SaskiaKC
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Tablets (oral)
@ianpspurs you are on the money about the lamb burgers with apricot etc. 8g carbs x 2 not great. It never occured to me to check the pack. Will make some and freeze in pairs for future. Thanks for the illumination.
I have had a really bad day.
I was meditating on my bed when suddenly the bed started shaking and the cat leapt up.
It didn’t make sense.
So went outside. My newly laid drains which had been completed last week on Tuesday were being dug up again. They were smashed.
I told the workmen to stop and asked what was happening. I am shaking. The workmen said they were repairing the blocked drains. I explained it had been completed last Tuesday. And why did they not ring the bell or something. Because you wouldn’t hear they said. The bell had been with me in the same room as me meditating so I knew the blue light hadn’t flashed.
I had spent all week cleaning up, replacing plants pots, planting new plants and making that area look good again. I began crying. It was all a mess again.
Workmen tell me to go in and make a cuppa and sit down. And he is trying to usher me in the house telling me to calm down with a cuppa.
I turned round and asked to see their worksheets.
He had to get them. It said customer rang and complained that the drains were still blocked after the work last Tuesday.
So I asked him what customer? He said you. So I said as I am profoundly deaf I cannot hear on the telephone, so it was not possible for me to have rung and made that complaint. I am still crying.
So it’s my neighbour next door, I say, and I start saying a lot more...
I also ask why I was not informed about this., and more. And how can they enter my property without my say so...
But he is ushering me in saying I have nothing to worry about, I won’t have anything to pay and they will clear up when they have repaired the drains.
I pour a small sherry. I am shaking and crying. And I cannot calm down. I don’t understand because this was all done and dusted and completed last Tuesday. And a bunch of strangers descend on my property this morning unexpectedly and start drilling through the concrete...
They haven’t finished, they are coming back tomorrow, specialist parts need to be ordered.
I cannot face it. This is the last straw with everything that has happened recently.
My bg readings are 15.9 now 7pm. I have not been in double figures like that for a very very long time. I have been in the 7’s in the day recently. I am very upset. Was it the two small sherries I had that did that?
I was going to have a relaxing day today in the potting shed, but I had to sit by the window today because of the workmen. So that raised my stress levels.
I sent a text to the number I had, but I got no reply.
I am going out first thing tomorrow and not coming back until the end of the day.
I have had too much stress recently here. I need to put physical distance between me and this place.
>^..^<
I just got back, can't say I want to repeat that journey. People are so loud and impolite, I couldn't face public transport coming back so got a taxi. I was supposed to have a private room for the interview but didn't get one, and then they told me that Wednesday was 'autism awareness day' for two hours. I did point out that they should be aware every day 24/7 unless they wanted to see me running havoc in their building. Anyway, it's over now and whisky is called for
Thanks for hug! Note on correct usage of "y'all"one person is "you", more than one is "y'all", and a pile of persons can be "all y'all" which has been legitimately proposed as a correct translation for New Testament Greek "you" plural! As has simply "y'all". So glad they didn't choose Philadelphia's "youse guys"....
Er....sorry born with 4 cylinders and need 6 to understand your final question... I know I should know it but it's not turning up in data banks. Corrupted no doubt...
FBG 6.2 or 6.3, depending on decimals.
@gennepher how horrible! Where on earth do you live that people can be treated in such an insane way! (I know, none of my business, but good grief.) I've never heard of anything like this. I am so sorry they are doing this to you. I would have been crying and shaking too. And the idea of that workman being so patronizing to you -- that is inexcusable. Cuppa, my foot. I'd have wanted to brain him with a full BOTTLE.
Big hug, and purrs from the KittenCat.
I never have gone. The thought of being picked up by a stranger and driven to a strange place to be alone among strangers for an unspecified length of time and then brought home by another stranger, in who knows what kind of conveyance ....
You are very brave. I don't know that I could have managed.
A few months ago I applied for the free mobility bus service here. I filled out the application, my doctor signed it, I mailed it in, and THEN I got a call from the bus company saying I have to go in and be "tested" or "observed" to see exactly what mobility issues I deal with. It's not enough apparently that I did the app and my doctor signed it. They will send a driver to get me, they said, but I must bring a snack and water as they don't have any vending machines (or, apparently, water fountains -- do they have rest rooms?) -- and they can't tell me how long I will be there or how long it will take. Considering that one of my main "issues" on the app is that I have "anxiety" among crowds and in strange places ...
I never have gone. The thought of being picked up by a stranger and driven to a strange place to be alone among strangers for an unspecified length of time and then brought home by another stranger, in who knows what kind of conveyance ....
No way.
Thanks, @gennepher .
My whole decision on whether or not to move to the peaceful small mountain town hangs on issues like these. As stressful as it is living in the city, at least here I can get out and walk to the grocery store, etc., on my own schedule and on my own two feet. Of course, most other places I have to go periodically are a long way away, across town, through horrid traffic, which they would not be in a small town. ...
BrilliantAn elderly wizened gentleman who knows what coppicing is (let alone how to do it!) ...
