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

gennepher said:
I love your description that your sky is like one of my paintings @Annb
Thank you for that compliment!

I am sorry your cleaner wasted your time you spent clearing the floors for her. I used to do that years ago when I had a cleaner. Very frustrating...

Good job on the cleaning and clearing out the kitchen utensils xx
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She actually remembered to phone - about 8 pm. Problem was that the Primary School was closed (teachers on strike. I should have realised that - Em was off too) so she had to stay home to look after her daughter. Same thing today, but it is the secondary school that is off, so she has to stay home with her son (first year in secondary so he's only 11). She'll come on Thursday morning now. (Fingers crossed.)
 
Annb said:
FBG 8.2 at 3.30 this morning. Painkillers let me fall asleep again (in the big chair) and I dozed off and on until 8.30. (Neil's newish machine was busy grinding up soya beans and making soya milk and waking me up every time it started grinding. It's a very noisy machine.) By then BG was 11.9. Hour and a half later it was 13.7. At that stage I took insulin and some more painkillers. Had some breakfast and now BG is 9.8. Going in the right direction anyway.

Painkillers not having the desired effect though. I could take another dose about 2 pm, but I don't know if it will be worth it - today it doesn't seem to be having much effect - other than an unfortunate effect on my digestive system (opioids slow everything down). Probably better not.

Very wet and very windy here today - at least the rain has washed the window where one of our resident starlings left a message for us.
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Do you mind me asking if all the pain killers that you need affect your blood sugar?
 
dunelm said:
A great take on life and always good to do a bit of mis-direction on things purloined from curry houses. I’m with you on too much stuff in the kitchen department - I am still passing things on as I come across them if they haven’t been used in a while .
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Yes, but I've never actually been in a Balti house - not even in an ordinary Indian restaurant since 1990 (we were in Glasgow for Alistair's graduation and all went to the Taj Mahal) - and I'd never heard of Balti by then. No, I'm sure they were a free gift with something I bought, some time ago.
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone and it’s another day in paradise here in the dark and dangerous north. Got to love heart surgeons - it appears that I have a ‘whoosh’. I know, technical descriptor for the bewildered about the noise made by a leaky aortic valve as it closes. I can’t hear it - perhaps the guy is masquerading and is really some old sound engineer from early Doctor Who episodes. Anyhow, nothing to worry about as long as I keep taking the pills. He didn’t specify which ones so will stick to the ones handed over from the back of a BMW in the film Twin Town. My newly published book ‘Ersatzteil’. I didn’t write it myself of course but left it to Rosenheim Poltergeist, a famously unknown in these parts ghost writer. Its mainly about how not to complain when the change in your pocket jangles less noisily than the change inside your head with a small chapter about ploughing fields with the older generation. I will be about £2.45 in your nearest charity shop next week. Art bit - a bit more. Have a dinger of a day, must go, koffy to take charge of.

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My brother just had the aortic valve in his heart replaced for the 2nd time. First time was 43 years ago. He tells me that he has always been aware of the "click, click" of the valve - so he always knows he is still in the land of the living. The new one is not quite as noisy, but he can still hear it. Very reassuring.

A few years back, I was told that I have an "odd" heart rhythm - an extra little beat in there that is abnormal but "as long as you don't mind it, we won't bother doing anything about it". Mind it? I wasn't even aware of it. At least it is still going (very strongly, I'm told).
 
Seen to be getting more on track with FBG 5.8 this morning . Went for a 3 mile walk after breakfast ( yes did get caught in the heavy rain showers ) was quite shaky when I got in so tested BG and it was 4.2 far too low for me but at least I must have used up carbs that I ate :)
 
mojo37 said:
Do you mind me asking if all the pain killers that you need affect your blood sugar?
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I don't know - they could. Another one I have to take is Levothyroxine and it definitely states on the pack that it can affect BG. What you lose on the swings ... I have another tablet which I have only recently been given which without a doubt slows down my digestive system but it actually does work in the way it is meant to, so the question arises: which do I prefer - fixing the problem or being constipated? Haven't decided. Took them for a week and then stopped. Started them again yesterday. Probably the worst thing I can do. Will have to try to talk to the GP again and see if I can halve the dose, or something.
 
lindisfel said:
I don't like being manipulated and there seems to be no sides of issues free of it.

Take for example the excess deaths issue, this has been happening for at least six months as reported by John Campbell and no one was listening then.

Well clearly it is not due solely to the health system in this country, because other countries have a higher rate of a excess deaths in the developed world and these countries have a variety of funding models.

We have a health guy who doesn't listen, who has is own narrative. Where are we going with this when the rich don't want to fund the poor's health or even fund the feeding of children?
D.
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Barclay seems to be playing Baldrick in the hope of promotion if or when the King over the water returns for another stab at completely burning the place down. The absurdity is in the attached (google Rafael Behr today), hence our leader tying himself in knots and appearing to lie when he could be fairly honest. One can discount him believing most of this. He could never have achieved so much if he does. The Tory right flank just can't accept the reality of what they have done. I'm desperately trying to see the good in these people. Your concern comes from The Spirit so pray and leave this in His hands. You rest up good and faithful servant.
 

