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

FBG 8.2 at 3.30 this morning. Painkillers let me fall asleep again (in the big chair) and I dozed off and on until 8.30. (Neil's newish machine was busy grinding up soya beans and making soya milk and waking me up every time it started grinding. It's a very noisy machine.) By then BG was 11.9. Hour and a half later it was 13.7. At that stage I took insulin and some more painkillers. Had some breakfast and now BG is 9.8. Going in the right direction anyway.

Painkillers not having the desired effect though. I could take another dose about 2 pm, but I don't know if it will be worth it - today it doesn't seem to be having much effect - other than an unfortunate effect on my digestive system (opioids slow everything down). Probably better not.

Very wet and very windy here today - at least the rain has washed the window where one of our resident starlings left a message for us.
 
gennepher said:
A long time since I watched someone puffing a pipe @ianpspurs
I would prefer the smell of matches to relight it, not the smell, of zippo fuel...while he was talking...

Thanks for the painting compliment.
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He is what one might call quite a character but oh so clever and gifted.
 
gennepher said:
He does look a very interesting person @ianpspurs
Judging by the words he used there, you/I mean I could understand what he was talking about, and possibly join in. I am going to look at his other videos...
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Enjoy. I would have benefited more from English with him as a teacher. I'm obviously biased because he's a Cambridge man and ordained C of E minister. Very good on C S Lewis, especially his poetry. (Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage war is/was on ch 5 today - I missed the start but found it on more 5)
 
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Lovely relaxing day, dog walking, reading and drinking coffee.
Got a message from a Facebook group that I applied to join 3 years ago that I have just been accepted as a member. Really strange that it has taken so long.
It is run by a physio and Pilates teacher and I applied to join after l had been on one of their courses. They post lots of very good information on it that will be very helpful.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Lovely relaxing day, dog walking, reading and drinking coffee.
Got a message from a Facebook group that I applied to join 3 years ago that I have just been accepted as a member. Really strange that it has taken so long.
It is run by a physio and Pilates teacher and I applied to join after l had been on one of their courses. They post lots of very good information on it that will be very helpful.
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That is very strange, that length of time @Krystyna23040
 
Fbg 6.4

Nighttime TrailCam video...
This one is from just before Christmas (I keep finding one I haven't posted!)

Cat Jade's night - watching the cats and fox

Cat Jade
Cat Midnight checking on Jade from the distance, then he comes back to me in my bed, waking me up, and then I get up and make a cup of tea...
Ghost Cat (#1,:there are several ghost cats who visit, their ginger colouring makes them look white), he is a nightly visitor
Foxy Loxy, he is always mooching around...



Creative...I am having a bit more fun in ZenBrush3 now, remembering what all the buttons are, until I press 'save', but the delete button is right next to it...aaaggghhh...

All the reds today...

Time for a cuppa...

Have your best day...

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09.01
8.20am FBG 4.8
Got through the dreaded anniversary without too much difficulty. Longish chat with Mum who had had many visitors.
Was good to be able to give her the good news that I have had chatty and cheerful sounding phone call from Son1. Both of us have been getting very worried about him because of his long silence.
It seems my sister will prevail as Mum has agreed to have her last kitten on a two week trial basis. This means we may not be able to take Kiki with us when we visit.. will start looking for cat boarding. It's unreasonable to expect others to feed her three or four times a day. Plus it's still hunting season so leaving her outside all day is well dodgy - to say the least.
We both had our flu jabs with no obvious effect. Covid boosters booked for 16th. We are going to avoid people as far as possible until then. Most of our french friends either have covid or are recovering from it. So there is a real risk and it seems MrSlim is keen to visit UK mid Feb.
 
gennepher said:
She needs to be put in too...

I will have a fiddle with this painting of today when I get back home @SlimLizzy
Medical stuff calls first...
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I thought the second pair of eyes belong to Jade?
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who were rebel rousers in their dreams.

Bloods this morning were 4.8, insulin dosage calculated, factoring in me, me’s and myself are going to be quite active outside in the cold, breakfast has been consumed, not a very diabetic friendly one, but hopefully should allow for the activity and cold.

Must get down to Newquay to watch the take off and launch of Britains new space industry, the next major one to watch out for is the small nuclear reactors from submarines being built in major towns, nothing new in the technology just the application of common sense.
Wow that’s almost a serious posting, I must need medication and koffy.

Stay everything and most importantly something or other, I can’t remember.
 
jjraak said:
WWhoa...nice speeds...

Yes, annoyingly ...like e-scooters, shops can and legally sell products illegal to either ride on road or pavement.
(Police can and do confiscate & fine riders....oddly enough police sell recovered scooters that are damaged at auctions ..highly strange )

IF that is just downhill with you pedalling or freewheeling like crazy..maybe not.

But it that's with the motor adding ANY input beyond 15 mph, then it is.....

Illegal in UK... definitely
And in France too
With BIG fines..so be careful.

Sure you know, but bikes should be labelled for ease of checking by authorities I guess

Here's mine middle of rear wheel...(excuse muddy splashes)
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When did these rules come in? Bought our ebikes several (5?) Years ago. Haven't been out for a ride for some time so can't remember speeds achieved, but sure sometimes above 6mph. Although mine gives speed in kph.
Aha! Oops! that means it was 45kph downhill.
 
Morning all from a dry, cooler especially odd town inside this Eastern Oddity/giant pig farm/US aircraft hanger. No blood sugar readings but all the fun of the fair/nonsense of IF, carb-counting and dietary analysis. I strongly suspect more habit/Linus' blanket than any earthly use. @Krystyna23040 good news on yesterday being relaxing and acceptance in the Facebook group. Obviously very thorough due diligence. @alf_Josiah I hope the breakfast proves suitably sustaining for a busy day. @gennepher best wishes for the medical issues/errands. Thanks for the creative - I like the orange - and good news on remembering more about ZenBrush3. @SlimLizzy mixed news for you. Good that you had a catch up with your son and your jabs are booked, not so good on Kiki and the prevailing COVID rate. Yesterday Nan London had a 93rd birthday schooner of sherry and a celebration meal complete with sparkling fountain in her cake. We couldn't find a 93 candle or combination of said numbers. Major task today is to track down a suitable electric blanket for her - has everyone in the UK been buying them? Do what you gotta do today and travel in hope it really is as though malign imps are driving slurry spreaders round and round out there just now.
 
Annb said:
Fantastic @dunelm! Getting to love that bridge. Never having lived in canal country I hadn't realised how that kind of bridge worked. Your artwork is not only amazing, but educational too.
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Thank you @Annb - interestingly (for me at least) when my great great grandparents arrived on these shores, they worked on coal barges.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Lovely relaxing day, dog walking, reading and drinking coffee.
Got a message from a Facebook group that I applied to join 3 years ago that I have just been accepted as a member. Really strange that it has taken so long.
It is run by a physio and Pilates teacher and I applied to join after l had been on one of their courses. They post lots of very good information on it that will be very helpful.
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Very busy or good due diligence - either way good that they have now accepted yuou.
 
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