ever, the recycling lorry came around early. Another 4 weeks before the next collection. I was waiting to put the bin out when we left the house to go to my appointment, to save my legs. Ah well, too bad. I also missed the dustbin collection 2 weeks ago - just couldn't make the legs do it and Neil wasn't aware of that, so they had to go out this week. I made sure Neil knew that I couldn't put them out today, so he did. We are told to separate compostable material from other rubbish and we are very careful to do that but I watched the binmen this morning and they just dumped both bins into the same part of the lorry, totally ignoring the organic section. I wonder why we bother.

Time to think about breakfast.

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My Welsh friend couldn't visit on Monday because I had an appointment, she can't come today because she has an appointment - also with the Move More group, so she will visit tomorrow and that means today is baking day. I forced myself to get on with it and now have a tray of dark chocolate brownies in the oven. It's very dark chocolate, so they won't be too sweet and, of course, there's not a lot of flour. There is a fair amount of sugar though, so I'd better not have more than a tiny sliver.

alf_Josiah said:

@ianpspurs
Excellent result from your designated nurse, it’s fine to be sceptical and time is the final proof.
As for the garden centre, on yer bike, you traitor to the male gender, garden centres pah hehehehe

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Thank you. I have edited my original post so some may wonder about the excellent results comment. I would bet the farm that you have been in more garden centres, supermarkets, koffy shops and non - very close - family social settings, excluding churches, than I over the last 6 decades. Traitor. Best wishes for all your December appointments and procedures.
Oops. Only 6 decades