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This is so sci fi.
similar to an event horizon.
I like it.
 
7.4.
I'm still shaking from yesterday, worse than normal, can't hold much in my left hand, especially liquids or crockery!!!!
Mrs L is safely in bed.
good thing the test is on the box, as the weather is awful. Commonly known as a wet one.
soggy and cooler than of late.
still mid teens but it's the type of rain that soaks you. Sodden, damp, misty and yuk.

I slept fitfully again, last night, unlike me. So I'm trying to relax, no chores until kitchen duties later, some chicken to go in oven.

I hope this next bit doesn't read badly.

one of my favourite comedy series is called The Good Place. If you haven't watched it yet, you are missing an excellent comedy series.
The bottom line is about four people that have died and gone to the good place, because of the way they have lived their lives on Earth.
But they are not those people.
They should not be there.

Spoiler alert, or I will try and skirt the spoiler.

However, because of the deception to keep the truth from the good place 'architects'.
All the four keep doing is upsetting each other.

I watched a synopsis of the series on YouTube and the video described the effects of being in such a situation and how they intend to be better because of the threat of torture in the bad place, if caught.
Has an effect of torturing each other.
The four will keep on just being annoying to each other.

In simple terms, people naturally annoy you.
You may not be aware of it.
We can't help it.
We don't like to but we do.
We argue, we criticise, we disagree, which has it's capacity to cause the many mental health issues and conditions.
Sometimes, we are just nasty, not realising how much damage we do to others.
Most of us are effected by crime in some way, some are in relationships, and some of it is mental torture.
Intended or not.

Can you see where I'm going with this?

Is this my 'bad place?'
Is life torturing me?
Is this my existential test for my after life?
Am I over thinking everything again?

John-Paul Sartre wrote a similar synopsis on how cruel a similar situation can be.
Mental cruelty is in this life.

My best wishes to you lot as always.
 
Evening all from a sunny, gorgeous blue sky, and warm L.A. on the 2nd anniversary of the accession of King Charles iii, Trinity Sunday +15 and return of Sunday NFL fest. Still too early to put the sprouts on but not too early to ensure I have an Advent calendar. 1 gm carb per day seems doable and I've had Divine chocolate before, liked it, swiped and found my bg was fine. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
 
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It may be that the way we respond to difficulties (some greater, some lesser), is both a marker to our personality, to the weight of cross we can bear, or a kind of work-out for our emotional and mental development. The harder it gets, the more our emotional (spiritual) muscles have to work, which should lead to strength. It doesn't seem so at the time, but if we continue doing the best we can under severely trying circumstances, we must be developing as individuals.

Your soul must be developing some serious spiritual capacity with all you have to face. Love outweighs everything in the end.
 
Lamont D said:
and I feel I have been a bad carer for her.
My anger, my frustration, with her obsession like conversation over chrimbo and food and anything that can be so hard for me to try and be reasonable with it all.
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Hi mate.

You know my background on this.


I have nothing but the
utmost respect for you or anyone dealing with a loved one with such an illness.

I saw my dad bend himself double to cover mum from the worst life threw at her with this wretched disease.

He became her shield from life as it slowly became for her, and he shielded her from herself.

Did he get frustrated and angry...You bet he did

You'd have to be a machine to not feel the intensity this brings and how it stretches the very sinews of mind & body.

But did he love.... unconditionally.

That man, much like you right now, went to the end of his endurance to care, love & protect mum, for many years.

I can't find any words to make this right or easier.

But one word sums up how you & people like You, do what really can't & shouldn't be possible for just one person to do, yet they do it, alone, because it needs to be done.

Sure, people get help, dad did, but none of us lived that life he had with mum, day after day, 24/7....

Yet what exhausted me, he just did relentlessly week in, week out, until he couldn't .

That word.....?
Unbelievable.

Unbelievable what people manage to do
Unbelievable how they cope with the un-copeable
Unbelievable the depths of love they have for another

Yet totally believable, that at times they break, at times they weaken, and at times they get frustrated....who wouldn't.

But that doesn't stop them picking up where they left of and doing it all again tomorrow....and the days after.

