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

What a palaver - petulant AI - lovely random laboscope art
 
I once said to Alexa google is better it knows more than you reply was google is a search engine I am AI and I’m sure I heard distain in her voice.
My fbg was five point zero this morning, the cat scan went well though it took them sometime to to find a vein they could get a cannulae into so now will just have to wait till I get the result.
Have another appointment booked for tomorrow at Kings Mill but with respiratory consultant then apart from dressing appointment on Friday that’s it till next week so will have a few days off.
 
A disappointing 7mmols.
We have had more hand rails installed this morning.
But was disappointed with that was all they were obliged to do.

It has been a cool rainy windy morning, waiting for the better weather to return.
I have already caught the sun on my bald patch.
At least I'm getting the vitamin d requirement.

Hopefully read some posts later.
 
8.7 at 03.20 today.

Didn't sleep well - only got to bed at 01.00 because Neil decided to put the supports up for my new shelves at midnight, so I had to move stuff out of the way and then put things back when he had finished. Decided to make a few changes while I was at it. Then I couldn't get comfortable because I'd overtired my back and my arm and shoulder were sore due to being kept stretched out and still for and hour and a half for the iron infusion yesterday. Much better just to get up and get on with the day.
 
Morning all.

No FBG cos I didn't bring kit AND it's a holiday.

Another cracking few days
Temp currently 90°+

So much to enjoy here.

And even if you don't speak the same language it just seems everyone just gets on so well

Met a lovely couple, we shared a coconut with.

Sometimes you just don't need an app to communicate.

Namaste.

 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. If you woke up it’s a good morning. It is good to have a simple view on life, the universe and everything.

Blood sugars yesterday were 5.1 and this morning were 6.3 make what you want of that.

Yesterday I googled this simple question “ how many accepted religions are there “
According to the internetty, there are over 10 000 accepted religions and ways of life. I found it interesting that internetty included ways of life into the mix. Hmmm.

Here in Tilehurst Towers it is plinky plonky lesson day. I have done my practice? Yes. Do I have favourite piece of music to play? No.

Have a good day all and smile. Smiles give so much and cost nothing.
 
Looks murderous. How can you stand such torture
 
Blimey - 10 000. Can we try one a day for the next 27+ years and then decide? What happens if I change my mind - oh far too confusing. Best stick to Pastafarianism as I already have the colander.
 
Good morning everyone on yet another sun shiny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.8 this a.m.
There is chatter inside my head using words like ‘hair cut’ and ‘beard trim’. All this because we are off to France next week. We will miss the first green bin collection of the year but we can’t have everything. Must ask next door to put out the double dip bins.
Still a few plants lurking in the pots they were bought in. I suspect that this afternoon there will be garden activity.
Art bit - last of the three marshy estuary things.
Hope your day is kind. I must go and open the out buildings for some airing out and then make koffy.
 

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I just checked mine this morning, and it came in at 92. Not too bad, but I’m keeping an eye on it. Also, currently watching the football, and my Scottish side is frustrated while my English side shrugs it off
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Welcome. So 92 - that would be mg/dL I guess, so about 5.1 mol/L in old money.
Scottish football - an ecumenical mystery - it’s all Greek to me.
 
12.1 this morning.
Appt with endo tomorrow.
Have just read a news article saying that in my country people are waiting 2-5 years for an insulin pump. It's not he approval apparently, its getting a booking with the educator.
Will see how tomorrow goes.

Edit: forgot to add that chiropractor appointment went very well. Turns out my head/neck was 'very terrible' (in the words of the chiro) a lot more that expected, and the chiro was very distressed on my behalf. Also I had forgotten how exceptionally kind and gentle she is which is a nice change.
Feeling quite weird now as I have a lot more neck motion and I feel like someone has removed the scaffolding which since the knots have all gone, means that I suppose the scaffolding has indeed gone.
I know that there are some risks, and some people don't believe in it, but I've had my neck scanned for other reasons so we know there are no underlying issues, and it really makes a difference for me.
 
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I feel you with the slipping somewhere of its own accord. It makes the hunt a lot more difficult when you are past the logic stage.
Mine has twice unknowingly adventured out of my pocket and under the car seat and I have had to call in for more nimble reinforcements to confirm my suspicions and help extract it.
Like you, there is usually a lot of in house detective work and excavation first. We also discovered last time, to our delight that a finding things app managed to differentiate between the house and the driveway which will hopefully reduce the need for future house excavations.
We have also discovered, that the 'grabber' (used for putting socks on and picking things up post hip surgery) is also very good for getting things that have fallen down the back of the chest freezer, and behind the tv cabinet. Bit too long for under the the car seat though.
 
I love all three of these @dunelm
A brilliant series...
 
You need a flexible gooseneck grabber for the curvature path that phone takes when escaping... @Peanut234
 
I met my friend today. It was quite a hot day. Our usual eating place was full, and so we chose another but the food was worse than awful. The place was so empty that we could sit and talk as long as we wanted over after dinner coffee. So that was a silver lining to that cloud.

I told my friend, I was going to find another place to eat , and accidentally on the way home I did. I checked it out online and I'm about to tell her in a bit.

The main thing is, I was interested in was what my friend had for a cataract post operative checkup after her operation. She said before that she had had one for each eye, (she had both eyes done) but she never told me what it entailed.

She finished telling me , and I said, but what about the post operative check up? You never told me about that again. By the way, my friend is not on the Internet so she doesn't look up things, et cetera.

But I did, she said.

Nowhere in your description of what happened did you say anything about the post operative cataract checkup, I said.

But I did said my friend, the optician said my eyes were fine..

And how did the optician determine your eyes were fine I asked.

Well she gave me an eye test, said my friend.

That is not a post-operative cataract eye checkup, I told my friend. And I showed my friend the NHS site which told you what happened at a cataract post operative eye check.

Oh, none of that happened said my friend.


So I asked my friend to be patient with me and go through the whole thing from beginning to end from when the optician told her they were going to refer her for a cataract operation. She was getting a bit fed up with me at this time, but I wanted to understand....there was something that bothered me and I didn't know what it was, however, my friend asked me some questions of various bits she didn't understand and I was able to explain to her. So, I don't think she minded in the end.

It turned out that when my friend initially had an eye test, when the optician said she both eyes had cataracts and they were going to refer her, they only referred her for one eye at a time because they got money for each separate referral but not so if they referred you for both eyes at once. Fair enough... but the next bit I wasn't happy with...
At that same first visit, the optician had said that my friend had to pay for the glasses she was going to need for after the cataract operation, and told her to choose some frames. The optician told my friend this before she had had the cataract operation, that after the cataract operation, that she was going to need reading glasses and also driving glasses. So my friend had to pay on that first visit for those two pairs of glasses. My friend did tell me at the time, but it didn't make sense to me...

I think that is incredibly sharp practice by the opticians. What do you think?

I am coming to believe that it is more widespread than anyone realises, that the opticians are not doing the postop cataract checks. The opticians are sent all the paperwork from the hospital about your operation so they can conduct the check..

What do you think?


Creative... finger sketch on my phone of a man walking. He had a very stiff% leaning backwards type of stance.

Night night


 
I was referred for both eyes but the clinic only sorted one eye the one with the worst cataract as the NHS would only fund the one operation I have since learned that the second operation would be funded if you met certain criteria and not being able to have a normal diabetic eye test would infact fall within the requirements for that criteria but as I have said no follow up check was carried out because spec savers would not be paid for it.
 
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