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

dogslife said:
That is very kind of you@gennepher. Please do what is the most convenient for you. If YouTube works well please let me know so I can find your videos. Thank you. :)
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I think this will take you to my YouTube page so you can look anytime @dogslife
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from an already warming up sorting there in the dark and dangerous north
6.1 this a.m.
I thought that @ianpspurs had a 70th three years ago - am I misreading again?
Out this morning so going to get the roof off the car before it turns into a pressure cooker. My ankles are already starting to swell!
Art bit - mixed media.
Hope you can all stay cool. Best get the washing on the line and drink some koffy.
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Wow, I love this mixed media @dunelm
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning all from what is a considerably warmer L.A. cum Fenland than it was 70 years ago today. @dunelm thank you for sharing the creative and congratulations to the Ninky Nonks. A living wake sounds novel. I guess Sunday's family barbeque is something similar. Thanks be to God I have now had my three score years and ten, including the three bonus years due to modern biomedical advances - which of course are another blessing from the same source. A new sensor is on its way after Abbott's website finally accepted I really don't have a middle name. @dogslife Enjoy the Dua Lipa concert. @gennepher thinking of you in the heat and hope you sort out your data from that website. @Lamont D I hope more help comes soon. Enjoy Thursday, I have tea to drink and buffalo burgers and steaks to hunt down.
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Thank you for thinking of me this heat...it is intolerable here...
 
7.9 at 04.00 today.

Another trip to town today. This time for an echocardiogram. It's taken all this time to follow up on the 24 hour monitoring all those weeks ago. At least they are following it up. Another US scan coming up next month (liver again). Just as well it's not X-rays - I seem to be having them very frequently these days.
 
Good morning all from a warm, dry L.A. Thank you for the birthday wishes @Lamont D @Annb and @dunelm. The 3 bonus years reference was to when I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer Dunelm, not turning 70. @lamontd hugs for the stress but hoping and praying for something positive to be offered. @dunelm (your appearance fees in this post will be astronomical) thank you for sharing your splendid art. @gennepher hugs for the heat and thanks for sharing the videos and photographs. A sensor will arrive today but I may not fit it until after Sunday's BBQ. I have some cricket to watch for a few weeks:woot: Stay in the shade, stay hydrated, wear a hat, slap on the sun screen and wear uv protective clothing and sunnies.
 
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12.1 this morning.
Have been doing some study for my insulin pump, and wrote a big to do list for tomorrow.
Not quite as big as expected as had been chipping away at it, and then unexpectedly got a second wind and managed to to do 2 things from tomorrows list as a bonus.
Washing clothes in the tempermental machine and watering the orchid.
The orchid is the only plant under my care. It was explained to me that they take a long time to recover from issues, but also take a long time to kill! It also puts out a flower stem every year, I'm told as it gets stressed- around when I do coincidentally. And has done so again. An apt symbol.
The washing machine has a loose spring which flings off if conditions are not as it prefers.
Also potentially a metaphor!


And quite right @dunelm. one thing at a time.
 
gennepher said:
I think this will take you to my YouTube page so you can look anytime @dogslife
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Thank you so much@gennepher. I really enjoyed catching up with the videos. Your garden is a hive of activity! Your swing is very popular and all the creatures know exactly where to go for a drink. Keep as cool as you can for the next few days. :)
 
Annb said:
7.9 at 04.00 today.

Another trip to town today. This time for an echocardiogram. It's taken all this time to follow up on the 24 hour monitoring all those weeks ago. At least they are following it up. Another US scan coming up next month (liver again). Just as well it's not X-rays - I seem to be having them very frequently these days.
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Not long back. The scan was no problem, of course, but there's no allowance made in that department for mobility issues so it wasn't so easy. Other scans are done in the Radiography department and they are so very helpful, so it was a bit of a disappointment. BG and BS went up for a bit - that was with all the effort I had to make, but on their way down again, so no problem. I don't think he can have found anything wrong since he actually asked if I had a pace maker - presumably my heart beat was steady and regular for once. I noticed this irregular beat (boom, boom, boom,-----bmbmbm) for certainly 60+ years, as has my brother, as did my mother. Must be a congenital thing that causes no harm. The investigation is because, a few months ago, I had a very odd few days when I couldn't breathe easily, was nauseous and dizzy and eventually went to A&E because I couldn't get hold of a GP. Just as well I wasn't dying and it sorted itself out since it has taken all this time to complete the investigation.
 