Wow. He would be a dream come true.And I don't necessarily mean a gentleman in the Jane Austen sense, just not a ruffian.
I have an old friend who wants just what you want: a cabin in the woods, with all the deer, bear, birds, and other wild creatures.
I would like what Hilaire Belloc wanted, a "house in the high wood, within a walk of the sea" ... or rather, for me, within a horse ride of the sea ...
Sending hugs gennepher xxI have had a really bad day.
I was meditating on my bed when suddenly the bed started shaking and the cat leapt up.
It didn’t make sense.
So went outside. My newly laid drains which had been completed last week on Tuesday were being dug up again. They were smashed.
I told the workmen to stop and asked what was happening. I am shaking. The workmen said they were repairing the blocked drains. I explained it had been completed last Tuesday. And why did they not ring the bell or something. Because you wouldn’t hear they said. The bell had been with me in the same room as me meditating so I knew the blue light hadn’t flashed.
I had spent all week cleaning up, replacing plants pots, planting new plants and making that area look good again. I began crying. It was all a mess again.
Workmen tell me to go in and make a cuppa and sit down. And he is trying to usher me in the house telling me to calm down with a cuppa.
I turned round and asked to see their worksheets.
He had to get them. It said customer rang and complained that the drains were still blocked after the work last Tuesday.
So I asked him what customer? He said you. So I said as I am profoundly deaf I cannot hear on the telephone, so it was not possible for me to have rung and made that complaint. I am still crying.
So it’s my neighbour next door, I say, and I start saying a lot more...
I also ask why I was not informed about this., and more. And how can they enter my property without my say so...
But he is ushering me in saying I have nothing to worry about, I won’t have anything to pay and they will clear up when they have repaired the drains.
I pour a small sherry. I am shaking and crying. And I cannot calm down. I don’t understand because this was all done and dusted and completed last Tuesday. And a bunch of strangers descend on my property this morning unexpectedly and start drilling through the concrete...
They haven’t finished, they are coming back tomorrow, specialist parts need to be ordered.
I cannot face it. This is the last straw with everything that has happened recently.
My bg readings are 15.9 now 7pm. I have not been in double figures like that for a very very long time. I have been in the 7’s in the day recently. I am very upset. Was it the two small sherries I had that did that?
I was going to have a relaxing day today in the potting shed, but I had to sit by the window today because of the workmen. So that raised my stress levels.
I sent a text to the number I had, but I got no reply.
I am going out first thing tomorrow and not coming back until the end of the day.
I have had too much stress recently here. I need to put physical distance between me and this place.
>^..^<
I knocked the evening 500mg Metformin off because I was going even lower carbs. My carbs then were 50g to 100g daily. Knocking the Metformin off made no difference to my readings which were double figures nearly all the time.
So, this morning I stopped taking a second Metformin, because I am happy with my 7’s during the day. And I will see how my fbg and other readings are in the next few days/week.
This means I am now down to 1 x 500mg Metformin and 1 x Sitagliptin a day.
Now, to give a true picture with other supplements I take. I take Vitamin E daily to help with the Sjogrens Syndrome with dry eyes and mouth, and I take a good vitamin B complex because of stresses and stuff.
About 3 months ago I had been researching Co Enzyme Q10 (actually I had been researching it all last year but only just decided to take the plunge and take it) and I had some 30mg capsules. Advice I read, said start with 100mg, so I could only start with 90mg. That made a seeable difference in at least two ways. One was my bsg appeared to drop at least one point overall each reading, and the other was finally when I pricked my finger to take the bsg reading a drop of blood actually came out more easily. Before, I had to prick several times, sometimes, before a drop of blood agreed to come out. This was despite warming my hands, rubbing them etc.
There is a third benefit which appears to come from the Q10 and happened when I started taking it. I have peripheral neuropathy in fingers, toes and feet. Absolute agony. Also I have had Raynauds Syndrome since I was a child and this has caused my fingers to go white and totally numb very frequently, and not just in cold weather.
The nightly pains, in bed in particular, from the peripheral neuropathy, subsided very quickly. I couldn’t believe it. For the first time in forever I don’t have the constant varying pains all night in my toes. For years, I would have been happy to lose my toes if it meant no more pain. Not any more. My toes still don’t have proper feeling in them, but they don’t cause me constant pain any more.
My hands and fingers - the Raynauds Syndrome appears to have completely gone. I have not had one instance of my fingers going white and cold and then totally numb maybe for hours on end sometimes, and then agony when the feeling comes back. This happened very regularly before I took the Q10.
I can actually touch ice now in my freezer, I can touch the frozen food without losing total feeling in my fingers where they went to frozen and totally numb. I can touch snow now, and I made a tiny snowman last time we had a little snowfall, with my bare hands. Silly I know, but it made me smile that I could now do this now.
My fingers still go cold, I presume the same as anyone’s fingers do, but they do not go white and totally numb any more.
I attribute the above to the Q10. However, this is my personal experience with it.
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