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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

A couple of messages to do this morning.
Heckishly windy out there.
Came back frozen...
In bed now trying to get warm...

Did this digital Chinese painting in Sketch Club app just now...my fingers are frozen, so no handling brush pens and paper! But I can paint on screen with my fingers!

Wildlife nighttime video
Badger was wrecking my swing half the night...he wants those cloths...
1 min


I need some food now...

Keep warm....


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Moody, esoteric.

Wot does that mean?
 
Lainie71 said:
I have practiced Tai Chi and its something I go back to when my nothing else helps with my mental health. It takes the edge off it a bit ;)
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I fully agree with you @Lainie71 . Qigong also, especially Zhan Zhuang, (standing like a tree) is immensely valuable for bringing together body a mind.
 
dunelm said:
I fully agree with you @Lainie71 . Qigong also, especially Zhan Zhuang, (standing like a tree) is immensely valuable for bringing together body a mind.
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The standing like a tree is really good, I do this after my workouts. Physio therapist was surprised I could even stand on one leg without wobbling but I said it was probably due to disciplined ballet training in my teens/twenties and tai chi etc.
 
jjraak said:
Guessing that's a hefty sum based on the "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it " principal...(is it really 20k )

Must come in useful for many though.
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Our Group Practice had 2 of those. They couldn't have been top of the range because they both failed fairly quickly. I was told they had cost "thousands". Then they had as much difficulty finding my veins as they ever had done before but I noticed last time there that they had another one with which they found some small veins which they could use.
 
Lamont D said:
Wow,
I want you to be aware of the emotional rollercoaster I'm on today or this week.
I'm I in a bit of a state I think I have found a brother of circumstances my friend.
Your words (again) have hit home, nail on head!
It's not sympathy, empathy or pity!
I have had that in spades.
I'm not looking for understanding, though deep down I am.
Like yourself, I'm trying to quell my fears and the circumstances of the anxiety.
My shoulders have slumped so many times this week.
I have an emotional diary, and it's full.
Part of my homework from my counsellor.
As for praying with her, for her, using her beliefs to interact has been my life's work. You wouldn't imagine my scepticism with how her family tried to indoctrinate their beliefs.
I have sat in their church and listened and talked, and my kids have taken part in the rituals. And a lot more.
My own personal agnostic views, my open mind, my values, it's not that I'm anti religious, I have not found one that I could be comfortable with. I have always supported Mrs L in her beliefs.

This is helping, and I appreciate the support. I just feel down.
And I believe I'm trapped or feel trapped.
I'm trying to be positive and be myself again but life gets in the way.

Thanks again, you lot are fantastic.
I'm an glad that I've got this forum.
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I really admire the way you are coping with a nightmare situation and how you honestly and openly describe your feelings.

We bought Mr K 's dad to live with us when he was diagnosed with dementia. Looking after him completely overwhelmed us. Looking after a parent with dementia is completely different from looking after a much loved wife with dementia.

We were not on our own, we had each other but it still bought us close to breaking point. You are on your own. Which is why I really admire the way you are coping.
 
Here's a poem, piece of art and some music. Malcolm Guite, the poet, writes that he feels this clarified his own experience of depression so may be helpful. On a different tack - I've been a trollope (didn't use the w word which has a good biblical lineage) and gone to other threads - which has triggered my inner grumpy old man. Anyone going around using the word Hubby really does need to give their head a (long) wobble.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
I really admire the way you are coping with a nightmare situation and how you honestly and openly describe your feelings.

We bought Mr K 's dad to live with us when he was diagnosed with dementia. Looking after him completely overwhelmed us. Looking after a parent with dementia is completely different from looking after a much loved wife with dementia.

We were not on our own, we had each other but it still bought us close to breaking point. You are on your own. Which is why I really admire the way you are coping.
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It is my description, that it feels as if, I'm coping all alone.
It isn't!
I have family who do things, it's just that I do the majority of care and chores daily. Hence the daily grind!
Thanks again for the thought, and empathy.
It is me, that Mrs L depends and relies on.
It is me, that has to explain things, that Mrs L doesn't understand or remember.
It is me that has the frustration of the situation.
Misrememberitis, is effecting her, but it is hurting me as well.
I had anxiety and depression before this, and through help and self motivated reasons, I was on the mend (ish).
But, knowing what I know now, has knocked the stuffing out of my confidence.
I had already lost everything but my family.
Now I am going to lose someone, in a relationship sense, that I hoped would be there for me during and through my later years.
I know I have my big family and my love for all of them is unlimited. And they do and will support both of us.
It was unexpected and I'm trying to do my best. I was unprepared for this, I'm not domesticated at all.
The anxiety is always there and I hate it. And I can't help it!
The thread and forum helps so much, as does keeping busy, doing things I can do, while Mrs L has a rest or knows I'm busy.
I'm agnostic but I pray for her in my way every day.
I hope I can do this!
 
ianpspurs said:
Here's a poem, piece of art and some music. Malcolm Guite, the poet, writes that he feels this clarified his own experience of depression so may be helpful. On a different tack - I've been a trollope (didn't use the w word which has a good biblical lineage) and gone to other threads - which has triggered my inner grumpy old man. Anyone going around using the word Hubby really does need to give their head a (long) wobble.
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Am a grump without a trigger.
What about wifey?
 
