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

A lot of teamwork speak getting bandied about, rocks and sand. If you add a cement mixture you can build your own team shed, have a tea meeting while watching spellbinding tv series and stroke a black cat or two. Having cake, discussing cakes with a vet, while the snow piles up outside.
It is miserable out there. Our new ice rink is now a large puddle, some magic going on there!
Grandkids have wrecked me, so tiring, had a go with a virtual game machine thingy. I fell over! My neck hurts now! Stupid old ******! Trying to be clever. Idiot!
Cricket on in the Windies, only aware cos it was mentioned on the footie last night.
Lots of dishes to do.
Christmas is postponed till better weather.
Or when Mrs L orders it!
 
A chuckle for the creative mindset.

But an ouch for the tumble.
However bravo for trying.

We might be old dogs, but we can still learn new tricks

Rest up & be well asap .
 
Sadly my "Got done" list wouldn't be very impressive. My "To do" list, however, is pretty impressive, if a tad permanent.
 
Annb said:
Sadly my "Got done" list wouldn't be very impressive. My "To do" list, however, is pretty impressive, if a tad permanent.
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I have found that getting others to help with your to do list actually turns it into a 'Got done' list.
Without having to resort to do too much!
All you have to do is ask, or beg or order your man to do it.
Also, it's why we have relatives.
And no witchcraft used.
Except. That is, the spell a female puts on a male.

That is how my bay window got fixed!
 
Ah, if it were only so, @Lamont D. My to do list is largely duplicated in my son, Neil's list but his list is better known for its aspiration than its achievement too. Nobody puts pressure on Neil. He just doesn't accept it. If anything, pressure makes him even more determined NOT to do whatever is being demanded. I don't complain. Asperger's makes him what he is (generally helpful and clever) but his other health issues make him feel less than well most of the time and that brings out the procrastinative (is that a word? If not it should be) and stubborn face of his Asperger's.
 
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Yes, you are right @lindisfel. It is very important to take K2 - unless you are on blood thinners.
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Thats warfarin which is stopped working with vit k.
It doesnt happen with the novel anticoagulants like Dabigatran they work differently to the Vitamin k antagonist like Warfarin.

I found it bizarre I was eating too much broccoli when on warfarin.... it stopped it thinning my blood.
The novel anticoagulants work differently ..on different
clotting factors in the blood.
D.
 
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Good morning everyone on a tropical 5°C and drizzly start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. Early up due to an early to bed last night after an exhausting day muttering about tinsel town. Still, Mrs Miggins has done an excellent job and only six strings of lights used - must be a record. I managed to do the front hallway without anything needing adjusting by the management. Earlier, we walked into town and back for a pre-decorating leg stretch, carefully avoiding eye contact with the festive jumper brigade. Daughter came round for a chat. She has been offered a directorship at the precision engineering company where she earns a crust and wanted to go over stuff like tax, pension contributions, alphabet shares, dividends and more importantly for me and Mrs Miggins, potential extra grandparent duties- so much excitement. This last bit may put the kibosh on our planned world scuba diving tour, base diving from the Troll Wall and running with the bulls in Pamplona. Art bit. First go with my new bamboo dip pen. Hope your day is kind to you. Lists - I only do shopping lists - I forget stuff otherwise and then end up like a dog spotting a squirrel when I see something that I previously did not know existed. Note: Mrs Miggins does not like Nduja, Pule Donkey Cheese and turned her nose up at whale burgers when we were in Norway last. Now, where is that civet cat assisted koffy?

 
SlimLizzy said:
19.7 should be >30.
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Some athorities believe it should be over 50 to give full immunity and cause t cells to flourish which fight cancer.
(Its claimed now by some considerable authorities mrna vaccines damage tee cells)

Most of the population are so low in vit D now they set a limit they think they can achieve.

You must put total sun block on in summer?

It's one way of not getting a melanoma, not like I did.

Best wishes
Derek
 
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Congratulations on the promotion for daughter, director, huh.

Bravo ...but sad about the bull running coming to an end.

I can't see the point, personally..thank goodness .
 
11.8 at 0315. Up to 13.3 right now. When it reached 13.1 I took some insulin to try to get it under control - that was only half an hour ago but it is still rising. Looks like being another day of too high BGs.

Em arrived at 0630 and immediately got into my bed and went back to sleep. I'll wake her up again at 0730 to get ready for school. She might accept some bacon and egg for breakfast. Might make some pancakes to go with it for her.
 
Thank you for that information @lindisfel.
I do take K2 but I am now wondering if I shouldn't because I also eat too much broccoli. I couldn't cut down on the purple sprouting broccoli as it is my favourite vegetable.

Must do some research on that. I am taking K2 because I do eat calcium rich foods and take D3 and a doctor said that we must also take K2 to stop the calcium being deposited in the arteries instead of the bones.
 
Statins are also artery calcifying. Thats how they are supposed to stabilise choresterol formation!
I would not take em myself.
D.
 
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lindisfel said:
Black people and Muslim women are really low in vit D.
Even a lot of black staff died in hospital in the pandemic, so it wasn't social conditions.


My mum gave me cod liver oil and malt when I was young. It was palatable and good for me.
D.
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Darker skins are "designed" to protect from the sun and, in these colder temperate climates, interferes with Vitamin D being produced as a result. Lighter coloured skin doesn't do such a good job of protecting from the sun's rays so Asiatic men tend to suffer less from Vit D deficiency. Many Asiatic women cover their bodies and never have the beneficial effect that they might otherwise enjoy.

Malt and cod liver oil - yummy! In the late 40's/early 50's malt and cod liver oil were all the thing and then somebody brought out vit C tablets - can't remember the name of them - lovely tart orange flavour. We didn't need sweets, we had our supplements. That's not to say we refused sweets when they became available. Great days when Mum could buy a Mars bar and cut it into thin slices to share between herself, Dad and us 2 kids. I think Mars bars must have been bigger then than they are now.

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Hi Derek,
Sunblock factor 50 on my face and shoulders. Avoid sun during the hottest part of the day. My skin is adapting to living here and I tan or freckle. Gardening in shorts and vest a lot of the year. However I cover up once the weather gets cooler, so little sun exposure for my skin. I am one of those people who is often cold, having little natural insulation. Apparently vitamin D is stored in fat - and I have very little of that being a naturally skinny bird.
As an underweight child I too was dosed with Cod Liver Oil and Malt Extract, not sure it did me any good, but credit to Mum for trying her best.
 
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