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Annb · Tuesday at 9:20 AM

12.9 at 03.20 today. Another bad night, most of it in the chair in the kitchen. I've asked Neil if he can cut maybe 3 inches off the legs of my bed, to make it easier to get into it. The chair is comfortable, but a whole night spent in it leaves lots of aches and pains. Neil reckons it would be better to build a kind of retractable platform so I could get into bed in 2 stages. He's busy designing it at the moment. He never goes for the simple answer, but I do see the point. 3 inches might be enough for now, but maybe later it would need to be another 2 or 3 inches, in which case I would be too near the floor to be able to get up in the morning.

Meantime I will just have to spend an hour or more perched on my left side on the edge of the bed and finish the night in the chair.

dunelm · Tuesday at 9:28 AM

SlimLizzy said:
24.06
6.20am FBG 5.7
Just a minor slip up after five days of sensible eating. The most consequetive days managed for months. Ate nearly a whole packet of biscuits last night. In my defence, the packet was already open - and the biscuits inside really small. The whole packet would have been 67g of carbs!
7.35am FBG 5.4
Monday is coffee morning day, had all the messages about location on Sunday evening, then Monday morning MrSlim is dressed before me, ready to go and buy the right colour paint, so hasty wash and dress and off we go. At the store can't agree on which colour, so buy some other things also on the list and are en route to collect some stuff from a friend when I get message about coffee group!
I'm supposed to be there already !! MrSlim very graciously abandons his plans and drives me 25 mins to coffee morning, which due to late arrival of two members overuns considerably, leaving him hanging about waiting for me. Without grumbling.
Off again to pick up stuff, then home, paint purchase abandoned until Thursday. MrSlim inserts the newly purchased glass into the frames and we spend a considerable amount of time applying decorative film. The rèsult is very pleasing. After that i second coat the coat hooks started yesterday and he does some more work in the back hall. Later, after visit to local supermarket there is pizza van, bought one. Pizza and salad for dinner. Not a very good pizza, base isn't crisp and dripping with oil from the chorizo topping. Plus two euros more.
Up early - not possible to catch up with jobs left undone yesterday, but can make a start on them at least.
So out into the garden to plant cucumbers
and beans now. After that another exciting day home renovating...
Quick shot of window tajen without lights to more accurately show colours

View attachment 72983

Phew! It’s all go! I don’t know the term “window tajen” but it looks great

SlimLizzy · Tuesday at 10:08 AM

dunelm said:
Phew! It’s all go! I don’t know the term “window tajen” but it looks great

Typo
Photo taken without lights.
We have very high ceilings, nearly 3 m, the window is above the door to the loo.
No peeking allowed.
We are very pleased with the effect.

SlimLizzy · Tuesday at 10:13 AM

Annb said:
12.9 at 03.20 today. Another bad night, most of it in the chair in the kitchen. I've asked Neil if he can cut maybe 3 inches off the legs of my bed, to make it easier to get into it. The chair is comfortable, but a whole night spent in it leaves lots of aches and pains. Neil reckons it would be better to build a kind of retractable platform so I could get into bed in 2 stages. He's busy designing it at the moment. He never goes for the simple answer, but I do see the point. 3 inches might be enough for now, but maybe later it would need to be another 2 or 3 inches, in which case I would be too near the floor to be able to get up in the morning.

Meantime I will just have to spend an hour or more perched on my left side on the edge of the bed and finish the night in the chair.

Hope you and Neil can find a solution that allows you more comfortable nights.

Krystyna23040 · Tuesday at 11:28 AM

5.5 this morning. Lovely to see a reading in the 5s.
Our kitchen sink was blocked. Mr K tried everything yesterday but couldn't sort it. Our friend, who is a builder, came straight round this morning to fix it. He is such a good friend.

It was a tricky job and he had to take the trap off, but thank goodness we have a working sink again.

debs248 · Tuesday at 2:26 PM

11.6

Pasta experiment last night inconclusive as I fell asleep less than 2 hours after eating but today's FBG suggests I was wise to avoid it for the last 2 months.

dunelm · Tuesday at 6:53 PM

debs248 said:
11.6

Pasta experiment last night inconclusive as I fell asleep less than 2 hours after eating but today's FBG suggests I was wise to avoid it for the last 2 months.

Hi @debs248. Pasta, like rice, potatoes and all high end carbs do better when cooked, chilled overnight and then heated again to convert some of the carbs into residual carbs to reduce carb loading. Smaller portions of course!

debs248 · Tuesday at 7:36 PM

dunelm said:
Hi @debs248. Pasta, like rice, potatoes and all high end carbs do better when cooked, chilled overnight and then heated again to convert some of the carbs into residual carbs to reduce carb loading. Smaller portions of course!

