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

It's definitely better to get it fixed properly, but....

In your shoes, IF I knew that was the issue.

I'd be inclined to try 2 holes.

One underneath fitted with a rubber grommet (hardware stores/Amazon)

And one on the side , quite low down.

Some clear plastic piping, (think aquarium tubing)..secure and make waterproof.
Suggest blocking at end & taping up an unseen side of dishwasher.

Use, then see if there is anything to drain.

Side pipe let's You aim run off water into a bottle, etc.

If it's particularly bad, once run off, then it's pop off the grommet underneath, to properly drain it.

A little cumbersome & messy, but what's to lose if it stops the cutting out.?

Best case, that pinpoints Neil's guess is correct about the problem...
& It keeps on working and You have a functioning dishwasher until you are able to get it properly repaired, (or not)

Worst case you get it fixed properly, and it doesn't leak, and you have a couple of holes you can fill in no one will ever really see ..
My gut feeling if it's failing and from a water leak, presumably spraying electronic components, draining the water off is a waste of time. Concentrate on the problem that causing it to fail, don't get sidetracked by drilling holes.
I speak from forty years fixing difficult problems in my job.
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Is my fasting BG even relevant here since it’s driven by my pump and insulin?
In my non medical opinion yes posting your first reading of the day is relevant, probably attaching a print out of your graph might be over doing it, but whatever you decide welcome to this little corner of this useful thread.
 
Morning all on the start of a busy few days what with half term child care duties - including 2 earlyish trips into Cambs to fetch them - medical procedures plus something or other not to forget on Friday. I need to hold my peace over making Halloween cookies etc - I don't approve. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative - to me it seems more upbeat so I hope it reflects your mood lightening. @Krystyna23040 enjoy relaxing after the vet trip. The Crown and Castle looks very picturesque and Jake's food looks wonderful. Y'all have a good day now.
 
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Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera
Cats & Badger & Fox...
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Creative...
A cat (Midnight) in ZenBrush2 and Procreate

Have your best day

Time for a cuppa...


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What a happy looking cat. Yesterday my mum downloaded Zen Brush 3 and is over the moon that you can add ‘water’ to the paper and have it work just like it does with sumi
 
Good morning everyone from another overcast start to the day here in French Froggy France. Home help came this morning so I escaped to the supermarket with a list of produce to hunt down. Free range eggs are labeled ‘plein air’ - very artistic. Art bit, a sketch looking over the Charente, towards town from our walk yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you and that my mum’s red dalek is fully charged for our lunch trip. Must be time for another koffy, surely?

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We all live very different lives and some find it embarrassing that a loved one has dementia of any kind. Most of my family didn't live long enough to get dementia. I can think of a lot people who had dementia and some were of a very high IQ indeed.

When I went to work at 16 in 1955 I got £2 per week and had to give £1 to my Mum and this continued until I came out my time and eventually earned a working man's wage. My sister and I were still expected to help her until she and I got married. Mother was widowed when she was in her thirties and it was expected we would help. She had R.A. and used the money that my dad left in my sister and my name he intended for our educations. She thought it fair game to spend it as she felt necessary by getting me to sign papers and putting the amounts in later as she did with my sister.

I had no hard feelings I eventually got a good job with a better salary than I would have had as a working class lad.

So even then I never worried about money and I certainly don't now, but I know what it is to be poor.
I believe IQ has absolutely nothing to do with dementia of any sort. Tom's IQ was in the top 1%age in the country (he had to be tested because he had to administer tests) but that didn't make a jot of difference in the end. Dad was never tested but he was very intelligent and possibly did have a high IQ and that didn't protect him from the strokes he suffered and the resultant dementia. There shouldn't be any embarrassment when a loved one develops dementia. It's a very sad part of life and nobody is immune. I don't think anyone is embarrassed if a loved one develops, say, heart problems. Dementia is no different.
 
Good morning everyone from another overcast start to the day here in French Froggy France. Home help came this morning so I escaped to the supermarket with a list of produce to hunt down. Free range eggs are labeled ‘plein air’ - very artistic. Art bit, a sketch looking over the Charente, towards town from our walk yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you and that my mum’s red dalek is fully charged for our lunch trip. Must be time for another koffy, surely?

