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

HarryBeau said:
Just realised what you said MC...possible diabetes do you think that led to his loss of vision?
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Could be, will probably get a blood test done, however he is not drinking excessively or weeing excessively and his vision will not improve, got loads of energy, good appetite good weight, so not sure how much knowing will help.
 
SaskiaKC said:
All I can say is, it's too bad Sears, Roebuck & Co. no longer publishes their big thick catalogues. I don't know how much American history y'all have been exposed to (sorry about the pun :angelic:) ...

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Good afternoon just dipping in after a lot of errands today. Why did I never thnk of that. Since I unsubscribed (due to new Govt rules) from all the sellers who bombarded metheybare now bombarding me with paper catalogues which makes me and the postman cross. Maybe I could recycle them in another way but that might make my plumbercross!!
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Had a hour whilst Mrs MC sorted the horse and before gardening started so managed to finish my painting, Watercolour A4 based on a Welsh walk on a wet day, did some sketches when back at VW camper. I have decided to do a whole series of welsh Slate scenes so will post each as I do them. Posted thumbnails of progress to finished work.
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@gennepher well done with Amazon, look forward to seeing your digital creation.

Some good BG numbers today.

@HarryBeau and @SlimLizzy interesting about carbs for animals, our Moet Labrador may have diabetes although not had blood test for it yet and we have been advised to check his carb intake by the vet. More informed than NHS seemingly.

Off to the garden now Mrs MC is calling.
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Fantastic MC I can hear the rain on the path...how do you do that!
 
HarryBeau said:
That sounds about right Saskia...Lola is much improved this morning she & Charlie have been out on a joint hunting venture & proudly presented me with these this morning... they're back out again for more but will to cut that short it's freezing & I can't leave the door open any longer...

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Adorable pics, So good to see Lola playing with her brother....does the outside play make them sleep afterwards?
 
SaskiaKC said:
Thank you. :)
How is Archie feeling these days?
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Thank you for asking. Archie is fully recovered now. He was so well behaved when he was ill. Now he isn't quite so well behaved. If I want to walk on one side of the road - he wants to walk on the other side. If we want to turn right - he wants to turn left. He is a very gentle loving dog but a little s** when out on a walk.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Had a hour whilst Mrs MC sorted the horse and before gardening started so managed to finish my painting, Watercolour A4 based on a Welsh walk on a wet day, did some sketches when back at VW camper. I have decided to do a whole series of welsh Slate scenes so will post each as I do them. Posted thumbnails of progress to finished work.
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Mmm these picture are a Joy, I love the mysteriousness of the first picture it reminds me of groynes in the sand, whilst the second one seems to take you along on a journey.
 
PenguinMum said:
Adorable pics, So good to see Lola playing with her brother....does the outside play make them sleep afterwards?
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Not for a quite while but they are always hungry PM...so far they've had six packs of whiskas today ( until I find an alternative they'll eat) and that won't be the last...at this rate with all that exercise I may have to limit their outside playtime !
 
HarryBeau said:
Not for a quite while but they are always hungry PM...so far they've had six packs of whiskas today ( until I find an alternative they'll eat) and that won't be the last...at this rate with all that exercise I may have to limit their outside playtime !
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They are doing great HB and have really landedon their little padded feet with you :cat:
 
5.6 today. Happy.

2 x cancelled holidays today, son not going to Madrid. The gig he was going for has been cancelled as over 1000. Also the Real Madrid match wont have spectators. So he is gutted. Not sure he will get money for flights back. We will see. Hotel was cancelled within timescale for refund no penalties thankfully.

Me and Eric cancelled our holiday to torremolinos. Airbnb. Moved dates to September after having a few messages with host. Hoping everything under control at that point. Reason for cancelling being fear over not being able to get back home! If UK are in lockdown. I'm happier now I've made the decision.

Daughter and family due to fly to Lanzarote on 18th. Think that will be cancelled too.

The upsetting thing is reading about the struggles the medics are having dealing with this virus. They are so selfless. I'm in ore. True heroes.
 
a good day today.

Had a job to do on Pablo..a new belt etc..waiting for the items to arrive, and the weather to be good.
Today was the day it all came together..great success.