I am aware of resistant starch but it can only reduce effects on BG by a fraction, hardly at all for some people.

It's no use if the dish is intended to be eaten immediately like last night's linguine carbonara, which would have been unpleasant eaten cold.

This was already a less than half size portion (40g dry weight of pasta), I'm not interested enough in eating pasta to further strain relationships with my family by asking them to add extra processing to what was a quick, easy dinner so will just keep avoiding pasta altogether.

Lamont D · Tuesday at 8:02 PM

7.1,
My head is battered.
Receiving good news yesterday, nothing today, it's like a void has opened up and I have no idea what is going to hauppen. I'm in limbo.
Quiet day, I actually made time to watch the last stages of the cricket.
Should I start getting things ready?
Should I wait?
Is there gonna be a time when I stop being anxious about Mrs L?
Stress is causing a headache.

Weather is awful. Sun has disappeared. Cloud and rain showers.
Roses after going wild with flowering, doesn't like the wind and cool weather.

I think I need to know if it is really happening?

Hope you are having your bestest day.

debs248 · Tuesday at 8:53 PM

Lamont D said:
My head is battered.
Receiving good news yesterday, nothing today, it's like a void has opened up and I have no idea what is going to hauppen. I'm in limbo.
Quiet day, I actually made time to watch the last stages of the cricket.
Should I start getting things ready?
Should I wait?
Is there gonna be a time when I stop being anxious about Mrs L?
Stress is causing a headache.

I think I need to know if it is really happening?

Hope you are having your bestest day.

It's horrible when you can't make definite plans because so many things are still undecided. Fingers crossed you get some firm answers soon and are able to move forward again. It will get better, even if it doesn't feel like it now.

Lamont D · Tuesday at 8:58 PM

debs248 said:
It's horrible when you can't make definite plans because so many things are still undecided. Fingers crossed you get some firm answers soon and are able to move forward again. It will get better, even if it doesn't feel like it now.

It's the not knowing that does your head in!

gennepher · Tuesday at 10:27 PM

SlimLizzy said:
24.06
6.20am FBG 5.7
Just a minor slip up after five days of sensible eating. The most consequetive days managed for months. Ate nearly a whole packet of biscuits last night. In my defence, the packet was already open - and the biscuits inside really small. The whole packet would have been 67g of carbs!
7.35am FBG 5.4
Monday is coffee morning day, had all the messages about location on Sunday evening, then Monday morning MrSlim is dressed before me, ready to go and buy the right colour paint, so hasty wash and dress and off we go. At the store can't agree on which colour, so buy some other things also on the list and are en route to collect some stuff from a friend when I get message about coffee group!
I'm supposed to be there already !! MrSlim very graciously abandons his plans and drives me 25 mins to coffee morning, which due to late arrival of two members overuns considerably, leaving him hanging about waiting for me. Without grumbling.
Off again to pick up stuff, then home, paint purchase abandoned until Thursday. MrSlim inserts the newly purchased glass into the frames and we spend a considerable amount of time applying decorative film. The rèsult is very pleasing. After that i second coat the coat hooks started yesterday and he does some more work in the back hall. Later, after visit to local supermarket there is pizza van, bought one. Pizza and salad for dinner. Not a very good pizza, base isn't crisp and dripping with oil from the chorizo topping. Plus two euros more.
Up early - not possible to catch up with jobs left undone yesterday, but can make a start on them at least.
So out into the garden to plant cucumbers
and beans now. After that another exciting day home renovating...
Quick shot of window tajen without lights to more accurately show colours

View attachment 72983

He has so much energy and get up and go.... @SlimLizzy
Window is beautiful...

gennepher · Tuesday at 10:41 PM

Annb said:
12.9 at 03.20 today. Another bad night, most of it in the chair in the kitchen. I've asked Neil if he can cut maybe 3 inches off the legs of my bed, to make it easier to get into it. The chair is comfortable, but a whole night spent in it leaves lots of aches and pains. Neil reckons it would be better to build a kind of retractable platform so I could get into bed in 2 stages. He's busy designing it at the moment. He never goes for the simple answer, but I do see the point. 3 inches might be enough for now, but maybe later it would need to be another 2 or 3 inches, in which case I would be too near the floor to be able to get up in the morning.

Meantime I will just have to spend an hour or more perched on my left side on the edge of the bed and finish the night in the chair.

