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

[JonathanDenmark]

5.6 this morning. Off across country to see grandchildren. Got a time for my colonoscopy. They want me on Wednesday but I can’t make it. I’ll phone today for another appointment. However, I am impressed. I sent my poo sample last Monday. A week later the result came back, and they give me an appointment for a week after that.

 

[dunelm]

Morning all from a boutique cinema here in L.A. currently showing The Gruffalo for a select invited audience. They (individually) pre- ordered porridge with banana and cinnamon* bagel for the post-viewing "event." Meanwhile, in other news, my fbg was 4.2 which like the readings all evening was an interesting result after eating lasagne - admittedly only 132 gms (yes, I weighed it and calculated the carbs). Topped out at 5.9 on libre, 5.7 at 2 hrs, but was mainly around 5.3. @dunelm the hug was for the boiler needing replacing. @Lamont D good news on Mrs L coming home. @Krystyna23040 good news on the break and new cleaning lady and hope all goes well for Mr K when the op comes. More tea is needed along with my normal peanut butter and Jarlsberg, so I will end now. Enjoy your Tuesday and peace be with you.
* and raisin Granddad, don't forget the raisins

Thanks for the wallet emptying hug Ian. Smashing fbg readings.

 

[dunelm]

5.6 this morning. I use a Contour Next; my average Fbg over the last 90 days is 5.9, over the last 30 it’s 5.7. I started on Forxiga a year ago as part of a clinical trial. It has taken about nine months to really kick in. But nowadays I have to be really careless food wise to hit more than 6 mmol first thing. Also, my bg used to rise to about 8 after exercise. Nowadays not more than 6.5.
However, all this monitoring … how do people keep it from being a stress factor? Why do I still get annoyed if my fbg hits even 5.9? (In the past I was happy with below 7!)

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[dunelm]

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Today was like an energy thief.
I had a whole day planned of a specific area of going through sorting out and throwing away, when some phone calls arrived, which left answer messages which said there were problems with my bank account. I was surprised that it was not recognised as spam so I double checked with my bank and PayPal because both were mentioned.. there are no problems and it was definitely spam.
But that took valuable time and sort of shook me a bit. No, I did not press anything. I would not have done., but it is all worrying.

Then a letter came saying I had a parking ticket. And they had a fine £51.. it was from a retail park. where there have been no restrictions before.. so that's upsetting me badly. But as a disabled person the new time restrictions don't give me enough time to do what I need to do.. I am still trying to get my scooter out of the car and set it up, when other customers have leapt out of their cars walked briskly into the shop and come back out with a trolley full of stuff, and I've only just managed to set up my scooter, had a rest and I'm about to go in. Multiply that over a few shops within the same large retail park, and the shops are in different sections, and I am in there a lot longer than able bodied person. It's just not always practical to drive over the whole place with the scooter so I have to put the scooter back in and take it out again on the other side. On this particular occasion, the one I was fined for, I was 4 1/2 hours in the retail park., and it now has a three hour time limit, and I had had an hour break at a coffee shop to regain some energy before I finished my shopping. . And I usually have a short break in the car between shops because it is too tiring for me..It is not worth me driving to the retail park just to do one or two shops which is all I would have time to do....

I was very upset, but I decided to pay the fine rather than argue about it and argue about it as a disabled person annd vowed never go back again. I did curse the retail park and wished them no luck. But this severely restricts me as a disabled person trying to manage on my own.

Often time restrictions are not long enough for me as a disabled person, and I cannot argue and fight every issue and every time this crops up..

I checked out online a couple of other retail parks I have used and they now have a three hour time limit. There is one that has a four hour time limit and that is more reasonable for a disabled person, but I have been staying too long at that one, There is another retail park where I stay longer than the 3 hours, but I have never been fined for that yet. It is the one I meet my friend once a month to talk.and eat, and I normally get there an hour early to do a little bit of shopping before I meet my friend. I have a distance to drive before I get there., and if I am unable to do a bit of shopping first, and we have to time watch our conversations it is not worthwhile.

So I texted my friend and told her we are never meeting again in a retail park, even though it was apparently convenient. I researched this afternoon and found a garden centre nearby which is not too far from where she lives, because she cannot leave her disabled husband for too long, but she hates looking for new places, she cannot use a map in the car, nor a satnav, but I have given her that new place as a possibility. It advertises no time restrictions.. I will probably end up having to meet her somewhere she knows and she will have to follow me in her car to that location.. she has not got back to me yet but she'll have to do that if she wants to meet me next week.

