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

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from a wet, chilly and decidedly liminal space twixt the land of The (Real) Fens and (utterly surreal) Brecks. Only one of those regions makes any sense whatsoever to me but there is a village in said region missing its Idiot whilst I'm here. Psalm 120:5. I can't share my fbg as I'm a nawty boy just now and don't swipe - left or right. I'll have a think after the CT scan tomorrow since I don't want to waste a sensor, fry myself or the scanner. Would have been interesting to see what a 6.1 gms carb Cantuccini did to my bg yesterday. As for taste and texture, they were divine daahling, divine. @JohnEGreen I hope the phone review goes well - let us know how the toe tickling goes, I'm fascinated. @jjraak despite my better judgement you reeled me in with that video clip - for 10 seconds @dunelm thank you for sharing another in the shades of grey series which looks suitably wan. @Madfarmerswife (interesting username) good to have you here and good that the fbgs are falling even during a feeling off spell. Cricket and rugby to watch, salmon salad to eat and Spurs ITK/Rumours* - do Tel - to read here today which is my plan to Make Friday Great Again but everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth (ain't that the truth brothers and sisters). Enjoy Friday your own way*

 

[Annb]

Fbg 7.9
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Creative...a spring green landscape painting of mine...and I tried it in a kaleidoscope....I quite like it.

Raining this morning so far...
Cold out...
Got some paperwork to solve...
Time for a long nap first...

Have a good day...

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Lovely colours. It's coming soon. Just a few more weeks to wait.

 

[JohnEGreen]

How do you explain to a diabetes nurse that your last HbA1c was below diabetic range because you are strict about your carb intake and and it does not mean your diabetes is resolved especially as you have prednisolone induced diabetes and that the only way it can be considered resolved is if you no longer take preds and as you can never stop taking them you can not consider your diabetes as resolved?

 

[Annb]

Morning all from a wet, chilly and decidedly liminal space twixt the land of The (Real) Fens and (utterly surreal) Brecks. Only one of those regions makes any sense whatsoever to me but there is a village in said region missing its Idiot whilst I'm here. Psalm 120:5. I can't share my fbg as I'm a nawty boy just now and don't swipe - left or right. I'll have a think after the CT scan tomorrow since I don't want to waste a sensor, fry myself or the scanner. Would have been interesting to see what a 6.1 gms carb Cantuccini did to my bg yesterday. As for taste and texture, they were divine daahling, divine. @JohnEGreen I hope the phone review goes well - let us know how the toe tickling goes, I'm fascinated. @jjraak despite my better judgement you reeled me in with that video clip - for 10 seconds @dunelm thank you for sharing another in the shades of grey series which looks suitable wan. @Madfarmerswife (interesting username) good to have you here and good that the fbgs are falling even during a feeling off spell. Cricket and rugby to watch, salmon salad to eat and Spurs ITK/Rumours* - do Tel - to read here today which is my plan to Make Friday Great Again but everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth (ain't that the truth brothers and sisters). Enjoy Friday your own way*

The whole of the Psalm is very apt at the moment, don't you think? Not that I'm unhappy with where I live - apart from the woeful infrastructure.

Now that I come to think of it, even that's not so bad compared to where my SIL lives, in Ayrshire. She had a fall a few weeks ago but carers who found her weren't allowed to lift her, so she was stuck between her bed and the wall, face down with her weight on her dodgy knee for a couple of hours while they waited for someone with a lifting thing (a kind of balloon) to be brought from a distant village. When it arrived, it had no charge left in the battery, so she had to wait while they charged it and only then was she released. Then they sent for an ambulance, which took another 4 hours to arrive. Since then, she has been in Crosshouse hospital, on her own, in bed. The nurses can't get her out of bed because there's not a single hoist in the hospital that works! That has led to all sorts of extra issues.

She was hoping to be discharged to a nursing home but she doesn't meet the council criteria to get a place in one (in other words she doesn't own a house from which they can claim funding for her keep). So she has to go home to her little flat. The bedroom is not big enough to take a hospital bed and a hoist, so her house has had to be emptied to get the bed into the living room.