I know your not after praise, and as many say, do please post here, please .

Let that angst have form, let the pressure be released in written form

But be in no doubt, I among many here I think, standing on the sidelines, are in awe of all you do for Mrs L.

No one carries such a burden & escapes being unscathed by frustration.

It's a sign despite the super human efforts they make, they are mere flesh & blood.

And acknowledging that is the hardest thing to do,when you think being strong IS the answer.

Sometimes the storm is too strong for us to stand tall, and at those times, sensible people bend into the storm.

You're doing alright @Lamont D
You're doing alright, mate.

God bless you .
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
Yes, you are right @gennepher, it could have taken months - which would have been really stressful.
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Yes, indeed @Krystyna23040. When some comedian used our address plus a fictitious name in order to avoid a series of parking fines, it took almost six months to resolve.

Thankfully, your case was dealt with promptly.
 
5.6 at 05.10 today. Later than usual - my new mattress is making a difference. Tea, basal insulin and pain killers and it is now 5.7. Onto my first cup of coffee now. Shouldn't make any difference. I seem to have gone off tea for a bit and am drinking much more coffee. I daresay I'll go off the coffee in a few days - I usually do.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
It was stunningly beautiful @gennepher. I often wish I was an artist and could paint it.
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I did some paintings, of sunbeams @Krystyna23040 which I quite liked when I was with my art group pre covid and lockdowns, not sure where the paintings are but photographs are on that recalcitrant recharging iPad Pro. If I can find them, I'll post one or two.
 
Fbg 6.5

Flooding all round my bungalow yesterday. Poor Midnight could not go out, he won't wade through 4 inches water, but once the water reaches higher than that, and it's underneath my bedroom doorsill, then it just goes down the hill to flood someone else...

I am glad I live on the top of a hill with no higher ground around me...

I had stray cat in my bungalow all night, it had sneaked in earlier before the paddling pool round my bungalow. No way could I chuck it out in that deluge. But it thinks it has a foothold now, and I am saying NO... it went to shred me when I went to pick it up to put it back outside this morning. But otherwise I can pick it up if I don't have that thought in my head to put it outside. If I haven't got it outside by tonight, then it will find itself having a shower, a cat shampoo, the dematter (for its tangled fur) will come out, and it will have worming tablets shoved down its throat...it'll discover there is no escape once I shut that bathroom door...

I don't really want another cat in the house...Midnight is enough. He took up mountaineering yesterday up my shelves and boxes. He has an inability to jump, either up or down, but climbs up paw over paw, and to get down he scrabbles as if he is coming down the scree of a mountain side, hence the total disaster zone when he has reached his destinations...

I do have glassware...they are now in a cabinet...

Creative...just a random photo without even looking in the camera, of my bedroom, and put in Kaleider, and played with various effects for half an hour! I find it therapeutic because it will come up with moving pictures.

Have your best day...

Maybe the sun will shine today...

Take care...

 
Good morning all from a dull and damp L.A. at the start of a week of more autumnal weather before a week when something vaguely like summer is slated to return - confused.com or what? Unknown fbg but Abbott/Parcelforce kindly woke (sorry Alf ) us with a voice text informing us that a parcel - the sensor - will be delivered this very day. What earthly good that will do is beyond me but while I'm tracking what my bg is doing and hypothesising why that may be so my mind isn't on anything even more sinister. @Annb good news on the mattress seeming to give you better sleep. @karen8967 great fbg and wonderful to see you here, hope all is well with you. @gennepher thank you for sharing both yesterday's and today's splendid kaleidoscopes. @jjraak your post on caring was amazing, heartfelt and a tribute to your spirit. My keto raspberry granola should have absorbed enough kefir to be vaguely squishy by now so I can eat it and take some meds. Hopefully y'all won't need to work hard to enjoy all/some/parts of your Monday.
 
Thank you @ianpspurs
 
Morning all, I still look in quite lot but I am having difficulties following things. I am afraid I can relate to some of your discussions related to dementure.
I hope you all continue to thrive and cope with your problems.
A year ago I was a different person
God bless you all
Derek
 
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