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

Good morning. A dreadful night with very little slumber.. a grey and grizzly day greets I’ve promised myself that the lawns need mowing, a couple of bay trees and three rosemary bushes. Good news lawns and pruning down almost before the rain.. and a 4.6 greeted me after carbs fest ( is a prawn sandwich classed as carbs fest ?
 
59 posts behind... FBG 5.9 improvement. And that was 0915, with a very rough night-- but rough nights seem to give lower readings. We shall see. No before-breakfast walk; had to get a time-specific, food-needed chronic med into me. Walk next!
 
Settings for all of them are in different places with different makes aren't they?
Hope you get it sorted quickly, and that they all behave!
Thanks!
>^..^<
 
@SaskiaKC Churchill was third on my list and probably why I thought of Eleanor Roosevelt. How you tell it is exactly as I learned it. Thanks for the research!!
@PenguinMum not sure if I commiserated on another thread re lack of sleep and the aged pup. We had an elderly cat who'd wander, cry at night-- dementia sounds right, poor baby. And his mum...
@MisplacedIdentity how did the trainer session go? The trainers I know are very "meet you where you are" people. But then they're in private practise and don't have gym quotas to meet ....
@Bubbsie I am having one of those mornings myself. I feel with you <3
@gennepher I'm way behind in posts, so I'm thinking of you and hope that I'll soon run across you reporting in after hospital Ah! Here's you yesterday asking about plainchant. I'll have to be on my computer to send a link. Plainchant is the Western medieval/Gregorian church singing done before composers realized what they could do with this wide world of harmony available to them. It is purely vocal, so even the experts would have to grant you that a voice is a voice, right? So step one (imho) is to buy yourself a small Bose bluetooth speaker, currently under $200. That way you'll be assured of good fidelity. (This only works if you have a good fast wifi and a phone/device that can stream well. If you watch videos on your device, you're safe).
Step 2 is, go on Youtube and search "Hildegard von Bingen". She was an abbess in 11thC, a genius, a composer, philosopher, apparently invented the science of natural history, and her chant is sublime and ecstatic. She's my favorite plainchant composer. Look for the videos that feature female voices, as they will better match the vibrations you might feel when you sneeze or vocalize in any way.
Step 3, cast to your Bose speaker, which you have previously taught your wifi network and taught to pair with your phone. Caution! My speaker talks to me!! She says very mushily, "battery 40 percent", and "connected to cdhjdiPhone". Then the music starts. I don't know what to advise re volume levels. Start soft so you don't get sensory overload I guess, and inch it up until you feel right.
Step 4, three minutes max for first session!!!!! Unless you are instantly transported, of course. But still, this will be exhausting, right?
Step 5. Buy a Celtic harp! (And a $20 tuning device) That goes in your lap, you hug it, and the strings vibrate like crazy. Blow across soda or beer bottles (with somebody who can show and tell). You can feel that and hear it by bone induction. I'm a flute player, and actually most instrumentalists hear half of what they hear by being in close bodily contact with their instruments. I think piano and percussion might be exceptions. But... all kinds of drums are pitched. African maybe the best example.
Step 6 and I am not kidding: take lessons on that harp! Find a certified Music Therapist or UK equivalent, so you know you have an understanding soul to work with.
I know that's a huge list, but I am with you that you can do more than they say you can. Music starts in the heart, not the technology.
Whew. Thus endeth the lesson for today!
 

So glad it's more comfortable, and frustrated that "hi tek" yet again fails a human being. Wouldpart of your problem have been, you were in bowels of hospital where no signals ever work correctly anyway? I think you might allow yourself to keep the thing off in a cafe for now. Cafes overload many hearing people, including me. All that chatter presents such a daunting processing task that it can just be Too Much. Can you get to a park or the great outdoors, or someone's house where you can have a quiet background with less electrical interference?
I'm probably contradicting all the medical instructions you've been given.... but one of my kids has auditory processing issues so some of this is familiar to me. I'm saying stuff I followed with an autistic child, and now follow with my mom who has dementia. And myself! Playing in a symphony orchestra is a completely different beast than being assaulted by a memory care facility's jukebox set on a local top 10 radio station with the bass gain turned up to 3700!
Thus endeth ZF being opinionated. (Well, for this post anyway
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Try goat's milk? It's supposedly more easily digested. The supermarket but local-ish type I get is very palatable and feels low fat in my mouth. I was going to say Hot Almond Milk but as usual @ianpspurs got there first.
 
good evening all

was 4.7 this morning

A grey and soggy day for most of the day here although it's looking a bit brighter now. The rain didn't matter much because we were indoors for most of the day helping out at a local charity so in a big shed with no windows Had a nice low carb dinner on the way home and now we're 'chillin' and drinking tea .