So I have lost a valuable day in my sorting and tidying and throwing out. The sun was out today so I really missed being out in that..

I don't very often go to a retail park, but I found them convenient every now and then as a disabled person on my own.

I am pretty sure, even an able bodied person, would not find three hours long enough to do their shopping and have a meal... oh heck I've just realised there's another one, I will have to check if there's time restrictions to that one.

It is 8 pm. I'm going to sleep now because I have had enough of today....

Night night...

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What a palaver @gennepher. Why have a huge retail park if you can’t be leisurely about your visit - I thought that was the idea. Smashing autumnal tree though.

 

[dunelm]

Thank you @Annb. I have been feeling guilty for ages that my wanting to continue running my classes way way past retirement age was putting so much work onto Mr K.

I have been trying to persuade Mr K for ages to get some help but he has stubbornly refused - but has now decided that it will make life much easier in the future.

Well spotted Mr K - My father was quite stubborn about having help but eventually caved in - made life so much better all round.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on another gusty morning here in the dark and dangerous north.

5.4 this am

My circadian rhythms are in protest about fiddling about with clocks so it was a 6am start today. And that after a good thirty minutes of pointless arguing about it like in a badly written re-play of a Monty Python sketch.

Sailed into town and back yesterday in some blustery squall. We did well with our tacking and jibbing. It was like being in the Isle of Wight round the island race. What a way to improve your step count and no chance at all to practice this all new fangled re-packaged interval walking thrust upon us by those cunning Japanese geriatric fitness fanatics.

Mrs Miggins had organised for the canopy over the lower drive to be cleaned and have a lick of paint. That completed yesterday. Next on her list is soffits and gutters and then the drive cleaned and some new kiln-dried sand brushed about. My wallet is losing weight faster than an over enthusiastic visitor to Weight Watchers!

Hope your day is kind to you. I have chosen one which includes the drinking of koffy and keeping an eye upon a chicken carcass slowly bubbling away for stock.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from a soggy bottom start here in L.A. Fbg today was 4.6 at 6.50 which is o.k. Last evening's trial for my system was swede, "pointy" cabbage and some premium butchers sausages with gravy. The idea was to blend in with the natives whilst adding some vits and nutes at budget friendly prices in these straitened times. No boiler @dunelm but I did buy a (new) new car this month. Not sure of what it is a hybrid but it is sleekly black, silent as the grave and somewhat disconcertingly driverless adjacent. Parks itself with the key (for tight spaces) and fussily/ helpfully reminds one the vehicle ahead in the queue has moved - what jolly japes. That meal peaked at 6 but settled to low 5s and my fbg is reasonable so with tweaking could appear again. Next up will be oxtail (two day affair, twice cooked is the only way apparently) with similar vegetables. JKP's hip is still painful but Drs helpfully said make an appointment with the physio service - the ones whose advice may be implicated in this. @Krystyna23040 good news on your board feeling the NHS referrals were too much and Mr K feeling better. Oh no, I've said too much, I haven't said enough (but I'm not LMR) Have as good a Wednesday as possible - other Addams are available and ubiquitous this time of year.

 

[ianpspurs]

Good morning everyone on another gusty morning here in the dark and dangerous north.

5.4 this am

My circadian rhythms are in protest about fiddling about with clocks so it was a 6am start today. And that after a good thirty minutes of pointless arguing about it like in a badly written re-play of a Monty Python sketch.

Sailed into town and back yesterday in some blustery squall. We did well with our tacking and jibbing. It was like being in the Isle of Wight round the island race. What a way to improve your step count and no chance at all to practice this all new fangled re-packaged interval walking thrust upon us by those cunning Japanese geriatric fitness fanatics.

Mrs Miggins had organised for the canopy over the lower drive to be cleaned and have a lick of paint. That completed yesterday. Next on her list is soffits and gutters and then the drive cleaned and some new kiln-dried sand brushed about. My wallet is losing weight faster than an over enthusiastic visitor to Weight Watchers!

Hope your day is kind to you. I have chosen one which includes the drinking of koffy and keeping an eye upon a chicken carcass slowly bubbling away for stock.

Me thinks the man doth protest too much over Mrs Miggins' ending of austerity way, way up there beyond the ice wall. A sagacious chap such as your good self will be well aware that investment without maintenance is just decay. Embrace the fartlek walking, it is the new normal. Swede month here in L.A.