Tip of the day.
Leave your bank card at home, and only carry a few quid for refreshments!




Hang on.
No, that is wrong!
The first fella I travelled with had a habit of not bringing his card and money! Intentionally. And I wasn't the only one he did it to.
Too many to describe but I never lost out, due to get arrangements with the finance department. Receipts, form fillinng, claiming expenses.
The driver was under the assumption that he couldn't claim for toll roads, even if they gave receipts. So he didn't use them, adding costs on mileage and time. I always claimed. Always got the money back!

So many stories.

My best wishes to you all as always.
 
Lamont D said:
Tip of the day.
Leave your bank card at home, and only carry a few quid for refreshments!




Hang on.
No, that is wrong!
The first fella I travelled with had a habit of not bringing his card and money! Intentionally. And I wasn't the only one he did it to.
Too many to describe but I never lost out, due to get arrangements with the finance department. Receipts, form fillinng, claiming expenses.
The driver was under the assumption that he couldn't claim for toll roads, even if they gave receipts. So he didn't use them, adding costs on mileage and time. I always claimed. Always got the money back!

So many stories.

My best wishes to you all as always.
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When I was at Bilsdale I took one particular engineer out with me who always expected his leader to buy the first pint at lunch time in a pub. One pint of best bitter was enough for me in those long lost days of a little drinking and driving with a meal. He would pay for his second pint but I wasn't fly enough to get him to pay for an expensive fruit drink! Then he wouldn't want to drive in the afternoon.
One new years day when he was at Sandale earlier in his career he made me drive the Range Rover All the way to New Galloway transmitter and back because he was over the top from a binge the night before.
A real character but brilliant engineer.
D.
 
Shuffled through to the kitchen at 0430 - power outage so it was a case of feeling my way. there was meagre light from a battery lamp which Neil had placed on the floor in the hallway. The power must have been off for quite a while before he did that but I have no idea when it was. BG was 8.5. Found a candle to light. Couldn't make my usual cup of tea so just took painkillers and a glass of cold water (brrr!) and settled down in the chair. Fell asleep about 0500 and woke when I heard a sound, which turned out to be Neil putting the candle out and turning the lights on. That was 0530. All the little electronic alarms which had been complaining that they weren't getting power had stopped at least. So far, power has stayed on. Must get around to making my cup of tea now.
 
Annb said:
Shuffled through to the kitchen at 0430 - power outage so it was a case of feeling my way. there was meagre light from a battery lamp which Neil had placed on the floor in the hallway. The power must have been off for quite a while before he did that but I have no idea when it was. BG was 8.5. Found a candle to light. Couldn't make my usual cup of tea so just took painkillers and a glass of cold water (brrr!) and settled down in the chair. Fell asleep about 0500 and woke when I heard a sound, which turned out to be Neil putting the candle out and turning the lights on. That was 0530. All the little electronic alarms which had been complaining that they weren't getting power had stopped at least. So far, power has stayed on. Must get around to making my cup of tea now.
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Is that because of Storm Pia? We had an email from Northern Powergrid yesterday about our area.
 
Good morning everyone on a blustery start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this am. Confit duck last night, marvellous. I am wondering if the bake house will be open today to get our sourdough. It sits high up overlooking the sea and it’s a bit windy out there. No matter if not, just have to go bread free for a week - can’t eat that stodge that supermarkets try and tell you is bread. The in store baked stuff could easily be a year old, frozen and then finished off in the supermarket. Yuk! No idea what today will bring - how exciting. Art bit, just one colour, Paynes Grey and a sprinkle of salt on the foreground while it was still damp. Hope your day is kind to you especially with all the nutters running around filling shopping trollies in readiness for the 24 hr shopping embargo. Best go and make some koffy.
 

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Annb said:
Shuffled through to the kitchen at 0430 - power outage so it was a case of feeling my way. there was meagre light from a battery lamp which Neil had placed on the floor in the hallway. The power must have been off for quite a while before he did that but I have no idea when it was. BG was 8.5. Found a candle to light. Couldn't make my usual cup of tea so just took painkillers and a glass of cold water (brrr!) and settled down in the chair. Fell asleep about 0500 and woke when I heard a sound, which turned out to be Neil putting the candle out and turning the lights on. That was 0530. All the little electronic alarms which had been complaining that they weren't getting power had stopped at least. So far, power has stayed on. Must get around to making my cup of tea now.
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We get power outages, anyway, when we least expect. Always happened since I have lived here @Annb

So, I always made a flask of hot water every day.

Now, I always make a flask of tea daily.

So there is always something hot and wet, and with the good 24 hr hot flasks I have, and the tea is still pretty hot 24 hours later.


I just got in the habit of doing it....

From the sound of things with the current warnings, I had better root out my second just for hot water flask, and fill that as well...

Edit...my trees are all beating each other to death here, and anything else they can hit..
 
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