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

Thanks @ianpspurs
 
You are not responsible so yes, thoughts to yourself is probably best for your own sake.
 
@ianpspurs, I'm looking at your post right now and wanted to give it a like and to add that the issue was covered in this morning's Breakfast programme on BBC1, but the website says the post could not be found - even though it is right there! Websites can be very odd things and come up with some very odd responses.
 
Isn’t it ironic I found out during my appointment that it is possible to self test for warfarin dosage there is a meter you can by and get test strips on prescription and that the NHS actively encourages this I know it’s not quite the same but the way we are as T2 diabetics are discouraged from self testing is in marked contrast.
 
My deepest sympathies my friend.
 
The spectre of clouds on the horizon for Tim.
A lot of ZOE's advice, including around eating more whole foods and fewer processed foods, is sensible, she thinks but she believes this message is "not compelling enough" to sell a £300 product.
Full article here
Meanwhile, @JohnEGreen was confined with some climate deniers/flat earther types.
 
By self-testing do you mean for HBa1c or for current BGs? Here we are expected to wait for a (supposedly) 6 month clinic appointment (which never happens these days) for HBa1c check but monitoring current levels is expected. Not so in other areas of Scotland where DIL's father was told NOT to check and not prescribed a monitor of any kind because he wouldn't understand it anyway and it wouldn't be helpful! "Just keep taking the Metformin". Different Health Boards, different approaches.
 
I can take paracetamol, but I have get that energy out of my legs by having a walk or doing something.
My feet are never still tho.
Even when I'm doing breathing exercises and trying to stand still, that is harder to do. As well as sitting doing the exercises.
But I manage, or should I say have a go at managing.
That is all we can do.
You have a restful weekend.
 
When I worked for the academy, my office, working area, store, machinery and dining area with kettle, fire and workbench/table was in a container. They can be adapted to your needs.
You defo need a heater in the winter cos of the frost.
 
The fun I had with my surgery when it was found that I had been misdiagnosed.
My GP didn't want me to have test strips and he taken off the register for prescriptions.
It took a letter from my endocrinologist, insisting that I remain on the register and get enough test strips to control my BG levels.
Have a word mate, get those strips.
 
Another 7.0 don't understand it, maybe the doctors in that report are right but all my experience and my logical thinking says they are following the rhetoric that people testing using glucometer and strips of CGM cost too much money.
Why is money more important than health?
People not the economy!

Anywho, big footie day.
Never mind the facup, N.Wales is getting an invasion of an army of SWA.

A busy morning after a quiet day yesterday, too many chores on a Saturday, so some will have to wait for tomorrow.

Will be back later after the sport.
 
Absolutely beautiful again @dunelm
 
Fbg 6.9

Sorry I am late...

I had to be out early to do food shopping, collecting meds, collecting parcel from the post office, and more. It was too much to do in one shopping etc outing but I hadn't been able to do my mid week shop, and the fridge was now bare.

But it was a hard morning. In one shop I struggled to get in with my walker, and the doors were winning. So a passer by helped me, whereas the shop employee inside who walked past me and the doors did not. The passer by was so disgusted with him she yelled at him. But he took no notice. So she had a rant about his disgusting behaviour.

Then at the pharmacy they said the medicine dispensing bot had broken down, and they did not know when it would be fixed, and so they cannot dispense any medicines at all.

I did try a few sketches from the car but I was seriously too tired by now. What tires me out is the physical act of getting myself in and out of the car, and getting my walker in and out each time. So, I was drop dead exhausted when I got home.

I unloaded the chilled goods straight into the fridge, the rest will have to wait, and went to bed and fell into a sound sleep...

When I woke up, I noted I had been asleep for 3 hours, but I was incredibly relaxed, and so I went into "no mind" relaxation/meditation, because I was already in that state having just woken up. I had no thoughts and no body. Total relaxation. My eyes were open, but I wasn't seeing anything. I always meditate with my eyes open...

Then I was aware of the light fading, and as I need to sort out trail cameras etc, so I checked the time. I had been 'no mind' meditating for nearly 2 hours. I have never done it for that length of time before...


Nighttime wild life videos
Cat Midnight decides it is too noisy & windy outside & so he comes inside to bed with me..
34secs


Creative...something (a drawing) I started last night and finished just now...

Time to sort out the beasties...

Have a good rest of your day...



 
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Hug for the bad behaviour of the shop assistant and the lack of meds but big winner for the atmospheric creative. I hope this evening and tonight are relaxing and restorative after the tiring day.
 
ianpspurs said:
Hug for the bad behaviour of the shop assistant and the lack of meds but big winner for the atmospheric creative. I hope this evening and tonight are relaxing and restorative after the tiring day.
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Thank you @ianpspurs

Just seen to the beasties, and trail cam etc, and so the rest of tonight is mine...
 
Halloween?
Eerie but nice.
 
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