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

Awoke from another terrible nightmare. Was dreaming I was in 10 Downing Street being considered for a ministerial appointment. Aaahhhhh! It must be the revenge of the BG, saying adios after the sinful footie beer and pizza of last weekend..

FBG 7.7 mmo/lt at 0615.

Happy Friday everyone.
 
All quiet on the North West front this morning with a 4.8. I am off to carry cases and food down my parents stairs and into the car in a little while. They are off for a week to stay with friends. Later I have the excitement of a return visit to the vets with the ill dog. Then if the weather holds a weekend of gardening.
Take care
 
8.9 at 6 am

At least it has dropped below the morning 9’s now.

Just found out it’s another bank holiday Monday, so this means every Tom, ****, and Sally and all their respective offsprings are entering the Gateway of Wales and the roads are going to be totally at gridlock again, which means us residents hide at home in our gardens all weekend...

But I managed to research online a Franciscan Monastery I can go to this morning. I planned a back route that avoids the mass exodus of people coming in on the Expressway. So I am going to investigate that this morning.

I would have gone to the holy well In Holywell again, and although I found peace there last time, a holy well without any water in it (because the water was contaminated and it hasn’t been sorted yet) just doesn’t quite cut it.

Then I shall be in my retreat (my potting shed) until mid next week away from the outside world.

So, in search of peace in this busy frenetic world today....

Take care x
>^..^<

P.S. flipping heck, this software on here now starring out innocent words as offensive words is ridiculous...
I shall try and rephrase, but ‘Every Tom, Richard, and Sally’ doesn’t quite cut it either...I use Sally instead of Harry because that expression was initially from an earlier era when it was a man’s world....I give up....
>^••^<
 
gennepher said:
I would have gone to the holy well In Holywell again, and although I found peace there last time, a holy well without any water in it (because the water was contaminated and it hasn’t been sorted yet) just doesn’t quite cut it.
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Have you been to St Cybi's Well in Llangybi? It was up the road from where I used to live, although I'm a fan of Pistyll Rhaedr between Bala and Oswestry.
 
6.0 this AM..( strawberries & cream for tea..? )
who really knows the wondrous and mystical ways of our bodies.

It's a beautiful, sunny start to the day, here in the capital.
bin day for us, @alf_Josiah ...(just a helpful nudge ;))

hope your feeling better @DJC3 ...x

image-nation....like it @poemagraphic.
lucky enough to feel them both looking over my shoulder from time to time,
i'll try to embrace that 'feeling' rather then think i'm losing the plot.

& @gennepher ..welcome* to the 'NAUGHTY' step.....:D
(* i got busted for saying.. 'Carp'..but nowhere near as bad as saying 'Dcik'..:wideyed:......
so you must be on the highest of the naughty steps....:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:. )

have a good day, you lovely people.
 
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good morning all :)

4.4 for me today

looking grey and perhaps wet this morning with a brisk breeze. Definitely a sweater day since I'm in the charity shop today :)

mr gee will probably go over and see his mum later and perhaps walk Suzie,her dog.

Speaking of sweaters, a couple of years ago in a moment of crafty madness I made a stripey sweater for Suzie but the first time she wore it we discovered that it was the only thing more attractive to mud and water than her own coat. Poor Suzie, half way round the forest walk we had to take off the soggy sweater which had stretched so much with all the absorbed water it was dragging on the deck underneath her tummy :hilarious: I now realise that all those cute doggy sweater pictures are taken when it's dry ;)

Hope your day treats you kindly :)

@True Blue trapeze artist? ;)
 
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6.0 today. Higher than I’d like but ok for now. Lingering effects of yesterday’s dodgy tum maybe ( many thanks for good wishes @SaskiaKC and @jjraak I’m feeling fine now) or just the lack of metformin. Its been about 2.5 weeks without now, and I’m finding bigger swings in readings without it’s buffering effect. Hope it’ll settle down in a week or two.
@gennepher I’m amused at the thought of you on the naughty step in your potting shed! I think I need a potting shed too. Cornwall will be the same busy busy busy over the bank hols, so any trips out need doing today before the A30 comes to a standstill.
 
poemagraphic said:
Things get strange sometimes... who knows why... just enjoy it
Po
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poemagraphic said:
Things get strange sometimes... who knows why... just enjoy it
Po
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You are quite right there Po. This morning 6.8 the highest it has been for ages. When I do a blood test it often feels like a lottery - the numbers can be completely random and make no sense. So I should really just enjoy the good ones when I get them.

Had a really good day yesterday catching up with my to do list. I am self employed and very busy at the moment. The downside of this is that the more work I do the more paperwork it generates. .Even the email enquiries take ages to answer.
 
poemagraphic said:
..."is it just me, or do others sometimes hear their voices commenting on today's decisions with advice ?
It happens to all of us if we are brave enough to admit it.
I used to tell my students your imagine is your greatest psychic tool!
We need to discover how powerful it is.
I call it the 'image-nation' We can learn to use it to enhance our ability to listen ...and talk back!
When we receive information (in our imagination) we did not know, or have any prior knowledge off, we should question where did that come from? AND from whom?
Po
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Nearly every day, I have to put my chimp back into it’s box; that primitive part of us that just jumps out and let’s rip if you let it.
A take on Freud; Inside every persons head, a wrestling match takes place between a school teacher and a sex starved monkey, refereed by a rather timid bank clerk.
 
Morning All. An acceptable 5.5 this morning. Sunny day again I’ve been brave enough to get my feet out, legs next when I have the courage!
@poemagraphic just reminding YOU did all the work and was open to looking at this a different way...so more applause! Good to have you on board.
@DJC3 I think any change to diet, meds, etc takes the body a while to settle so you are doing great without the Met...hold tight!
@Bubbsie sorry you’re under the weather..hugs from a distance.
Finally @jjraak and @gennepher dont worry I’m on the landing waiting for you.
Have a great Friday everyone. Stay well, stay safe.
 
Bon weekend everyone. The sun is shining and the birds and the bees are out in force in the garden.
The wonder wheel of mirth, sadness and “serves you right”, is in holiday mood today and issued another flat 5.

Cough and runny doze sort of clearing up but I had better man up, as they say, and milk if for another day though.

Daughter issued seat numbers for the flights to lands-are-grotty last night - All rows 30, 31 and two in row 32 - I am printing off the rulers of flying just in case: window seat gets the window and one armrest, centre seat gets two armrests and isle seat gets one armrest and a little bit more leg room. If I can wangle sitting next to the twins who, being but two years old, are like J.F Sebastians little replicant friends in the original blade runner film, I can have all the armrests, see out of the window and stretch my legs.
Have a great weekend if you can.
 
dunelm said:
If I can wangle sitting next to the twins who, being but two years old, are like J.F Sebastians little replicant friends in the original blade runner film, I can have all the armrests, see out of the window and stretch my legs.
Have a great weekend if you can.
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:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

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A post with two things I can't tell you which in my simple mind fit perfectly with the vibe of "don't think it, live it" introduced by @poemagraphic. I can't tell you my fbg as I deliberately didn't test it - increasingly unsure it tells me anything useful. I do know not knowing what it is feels remarkably liberating. I also can't tell you just how uplifting it felt to have sun on my back cutting asparagus, listening to bird song and nothing else early this morning after collecting eggs and allowing chickens to roam. Somewhere in there is a method of dealing with T2 control decoupled from Fung, Bilkman, Phinney and Tom Cobbly. Think I'll call it the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid):)
 
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