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

Thanks Ian....
 
I really enjoyed my shopping trip to Tesco. Normally I am too busy working to go shopping, so it was so lovely to be able to join Mr K on our little trip to get the Yeo Valley organic milk. Plus I found an interesting hazelnut flavoured coffee pod.

I did hesitate before posting this post. I wondered if it made me sound seriously weird if the highlight of my day was shopping in Tesco.
 
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Chance would be a fine thing! Why not enjoy it?
 
Fbg 6.4

Encaustic painting. A painting. using wax and hot iron to draw with...

Too hot this weather...I hope it doesn't mean the opposite extreme for winter...

I am having a wee rest sitting at my open window at the moment watching the bumblebees who are working very hard collecting pollen in the mallow flowers..

Time to lock up...

Have a good evening....

 
I wasted hours this afternoon, trying to find some information on the internet. I couldn't find it of course.

Back in 1533, Tom had a 13x great uncle who is recorded to have died, in a coaching incident. It was in a report from another 13x great uncle to the court of James VI (of Scotland). The incident gave rise to a myth of "the headless coachman of Blebo" who apparently still appears at Blebo where people have heard a rushing wind and clattering of horses hooves. Since only the noises have been heard, I don't know how they know the coachman is headless, but that is by the way. What I am trying to find out is how Andro Trail actually died in 1533. There are plenty of references to that old coachman, but nothing about what actually happened.

It struck me that coaches, as we might imagine them would probably not have existed at the beginning of the 16th century - there were no made up roads in Scotland at that time, or very few. I doubt that Blebo, near Cupar in Fife had more than tracks back then. So, part of the time wasted was used trying to find out when "coaches" first came to Scotland. Apparently they didn't come to England until the late 16th century, so in Scotland in 1533, it wouldn't have been what we know as a coach now - probably a covered wagon of some sort.

Turns out that riding in a coach, once they were invented (at the turn of the 15th/16th centuries, probably in Hungary), was not allowed unless the traveller was infirm in some way - women were actually not allowed to ride in a coach in France at that time, and men wouldn't dream of doing so (effeminate - real men rode horses or walked and really infirm folk would be carried in a palanquin, slung between 2 horses, fore and aft). However, Elizabeth I had a kind of horse drawn coach which was just a frame on wheels with curtains that could be pulled across when required and driven by a postillion riding one of the 2 horses. Fascinating.

I am one of those people who lacks focus and can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way.
 
So much to read, I was only off for 3 days!
dunelm said:
Blimey, I only use a lancet once.
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I did that at first but due to a prescription snafu and very elusive capillaries I was rapidly running out, so I decided to use them twice. Then I read about people who only changed theirs every year and decided in the interests of economy and waste reduction to see how long I could make each one last. After between 5 and 20 days it gets too blunt to draw blood so I change it.

Lamont D said:
as one of the carers has said, Mrs L has turned a corner.
and her mental health practitioner is so pleased with Mrs L.
Roll on the escape.
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That must be such a relief. Hoping for continued progress and some more restful time for you too.
Krystyna23040 said:
I did hesitate before posting this post. I wondered if it made me sound seriously weird if the highlight of my day was shopping in Tesco.
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If you don't get to do it very often, shopping, even for groceries, can be a treat. I'm very much looking forward to a Morrisons shop that has been repeatedly deferred since last September! Looks like it might actually happen in the next few weeks
Annb said:
I am one of those people who lacks focus and can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way.
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I'm a bit like that too, I don't see it as lacking focus, just that there are so many fascinating facts/ topics that my brain wants to look deeper into. I do try to park them for later attention, which is why my browser has approximately 1 billion open tabs.

One thought just leads to three or more others, and I follow up as many as I can manage. Today's "research" has included "useful" things like Blue Badge rules in Scotland, various medical issues such as interpreting cholesterol test results and checking whether students should register with a dentist at their home or term-time address, and "frivolous" things like Squishmallows and the German for "umbrella". I can't shut my brain off and don't really want to.

FBG today was 10.1, an improvement on the recent 11s and 12s.

Diabetes nurse readily accepted my reasons for not wanting to take an SGLT2i and has offered Mounjaro, which surprised me. Next appointment is 3rd September so have a few weeks to weigh up pros and cons. I don't mind temporary gastric slowing but am pretty sure I read an account of someone whose gastroparesis was permanent after coming off it. Gliclazide will apparently never be a possibility at this practice so no point asking again. What to do? Hmm...
 
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