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*note NOT ME..:D

And for a ride out just to check all A.O.K Virgil and F.A.B

i took Pablo as part of the run to Tesco.

lovely couple on my street, quick chat as ya do mention of the C19 virus
"not sure if this isn't just ..the FLU"...:banghead:
and ALSO rather surprised shelves were empty..***..:rolleyes:

Good they got a few bits, bad they think i'm a worry wart,..

"Not gonna panic, JJ.. seen flu epidemics before "

hope they are OK..and Do NOT infect me or mine with their laid back & hope to die ways*..

( *Ok ...thought i said that in my head....but you know what i mean )

anyways..went to Tesco as said..all the tin stuff gone..:woot:
and this is a SUPERSTORE..:***:
not one of your metro baked beans only shops ..HUGE...really BIG
pasta rice loo rolls , kitchen rolls bleach..all empty.

BUT, dear readers, it concerns me not.
as i have seen the Muggles weakness.

Come ON..am i the ONLY one to think since my DX i AM superior in my mind set and Way of eating then i was before..:D

And sadly, superior over many many others with their, " but there's a tablet i can take for that, so i can eat as MANY F****** cakes as i like..hahaha "

Chickens coming home to roost anyone..:banghead:

any way i digress.

the food that have gone..Muggle foods
the foods left..TONS of cauli rice..YEHAWW.

(ok yes i bought Eatwell food tins..and pasts /rice..and ..Coiuscous..:arghh:)
BUT on the premise, my Lauren may need to eat and my steph. so i bought with them in mind, and if it's all that's left,. then T2 will have to wait to devour my body..
(sorry FBG, love ya..but just NOT at that expense )


**NB...Worrying..and may cause stress..Do NOT read any further if of a nervous disposition
or just fed up with all the unnecessary 'PANIC'

** You WERE warned..:bookworm:
still sure..??
Ok read on.








Guys i KNOW this is a friendly, non threatening thread..and i DO ..Honestly
Love each and every one of you like family....xxx

Wonderful, Talented, Caring . Loving, Awkward, Annoying, disappointing and infuriating sometimes family admitttedly
BUT MY family None the less. 100%

PLEASE DO take this seriously.
I want ..No need to see each of you come through the next few weeks & months as you are.
whole, happy, intact ..err..well just as you are...even if you are a little weird..:bag: ;)

My street friends think this is ok.
it will all blow over in a week.

It won't

PLEASE don't be like them.
think, plan, prepare.

As much as i am that 'funny Guy' and i see the humour in most things,
some, OK maybe more then a few ..perhaps don't get MY way of thinking,
but you tolerate and humour me
and for that i will be eternally grateful and humbled.

But the time to be restrained and polite has NOW passed.

Get busy planning and preparing.
the storm is coming.
You CAN'T Protect YOUR family if you DON'T protect your neighbour
#respectandprotect....it's the ONLY way, as one we struggle but united against a common
enemy ..we CAN triumph.

May ...
Your god bless you.
Your invisible friend protect your from the storm
and in the Klingon way
may you live long & Prosper

Love ya all.
JJ
 
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Debandez said:
5.6 today. Happy.

2 x cancelled holidays today, son not going to Madrid. The gig he was going for has been cancelled as over 1000. Also the Real Madrid match wont have spectators. So he is gutted. Not sure he will get money for flights back. We will see. Hotel was cancelled within timescale for refund no penalties thankfully.

Me and Eric cancelled our holiday to torremolinos. Airbnb. Moved dates to September after having a few messages with host. Hoping everything under control at that point. Reason for cancelling being fear over not being able to get back home! If UK are in lockdown. I'm happier now I've made the decision.

Daughter and family due to fly to Lanzarote on 18th. Think that will be cancelled too.

