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lindisfel said:
Its a major cause of fatty liver disease...high GGT.
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I wonder if there is a link between bile duct disease on Fatty Liver disease. In my case, gall stones led to the removal of the gall bladder and an inefficient bile duct and later development of fatty liver disease (for which I was told there was no treatment and no cure). I wonder because recently Alistair had the same surgery so he should know about it if there is a link so that he can take early action.
 
Morning all from a leaden skied but so far dry L.A.. Three grandchildren here today, one local the other two collected from Cambs. Due to the issues on the A14 - son /dad delayed by about 4 hrs - JKP also had to return the Cambs duo last evening :arghh: I stayed home minding MIL and watching football - she was insistent I watched :D Cookie making went well yesterday - at 2 and 4 years old it is just a fun activity with Nanny. @Annb congratulations on the weight loss and BG improvement. @dunelm you were a busy lad yesterday and thanks for sharing the art. @Krystyna23040 enjoy the break, meals, CWC n'all. @lindisfel I gave the funny not for the content but for you saying but I think I have different stuff that rocks my boat than most. Have yourselves as splendid a day as possible.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all roast swans with a rich gravy, but no roast spuds.

Blood sugars were 5.0 this morning.

Food, it seems all manufactured, therefore processed foods are evil and nasty, with exception of poetry ie
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Poetry is hard
Bacon is nice.

Now if nobody mind’s I’m orf to see if I can find any the 6 minds that sometimes inhabit my skull.
Have a great day all and stay safe.

Proof reading this to cheque on the auto change function it seems I better double up my sanity or is it sanitary pills.
 
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera.
Boy badger has gone bananas.
I don't get it.
Boy Badger tugs at coverings on garden swing
He was at it most of the night again...
He is like a thing demented...
1 min 17 sec


Creative..,couldn't sleep last night, coughing too much with this cold.
So I tried some painting apps I had downloaded but not used.
I liked this one.
I did a ginger cat and a yellow dandelion.
But when I saved it, the whole thing changed colour to a sickly pale green wash on picture and background. Ugh. Consequently I never finished the cat's detail. So I tried directly mailing it to myself, but when I saved it from mail, there was still the sickly green tinge. There was no pink on the original, it was just a ginger cat. If I can't sleep tonight, I might have one more try...

I messed with it, to try and restore what it had looked like. But failed. I'm sad because I had enjoyed playing with it....


Have your best day whatever lemons are slung at you...

Time for a coffee...

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Today FBG 6.1
Yesterday forgot
22.10 FBG 5.7
21.10 FBG 5.2
20.10 FBG 5.3
Yesterday very bravely went for the first time to a French dentist. Very thorough check up, x-rays, clean and polish. Then she kindly recommended that I come back for root canal filling and crown on the tooth that broke six months ago. This will need an hour long appointment. Somehow I can't see that happening any time soon, despite her warnings that if I do get problems with that tooth they will be more difficult to fix.
MrSlim drove both ways to the dentist. I once crashed a car in a car park at the dentists so he is not risking that again. Although to be fair I was expecting a filling, the dentist decided extraction was needed and took nearly an hour before giving up and leaving a small piece of tooth in situ. By the time I got out I was frantic to get away....
That piece is still there and sometimes is uncomfortable. The nice french lady dentist offered to remove it at a future date during the consultation yesterday. Maybe that would be a way towards the major work required on the broken tooth?
We still haven't worked out how the system for claiming back the dentists bill operates. Yet another question for our French teacher on Friday.
Coincidentally my Australian friend phoned while we were on the way home - she had also just been to the dentist!!!
 
lindisfel said:
I hope John Green is well clear of any flooding. The Trent will be taking a lot of water now after the amount of water they have had in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
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Fortunately I live on top of a hill Chesterfield where the elderly lady unfortunately drowned in her home is about a twenty minute drive from here Keiran was out driving the other day and drove through an area of road were the water was well over a foot deep some drivers were going very slow through the water and ended up breaking down he put his foot down and powered through without a problem.

