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

jjraak said:
I think that's a common feeling, Genn.

Pretty sure each of us is phenomenal to others in ways we don't even consider.

Personally in awe at how determined you are, that nothing stops you enjoying your life the way you want to enjoy it.

Pretty sure that's rather phenomenal to those looking in.

We just see what we do as normal, and what others do as exceptional.

We all downplay our successes
I guess.
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You are phenomenal in what you have come back from. That was a long hard road. And you are still on that road to recovery to where you want/need to be. You are doing amazingly.

Thank you for those lovely compliments @jjraak
 
dunelm said:
Some strange stuff going on at Yorkshire Tea. Perhaps they have been infiltrated by dumplings and puddings @ianpspurs


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Just look at the date people. Although they would be ideal partners for cheese hot cross buns. Fusion food and drink. What areas of Yorkshire are Assam and Darjeeling in anyhow?
 
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jjraak said:
Indeed @gennepher .

It seems such a common yet easily fixable issue if people are aware and request a test if suspicious.

I think we're lucky as since T2D I now know I can request a test to monitor my levels each year.

A side note was due to mums condition, I had read (but not verified) that some refer to dementia/Alzheimer's as a type of diabetes .

And the thought that if the excess glucose can cause issue to our limbs, what on earth could it do to such a sensitive piece of equipment like our brains & thought processes. Mmmh

To whit I read (please look for links ) that selenium is an important part of brain function

Oddly Brazil nuts give a good level of that, however too many (more then 3 it seems daily ) can cause an overload and create its own issues

I remember scoffing chocolate Brazil's as a kid by the handful .lol.


www.webmd.com

Health Benefits of Brazil Nuts

Brazil nuts: Learn about the nutrients in Brazil nuts and how they help improve thyroid health, heart health, blood sugar, and more.
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But older sensible me thinks differently

I buy a bag each month and most days eat one or two

It causes me no discomfort & while it's another cost, a bag lasts a good while
And it Might do me good

I guess time will tell

And I'd rather try and waste my time
Then find out later it actually would have helped

Btw movies very much a mid afternoon matinee/murder she wrote not a Hollywood blockbuster stylee.

But I found it full of useful information.
And a true story to boot .
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I know something about B12 deficiency, it concerned me if I ever had to take Metformin, I could become deficeint.
My father born in 1903 married to my mum in 1928 started to have pernicious anemia, an autoimmune disease in his thirties when medicine was fairly primitive. He apparently use to mince liver up and eat it raw which
was supposed to help. I guess I was lucky to be born in1939 because he had been sick for some time then but continued to work testing new excavators at Ruston Bucyrus, Lincoln.
In 1941 he was operated on at Lincoln and sadly his deficiency of B12 had attacked his stomach and caused metastatic cancer with growths on his liver and elsewhere and was inoperable, when I was four he had his first fit, he was ill the time and I was in bed with him. Then the fits increased in frequency until he died when I was 6 going on 7 in 1946. He was a brave man.
D.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife camera.
No time to finish the editing today, for this morning's post, on the one I am working on...it is taking too long, so here are a couple of clips I didn't use from yesterday's video.

The new ginger cat.
Can I have some food please, he asks Cat Midnight...
Then starts the waiting game while Midnight considers...


Creative is #14 Lighthouse mostly in Procreate...
Here is the final artistic dramatic version!
There were a couple of previous versions on the way to this one.
Here is the previous one to this one underneath it. My preference is the top one. I don't know which you might prefer?

I was trying, last night, in order to prevent the badger, KissyKissy, from destroying the swing bedding, so I looked for some citronella oil, which didn't work a few years ago against the badgers coming in the garden, but I couldn't find it. So I got my peppermint oil and at the very bottom of each cushion on the swing, which overlaps edge of the swing, which is the first thing, the badger can smell, I put a few drops of peppermint oil all the way along. I did this at that spot because I didn't want to stop cats getting on the swing to get at their dry cat food, they can always get on the side anyway.

I looked at the swing this morning. Great! Success! So, I thought until I looked at the rest of my back garden...what hadn't been destroyed...

He had taken apart a mirror, taken the backing off. I am presuming this is badger KissyKissy, but hadn't broken the thin mirror. There was soil now between the backing and the mirror. It was a concave one. The mirrors in my garden were another idea I had some years ago to try and keep badgers out of my garden. Some beast had destroyed the wood round one of my frog ponds. I hope there are frogs still left. And so the list went on...