The upsetting thing is reading about the struggles the medics are having dealing with this virus. They are so selfless. I'm in ore. True heroes.
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Same here India SHUT DOWN NO incoming traffic.
anyone still in country from a set date to be quarantines if coming from europe.(many countries not sure but Germany, Italy, Spain, France for deffo..UK visas cancelled :arghh: but ours are 5 years SO hoping to go later is we get through ok.

this Sh1-te just got REAL

why are they doing this and yet we are just letting anyone from Italy just turn up..:banghead:

Got an recent workmate just got back from Italy has decided to self isolate..COULD have just gone out got a job..
great lad but a mental approach from Govt.

football tonight ..Spanish clubs behind close doors..to try and stop the Covid epidemic..win
Spanish fans off to the Liverpool Game, and off drinking and eating around Liverpool, i bet...OMG..lose

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@jjraak Your thoughts are similar to mine earlier today. A notice from management shoved under my door...
Don't go out in public if you don't have to ...
Stay in your apartments as much as possible ...
Then, online,
Everyone over 60 stay home ... Stock up on enough groceries for a couple of weeks ...
Well, groceries for two weeks cost more than many people have money for all at once ... Federal food stamps won't be topped up for another week ...
Hopefully there will still be some food on the grocery store shelves ...
If the governments are trying to isolate us in our homes ... Take away our (over here)Constitutional right to peaceful assembly ... Then TV news crews stop going to work ... We are isolated and out of touch, hoarding the masks and soaps so health care workers can't buy them ...
What then?

I just want to move to the little town before the state goes on lockdown ...

Today I read that the government is criticizing the president for doing nothing about this epidemic ... Then I read that he'd called an emergency White House meeting about it ... for which the government criticized him for calling people away from business-as-usual ...

This is worse than Y2K and the post-9/11 anthrax scare put together ...
 
SaskiaKC said:
@jjraak
Your thoughts are similar to mine earlier today.

Everyone over 60 stay home ... Stock up on enough groceries for a couple of weeks ...
Well, groceries for two weeks cost more than many people have money for all at once ...
Federal food stamps won't be topped ufor another week ...

Hopefully there will still be some food on the grocery store shelves
...
If the governments are trying to isolate us in our homes ...

I just want to move to the little town before the state goes on lockdown ...

Today I read that the government is criticizing the president for doing nothing about this epidemic ...
Then I read that he'd called an emergency White House meeting about it ...
for which the government criticized him for calling people away from business-as-usual ...

This is worse than Y2K and the post-9/11 anthrax scare put together ...
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Oh @SaskiaKC what can i say that won't add to the panic we all feel.

But this Sh1-te has got real..
only china has got a hold of it, and it had to do unimaginable things to get there...
stuff we can't won't even contemplate UNTIL we have to

we'd do well to begin limiting unnecessary contact , IF possible (ignore the DON'T panic cries.. this is about getting through the next few weeks and months )

we went the same route.. a few of us went and bought a little more each week just in case
you are a week or two behind, do the same grab what you can when you can.
go for stuff you like , that might last a few weeks ..cans good.. dried ok.

and while balancing the BGS, etc, is important...the goal IS to get through.
THEN deal with the issues of BG etc after.
can't deal with them if you don't make it through., can ya

sad to say we are in much better position then the states
we have a national health service free at point of need, so does china to an extent as does most of Europe
for the states the T1 over there are dying because they can't afford the meds..***

THIS might be what persuades your govt that caring for others through taxes is a good idea.

it's just TOO messed up to even think it's ever going to work., as it is now.
trumps says it's all just going to go away, that is what a mother says to a small child
not something a president say's to reassure his people..

he made the discussion of Covid and official secret meeting
so, many important doctors / scientists weren't at it..so HOW can HE know the best course of treatment/management if the people MOST aware of the dangers, are not even allowed into the meeting..???

My tip ...for You...and all Americans

IGNORE your president..

look to those countries who HAVE the virus. LEARN what they are doing.
read how others have prepped, got sick and what they did to recover.

we watched as china burned..we watched as Italy burned
do NOT watch as WE burn ...ACT..and ACT NOW.

Impolite ?..hell yeah the time for polite and 'please, would you mind" has long passed
This IS a war we can and should win, but we need to be aware, prepped and ready for action
anything less is pure idiocy.

do not listen to the "it's just FLU"..it's NOT..not by a long way

act and act now..
my one regret..isn't being being panicked.. it is NOT acting earlier

tell everyone you know over there NOT to look at trump, but to look at Europe for whats is coming your way

God bless,
and stay safe.
 
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