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

ianpspurs said:

Moving on. Hugs for your DIL @Annb and you @lindisfel. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative, photo and video. @dunelm another awesome transformation (the art) thank you for sharing the journey from starter for ten to supreme champion. Do you always have the vision of the finished piece in your mind or does it develop?

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lindisfel said:

How is your young grandson Ian, I was sorry to hear he was poorly again I hope he is now recovering.
D.

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ianpspurs said:

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

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ianpspurs said:

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

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Annb said:

No - the only options offered were surgery to fuse the area or surgery to remove the disc. Don't quite get it myself - removing the disc would just lead to more pain from what I can understand. My husband had lower back pain from his youth and it was eventually found that vertebrae in his lumbar spine had fused themselves. Way back then, there would have been nothing they could have done anyway. DIL's problem is that the offending vertebrae and disc are very high in her neck and in a dangerous position for surgery. But they do have to try in order to avoid her being crippled for the rest of her life.

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Lamont D said:

I trained/coached youngsters in sport, even though it is teaching in some respect.
You can get too absorbed in the things you are trying to achieve.
After 20years plus of coaching the little ones, as they grew, were then going into adult footie. It was time for many reasons to hang up my boots.
From what you have posted, I believe you can't be too bad yourself!

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ianpspurs said:

Yes but what you do for your clients is just the same and you would do all that, probably more, if you were a school teacher - and others here. After a while many things - targets, learning styles, important data, seating plans, don't change. IT made things easier. I think the point is if one wants excellent outcomes and guide/develop others in any profession one has to walk the walk. Of course, some people don't/won't want to do the work. They usually can't understand why their classes/sales figures/whatever are "troublesome." Must make the job so miserable for them. I also couldn't/can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be rated outstanding at anything they do. Burn out rate for middle and senior leaders has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Amazing how senior teachers age facially from day one September to middle of the month.

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alf_Josiah said:

Good early evening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who took part in egg and spoon and 3 legged races.
Blood sugars this morning were a 5.3, if you drop the decimal point 53 is a prime number and in the real scheme of things totally pointless.

Yesterday when all our troubles seemed so far away, que music. I went out on my motorcycle for another shakedown ride, a total of 104 miles, of course I stopped part way on my journey for the compulsory vegan bacon sarnie, a pot of tea and chat to a fellow biker. The venue was “ The Dandy Highwayman “ at Cherhill on the A4 just east of Calne. If your interested look up the the Dandy Highwayman an interesting tale.
My route was Tilehurst Towers, Hungerford, Marlborough, past Silchester hill, then Cherhill with its white horse and the cafe.
I took a small diversion on the way home via Avebury and it’s prehistoric stone circle, then onto a back road up the scarp face of the Marlborough downs past the white horse at Hacken hill back into Marlborough on a very scenic minor back road.
Hopefully I can attach a picture of the remains of the sarnie, pot of tea and motorcycles in the back ground.

Today so far has been wall to wall rain, good for the reservoirs we are told.
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ianpspurs said:

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from another overcast start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 when I woke at 5am. Cramp dance practice is not recommended so early in the day. In fact, I shall write to my MP and suggest it be banned, sent to a third safe country or added to the WHO list of things not to do. Just got the drill kit out of the garage and put one of batteries on charge for a top up. Prepare for buzzing noises and the making of small holes as today I shall be known as Bob the Bodgejob (no relation to Oddjob in Goldfinger). Art bit, another starter for ten. Enjoy your day as much as you can. Time is short, long, length, span, continuation of variable confused duration. Koffy, best have another one.


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dunelm said:

All the very best to those precious grandchildren. I have an android phone so not affected by Apple breakdowns.

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gennepher said:

I am reliant @ianpspurs @dunelm on a mobile phone for the app that provides the remote control for my cochlear hearing processing. The hospital's preferred app is Apple, it does have more control settings than an Android device. But Apple drives me stark raving bonkers every morning when I put on my hearing processor. And then when the updates happen, it can set the app into doolally mode. It can, some mornings take me over half an hour to set the processor settings to what I need each day. It sets the processor up to the settings the technician set it to, but I need them different in certain circumstances. And there are 2 settings which go back to OFF, and I have to reset them each time I turn the processor on. And then if the batteries go dead a few minutes later of doing all that, I have to go through every single d**n setting to get what I need it to be again.

My current Phone I take out with me is Android Pixel 4a, but the remote control app is not compatible (it was when I bought the phone but an Android update rendered the app useless). My old phone was Pixel 3a, and the remote control app works okay on that. So, when I go out of the house I need to take two mobile phones with me, so I can use the old phone to adjust my cochlear sound processor settings if I am in a very noisy situation and need to hear the person I am talking with.

None of these remote control apps for important devices some of us need to use/wear are remotely easily convenient. Everyone I know who has a cochlear sound processor just leaves them at the technician's original setting. And if a noise/sound situation is intolerable, they just take the processor off. That is fine if you have some hearing in the other ear, or you wear a hearing aid in the other ear, but I have no hearing at all if I take my cochlear sound processor off.

