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6.1 again. Too much low carb moussaka too late in the day. Another late dinner at gone 8pm not helping my fbs. Needed to get car loaded with rubbish and waited for hubby to come home from work. Hate eating then doing jobs.

Just sharing my social media post.

Today would have been my dad's 90th birthday. I just wanted to post something in memory of this lovely man.

My dad passed away suddenly at the age of 54. A massive heart attack. He was on the list for a heart op. The letter confirming his op date came too late sadly, a few weeks after his demise.

While he was alive my dad struggled with his health both physically and mentally. My mum and dad went through some very hard times. I don't think a lot was understood back then about mental health and there was definitely a stigma attached to it. They struggled along much of the time but got through.

My dad had a hard childhood, evacuated to Blackpool in the war from Salford. I do think this had something to do with his wellbeing later in life and that's what the psychiatrist at the time said. Events can have a massive effect. Mum and dad didn't have a lot of money either which in itself brings worries. Dad was often out of work. I feel very sad when I think about that. But then I think about the happy times. Mum and dad laughed a lot (when dad was well). They enjoyed a game of bingo together. They rarely won. Just before my 21st birthday, when they told me they couldn't afford a party for me (which I was absolutely fine with) they won £50. Now back then that was a lot of money. I remember them coming home and throwing all the money up in the air and dancing on it. What a joyous moment that was. And do you know what dad said. 'This is for your party'. They went out and bought booze. Lots of booze. Set up a table in the corner of our living room. He had a 'head barman' sign around his neck and we partied into the early hours with all my friends. The photo attached is the last photo I have with dad, from my 21st birthday. That was the 6th June. He passed away suddenly on 6th September the same year .

He was a very loving man. He was a great dad. And I think about him often. I wish he could have met my amazing hubby and seen his wonderful 2 grandchildren and shared all their life experiences. How proud he would be. And to see my daughter so happy with her wife. And then there's our grandaughter . She has brought incredible joy. I'm absolutely positive she could have swept all his cares and troubles away.

So today is the day we all say happy 90th dad. Hope you and mum have a great day celebrating . thinking of you.
 

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*I live on my own, so I generally don't have people around to upset me in what I am eating or try persuade me to their way of eating.
*I don't count my carbs particularly daily, although I have tried to reduce my carbs bit by bit all last year, and this year I have gone lower carb.
*At home, obviously on my own, so I can choose what I eat.
- on wakening it is black coffee and dark chocolate (I have no idea how a small amount of dark chocolate lowers my blood sugar but it does)
- Breakfast is usually eggs and cheese
- 1st meal of the day is meat and a coleslaw of some sort (at the moment, a short while ago it was cooked veg, but I started to feel sick after the cooked veg)
- 2nd meal of the day (if I get that far, I don't always have this, just depends on my day) will be something similar to first meal)
- I may have fruit in a tin or fresh fruit with flaxseed and blitzed seeds and double cream instead of 1st meal
* If I am out for the day, and yesterday when I was at the hospital was the first day I truly planned what I could eat/snack on all day, which was boiled eggs, cheese&babybels, pork scratchings. I did buy some punnets of fruits at the hospital farm shop, and despite polishing off 2 punnets myself my blood sugars didn't appear to rise. This idea worked, and I will do this again.
*I meet a friend once a fortnight for a meal, and I am unhappy with the meal we eat. She is trying to persuade me to eat stuff on the plate which I intend leaving (which I admit I fancy) and I succumb and regret it. Next time I am going to google the menu before we go and I will fix in my mind what I can order and what I will eat, and I will adhere to it.
* I don't count calories in and out. Not at the moment. But I have had various apps on my phone, and the only one I still have is Carbs&Cals. I have counted calories in the past, but currently I have enough other health problems which I am trying to keep track of, that calories is not my concern at this precise moment. I still check the Carbs in that app from time to time if I have no printed info.
*I don't analyse vitamins and nutrients of the food I eat, but I do research it, and have a friend who sends me more links than I can possibly read daily.

This is basically a project in progress. It will change and food will change as I find out new stuff, and as my needs change.

I hope this is of some use to you.

>^..^<
 
Today is my mums birthday 5 years since she left us sending hugs debs xx
 
Very helpful and thanks for taking the time. How are the eyes today?
 
ianpspurs said:
Very helpful and thanks for taking the time. How are the eyes today?
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I am glad it was of some help.