I had left the pulled off blankets and cloths the badger, KissyKissy had soiled on the ground (I had been going to bin them later this weekend), and they had been pulled around, and tossed around. One was tossed on to a bush. I think I will hang them all on the Badger's washing line so they are not too sodden with all the rain, and he can pull them off when he wants to play...

Okay, so as well as "gennepher's cat diner", I now have "The Badgers Playground".

The plus is, I do not have snails nor slugs any more. Normally after all this rain there is a carpet of massive slugs and snails out there, and I cannot walk in my back garden without going crunch crunch crunch. Now, the ground is clear of snails and slugs.

It is swings and roundabouts here, or six of one and half a dozen of the other. I used to have a pretty garden with lots of nice pretty Garden Centre bought expensive flowers, I'll have to find the old print photos. However I now have a wild, unruly, untidy (some would say) tatty back garden, but it takes care of itself. No gardening required. The badgers and foxes dig and turn over the soil, and they both clear up the slugs and snails. And the wild flowers are beginning to come out. There is a carpet of yellow Celandines in between the yellow daffodils. Forsythia is blooming. Other yellow flowers are blooming. The purple Honesty is budding. Wild Garlic and Bluebells have put forth all their leaves and buds. Sweet Cicely has its feathered leaves and will bud soon. Forget-me-nots are budding. The flower list goes on...

The only thing man-made is my container vegetable garden, and I need to badger proof that....

Brain in gear, but it wants a nap first.
And I want a cuppa.
Have your very best day...

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Very hard to chose between them @gennepher but actually I think I prefer the top one.
 
Annb said:
It is very distressing, as though the sufferer is deliberately cutting you out from their lives. But, of course, it isn't deliberate. They weren't aware that they were doing it
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A hug for having to deal with so much helping them .

I think you make a great point on the loved ones hurt.

Mum forgot who dad was completely.

He was either someone close who mum knew years ago or he was "that strange man, is still here" & worrying her

I could see the pain it caused dad, but he refused to give up on her.

He was terminally ill during her last year's at home with him, but he cared for this woman who distanced herself from him at every turn, with the utmost of love & dedication.

Of course we all helped, but dad was there 24/7 so suffered the most.

Mum became more & more agitated & aggressive.

Where she wanted to leave & go 'home' in the early hours, dad had to start locking the front door and hiding keys .

Mum would fly into awful rage's, trying to hit him .

He'd call and I'd be there asap to calm her down at silly o'clock

With the lack of sleep due to constantly keeping an eye on her & her nocturnal wanderings, he suffered a heart attack,which brought things to a head .

It broke his heart to be the one to let her go into a home.
But it was for the best

Mum needed care 24/7 and that was killing dad.

Mum rarely asked after him, until out of the blue two days after he passed, in a rare moment of clarity, she asked where he was .

I lied, said he was at work & would be up later.

She seemed ok with that, and the moment of clarity closed, & she never asked about him again.

And I never told her in 7 years .

It didn't seem fair, that if she remembered him, that I could subject her to that grief.

Not just the once when I initially told her.
But every time she asked, because she'd forget .

And every day would be a fresh wave of grief....

That, I couldn't do to her.

God help me for lying, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.


Oddly enough the BBC had this when I looked earlier.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jo Wilson legacy: 'I want the world to talk about dementia'

Bill Wilson wants better understanding of dementia after losing his wife Jo to the disease.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Well, I spoke to my daughter in Australia on Skype this morning. I knew she'd been going through a lot of investigations the last few months, scans and stuff, because she had a pile of things wrong with her. But she hadn't elaborated on everything...

I hadn't slept at all last night, so I watched the vitamin B-12 film, and I was doing some research on vitamin B12 and downloaded her book on it.

So, this morning on Skype with my daughter, I broach the vitamin B12 thing straight away. And she said they had finally done some blood tests, and she just had results a few days ago, and she'd been told that she was very low on B12 she was low on vitamin D, and low on Calcium, and low on haemoglobin.

What they have done is more expensive things on her, like scans, for the last few months before they did these blood tests. So the blood tests are the last thing they do. Why is that? My daughter, nearly 50 has been very worried for months and months on this..

So we discussed all that for quite awhile.

She finally has what seems to be an answer for her problems.. She feels very relieved. They've given tablets and B12 tablets to take, but it is very high dose and is turning her pee very yellow. She has to go back in awhile.

Is this B12 thing genetic, or in part genetic?