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Thanks for sharing the sketch. I like that paired back style but I'm a rum cove. I hope the supermarket hunter gatherer expedition goes well, the red dialek is fully charged and the meal is a triumph daahling, a triumph.
 
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I believe IQ has absolutely nothing to do with dementia of any sort. Tom's IQ was in the top 1%age in the country (he had to be tested because he had to administer tests) but that didn't make a jot of difference in the end. Dad was never tested but he was very intelligent and possibly did have a high IQ and that didn't protect him from the strokes he suffered and the resultant dementia. There shouldn't be any embarrassment when a loved one develops dementia. It's a very sad part of life and nobody is immune. I don't think anyone is embarrassed if a loved one develops, say, heart problems. Dementia is no different.
As you rightly say there should be no stigma attached to any mental health issues. Perhaps the death and backstory of Sir Bobby Charlton will help people see that anyone can fall prey to this. Sadly Thatcher and Reagan's issues and demise didn't alter attitudes in certain quarters, just pretended they didn't happen for those reasons. I detect much more sympathy and understanding among the younger Gens, helped by sports people and media personalities speaking out. Boomers - as a cohort in general - once again have so much for which to answer and apologise. What doesn't help is the prevalent narrative that with the "correct" diet and lifestyle one can live forever at the peak of one's powers. Well documented convergence between healthy/ wellness/ lifestyle prozlitysers and the far right. Too conspiracy theory to see that as "The Man" offloading responsibility and, conveniently, tax payment- cf @dunelm's link? Now, where's my JCB and tin foil hat?
 
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For some it might be but it's not an infallible indicator. Some families are just like that and never a sign of alzheimers. Worrying about money is something I have done all my life (being aware of how my mother struggled with her weekly budget). It carried on into my adult life although Tom always told me "we never died a winter yet". That actually didn't help. My mother didn't have alzheimers, nor my father, nor my husband. Dad did have damage to his brain from a series of strokes but that wasn't alzheimers. Tom suffered from Lewy bodies but that wasn't alzheimers either.
I think I may have worded my post badly.

My mum & Lauren's grandad apparently, were both good with money, but as their health declined money became an obsession for both .

Accusations of trusted family stealing are common, sadly.

Interesting link here
 
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and those who feel left or right out. No middle ground here or their, there or they’re.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.6

The BBC’s work of Science fiction and fantasy ( weather forecast) predicted a good day for a trundle out on my motorcycle, but Mrs J spoke sense suggesting we continue in the garden. To hear is to obey.
So I have been clambering up a short ladder to tackle the overgrown brambles and ivy that is growing over the fence from next doors. Later this afternoon chopping up and disposing in the “ green “ recycling bin.
Mrs J has been heavily pruning her Forsythia bush and later will be shredding that, I hope, or it will be another job for me, me’s and myself.

It’s now time to nap prior to continuing my full on supervision.
 
Morning all on the start of a busy few days what with half term child care duties - including 2 earlyish trips into Cambs to fetch them - medical procedures plus something or other not to forget on Friday. I need to hold my peace over making Halloween cookies etc - I don't approve. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative - to me it seems more upbeat so I hope it reflects your mood lightening. @Krystyna23040 enjoy relaxing after the vet trip. The Crown and Castle looks very picturesque and Jake's food looks wonderful. Y'all have a good day now.
Afraid this cold has knocked me for six. I don't feel upbeat. In bed with leccy blanket and a black living fur heated blanket @ianpspurs

First time I have had a cold in years.
 
Good morning everyone from another overcast start to the day here in French Froggy France. Home help came this morning so I escaped to the supermarket with a list of produce to hunt down. Free range eggs are labeled ‘plein air’ - very artistic. Art bit, a sketch looking over the Charente, towards town from our walk yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you and that my mum’s red dalek is fully charged for our lunch trip. Must be time for another koffy, surely?

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Hope you all had a good lunch @dunelm
Great sketch, it seems a flat region....
 
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