A bit blurry. A little bit of headache on right side.
Yet everything is also in more detail (I was told it wouldn't improve my sight as such, it was just for pressure).
I have to hold my phone and tablet at a different angle to read, bit awkward.
I have ghosting of images (or will that settle? Or will my brain learn to ignore it?)
Also intense glare depending on shininess, is like a white sun with radiating lines. Weird.
None of this is dealt with in leaflet I have from hospital.

Questions questions, so, I will be googling today to see what others experienced from this same procedure. I do have appointment in 6 weeks time, and if I am still bothered on Monday I will be asking for an appointment with my optometrist to see what he says.

A coffee with cinnamon and cream is now called for, and a wee bit more dark chocolate.

Have a good day.

>^.^<
 

Gosh, I just read your post and it sounds like you are going through even worse stuff than I am with my new glasses. Virtual hugs.
 
True Blue said:
I had a Nokia 3350. Everything has gone downhill since then.

I don't need a smartphone. I have a max techy home office. But I do have an Android, after all, wouldn't want to be a victim of FOMO.
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A little Nokia was my first cell phone and I loved it. Not only did it have good games and allow me to compose my own ringtones, it actually functioned quickly and efficiently as a phone! lol
 
SaskiaKC said:
Gosh, I just read your post and it sounds like you are going through even worse stuff than I am with my new glasses. Virtual hugs.
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Thank you for my hugs. They are welcome.
I suppose it will take some time. And like glasses, everyone is different, especially with varifocals. Is that what you have?

Maybe for my eyes this changes and adjusts a bit? Maybe my brain needs to adjust a bit? Or maybe it needs addressing again. I have no idea. But I can see. Just not quite the same way it was before.

Hope your glasses get sorted quickly.
>^..^<
 

I don’t analyse but the Carbs&Cs app I use gives me calories, fibre fat etc. Calories, when I look are often very high ( can go to 3,000) which is probably why I’ve put on a few pounds since Christmas. I’m trying to cut down on the dairy to sort it out. I rarely look at the daily carbs now either though and often forget to put any of my meals in
I don’t want to do more analysis as I think the temptation for me would be to over obsess and could take the joy out of eating. I’d rather have more of a French or Med attitude to meals and enjoy them for their own sake, not because its medicine.
I can’t think of anything that’s missing from my diet - I eat oily fish at least 3x a week, organic red meat when I can ( but not every day) handul of tree nuts most days, lots of olive oil, eggs, loads of leafy greens and other veg and a bit of high percent chocolate most days.
When I first started this woe I did look into vitamin and mineral requirements quite closely as I didn’t really believe I could be healthy without fruit, but I couldn’t find anything that fruit contains that I can’t get from one or other type of veg.
For me variety is they key, to make sure I don’t inadvertently lack something and now I just want to enjoy finding nice ways to eat lovely fresh food.
When I think back to years gone by and how miserable I was on Weight watchers, counting cals, sat fat, points etc I am very happy to have very simple rules to live by now.
Sorry I’ve gone on a bit. I hope you find a way that suits you what do you miss in this woe?
Ps great fbg this morning.
 

I have read about our brains needing to adjust in cases like this. Which is a weird thing for opticians to say, IMO. If the vision machine thingy in the optometrist's office makes our vision better right then and there, why should the glasses made to the same prescription not make our vision better the moment we put them on? We didn't have to "adjust" to the machine in the doctor's office.

Are varifocals like bifocals? These are bifocals, not the progressive kind, because the voucher did not cover progressive lenses. I have also heard of trifocals.

I am sitting here right now wearing my old glasses (20-odd years old) and seeing much better than I could with the new ones, which look a lot better (they are in much better shape) but I can't see anything through them. I only wanted to replace these because the frame is barely held together and because I would really like some lenses for reading.
 
Thanks for the reply . FBG was what it was - taken much closer to previous (last 4 yrs) times. Specifically, I find it hard to get 3 minerals up to rda even knowing foods high in these. By now I don't need carbs but it appears I may need more calories. My cals rarely reach 2k. and the scales back up my app (chronometer) in showing I am in deficit. Plugging that gap is an issue right now - I don't need to lose weight - lost 2 kgs since Good Friday.
 
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6.5 at 0735. Going for a short walk, hope to wake up more!
 

Okay...this is my best answer, and how to explain this. By analogy because I understand this as regard my cochlear implant.

With getting the cochlear implant some years ago, the hospital were not sure if I could benefit because I was profoundly deaf and have been so all my life, and so the thought was, that the pathways that were set aside by the body for aural stuff would have atrophied through lack of use. But more recently, the thought is that those pathways that were originally thought to have atrophied through lack of use, were actually taken over by the brain for another use. But they were not sure, and the cochlear implant could have been a failure.