And in researching, I have found out that 3 of my medicines deplete my supply of vitamin B-12. And that is in addition to the 4 tablets of Metformin I take.


I'll be back later when I have finished my painting and video editing...
 
Good morning everyone and welcome to another pleasant day on the ball of mixed messages here in the dark and dangerous north. Hugs for all that suffer the agony of childhood memories. The grandchildren are now plotting to come and stay on Wednesday - I blame school holidays which should be kept to a minimum. It will all be better when the government finally get internal combustion cars off the road and we are all in a sorry state when we find that hydrogen powered vehicles leak like sieves and the battery powdered ones are only for the mega rich as the planet runs out of resources and batteries become more valuable than Banksy art installations or signed copies of that book called Spare as most of the copies ended up being pulped. Still, I have the parody book, ‘Spare Us! A Harrody’ on order when it is released on the 6th. Art bit - anothe set of squiggly lines. Hope that everyone has a decent day of it. I shall drink koffy and then wander into town.


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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and my safety koffy is brewing, soon to be consumed.

Blood sugars this morning were a 5.7 .

My covid test this morning was a nice -ve, I shall now stop testing.

Here in Tilehurst Towers, this morning will be dedicated to researching new idiot boxes ( televisions) Mrs J will be happy, I shall just get confused and wander off in disgust.

Now koffy is calling loudly, have a great day, look for the +ve unless it’s a covid test.

Stay safe.
 
Morning all from a dry, breezy and chilly you know where on Palm Sunday or the Sunday next before Easter as the BCP says. Interesting and sad reading about the subjects of vitamin B12, dementia and their effects. Hugs for @lindisfel ] @jjraak @gennepher. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and enjoy your time with the grandchildren. We will have four here at least one day a week and probably two different pairs on two other days for the next two weeks. For all the work involved it is a gift and MIL can spend time with her great grandchildren. She is off to the cinema with two grandsons and JKP is off for a scan on her back and hip. Enjoy as much of your day as you can and acknowledge those parts which just can't be enjoyed.
Update; Wonderful news @alf_Josiah
 
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I remember and old guy from Skegness in the late 50s who was a bird watcher. He had a ex French military telescope with three lenses eye pieces on a turret and a massive wooden tripod, He would park his car so he could see over the Wash with this incredible optical device from Gibraltar Point.
Hi wife never said anything and could not communicated either through stroke or dementia but she was always with him and was always, well dressed and cared for.
It alway struck me, if it came to it, that's how the end of life should be, unless one of us died first and we were left alone to decide our future.
D.
 
6.7 this morning. We are both tired so have made no plans for today. Just gentle dog walks and reading and relaxing.

Mr K would like to continue driving me to my Norwich classes. It has been lovely seeing more of Mr K than I do usually but I don't want to lose my driving skills and so we have found a good compromise.

Mr K will drive me on Mondays and Tuesdays which are my two really long days and I will drive on Thursdays and Saturdays which are the two shorter Norwich days. He will continue driving the other two days to my local classes.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
6.7 this morning. We are both tired so have made no plans for today. Just gentle dog walks and reading and relaxing.

Mr K would like to continue driving me to my Norwich classes. It has been lovely seeing more of Mr K than I do usually but I don't want to lose my driving skills and so we have found a good compromise.

Mr K will drive me on Mondays and Tuesdays which are my two really long days and I will drive on Thursdays and Saturdays which are the two shorter Norwich days. He will continue driving the other two days to my local classes.
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As usual Mr K has proven he is an elite performer. The doyen of husbands. Proper debate over GOAT. Derek, the guy with the telescope and @jjraak's dad are all in the running after this morning. Others may emerge or spring to mind but Mr K is a strong contender.
 
"..good morning on a glorious day at Golden Fields Park for the McGarrett stakes , a Group 1 race over 1 mile

Runners are all in the stalls...
And there off...

And it's bigvaan away first, followed by oohmeleg, Perseverance, bullheaded & scootersdeed.
JJraak last .

3 furlongs out & JJraak switches to the outside, muscles his way past the fading bigvaan & oohmeleg, neck & neck with bulldheaded & perseverance, scootersdeed is a long way back.

those 3 clear of the others, & it's JJraak kicking on, perseverance is holding on grimly , bullheaded slipped back to 3rd ..

but at the line it's ....JJraak who wins the McGarrett stakes.

He was heavily backed down to 5.6 on the track at the off, so someone knew something

his owners will be well pleased with that performance today ..."
 
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