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

Krystyna23040 said:
6.3 this morning. Happy to be back in the 6s again.

Also happy that my sister has at last had her appointment with the consultant. He said that the growths were seborrheic keratosis not melanomas and would never become cancerous. She has been waiting for weeks for this urgent referral to the hospital and was understandably getting really stressed - especially as her GP had been very concerned by the growths.

No trip out today as Archie is a bit under the weather.
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If she puts vaseline on them under a plaster overnight they come off. I assume you mean seborrheic warts.


Solar keratosis can be treated and can be very nasty if occuring on the face and some are treated by laser, freezing or Solareaze (over a long period). (Sorry that was incorrect before I am thinking of sun damage and solar or actinic keratosis which come on the face and can be precancerous. )
Seb keratosis is not caused by the Sun therefore just ugly and not a problem

I was told to do that to seb warts by a very good Dermatologist at Carlisle when I worked in Medical Physics. Their quite unlike melanoma. Had my back checked once a year for last thirty years.

Melanomas have to be caught when they appear, one should get them out straight away in situ. They readily spread to lymph and lung.
Had several suspects taken off over the years and a positive one this March .
D.
 
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lindisfel said:
If she puts vaseline on them under a plaster overnight they come off. I was told to do that by a very good Dermatologist at Carlisle when I worked in Medical Physics. Their quite unlike melanoma. Had my back checked once a year for last thirty years.

Melanomas have to be caught when they appear one should get them out straight away in situ. They readily spread to lymph and lung.
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Any tips for skin tags?
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a verisimilitude of a low budget summer's day here in L.A.. where we seem to have escaped lightly from Antoni yesterday. @alf_Josiah by coincidence it is also the feast of The Transfiguration so a double treat for you. @Krystyna23040 wonderful news on your sister I know from personal experience. Enjoy a relaxing Sunday. @gennepher thanks for sharing the gorgeous creative and good news that it was very Billy Joel. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and thoughts on modern humankind - have you thought any more about that job share as thinker in residence? The venerable Range Rover seems to cope with water even in its advanced years. Don't know if the latest ones have a water driving button to press or just ask the AI? Enjoy your Sunday possibly not as much as Mr D Levy Esq who has allegedly procured about £110 Mill for Mr H Kane Esq from some Germans.
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Thanks Ian.
 
6.8 this morning, so not so bad, stabilising in high 6's!
Cool and windy on the peninsula coast today, Sun making an effort to escape the cloud cover, but it's a nagging northern breeze/ hurricane, depending where your standing!
Lots of footie on box this afternoon, so if I can't get into the garden, that is a plan, unless....
I'm aching again for no apparent reason, muscles and joints, must be the weather! Unless....
It might be a chill or something from the footie, sitting in the draught stand! Unless.....

My father, when he came back from the far east, due to his health was given a job in the civil defence. Mainly as a driving instructor. He tried to teach me! But I was rubbish!
He did tell me about driving in Burma, India, the jungle and the worst was the monsoon season. He also had to learn when over there, how to lead a mule, packed with the machinery of war!
Which was here yesterday! The monsoon, not the mule!

I had another word of the day, but I was too discombodulated to remember it!

I have had a skin tag on my neck since whenever, other than nicking it occasionally whilst shaving, I completely ignore it!

Enjoy your sabbath, if it is today.
Best wishes as always.
 
Lamont D said:
6.8 this morning, so not so bad, stabilising in high 6's!
Cool and windy on the peninsula coast today, Sun making an effort to escape the cloud cover, but it's a nagging northern breeze/ hurricane, depending where your standing!
Lots of footie on box this afternoon, so if I can't get into the garden, that is a plan, unless....
I'm aching again for no apparent reason, muscles and joints, must be the weather! Unless....
It might be a chill or something from the footie, sitting in the draught stand! Unless.....

My father, when he came back from the far east, due to his health was given a job in the civil defence. Mainly as a driving instructor. He tried to teach me! But I was rubbish!
He did tell me about driving in Burma, India, the jungle and the worst was the monsoon season. He also had to learn when over there, how to lead a mule, packed with the machinery of war!
Which was here yesterday! The monsoon, not the mule!

I had another word of the day, but I was too discombodulated to remember it!

I have had a skin tag on my neck since whenever, other than nicking it occasionally whilst shaving, I completely ignore it!

Enjoy your sabbath, if it is today.
Best wishes as always.
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I have loads of skin tags - far too many to do anything about - but there are about 3 that are sore because they catch on my clothes, particularly one on my neck. If I could get rid of it I would be able to do without the silk scarf that protects it from my collars. A doctor did try to get rid of it a few years ago, by freezing it, but it didn't work. Actually got bigger. Literally a pain in the neck!
 
lindisfel said:
Perhaps if they are waisted on a narrow stalk you could tie some thread around its base and progressively tighten the thread and this would stop it's blood supply and drop off after a couple of weeks?
D
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I did try that, but had to stop. It was too painful. Wimp! That's me.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Relentless rain yesterday and all through the night. Midnight slept on my bed with me nearly all night. He went outside a couple of times because he heard something going on. But he came charging back in like a bullet each time. The coverings on the swing looked muddy as heck and something had tried very hard to pull them off, but they are all tied on with rope! I haven't checked last night's SD card yet....