Hugs for the bed height problems @Annb
I had a similar kind of problems with the legs...
I needed the bottom legs raised. I was tired of cushions and things in the bottom of the bed falling off and then getting cramp. Bought leg raisers, but to get the right height, I needed more than the leg raisers I had bought... I had to use a car jack to raise the bottom of the bed... I need to order some more bad raisers, but Amazon said they were out of stock. There was some big ones I needed. I was at S** it point. In the end, I got some old books out of the garage put them under the other side. And had to hammer some thin books, to gently raise the couch bed...couch is slightly wonky, when I get back into my proper bedroom when that is finished, there's no way I could let anyone sit on the couch. They would wonder what the heck it was.... however it's comfortable for me.

I hope Neil makes your bed comfortable for you getting into... I hope his platform works... I imagine it would do, Neil being Neil....

gennepher · Tuesday at 10:50 PM

Fbg this morning 6.9

One of those days...two steps forward, 6 steps backwards... I need to try and get up early and try and get those steps back forward again... too much planning needed...

Creative is a sketch from the car on my phone. But when I got home, the head was appalling.... and so I erased the head out and tried again. It was a bit better., but then her left foot was completely the wrong way she would've tripped over, but in my defence I drew that after she had gone I didn't finish it when she was walking towards me...

Oh well...

Night night

Take care

Annb · Tuesday at 11:38 PM

gennepher said:
Hugs for the bed height problems @Annb
I had a similar kind of problems with the legs...
I needed the bottom legs raised. I was tired of cushions and things in the bottom of the bed falling off and then getting cramp. Bought leg raisers, but to get the right height, I needed more than the leg raisers I had bought... I had to use a car jack to raise the bottom of the bed... I need to order some more bad raisers, but Amazon said they were out of stock. There was some big ones I needed. I was at S** it point. In the end, I got some old books out of the garage put them under the other side. And had to hammer some thin books, to gently raise the couch bed...couch is slightly wonky, when I get back into my proper bedroom when that is finished, there's no way I could let anyone sit on the couch. They would wonder what the heck it was.... however it's comfortable for me.

I hope Neil makes your bed comfortable for you getting into... I hope his platform works... I imagine it would do, Neil being Neil....

Neil has come up with a temporary solution which is much simpler than his complicated suggestion. We have what we have always called "the Agnes stool". Agnes was my MIL and she was only a little over 4ft tall and, as a result, couldn't reach many of the fittings in our house. Tom made this little platform for her which could be moved to different places, as required and covered it in a carpet off-cut. I had no idea where the stool had gone, but Neil dug it out today and, with the help of my zimmer frame, I am going to use it to get onto my bed. If it works, Neil will make a slightly larger platform so that I can be more secure on it.

With any luck, I will be able to move better tomorrow with less pain in my hip.

SlimLizzy · Wednesday at 8:42 AM

gennepher said:
He has so much energy and get up and go.... @SlimLizzy
Window is beautiful...

Wish that was true @gennepher
MrSlim has a chronic health condition CKD, which causes him to feel tired, dizzy and sometimes nauseous, even when it isn't painful. He pushes himself on every day.
Another reason why I was against the purchase of a house needing lot of work.
Yes, we are both happy with the look of the window.

SlimLizzy · Wednesday at 8:45 AM

Lamont D said:
7.1,
My head is battered.
Receiving good news yesterday, nothing today, it's like a void has opened up and I have no idea what is going to hauppen. I'm in limbo.
Quiet day, I actually made time to watch the last stages of the cricket.
Should I start getting things ready?
Should I wait?
Is there gonna be a time when I stop being anxious about Mrs L?
Stress is causing a headache.

Weather is awful. Sun has disappeared. Cloud and rain showers.
Roses after going wild with flowering, doesn't like the wind and cool weather.

I think I need to know if it is really happening?

Hope you are having your bestest day.

Hope you get updated and accurate information soon.

SlimLizzy · Wednesday at 8:55 AM

25.06
9.15am FBG 4.9
Overslept despite Kiki's efforts to rouse me by clawing at my foot sometime shortly after six am. ( how did she open the door?)
Now feeling very much behind with everything. Luckiy it's overcast today so will still be able to work on the left-hand side of the garden, which is far too hot (danger of sunburn) by 10am if sunny.

Annb · Wednesday at 8:56 AM

Got into my bed last night - around 01.00 - and slept until a bit after 03.00. Managed to get turned over onto my left side and slept again until a bit after 05.00. That's a good night's sleep for me. The hip is still sore, but I can move a bit better today.

The "Agnes stool" was a brilliant help but I'll need to get some help to move some furniture to give enough room for the zimmer and stool.

debs248 · Wednesday at 2:26 PM

SlimLizzy said:
Overslept despite Kiki's efforts to rouse me by clawing at my foot sometime shortly after six am. ( how did she open the door?)

If you have door handles rather than knobs, they can jump up and pull down with enough weight to open the door!

9.3 today after another experiment, sushi this time. Forced myself to stay awake for 2hr post meal testing, BG back to premeal level, yay!

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