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

Muddy Cyclist said:
As Terry Pratchett, films and the wonderful Life of Brian, have been touched upon today, is anyone watching or watched Good Omen, almost as good as the book IMO.
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The book is one of my favourites, I'm a big fan of both authors and just finished re-reading Neverwhere (due on the small screen in the near future). I enjoyed the series and have watched it a few times now.
 
My shoes are always rubber soles @SaskiaKC
Supermarket floors? I have no idea what they are.

But one store where I see my friend for a coffee, if we stand too close to each other, an electric shock goes from my hand or fingers to her hands/fingers.
I blame her and she blames me! We try to keep at least a few feet distance between us! But it only happens in that particular store, not in any other store. So you may have a point in bringing up floor materials.
 

Did he get the chainsaw for Christmas? I enjoyed picturing him as a boy with a new toy so excited and happy to share it with his neighbors! What a wonderful way to share his joy.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7 at 4am

My painting for today...
A4 sized. Acrylics and white chalk pen and white gel pen...
Took about an hour...
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Have a good weekend
Hugs for those who would like them
Take care
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At first the taller tree looked very haunting to me; then I thought of it as sheltering its younger offshoot under its limbs. The water reminds me of a pool I saw from a bridge in Tuskegee National Forest, and of the lagoons at Hilton Head Island.
If I dipped a toe into the water, what would I become? ...
I would love to see your and @Muddy Cyclist 's paintings combined with a story by @jjraak .
 
Well... In the context of that.. I'd wouldn't mind to see eithers interpretation of the McGarett Plains as it overlooks the Fourbidden Zone.. Or maybe the view from six rivers falls into the plains themselves.. That works in the water angle nicely, I think..

No pressure, guys...
 

That’s such a shame Gennepher. I know the shocks can be quite painful though. I wonder if you could carry a metal spoon in your pocket when you go to the shops? If you held it and touched the tin, or the wire crate with the other end of it first, you should earth yourself.
I used to do this at work - I worked in a microbiology lab and had to wash my hands a hundred times a day. When I was in one of these phases I’d touch the taps with a ( sterile) metal inoculation loop before turning them on. Sometimes I’d see the spark jump from the metal I was holding right over to the tap! It would be safe to wash my hands then though.
 

I often do trees reaching out for each other, or bigger ones protecting a younger smaller tree @SaskiaKC
 

Thanks @DJC3
I will try that.
 

And y'all wouldn't have to travel to Oxford for your collaborations ...

 
I just got my lab results from Wednesday's doctor's appointment.
A1C is 6.3% which she says is fine but is higher than the "standard range" of 4.0 - 5.3%. I wish I knew how to translate that number but I have tried and failed and there is no website that will do it for me. Anyway it is the highest it's been over a year. LDL is 123; how can that be "a little high" when it's right within the "standard" range of 75 - 193 mg/dL?

I wrote back to her asking if we could keep the statin at its current dosage and I could try eating better but I doubt I can.
 
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Great jam night, murdered many good tunes now have a house of musicians tying to sleep or quietly playing the blues, good for the soul. I have the unenviable job of tidying up Mrs MC retired to bed, so listening to the blues gently being played, drinking too much red wine I tackle the aftermath of a fine evening.

Sorry no painting today but you will have to accept lots of creativity on musical instruments.

I dare not feed Dracula, will see what the Morning brings.

Sleep tight one and all.
 
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SaskiaKC said:
Sounds like fun. I wish y'all could bounce it off a satellite so I could hear it!
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Oh, how you would have enjoyed it. We get through so much music, we are not always great but every one enjoys it and lots of noise is made. As the night moves on we start to know how each musician works and there are some truly wonderful moments that stand out against the majority of mediocre music

The main thing is every one without exception enjoyed it.

@jjraak write the opening scene and let's see what art it contours.

Too musically charged to sleep, tidying up done and so back to playing some slow blues.

I dare not feed Dracula, so let's see what Morning brings.
 

It sounds very close to heaven.
I don't know if y'all do much Welsh music but your post brought to mind some songs on a Meredydd Evans record I was given decades by a Welsh friend, and have just been listening to again on YouTube.
 

Mg/do converter
HBA1c converter

At 6.3, I think that puts you into pre diabetic zone.
Not too shabby, as you say, if I recall it's not only T2 you are trying to balance
 
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jjraak said:
Mg/do converter
HBA1c converter
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Thank you but I have no idea what mg/do means or what number goes where. Is my 6.3% an mg or an mmol? I do know that the last time I tried to figure this out I got a number that was nowhere even in the ballpark of HbA1C numbers other people were posting here.
As usual, math leaves me sitting on the sidelines but for this I don't really want to just get up and walk off the field.
 
As I understand it, @SaskiaKC
They changed the way it's presented.

So a 6.4% would be equal to 47 in UK mmol.

The part that gets hard to remember is the MMOL for HBA1c...Is NOT the same as the everyday MMOL we use for the finger pricking
I know, confusing huh.

So for THAT..Americans report it as
126 mg/dl
And in the UK, that would be 7.0 mmol

If you scroll down those links, I think it shows THOSE examples a little better.

I would also caution, that for all the disappointment, and I think we have all been there, with our own figures at some point.
Where a ***, .. And maybe even a WHY do I bother..

EVERYTHING WE DO
Has kept us at a far healthier level then if we simply went with the flow, and ate as instructed.

EVERY Day, we post in range, is a day further away from the complications that MIGHT begin to start making any inroads on our health.

And I Celebrate each of THOSE days as a Victory.

One over on the beast lurking within.

We may never beat it, but by God, we are NOT going quietly, WITHOUT a **** good fight.
 
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Happy Third Sunday of Epiphany or other meaningful label for today. Fbg of 4.8 around 4.00 am. That is not a great fbg but better than a 5. Tempting to ascribe that to a niche diet of Haggis, Cropwell Bishop and sampling the malt whisky collection. Diet doesn't work as an explanation for me. (@DJC3 it never degenerated into blended W or Walnut liquer from Domme.) IMHO a much more likely explanation is the environmental factors; boys, grandchildren things we understood ,were created for. Julie was palpably more Julie. @Muddy Cyclist Dracula may well surprise you as yesterday sounds very much who and what you are meant to be. @SaskiaKC I think the Dr is merely covering his or her backside by giving the target numbers. All the best teachers know there is no such thing as the average child so there can't be average adults. These targets seem to be derived from some quasi mystical law to the effect of "on average folks about here on these metrics are ok (ish)." 1 John 1 v4, England cricket team balcony when Ollie Pope hit his maiden test ton, America's team documentaries (NFL) and so on all admonish me to feel more joy in other people's successes - no I in team kinda vibe. Have a great day and share your triumphs however small just to metaphorically scourge me. (Still 4.8 + 2 hrs after bulletproof tea)
 
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