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

Beautiful rendition @dunelm
 
Thanks @ianpspurs
 
5.5 this morning. Luckily not too much admin as the heat is making me feel really relaxed and I am working in slow motion.

Probably slow motion is the best way to work in a heat wave. At the moment l am relaxing on.my recliner chair with a coffee.
 
Thank you and you are most welcome @ianpspurs and yep, let’s be careful out there
 
Ouch! Horrible couple of days. I was really ill. Odd thing was my BG just didn't want to come up into the 4's and I spent much of the time responding to my Libre alarm. Nothing to eat for 2 days, of course - other than the toffees that at least bring BG up temporarily. I've gone right off toffees, but they do work. No insulin for 3 days now which surprises me a little - fasting usually leads to a higher BG for me but with this, I didn't dare. BG is low enough without it.

Still feeling grotty and had to cancel my appointment with the nurse for my legs, so will have to wait until next Thursday to get replacements for the ones I had to cut off. I did manage to eat some scrambled egg this morning with no disastrous effects, but it was still very sore on my stomach - as is water, whether cold or warm.

Not sure what to do with myself - just wait it out, I suppose.
 
7.6 due to mental health nurse and tidying up and having a sweat on.
#8 took us both to the cake house, for a cake and juice for him and a cream cake and a butty for Mrs L. He was spoilt by the kind ladies serving. He sweet demeanour has won them over a few months ago. little do they know.
in between had a phone call from the housing offering a fifth storey flat in another part of the peninsula. Which in the scheme of things, was very nice. However, we requested a ground floor dwelling, so someone didn't read our request. But at least it was an offer in a high rise flat. (Eek!)
Mental health nurse arrived and Mrs L was talkative but her timing was all over the place. Thought her dad died only a couple of months ago. Because her birthday is in a couple of days, she was asked her age. Couldn't say.
It is very warm and around 30degrees now. Beautiful skies. A deep blue. No clouds but a slight breeze, All doors and windows open, fan is on in most rooms. Mrs L is still not warm!
Enjoying the cricket.
Need sleep tho. Up at 5.30am because of Mrs L. Was actually cutting her toe nails at 7.30am.
Knackered! Long warm day.
Enjoy it if you can.
Best wishes.

Just learned, a fellow worker with the mental nurse, is going to take Mrs L out for an hour or so sometime soon. Think Mrs L might want her wheelchair for that!
See what happens.
Just getting Mrs L across the doorstep will be huge.
 
As you seem to be a bit rubbish, and not eating and feeling yuk.
Maybe see if you can get a visit from one of the services.
Mrs L is on the push button call out service. I would have pressed it by now.
The service is usually a paramedic and will advise you.
Keep well.
 
Afraid we don't have that. I could call 111 but am unwilling to do that. I'll just wait it out and see which way it goes. Stoic - that's me. Not much choice.
 
Fbg 6.4

For creative today... a painting I did a long while ago of a cottage window, with some flowers in a vase...

Been melting today, changed cloathes twice and will change again before bed...

Researching Ancestry tonight...

I'll say night night from me...

Sweet dreams

 
Winner for the art and hug for the problems with the heat.
 
gennepher said:
Beautiful rendition @dunelm
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Thank you @gennepher
Sounds dreaful but fluids are always key as you know. Make a rehydration solution to sip. A thin soup - beef, chicken, and some bits of dry toast may keep you on track. All the best.
 
Lovely art. I feel for you with the heat - I have similar issues
 
It is still 25degrees in my garden this evening Just As the sun is going down.
A beautiful evening, not a cloud. Which is so unusual around here.
Into the thirty this afternoon.
Why aren't we getting the thunderstorms with this heat?

Lots of children out in the evening sun shine, which is great to see.
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @gennepher

Sounds dreaful but fluids are always key as you know. Make a rehydration solution to sip. A thin soup - beef, chicken, and some bits of dry toast may keep you on track. All the best.
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I've just been rehydrating with water - couldn't do anything about broth (actually forgot I have some Bovril in the cupboard which Neil could have made up for me). Not sure I could have stomached it though. Managed a small amount of scrambled egg this morning with just a little stomach pain but no serious effects. This evening I had a boiled egg with 2 very low carb crackers. Felt sort of OK afterward and BG rose a little to 5.0. So I think the worst may be over. Maybe some soup tomorrow, out of the freezer and then we'll see how it goes.
 
It didn't go so well overnight.

Couldn't get to sleep and at 02.45 I looked at the clock and decided to get up if I was still awake at 03.00. Next thing I knew it was 03.21 and I thought the whole diarrhea episode was starting up again. It was only minor though, but still, I decided to stay up.

BG had remained consistently in the 4's but since I had a cup of tea, with a little milk, this morning it went up to 5.0 and that's where it has stayed. It's 3 days since I took my basal insulin, or the bolus one. Actually 3 days since I took any of my pills (other than painkillers).

Problem I have to decide on now is - do I take my basal insulin? Or will it push my BG back down to danger levels, like the last 2 days (mostly 3's rather than 4's)? I do intend to have a small amount of food today, mostly liquid, but if that doesn't push my BG up, insulin might be a mistake. On the other hand, it might be a mistake not to take it.

Decisions, decisions....
 
Good morning everyone on yet another day of scorchio here in the startlingly bright yet still dangerous north.
5.8 this a.m.
The gazebo was raised in the garden yesterday. Will we leave it up whilst on holiday - yes, of course! If a gazebo is wrecked in a thunderstorm and nobody sees it is it still firmly in place until you look inside the garden - Schordinger’s gazebo.
Veterans Breakfast Club this morning and then a mooch round the Farmers Market crying, “how much?”
This might be of interest, or not. Pistachios, gut microbes and pinches of carbs to help with overnight and morning blood sugars.
Have the best day that you can manage. “In your life, don’t be all about business”. (Marcus Auralius). - Although the business of making koffy is nearly as important as well cooked bacon.
 
Morning all from a sunny, breezy and cooler than yesterday L.A. My fbg was 4.6 which surprised me after some strange effects of food I previously thought was Ian friendly. To the bin post-haste - West Suffolk no likey food waste in the brown bin for which they charge a handsome fee. @Annb hug for the continued transit disorder. @Lamont D last evening sounds idyllic. @gennepher Wales seems to be one of the warmer areas for the next few days, hugs for the effects on your bungalow. @dunelm Schroedinger's Gazebo Enjoy the Farmers Market, just see the prices as an investment - in your longevity and the farmer's next Range Rover. You can't expect pigs to travel in squalor. Enjoy your Saturday your way (no, I won't link Fleetwood Mac) if at all possible. Sun, sport, tea and yesterday's salmon later for me, peanut butter and Jarlsberg first. @jjraak a very Elbow day
 
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