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


I got MrZF a Yamaha full size keybd for Xmas couple of years ago. It fits tidily in his home office. He used to play his great-aunt's baby grand that somehow came to him when his mother broke up the big house to downsize all those decades ago. We've got to decide (HE'S got to decide) to put many many thousands into full overhaul to include new sounding board, or sell it as you did. Meanwhile it sits "in storage" 100 mi from here. You will love yours!!!!!
 


I'd ask the estate agent. :) All I know is my friend got so stressed staging her house -- and then the man who bought it was going to rip out the insides and redo the whole interior so I wondered what the point was. It's not like he needed to see what it looked like furnished.

And I have no idea why the above text is red.
 
Thank you PenguinMum.
 

Not surprised your fbg is up a bit - there is a lot going on in your life at the moment. I have found that walking is good for stress and bringing bg down. (Easy on lovely days like this but hard to motivate yourself when its grotty out.)
I sympathise with the moving house palaver. We’ve recently gone through the same. I bought some lovely but cheap throws for our tatty old furniture and actually shifted a lot of stuff to the garage and loft and even car boot to give the illusion of spaciousness when people came. It turned out that a developer wanted it - he’s going to pull the whole thing down! ( we have signed a 2 yr contract with him while he gets all the planning and other permissions - cant sell it to anyone else in that period. I hope it goes through or we’re back to square 1 next year)
 
DJC3 said:
bought some lovely but cheap throws for our tatty old furniture
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Thats a great idea....upstairs is fine its just the living areas. Good luck to you hope it all goes according to plan. Once you decide to move you dont care who buys though I will miss my kitchen (after all its where I spend most of my waking time!).
 
@Krystyna23040 I think so many other factors affect a person in general that I can't lay everything at the feet of carbs/exercise. Such a puzzle to figure out! For all we know, the phases of the moon affect BG!
@Shas3 very impressive, great work! I had the same problem with lab HbA1c being WAY higher than my app calculated from the data I gave it. So I bought a home kit. It came out closer to my app number than to the lab. May use a different lab next time, see what happens. US also uses the percentage numbers. Here, pre-D range is 5.7-6.4, so you only have a short distance to go! I hope you can get there if that's your goal.
 

Wow. You are doing such a service to your community, and I assume it's a labor of true love!!!! That's so wonderful that the Ladies who Lost were able to a) do it and b) share!
 
@PenguinMum as Bubbsie said, another house can come along at any moment. And as to selling, someone with vision who wants a house with good bones will snap it up!
 

Are use a different app called Glucose. First it calculates an average blood glucose from the figures you give it and no other data. Then it looks on the chart that the doctors use to estimate HbA1c from average blood glucose. So with my app, anytime I'm not testing is where the numbers could get messed up. Also, every one of my meters could be running in the bottom 15% of its error range all the time every day. <rolling eyes>. They tell me that the blood doesn't lie, which I agree with completely! However, the meters can fib away all day long and get away with it…
 
PenguinMum said:
do people really expect me to “stage” t
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OMG PM if you'd seen this place when I bought it you would have screamed...it was dreadful...dirty...the garden was like a swamp it was in need of so much attention but as I looked around I just knew I could make something of it...you need vision when you look for a new house...sod em I say...there'll be the perfect buyer along soon.
 

I tend to have more faith in the finger stabs, certainly as a monitor of trends. A week of no exercise or peaks and troughs in bg levels will all be evened out with the HbA1c ( or the app - mine also works on an average of readings). Also if your rbc happen to be longer lived or their size is larger than average, your result will be higher.
I’ve stopped putting too much faith in the absolute accuracy of either. I did get a lower A1c when I paid for a private test recently, but goodness knows which is the most accurate.
 
Thanks Bubbsie you have made me laugh about it...as @zauberflote says I just want a house to go to with good bones and can adapt. Ours is a spacious family house with an acre of garden with different zones and the garden gets lookd after really well. I think the families who would love our house probably cant get that mortgage any more but we cant give it away!
Thanks girls for the solidarity...and making me smile.
 
Something so nice just happened that I want to post about it. A couple of hours ago I decided to walk over to the grocery store to return a couple of things and buy some other things. I was wanting to do more, go farther, go do something with somebody, but couldn't think of any place I particularly wanted to go or anyone I could call; most people here, like me, don't usually want to do things on the spur of the moment unless it is their spur and their moment. So I decided to just go out and sit in the garden for a little while and then walk on to the store.

When I got to the garden I ran into a neighbor I hadn't seen in quite a while and as she was walking towards the store we started talking and she invited me to walk on over to McDonald's with her for lunch. So we walked, and talked, and bought our lunch, and then walked back across the road to the garden and sat down and had lunch and talked. All in all we sat out there for about an hour, chatting and feeding the squirrels who came up to our table and asked for handouts. It's funny -- a cat would have asked OUT LOUD. The squirrels ask without making a sound.

Now I'm back home, and the KittenCat just came over and asked OUT LOUD for second lunch (or maybe early tea), and I am going to finish the hamburger I couldn't finish at lunch because I've gotten used to smaller meals. (And I was good -- I didn't buy any fries, and only stole one from my neighbor.)
 
SaskiaKC said:
@zauberflote it is beautiful. Is it a Packard?

This is the first family car I remember -- wish I could post a pic of it but this is its twin. '48 Hudson.

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Yep 1954 Clipper Deluxe. Betsy was her name, for Queen Elizabeth, as she was so stately in motion. Straight 8. My uncle drove it once, and came back grinning. "I just took a Jaguar on Harwood Hill!!!"
We eventually owned 3. One for family, one converted to a truck to stay at the tree farm, and naturally one for parts, which Dad drove from time to time. I saw one in a drive-in ice cream place on MD about 10 yrs ago, and lurked by it until its owner came out with his treat. Asked him if I could sit in it. Yes! It was much smaller inside than even my high school self remembered. But oh that luxurious huge steering wheel, as we had pre-power steering!
Love your Hudson! Our first car I remember was called Maroonie, but I was only 2 so couldn't tell you what it was. My grandfather kept his pre-war car in good condition and never replaced it. They could walk everywhere they went.
 
I'm very excited!!! I might even put a snippet of me playing once I get up and running!!!
 
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