Fbg 6.4

Sweltering here...
I have loads of comfrey coming out, and I think this is a carder bee... so this is my creative for today...

Otherwise, I am taking it easy in the heat, any effort causes breathing problems this time of day...

Time for my afternoon nap...

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gennepher said:
I love the fox @dogslife I never see mine in the day only at night....
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We have recently purchased a wildlife camera to investigate what keeps setting our security light off during the night. By the time we investigate there is nothing about so we think it may be local cats passing through. We have been positioning the camera in different locations but so far nothing of particular interest at night other than a squirrel at one of the bird feeders. :)
 
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6.4 this morning.
We had a great session with the dog trainer this morning. Bonnie passed with flying co!ours. It is her last training session unless we hit problems in the future.

Did quite a lot of relaxing today because of the heat. We have no air con the the local hall and I am beginning to wonder if I should have cancelled classes. Too late now to do anything
 
Annb said:
7.9 at 04.00 today.

Another trip to town today. This time for an echocardiogram. It's taken all this time to follow up on the 24 hour monitoring all those weeks ago. At least they are following it up. Another US scan coming up next month (liver again). Just as well it's not X-rays - I seem to be having them very frequently these days.
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Just don't get bit by a spider tho!
You know the story of also lighting and glowing in a dark room!
 
Annb said:
Both ladies' records show them as living at his address at the same date. I had decided to stick with the first one I had found (seemed reasonable) and rather regarded the second one as an interloper but Ancestry DNA has given me a link to the second family. So all those records must be wrong - hundreds of people to eliminate from my family tree. Haven't had the heart to do it yet. I still want to find out the reason for the confusion first - maybe both names were used by the same lady for some reason. So I am left wondering if I am a "Sly" or a "Doddimead" - or both!
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I give in. It's still a bit of a mystery but it seems that My 3x gr grandfather married both Elizabeths; the first one in July 1832 and the 2nd one in July 1833. I can't find a death, or a divorce for the first one but, unless he was a very naughty boy, she must have been either buried, or living elsewhere when my 2x gr grandfather was born, in March 1833. Another scenario is more complicated, but plausible:
* The 2 Elizabeths were related through a Sly/Doddimead connection, and that's where the D'mead DNA came from.
* My gr grandfather was born just short of 9 months after the first marriage and was the son of Eliz Sly.
* She may have died very soon after the birth and Eliz Doddimead (a cousin perhaps) came to care for the baby and ended up, soon after, marrying his father.

This is going to bug me until I can find a resolution to the question.

There was a puzzle, which I finally solved, with my maternal grandfather's marriages - his first wife died within months of their marriage from TB and he remarried less than a year later. His first son wasn't born until years later, so no question who his mother was. That was at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries though, and records were more accessible and reliable.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.4

Sweltering here...
I have loads of comfrey coming out, and I think this is a carder bee... so this is my creative for today...

Otherwise, I am taking it easy in the heat, any effort causes breathing problems this time of day...

Time for my afternoon nap...

zzzzzz

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could it be a hover fly? Had plenty of every insect in the world doing its thing in my gardens especially lots of white, red and other colours of flutterbys. Beautiful.
very muggy here. Cloud cover making it worse it was 30 degrees on my thermometer at noon.
around 32 now.
getting well battered in the cricket.
Mrs L is having a restful day for now, with a big fan blowing away in thebedroom.

my Best wishes.
 
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