Her daughter was told that a hospital bed and hoist would be provided this week, but when she phoned to check the man there said he had no order for a bed to be delivered. It will be another couple of weeks before that can happen. She asked about the hoist that had to come with it. "What hoist? No mention here of a hoist." Without the hoist, she can't go home, because, as before, the carers can't lift her. So there she is, blocking a bed. The council seems incapable of getting their act together and the hospital seems to be incapable of servicing their equipment. Apparently it all comes down to money.

This is no way to treat a 90 year old lady. No - we're not so bad here after all.

 

[JohnEGreen]

Oh and also she seemed more concerned about cholesterol and me taking statins than anything else.

 

[Annb]

How do you explain to a diabetes nurse that your last HbA1c was below diabetic range because you are strict about your carb intake and and it does not mean your diabetes is resolved especially as you have prednisolone induced diabetes and that the only way it can be considered resolved is if you no longer take preds and as you can never stop taking them you can not consider your diabetes as resolved?

That's a difficult one if she is a traditionalist.

 

[ianpspurs]

How do you explain to a diabetes nurse that your last HbA1c was below diabetic range because you are strict about your carb intake and and it does not mean your diabetes is resolved especially as you have prednisone induced diabetes and that the only way it can be considered resolved is if you no longer take preds and as you can never stop taking them you can not consider your diabetes as resolved?

Hug and huge sympathy for that situation John. From your fbgs it seems your bg journey matches what mine was like the last time I wore a sensor whilst taking prednisolone: fbg in the 4s low 5s, take the steroids early and watch known meals/foods reach unheard of levels - 6s, 7s and at times higher which never happened before - then returning to sanity (sensible 4s) by late evening / bedtime (10 pm ish for me) I don't see how that will give me an A1c of 32-34 hence not agreeing to come off the register. Very much thoughts and prayers with you.

 

[gennepher]

Lovely colours. It's coming soon. Just a few more weeks to wait.

Thanks @Annb
Spring colours are beautiful....

 

[gennepher]

The whole of the Psalm is very apt at the moment, don't you think? Not that I'm unhappy with where I live - apart from the woeful infrastructure.

Now that I come to think of it, even that's not so bad compared to where my SIL lives, in Ayrshire. She had a fall a few weeks ago but carers who found her weren't allowed to lift her, so she was stuck between her bed and the wall, face down with her weight on her dodgy knee for a couple of hours while they waited for someone with a lifting thing (a kind of balloon) to be brought from a distant village. When it arrived, it had no charge left in the battery, so she had to wait while they charged it and only then was she released. Then they sent for an ambulance, which took another 4 hours to arrive. Since then, she has been in Crosshouse hospital, on her own, in bed. The nurses can't get her out of bed because there's not a single hoist in the hospital that works! That has led to all sorts of extra issues.

She was hoping to be discharged to a nursing home but she doesn't meet the council criteria to get a place in one (in other words she doesn't own a house from which they can claim funding for her keep). So she has to go home to her little flat. The bedroom is not big enough to take a hospital bed and a hoist, so her house has had to be emptied to get the bed into the living room.

Her daughter was told that a hospital bed and hoist would be provided this week, but when she phoned to check the man there said he had no order for a bed to be delivered. It will be another couple of weeks before that can happen. She asked about the hoist that had to come with it. "What hoist? No mention here of a hoist." Without the hoist, she can't go home, because, as before, the carers can't lift her. So there she is, blocking a bed. The council seems incapable of getting their act together and the hospital seems to be incapable of servicing their equipment. Apparently it all comes down to money.

This is no way to treat a 90 year old lady. No - we're not so bad here after all.

Extra hugs for the whole situation @Annb
There does not seem to be a way out of it as things stand.

 

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 7.9
Nighttime wildlife video
Badger Willow & Finn the Fox - ginger Cat Merlin watches from the swing

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Same vid on TikTok

TikTok - Make Your Day

Creative...a spring green landscape painting of mine...and I tried it in a kaleidoscope....I quite like it.

Raining this morning so far...
Cold out...
Got some paperwork to solve...
Time for a long nap first...

Have a good day...

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Thank you for sharing the video - Finn the Fox is a brilliant name - and the kaleidoscope cum landscape. I hope the paperwork can be solved with a calming day to follow.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Am on the bus from my appointment with the podiatrist in our little market town.

Have bought a bag full of doggy toys. Bonnie will be so happy.

Must dig out a suitable box to use as a toy box. Not cardboard of course. Although Bonnie would have lots of fun.