Wildlife Cameras from a few days ago...
Badger gets snarled at and smacked by cat - Badger only came to say Hello...
I felt sorry for the badger.

13 seconds

Creative is acrylic inks and Hake brush with water
I like this one just as it is. So, just one painting today!

Time for a cuppa.

Have your best kind of day.


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Smashing art
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a verisimilitude of a low budget summer's day here in L.A.. where we seem to have escaped lightly from Antoni yesterday. @alf_Josiah by coincidence it is also the feast of The Transfiguration so a double treat for you. @Krystyna23040 wonderful news on your sister I know from personal experience. Enjoy a relaxing Sunday. @gennepher thanks for sharing the gorgeous creative and good news that it was very Billy Joel. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and thoughts on modern humankind - have you thought any more about that job share as thinker in residence? I'll leave it with you. The venerable Range Rover seems to cope with water even in its advanced years. Don't know if the latest ones have a water driving button to press or just ask the AI? Enjoy your Sunday possibly not as much as Mr D Levy Esq who has allegedly procured about £110 Mill for Mr H Kane Esq from some Germans.
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Thank’s @ianpspurs. Thinker in residence. Wonder how many times you get to unthink things?
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.1

I shifted the order of eating my regular food. Didn't work, it just resulted in higher readings...
Back to the way I usually do it today...

Raining. Relentless Rain...

Wildlife Nighttime Camera
Pa Badger & Son - a fox wanders through - Cat Midnight warns (snarls at) Pa Badger
58 secs long

Creative is a collage of kaleidoscopes from the acorn photo of yesterday...

I woke up for the bathroom in the night and stumbled over two black cats eyeing the cat food, a stand-off...confusing to my sleepy brain...
The extra black cat was Amy. She hadn't come in for supper last night...
So, Amy in the kitchen, Midnight in the bedroom, and fed them both some wet food Whiskas...

Back to bed, but been awake since...

Am hungry now...

Have your best day, that Ark will be sailing your way soon...

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I love the acorn kaleidoscope @gennepher.
 
ianpspurs said:
ust reading your schedule is tiring enough so I hope tomorrow is as relaxing as you wish for. Enjoy the day in your own way. Mine will certainly involve watching plenty of sport as there are football, cricket and rugby coaches needing my (unsolicited) advice - even though they may not realise their need. I may very well take a refresher course in tea drinking just to brush up on my technique.
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Your day sounds very much like Mr K's day. My day today has been wonderfully relaxing. Lots of coffee and reading and some lovely long dog walks with Poppy and a shorter walk with Archie who has been a bit under the weather.

Because of the upcoming 3 week break I have been shoehorning my 1:1 clients into my diary. Tomorrow's diary is truly horrendous.
 
Annb said:
We'll have to see if Monday (or whenever I can get a prescription) is early enough. Last time no anti-virals were prescribed anyway. In fact, on none of the occasions I mentioned were they offered. Possibly they were not available when Alistair had his gentian violet treatment but they certainly were by the time both Tom and I had shingles.
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Hope you do get the antivirals tomorrow @anneb.
 
lindisfel said:
Has a good comprehensive school our two went to.
Was the home of Melvyn Bragg's parents who had the Throstles Nest and later mother had a sweet shop I believe.
Some of his novels are locally based.
D.
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Yes I knew he was from there Judith's god mother lived in Seaton she was Ethel Fisher MBE and used to write poems in the Cumbrian dialect and had some books published Farmyard Tales, We Ploughed by Moonlight and a few others.

Fbg was 5.7 this morning.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Relentless rain yesterday and all through the night. Midnight slept on my bed with me nearly all night. He went outside a couple of times because he heard something going on. But he came charging back in like a bullet each time. The coverings on the swing looked muddy as heck and something had tried very hard to pull them off, but they are all tied on with rope! I haven't checked last night's SD card yet....

Wildlife Cameras from a few days ago...
Badger gets snarled at and smacked by cat - Badger only came to say Hello...
I felt sorry for the badger.

13 seconds

Creative is acrylic inks and Hake brush with water
I like this one just as it is. So, just one painting today!

Time for a cuppa.

Have your best kind of day.


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Yes, definitely lovely artwork just as it is @gennepher
 
lindisfel said:
If she puts vaseline on them under a plaster overnight they come off. I assume you mean seborrheic warts.


Solar keratosis can be treated and can be very nasty if occuring on the face and some are treated by laser, freezing or Solareaze (over a long period). (Sorry that was incorrect before I am thinking of sun damage and solar or actinic keratosis which come on the face and can be precancerous. )
Seb keratosis is not caused by the Sun therefore just ugly and not a problem

I was told to do that to seb warts by a very good Dermatologist at Carlisle when I worked in Medical Physics. Their quite unlike melanoma. Had my back checked once a year for last thirty years.

Melanomas have to be caught when they appear, one should get them out straight away in situ. They readily spread to lymph and lung.
Had several suspects taken off over the years and a positive one this March .
D.
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I didn't realise that seborrheic keratosis was a form of wart. They are truly huge. One has now fallen off on it's own. Thank you for the tip about the Vaseline and the plaster - I will let my sister know so she can get rid of the other one.
 
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