I had better stop here, because I have plenty of rant left in me on the subject of devices that have to be controlled by an app on the phone, and device updates cause havoc with this working.

Am I wearing my sound processor now? Nope. If the remote app plays me up when I am setting the settings up later, then I will say s*d it. And go back to captions etc. If I am going out, then I will grit my teeth and set it up. Often the remote app says, you have not got your processor on...I have got it on, and so this inane battle continues, until the remote control app finally connects with my speech processor.

Can't stop ranting can I?

It was so much simpler when I had a separate remote control in the early days, 15 years ago now.

I have made these problems known to the hospital many times. Finally I got sent to a speech therapist who apparently had been told to show me how to use the phone remote app. Her first words were 'I thought you of all people would know how to use the phone remote for the processor'. Got my back up? Yup! (And also because I'd had to drive all the way to the original hospital, and so that was a full day just for this, someone who knew less than I did about the app. But I smiled sweetly at her, handed her my phone, and asked if she would connect the phone remote app to my processor. She failed. She had me removing the app, reinstalling it. She had me reinstalling something else. An hour later she looked at me, you've done all this before haven't you? Yes, I said. I do know what to do I said, but I cannot make something work when there is a fault in the system. She did say I had taught her a lot about, that day, what the app did do, and what it couldn't do, that she had not known.

This is going to be the same for diabetic apps (and any other important remote control app), it may work for a time, but updates by the app developer, and updates by your device, and different devices will probably always make for a mess and stuff not working.

Sorry I carried on ranting...

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from another overcast start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 when I woke at 5am. Cramp dance practice is not recommended so early in the day. In fact, I shall write to my MP and suggest it be banned, sent to a third safe country or added to the WHO list of things not to do. Just got the drill kit out of the garage and put one of batteries on charge for a top up. Prepare for buzzing noises and the making of small holes as today I shall be known as Bob the Bodgejob (no relation to Oddjob in Goldfinger). Art bit, another starter for ten. Enjoy your day as much as you can. Time is short, long, length, span, continuation of variable confused duration. Koffy, best have another one.


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gennepher said:

I am reliant @ianpspurs @dunelm on a mobile phone for the app that provides the remote control for my cochlear hearing processing. The hospital's preferred app is Apple, it does have more control settings than an Android device. But Apple drives me stark raving bonkers every morning when I put on my hearing processor. And then when the updates happen, it can set the app into doolally mode. It can, some mornings take me over half an hour to set the processor settings to what I need each day. It sets the processor up to the settings the technician set it to, but I need them different in certain circumstances. And there are 2 settings which go back to OFF, and I have to reset them each time I turn the processor on. And then if the batteries go dead a few minutes later of doing all that, I have to go through every single d**n setting to get what I need it to be again.

My current Phone I take out with me is Android Pixel 4a, but the remote control app is not compatible (it was when I bought the phone but an Android update rendered the app useless). My old phone was Pixel 3a, and the remote control app works okay on that. So, when I go out of the house I need to take two mobile phones with me, so I can use the old phone to adjust my cochlear sound processor settings if I am in a very noisy situation and need to hear the person I am talking with.

None of these remote control apps for important devices some of us need to use/wear are remotely easily convenient. Everyone I know who has a cochlear sound processor just leaves them at the technician's original setting. And if a noise/sound situation is intolerable, they just take the processor off. That is fine if you have some hearing in the other ear, or you wear a hearing aid in the other ear, but I have no hearing at all if I take my cochlear sound processor off.

I had better stop here, because I have plenty of rant left in me on the subject of devices that have to be controlled by an app on the phone, and device updates cause havoc with this working.

Am I wearing my sound processor now? Nope. If the remote app plays me up when I am setting the settings up later, then I will say s*d it. And go back to captions etc. If I am going out, then I will grit my teeth and set it up. Often the remote app says, you have not got your processor on...I have got it on, and so this inane battle continues, until the remote control app finally connects with my speech processor.

Can't stop ranting can I?

It was so much simpler when I had a separate remote control in the early days, 15 years ago now.

I have made these problems known to the hospital many times. Finally I got sent to a speech therapist who apparently had been told to show me how to use the phone remote app. Her first words were 'I thought you of all people would know how to use the phone remote for the processor'. Got my back up? Yup! (And also because I'd had to drive all the way to the original hospital, and so that was a full day just for this, someone who knew less than I did about the app. But I smiled sweetly at her, handed her my phone, and asked if she would connect the phone remote app to my processor. She failed. She had me removing the app, reinstalling it. She had me reinstalling something else. An hour later she looked at me, you've done all this before haven't you? Yes, I said. I do know what to do I said, but I cannot make something work when there is a fault in the system. She did say I had taught her a lot about, that day, what the app did do, and what it couldn't do, that she had not known.

This is going to be the same for diabetic apps (and any other important remote control app), it may work for a time, but updates by the app developer who may not be the original developer of this app by this time, and updates by your device, and different devices will probably always make for a mess and stuff not working.

Sorry I carried on ranting...

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