If I have not mentioned it my fbg this morning was 6.7
 
SlimLizzy said:
It is a shame that this current bout of depression didn't start to lift until two days after Son2 went home. Am sure I wasn't good company and he probably has no idea why .
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I find, for me, depression can descend for no discernible reason than I can find. I cannot hurry it away as much as I would like to @SlimLizzy

I find it often takes a couple/or few days to lift, and it is like something in my brain flicks a switch, saying 'You're back on again...'.

Must be some sort of chemical imbalance in the brain....
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera.
Boy badger has gone bananas.
I don't get it.
Boy Badger tugs at coverings on garden swing
He was at it most of the night again...
He is like a thing demented...
1 min 17 sec


Creative..,couldn't sleep last night, coughing too much with this cold.
So I tried some painting apps I had downloaded but not used.
I liked this one.
I did a ginger cat and a yellow dandelion.
But when I saved it, the whole thing changed colour to a sickly pale green wash on picture and background. Ugh. Consequently I never finished the cat's detail. So I tried directly mailing it to myself, but when I saved it from mail, there was still the sickly green tinge. There was no pink on the original, it was just a ginger cat. If I can't sleep tonight, I might have one more try...

I messed with it, to try and restore what it had looked like. But failed. I'm sad because I had enjoyed playing with it....


Have your best day whatever lemons are slung at you...

Time for a coffee...

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Hug for the coughing keeping you awake and the colour scheme being digitally (un) enhanced. That badger was seriously determined to do something with the bedding. Was it windy there? - seems to spook some animals. Teacher folklore had it it also made pupils skittish.
 
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2.20 am BG 11.0. 6.30 am 10.6. 8.30 10.9. Then breakfast - carnivore breakfast so no carbs but did take insulin to get BG to go down. Still showing 10.6. Keep on going nevertheless. Legs very bad, maybe something to do with that. Took normal pain killers at 2.20 and took some paracetemol around 8.30. Hasn't had much effect, probably because I walked a short distance to get to the car yesterday (about 20 yards). I am not yet going to give in and have Neil bring the wheelchair in from the car for me. The day may come but no point just allowing it to arrive too quickly.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Today FBG 6.1
Yesterday forgot
22.10 FBG 5.7
21.10 FBG 5.2
20.10 FBG 5.3
Yesterday very bravely went for the first time to a French dentist. Very thorough check up, x-rays, clean and polish. Then she kindly recommended that I come back for root canal filling and crown on the tooth that broke six months ago. This will need an hour long appointment. Somehow I can't see that happening any time soon, despite her warnings that if I do get problems with that tooth they will be more difficult to fix.
MrSlim drove both ways to the dentist. I once crashed a car in a car park at the dentists so he is not risking that again. Although to be fair I was expecting a filling, the dentist decided extraction was needed and took nearly an hour before giving up and leaving a small piece of tooth in situ. By the time I got out I was frantic to get away....
That piece is still there and sometimes is uncomfortable. The nice french lady dentist offered to remove it at a future date during the consultation yesterday. Maybe that would be a way towards the major work required on the broken tooth?
We still haven't worked out how the system for claiming back the dentists bill operates. Yet another question for our French teacher on Friday.
Coincidentally my Australian friend phoned while we were on the way home - she had also just been to the dentist!!!
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There must be something in the air@SlimLizzy. I broke a piece off my upper molar on Saturday. Had an emergency appointment yesterday to do a temporary filling(£50) and she recommended a crown which means 1 1/2 hours in the chair for the preparation/ impression and temporary crown then a second appointment 3 weeks later to fit the actual crown (£680). I shall be eating very carefully in the hope that this repair stays in place for as long as possible!! Hope all goes well for you. :)
 
ianpspurs said:
Hug for the coughing keeping you awake and the colour scheme being digitally (un) enhanced. That badger was seriously determined to do something with the bedding. Was it windy there? - seems to spook some animals. Teacher folklore had it it also made pupils skittish.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
It was like he had lost the plot.