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Off to Carlisle again this pm taking M. to dermatology, hope it goes ok. The steroid Cream is helping after three weeks application.

This is the third day this week have been the 30 plus mile return journey.
Will have to miss the section where they are replacing the old gas main on the A595.
Good job I now have excellent eyesight in both eyes.
D.
 
mojo37 said:
Seen to be getting more on track with FBG 5.8 this morning . Went for a 3 mile walk after breakfast ( yes did get caught in the heavy rain showers ) was quite shaky when I got in so tested BG and it was 4.2 far too low for me but at least I must have used up carbs that I ate :)
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Good to hear, @mojo37

And I definitely sympathise on the ' 4 '.

Gets me that way if get below 5.

Miles off it now, but when I was a steady 5, I could tell if I dropped below it

Felt dreadful

I did get such symptoms, pre DX
Where I though a mars bar or similar was the solution.
(Did help immensely)

I think back then, I was at the phase where I believe the underlying (at the time) T2D had my eating so far out of sync i was spiking & dipping too much for me to balance out

But once I got more practice at LCHF, I realised I just needed refuelling by other means.

Odd, really.

Once I'd settle into LCHF, I really thought going below would be a similar stage as the drop to other numbers
(Came down a digit almost a month at a time 9.8.7.6.etc)

But once I hit the 4's it just feels awful

In the end I just accepted that for me, running in the 4's just wasn't practical or worth the cost


Best wishes on you continuing your descent to regular McGarrett plains territory..... :cool:

 
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lindisfel said:
Off to Carlisle again this pm taking M. to dermatology, hope it goes ok. The steroid Cream is helping after three weeks application.

This is the third day this week have been the 30 plus mile return journey.
Will have to miss the section where they are replacing the old gas main on the A595.
Good job I now have excellent eyesight in both eyes.
D.
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Good news in abundance there, @lindisfel .

Improving for your good lady & the vision of a hawk.

Suggest male flies, stay clear ;)

Inconvenient the trips, but at least you've mastered the route AND short cuts .

Best wishes for results .
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone and it’s another day in paradise here in the dark and dangerous north. Got to love heart surgeons - it appears that I have a ‘whoosh’. I know, technical descriptor for the bewildered about the noise made by a leaky aortic valve as it closes. I can’t hear it - perhaps the guy is masquerading and is really some old sound engineer from early Doctor Who episodes. Anyhow, nothing to worry about as long as I keep taking the pills. He didn’t specify which ones so will stick to the ones handed over from the back of a BMW in the film Twin Town. My newly published book ‘Ersatzteil’. I didn’t write it myself of course but left it to Rosenheim Poltergeist, a famously unknown in these parts ghost writer. Its mainly about how not to complain when the change in your pocket jangles less noisily than the change inside your head with a small chapter about ploughing fields with the older generation. I will be about £2.45 in your nearest charity shop next week. Art bit - a bit more. Have a dinger of a day, must go, koffy to take charge of.

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Looking forward to the colour....
Hope you enjoyed that coffee @dunelm
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a combination of a nursing home and sick bay here in Pig-n-Plane Central where it is dry and bright outside. Tea-n-toast run done and stairlift appropriated for hauling huge laundry basket upstairs. The management are ok with that. When JKP arises to staff the sick bay I'm off for a drive-thru blood test - should soon have enough points for a free coffee and doughnut. @gennepher thanks for the creative which made me rethink , in a good way, my attitude to some wintry scenes. Thank you. @alf_Josiah hope the procedure goes as smoothly as possible. Cold or hot gel for Mr Floppy on Jan 23rd isn't the issue just copious amounts and the right size camera. @dunelm thanks for sharing the latest development of your art and humorously recounting your close encounter of the heart surgeon kind. Have whatever kind of day you can manage with the ingredients and talents with which you have been blessed, Me? I hope to both perceive and know what things I ought to do, and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
Annb said:
She actually remembered to phone - about 8 pm. Problem was that the Primary School was closed (teachers on strike. I should have realised that - Em was off too) so she had to stay home to look after her daughter. Same thing today, but it is the secondary school that is off, so she has to stay home with her son (first year in secondary so he's only 11). She'll come on Thursday morning now. (Fingers crossed.)
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Fingers crossed for Thursday @Annb
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

On the wildlife nighttime camera...

Cat Jade's peaceful night & Fox (Foxy Loxy)

Because I am deaf, and didn't have my cochlear hearing processor on when I did this video, I never noticed the app put on some music with it. So thank your lucky stars it wasn't some terrible marching music...




Creative is a winter painting in ZenBrush3
Midnight is easy to do as a hidden cat, but notJade, Jade has white on her top lips and a white chin. Fiddling with her face for ages. And I am not sure currently if I have done them too small. I'll find out once I post it. So fingers crossed...

Time for a long nap before I start my day again...I was awake most of the night...

Have your best day you can...

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I found the hidden cat in your lovely painting @gennepher
 
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