Good job we got some gardening done earlier in the week and mr gee is pleased it rained all day today because he transplanted a couple of small bushes yesterday and the steady light rain will help keep them hydrated after their move.

Hope your day has treated you kindly so far
 

Gosh Gennepher I didn't know whether to send a hug for all the problems with the "install" or a star for coping so well with them. Hope it all turns out well for you and you get to hear some music eventually.
 
@gennepher

i went with winner for your wonderful post about the Cochlear device, not to dismiss your trials, tribulations & awesome patience with the new tech,
but for the sheer tenacity and your 'can do' spirit.

Consider my hat, properly tipped in your direction.
awesome barely covers it.

the lovely @zauberflote , left a tip to check out.
i took the liberty of finding and posting, in case you hadn't already had time to check it out.
sure ZF will point out, one or two favourites.

 
trick60 said:
Burning the midnight oil again Saskia, you don't need as much beauty sleep as I do
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LOL, I slept in this morning and when I went into the bathroom I looked in the mirror and thought, "Right, you've gotten enough sleep now!"

Well ... let's just say the mirror didn't "crack from side to side" ...
 

Lovely. I have admired Hildegard for years. I have never heard this before. I love the instrumentation.
 
gennepher said:
Settings for all of them are in different places with different makes aren't they?
Hope you get it sorted quickly, and that they all behave!
Thanks!
>^..^<
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Thanks, "Jennyfur."

The new phone is in "time out" right now. I shut it into a drawer last night. Really just to keep it out of harm's way until the case I ordered for it arrives. Its screen is flush with its edge and I don't want to scratch it or knock it or have it fall off the nightstand before I get a chance to start using it.

I love computers but I wish they were as simple and user-friendly as typewriters and these:

 

I had to read this a few times to fully understand what you were saying. I’ve copied and pasted it.

I had a look on Amazon and there were some laptop lyre type Celtic harps. I am assuming that is what you were talking about and not a bigger one?

I found in You Tube ‘Voices of Angels’ by Hildegard. There were others, but that one sounded better. Only listened a couple minutes. Then tried again. It’s curious, there is something about it.

So you are saying musicians feel a lot of what they play by being in contact with the instrument, hence you suggesting a laptop kind harp?

I am very interested. Going back to You Tube for another couple minutes Voices of Angels...

>^..^<
 
Thank you very much for your lovely words!
I am working backwards through the posts...to read and catch up.
Will look at your You Tube one now. Then continue through posts backwards...
>^..^<
 
gennepher said:
Yes
I now see a visual ‘Jenny’ with long fur round my name...
Makes me smile!
>^..^<

P.S. I have never outgrown the manual typewriters, and I have 3 of them, and a large supply of ribbons.....
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What inds of typewriters do you have? I learned on an Underwood manual and then on an IBM Selectric. We thought the Selectric, and the Selectric Mag-Card typewriter, which were state-of-the art then, could never be improved upon!

LOL.

I had two very nice Smith Corona portables, and wanted one of these, the cutest coolest typewriter I've ever seen-- Olivetti Valentine:

 
trick60 said:
Gosh Gennepher I didn't know whether to send a hug for all the problems with the "install" or a star for coping so well with them. Hope it all turns out well for you and you get to hear some music eventually.
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Thank you very much for your words and good wishes. They are welcome.

I hope I can get somewhere with music.

>^..^<

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I used to have a turquoise Olivetti like the red one you like.
I have an old cursive Smith-Corona. An old Remington typewriter. Another one I cannot remember the make. And I have just remembered another, a 20 year old electric one which is Brother...

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