ianpspurs
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Congratulations to both of you on Mrs L's A1c
Congratulations to both of you on Mrs L's A1cBack up to 7.
Oh well!
Some good news, Mrs L 's hba1c has dropped to below 50, which is brilliant.
And a home visit in early February.
A really busy day, on and off the forum. Babysitting duties for most of the day, will catch up again later.
Best wishes.
Personally I cannot see the point in mixing up comments from people who have Insulin Dependent Type 1 Diabetes and those with Type 2 Diabetes. A case in point is reading on this forum a Type 2'er saying that they had had a bad Hypo and that they were sweating a bit and felt tingling in the fingers. I've had Type 1 for 65 years and in that time I've had more than my share of proper Hypoglycaemic attacks. Hypos that make you collapse and fall and go unconscious for 2-3 hours at a time and you are very lucky to wake up at all - particularly if you are on your own. Only other Type 1 ers will understand that scenario. Doing Clinitest wee tests; Glass syringes, boiling same; 9/10 blood tests a day; constant battles to keep your bloods not too high or too low and the worry that goes with that; counting carbs all the time; adjusting your insulin dose to match carbs; the worry of going hypo all the time- the list goes on and on.... That's why T1, should be seperate from Type 2,This is a thread for those chatterboxes who not only enjoy letting us know their daily fasting level but also like to engage in friendly banter above and beyond the simple 'hello'. I am not known for my banter but I do enjoy hearing from the regulars about how their day is going, feeds my soul.
So to you, my DCUK friends, here is a new page where you can be as verbose as you wish and still comply with the moderators stick.
Going to link names of regulars, kind of advert for this post and if I've missed your name I apologise.
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How do you explain the conditions that are non diabetic and still have Hypoglycaemia?Personally I cannot see the point in mixing up comments from people who have Insulin Dependent Type 1 Diabetes and those with Type 2 Diabetes. A case in point is reading on this forum a Type 2'er saying that they had had a bad Hypo and that they were sweating a bit and felt tingling in the fingers. I've had Type 1 for 65 years and in that time I've had more than my share of proper Hypoglycaemic attacks. Hypos that make you collapse and fall and go unconscious for 2-3 hours at a time and you are very lucky to wake up at all - particularly if you are on your own. Only other Type 1 ers will understand that scenario. Doing Clinitest wee tests; Glass syringes, boiling same; 9/10 blood tests a day; constant battles to keep your bloods not too high or too low and the worry that goes with that; counting carbs all the time; adjusting your insulin dose to match carbs; the worry of going hypo all the time- the list goes on and on.... That's why T1, should be seperate from Type 2,
A winner for the lovely picture @gennepher. There isn't an emoji which adequately expresses the total nightmare that tech has caused you.Fbg 7.8
That would be the carbs the last few days....
No more carbs in the form of crusty sourdough bread (for a bit!)
Resting/sleeping/a bit of light technological work setting up Pixel 8.
Time to feed the beasties, then batten down the hatches...
Bought some nice food yesterday...
I found, that Pixel 8 had saved photographs when I had asked it not to during the set up. And, not only that, it had altered photo settings from do not back up photos, to back up all photos.
This caused a big problem.
An email from Google saying you won't be able to use gmail to send or receive because your storage is nearly full. But if you pay some money every month will let you have 100 GB of storage. I do not need more storage for things I'd probably would never find again that is why I don't save certain things...
So in between sleeping and waking, I have been deleting a load of stuff from Google Drive. I'm not giving them money so they can take a long walk on a short pier before they get that.
I now save any key photographs to a cloud app, that I've got.
I found that the pixel 8 settings have been altered for YouTube and YouTube music. I do not want these smart videos or smart downloads of YouTube music that I can watch it off-line or hear it off-line... it's useless to me. If I save anything, it's because I can hear it all I want to learn to listen to it not a whole pile of 100 random things, that I have no idea what they are. And they are filling my storage of my new pixel 8. So I have no storage space for any of my stuff...
So the frustrating thing is, I'm having now to delete all that stuff and reset the settings NOT to save. A load of unnecessary time that this has now wasted for me.. and it has reset my settings for my earlier pixel phones. So I have a lot of stuff to go through.
This pixel 8 phone is only 128 GB storage. I really wanted 256 for the way I use the phone... but I could not find a bargain 256 GB storage phone for the price I needed to pay... and so the last thing I needed was Google filling my phone and storage with rubbish. ...
Anyway, creative is some paintings I found in the so-called Google backup of photos. It was during Covid lockdowns I did these. And I think I used a YouTube painting video on how to paint with acrylics. There are a few of them so I will be using them for the next few days at least. ..
This particular painting was done in the early Covid lockdowns, and would have been on my pixel 3a, from the date, but the weird thing is it is not because I hardly have any photos on my pixel 3a and I have never backed them up to Google. It was not a phone I used for photographs.
Nor are these photos on my pixel 4a, which I used to transfer stuff to the pixel 8.
There is no lens information on many of them to say which of my devices took them. There are hundreds of these. I have deleted huge swathes of these photos without even looking at them, because it would simply me forever to look at each one. It broke my heart a bit, because Popeye was on a lot of them. I started looking through them but there was so many and I have saved a selection of Popeye's photographs from my iPad. It was as if I had never seen these photos before. And many of them were in the potting shed. So I simply picked a random couple of photos out of each batch of the photos of Popeye. And did a huge swathe deletion of 100 or more photographs in that batch...and so on. It would have been so easy to pay that money. Google wanted me to pay each month to keep all these, but I will never look at them again. There's too many.
So I am wondering now if Google saves all your deleted photos? Because something does not make sense here. I take so many photos that I do delete them as I go along because I cannot save them all. And I don't have time to go through all my photographs I have taken.
Mystery to me.
So, here is a blue tree for my creative!
I hope you had a good day.
Take care.
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I was going to just say fantastic picture @gennepher ...well done.Hug and sympathy for tech Bros giving a "helping" hand. Thank you for sharing the creative which has all sorts in it for me including a fairy and Gandalf/Ganesha. I know, I know that is why you shouldn't do drugs kids.
Or the holes in your string vest?Thank you @ianpspurs for the art comment the location of which is in the canyons of my mind. All the best to Mrs JKP with her accountancy exam.
That’s a Bonzo of a statementOr the holes in your string vest?
Hope that Royal Mail takes the same sensible precautions. Nothing like a good cup of tea.We're not in the red zone but even so the wind has built up into quite a hooley. Blue sky with pink and grey clouds all fairly still in the sky at the moment.
Everything is closed here today - schools, council offices, gym, Tescos. However, I just had a message from Royal Mail promising to deliver a package today. I have my doubts about that. I hope not because it's Alistair who will be doing the delivering and it's getting a bit dangerous out there.
10.9 at 04.00 today. Down to 7.6 after a cup of tea and just before I changed my sensor.
Dog do dah band, just an intro.That’s a Bonzo of a statement
With the poor sleep that's not a bad FBG @asanteza4.3 this morning with only 4 hours of sleep. Diagnosed in 1990. 1X500mg Glucophage XR
Agreed.... can I join your m.o.g. clubNot sure if I just enjoy being a contrarian or if Traitors is just nonsense on stilts but I'd really rather not even be in the room when that is on, headphones or not'; your mileage may vary
In true Amazon style: other people who self-identified as contrarians also liked thisAgreed.... can I join your m.o.g. club
(Moany ol g**s )
and can I add ..anything with the "housewives of....any blooming where "
Not to forget the cheap as chips '£1 a minute call in your vote now' reality TV scams
If I want reality.... I'll lookout the window ...
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