 

[gennepher]

How do you explain to a diabetes nurse that your last HbA1c was below diabetic range because you are strict about your carb intake and and it does not mean your diabetes is resolved especially as you have prednisolone induced diabetes and that the only way it can be considered resolved is if you no longer take preds and as you can never stop taking them you can not consider your diabetes as resolved?

Oh and also she seemed more concerned about cholesterol and me taking statins than anything else.

I don't think their computer checklists allows for anything else other than straightforward diabetes (if such a thing). Any complications with meds or not ,or are not fully taken into consideration.
With being deaf, I can't do a telephone consultation in these things. Obviously, I don't know, but to my mind I would think you as the patient is at a disadvantage on a telephone consultation because you cannot see the nurse, you cannot see what she is scrolling through on the computer, you cannot see her body language and you don't quite have that opportunity to be able to jump in with something important you'd like to say to bring her attention to something @JohnEGreen

When I had my last diabetic review with the nurse, I was in the room with her and I could see her scrolling through the computer jumping from one screen to another and she was talking of changing my meds and something else. But she was not taking into account I was taking Sitagliptin, because it did not come up on her screen with the Metformin. And I am saying well what about the Sitagliptin, because I could see that in front of me she didn't have Sitagliptin mentioned on her screen. Anyway, she's faffing around for ages on the screen with new options she is given for me, Then suddenly my Sitagliptin comes up on the screen, and she turns to me looks at me and says oh you're taking Sitagliptin as well.
I was trying to tell that, but because it was not on the screen, she wasn't believing me.
Oh, you better continue the way you are then, she said, and got up, as though I was the one who has been wasting her time...

 

[gennepher]

Thank you for sharing the video - Finn the Fox is a brilliant name - and the kaleidoscope cum landscape. I hope the paperwork can be solved with a calming day to follow.

Thank you @ianpspurs

He looks a stunning fox with a magnificent tail.

Unfortunately, the paperwork just gives me a phone number to call to resolve the matter.
I have a friend who goes on WhatsApp and I go on WhatsApp, and she telephones a number for me and we're sending each other WhatsApp messages for me to say what I want her to reply. This is quite lengthy, especially if the other end does not answer straight away, et cetera and this takes up a lot of my friend's time.. and mine as well. We both thought we had resolved this issue last time. But yet again, they have completely ignored the fact that I cannot make a phone call. It is the NHS and it is in Wales.
So I'm not asking my friend this time. I'm working out a bit of a strategy, but is it giving me a bit of a tummy ache. And I am making a complaint this time, (because it was set up last time and the time before and the time before that) for them to give me a contact means other than expecting me to reply back with a telephone call eg email & text. And another problem is when someone rings up on my behalf, they automatically take off my mobile phone number, and put on the mobile phone number of the person who is ringing on my behalf as my actual mobile phone number.. this causes a lot of complications, especially when I am being sent reminders for my appointment because my friend gets them, and my friend ends up getting the phone calls but she hasn't got a clue what they are about as a result of this. And they NHS won't change it back to my mobile number, unless I can actually physically get hold of a person in that department, but where from, a physical person who would actually change it on the system back to my number. So as you can guess my friend is not very keen on ringing up for me anymore.


There isn't specific address as such to reply to or email, but just the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health board.

And I am also going to send a complaint to PALS (which it is still called in Wales).

Botheration... I am turning this over to my friendly AI, asking him/her/it if they can come up with a solution of addresses, et cetera and they can write the blooming complaint letter for me...

Then I am having a long nap....oh no I can't... I am waiting for some medical supplies to be delivered today and they've not arrived yet so I might be in quite a mood by tonight because I am going to be overtired....

 

[ianpspurs]

The whole of the Psalm is very apt at the moment, don't you think? Not that I'm unhappy with where I live - apart from the woeful infrastructure.

Now that I come to think of it, even that's not so bad compared to where my SIL lives, in Ayrshire. She had a fall a few weeks ago but carers who found her weren't allowed to lift her, so she was stuck between her bed and the wall, face down with her weight on her dodgy knee for a couple of hours while they waited for someone with a lifting thing (a kind of balloon) to be brought from a distant village. When it arrived, it had no charge left in the battery, so she had to wait while they charged it and only then was she released. Then they sent for an ambulance, which took another 4 hours to arrive. Since then, she has been in Crosshouse hospital, on her own, in bed. The nurses can't get her out of bed because there's not a single hoist in the hospital that works! That has led to all sorts of extra issues.