However in my case, those neural pathways appear to have been taken over by visual and creative stuff by the brain. I didn't realise or understand that until after I'd had the cochlear op. Neither did the hospital.

It also means that I am now unable to do my art, painting, creative writing since the cochlear op and with wearing the speech processor. I was so upset, i thought I had lost all my creativity which was a massive tota; part of my life. It nearly sent me over the edge. A few years later the hospital said keep persevering because the brain will sort it.

Then one morning i got up early and said *** the processor, I am going to try and paint and create without having the processor and incoming noise on. Bliss, absolute bliss. I could now write and paint again. So, all my creativity can only be done with no incoming noise, and my brain seems to be at peace when I do this. Since then, anything creative I want to do, then I take the processor off. The problem with the speech processor being on is that my brain is constantly searching for figuring out what a noise is, and it is probably never going to get there, because it doesn't have a baseline that a baby has learnt in its early years...and I am nearly 70 years old now.

Maybe you cannot teach an old dog new tricks?

So, what appears to be happening with me, is that the neural pathways for aural stuff was combined with other creative neural pathways (?Is it sight because i am a very visual person?), and was the reason for my creativity. But now i have the cochlear implant, the aural side of things wants those pathways back. And becasue so much is needed for me to try and understand sound, I am unable to do the creative bit. Maybe the brain is grabbing more neural pathways to process incoming sound because it is a mammoth task for it. Maybe the neural pathways can be dual purpose, which i am coming to believe might be possible.

I haven't put my speech processor on yet this morning, (oops, its now 1pm in the afternoon!) because i needed to do writing, research about this laser treatment etc, and I cannot do that at all and take it in along with incoming sound as well.

This is all to do with plasticity of the brain, neural plasticity, neuroelasticity. These are different search terms you can use to google this. It is about the ability of the brain to change continuously over a person's life. It is how we learn new skills.

I have read so many books on this subject to try and understand my brain because of this. Obviously the subject was of greater interest to me.

This applies to sight as well.

So, you getting your eyes checked on the vision thingy and glasses prescribed on the basis of that, is not quite cut and dried as that with seeing just as well once you put the glasses on. I am aware of the same feeling. But we need to adjust, or rather our brains do. That is of course assuming the technician or optician got the glasses prescription right in the first place, and of course go back and say what your problem is with the glasses.

I have no idea what trifocals are.
I used to have long distance, and also reading glasses years ago. Then i went on to bifocals you say you have got. Then i went on to varifocals. (I am not sure if i have spelt that quite right). But it means i wear one pair of glasses, but there isn't that distinction line between the bottom half of the bi vocals and the top half. It can be disconcerting as your brain gets used to it. (I have to pay extra to get the varifocals, its not covered with the voucher here either).

I have all my old glasses too, and the frames to me are bigger and enable you to see better, otherwise with the smaller frames I am moving my head and searching for what i want to see!

I will be getting them out as well, because i am having problems with these varifocals today after the procedure yesterday, and i don't know yet if brain needs to adapt, or if they are not as suitable since the laser treatment.

So research plasticity etc. I will be researching later as well as regards sight and laser treatment.
If you need something on this and you can't find it, let me know and I will look for something that might explain it as regards glasses and sight.

The brain is very adaptable and nothing is black and white on this.

Hope this helps.

>^..^<
 
Good Afteringnoon Ladies and Gentlemen.
Courtesy of modern technology I followed the directions of my motorcycle sat nag and ended up I know not where in Cambridgeshire, found somewhere to rest my head.
This morning I woke up to a 4.4, not a good level for motorcycle riding, anyway after a full English breakfast along with toasted jam sandwiches, I got my level up to 8.7, safe to ride.
After finding out where I was in Cambridgeshire I navigated my way to the A14 and my planned route home, being a total believer in my sat nag I plugged it in or more precisely on set the preplanned route home up. This route takes in such places a Alyesbury. Thame, Stadhampton and H's cafe. And blindly followed the sat nag.
50 minutes later and 50 miles of the intended route I thought something is not right.
Needless to say the A1M, M25 and M4 are such pleasant roads to ride on.
I arrive home to be greeted my Mrs J telling me orf for getting home early.
For sale one Garmin sat nag.
 
Not really sure how.... but following 37 g of carbs yesterday I was 9.5 this morning. Ive got a sore throat but nothing out of the ordinary.. I’ve been out volunteering and very cautious of a crash all day. I’m at 4.2 so no real crash. Ah well big day today, FA cup final then GB hockey.
 
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