The badger was dry, so no rain. But it is often windy here. With huge gusts of wind in the night, and then everywhere is still again.

Just did a bit of research. And it said "Weather plays a role too. Badgers may come out later in strong wind or heavy rain, probably because they cannot detect danger as well in these conditions and they feel less secure."

The above might explain why Pa Badger in particular often is "attacking" the swing when he is soaking wet, and in pouring rain.

Midnight appears to often come in on those nights when the badgers are "attacking" the swing before the badgers even arrive.

Some nights Midnight won't even attempt to go out when I lock up. He always sits in the door frame, has a good long sniff of the night air, assessing it for a few minutes. He decides either at that point to go and sit on the swing and insists staying outside that night, or else after his long sniff and assessment of the night air he looks at me and says "Not on your Nelly tonight" and scoots to my bedroom where he can watch the outside nighttime activities through a glass window. Midnight's face looks at me in shock when he hears/sees the badger is doing that to the swing. And so I look through the window as well...

I am assuming Midnight can assess potential danger in advance by sniffing the night air. There were no other visitors to my garden that night.
 
6.9 on this moist, damp day. Lots of chores done, list is two foot long after a couple of accidents in the kitchen, bathroom.
Outside windows done, cos cleaner did them. Washing is on, drying is in drier, cos it is gonna rain. d
grass still needs doing.

my lad who works for tax, has warned me that there is a plan not to raise tax thresholds again.
this will mean for the likes of me. That my tax will increase on my pension. And that my pension increase, will be another pittance, being offset by inflation and tax and bills.
it is called a stealth tax on those with limited income!

Check to see if you can get your tax as good as you can. Cos Dr death is after your money!

Be back later.

Roses are red
Violets are blue... Violet!!!!
Don't go swimming
As it's full of ........!

The dentist situation is atypical dogma of austerity.
Wonder when that will work for the people, not the very few?
 
Omar51 said:
Good morning ️ from California!

4.55 mmol/L 82 mg/dL. Happy Tuesday morning.
Have a nice day everyone.
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Welcome from Little America to the "full fat" thread - home of many a Great British Eccentric - @Omar51. Are you a 49ers, Chargers, Rams fan or not interested?
 
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Annb said:
I wonder if there is a link between bile duct disease on Fatty Liver disease. In my case, gall stones led to the removal of the gall bladder and an inefficient bile duct and later development of fatty liver disease (for which I was told there was no treatment and no cure). I wonder because recently Alistair had the same surgery so he should know about it if there is iu88 link so that he can take early action.
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Fatty liver affects people who have T2D, its described as the last scream of an abused digestive system. The liver is being abused before a high Hba1c is manifest.

Not eating enough of the right kind of fat is causing it to make gall stones through not contracting enough when bile is needed....some think is the cause. Then when you want to use it in ernest they block the bile duct. The pain is terrible.


I have three large gallstones that fill my gall bladder re: CT scan and they are not going anywhere.
 
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lindisfel said:
Fatty liver affects people who have T2D, its described as the last scream of an abused digestive system. The liver is being abused before a high Hba1c is manifest.

Not eating enough of the right kind of fat is causing it to make gall stones through not contracting enough when bile is needed....some think is the cause. Then when you want to use it in ernest they block the bile duct. The pain is terrible.


I have three large gallstones that fill my gall bladder re: CT scan and they are not going anywhere.
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Very informative, but I wanted to give you a hug as well for the pain. I have to say, I had the odd spell of severe pain with my gall bladder problem, but only occasionally. I actually went to the consultant at the hospital because of migraine. I don't really know why he decided to refer me to the surgeon to have my gall bladder removed. Should have been a keyhole surgery matter, but they ended up having to cut a big hole to get it out because it was so filled with stones. Didn't get rid of the migraines. The only thing that stopped those was a diagnosis of T2 which changed my diet.
 
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