She was hoping to be discharged to a nursing home but she doesn't meet the council criteria to get a place in one (in other words she doesn't own a house from which they can claim funding for her keep). So she has to go home to her little flat. The bedroom is not big enough to take a hospital bed and a hoist, so her house has had to be emptied to get the bed into the living room.

Her daughter was told that a hospital bed and hoist would be provided this week, but when she phoned to check the man there said he had no order for a bed to be delivered. It will be another couple of weeks before that can happen. She asked about the hoist that had to come with it. "What hoist? No mention here of a hoist." Without the hoist, she can't go home, because, as before, the carers can't lift her. So there she is, blocking a bed. The council seems incapable of getting their act together and the hospital seems to be incapable of servicing their equipment. Apparently it all comes down to money.

This is no way to treat a 90 year old lady. No - we're not so bad here after all.

Firstly, that is an awful situation for your SIL and her daughter. Sadly, one has a strong feeling that is a far from unique scenario which raises the question how did we get here? I remember reading some pieces from the Sunday Times economist in the mid 1980s - basically pro-Her and "well connected" - saying this was obviously where it/we would end up and the majority would never save enough for their old age to mitigate things so it was a waste of their time trying. Just eat. drink and be merry. Does seem to imply that at some level "they" knew but wanted the votes anyhow so at worst kept quiet about that little downside. As for that psalm, I really couldn't quite work out how Red States Christians vote for that in such massive numbers but watching some of the sermons they are given is revealing. I can't make the bible mean what those preachers say it does, guess I'm too dumb ad degenerate. Lest we here in this tiny Island feel smug and forget, there's Nigel and before him Brexit and Boris. To be fair neither could play the religious card - that would be too far fetched even for them. As the prayer of penitence says, the toxic combination of negligence, weakness and our own deliberate fault is always to blame: its who we used our freewill to be - for now. Nonetheless, thoughts and prayers with SIL and family and take the memory of that situation into the ballot box.

 

[Madfarmerswife]

Morning all from a wet, chilly and decidedly liminal space twixt the land of The (Real) Fens and (utterly surreal) Brecks. Only one of those regions makes any sense whatsoever to me but there is a village in said region missing its Idiot whilst I'm here.

@Madfarmerswife (interesting username) good to have you here and good that the fbgs are falling even during a feeling off spell.

Thanks @ianpspurs - I could point to one of those regions, roughly, on a UK map. The other makes no sense to me either!
As for the username: is it the farmer who's mad, or the wife? (Might be both, tbh!)
Looking forward to the rugby tonight and especially tomorrow!

 

[ianpspurs]

Thanks @ianpspurs - I could point to one of those regions, roughly, on a UK map. The other makes no sense to me either!
As for the username: is it the farmer who's mad, or the wife? (Might be both, tbh!)
Looking forward to the rugby tonight and especially tomorrow!

Hopefully the region you can point to has the world famous University and "hills" anywhere even slightly above sea level. The Brecks butts on to that region in several places but is just plain odd. Actually a strange mix of tumbleweed, huge pig farms, US aircraft and sugar beet. Is the real MR MFW genuinely a farmer?

 

[Madfarmerswife]

I'd be pointing slightly northeast of the world famous university. Mr MFW is a (poultry) farm manager these days, but nearly as hands-on as ever. He learned his trade in his native Lincolnshire (so a little bit north of Fenland!)

 

[dunelm]

Great art bit @dunelm
What size are these if you don't mind mind me asking...thanks.

Thank you @gennepher - this one is A4 previous few on postcard size

 

[gennepher]

I'm panicking.
First my iPad packed in, and I cannot get it to work...
Then a text came through on phone...
Your cataract op is on Monday 10 Feb
That is much sooner as I was told and I'm trying to contact my son because I need him there and to collect me, et cetera I don't know if he's going to be able make it that soon, we understood it was eight weeks away....

 

[jjraak]

despite my better judgement you reeled me in with that video clip - for 10 seconds

LAMONT. ......

Incoming Trekkie on the starboard bow....