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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

An absolutely foul day here. Horrible driving rain. I got soaked just going outside to feed the birdies and cats...still trying to get warm again, hence my photo of my creative being done from my bed...

Wildlife nighttime cameras.
Badger tries to get on swing again...
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Creative. Done from my bed. Too cold to be anywhere else...I am still drying out from from the bitter cold of earlier...
Blankets piled on. Midnight was under my chin on my chest. I couldn't access the sketchpad. I ended up using Midnight as an arm rest, and holding my Pentel Brush Pen by the very end to reach the paper, and the sketch pad was resting on my lime green neck cushion...I had virtually no control over the brush pen, it was just moving this way and that. But it made for a delicate light painting...

All the small birds are busily eating despite the that icy rain.

Going to make a hot flask of tea. I have stuff to do out of bed, but what's the betting I return back to bed...

Might make some cheese on toast. I found some sourdough bread at the Polish shop, which agrees with me, and the FODMAP diet...I need some more...

Have your best day...


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Brilliant getting out in that rain to ensure that the garden menagerie got fed. Love the delicate touches on that tree sketch.
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @gennepher - we are still on for another cruise round the Norwegian fjords though so not all plans thwarted. I am enjoying the bamboo nib pens. I need to practice pressure as I think that lightness of touch may work better especially with wet on wet. Will tidying up the garage have to wait a while until it warms up again?
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Tidying up the garage has to wait until it stops raining, and is sunny enough to put everything that is stopping me getting in the garage, out in the garden for a bit. @dunelm
 
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and those suffering the indifference of weather or indignity.

Blood sugars this morning were either 6.1 or 6.3. Me, me’s and myself can’t remember and can’t care. With my medication anything below 10 is ok according to the hospital diabetic consultant who has experience of diabetic transplant patients, or perhaps he wants to kill me off, just joking.

Lots of chatter on statins, blood thinners and vitamin D. Most illuminating. Throw in steroid's and a few other drugs and you could write a medical paper and probably get it published in Crufts monthly or the Daily Mail or the Guardian or some other not worthy publication.
It appears I have my cynical head on, better sign off before I go too far.

Stay safe, stay warm burn a politician. Whoops there I go again…..
 
I've been trying to reorganise my bedroom but I've run out of steam but I must finish it because there's stuff strewn all over my bed. Also found an area in the corner, behind a small chest of drawers which looks pretty damp, so I've left a heater on, sat in that corner to see if I can dry it out a bit before I put a bigger chest of drawers in its place. Not that I can move the bigger chest of drawers but should be able to if I take out all the drawers first. At present it seems to have stuck to the floor. The little one had casters and was easy to move but the big one hasn't. This is one of my list of jobs to be done. Found a fair amount of stuff to go out in the process. Tried to get rid of some coat hangers on Alistair when he came in with the mail, but he doesn't want them. Something else to go in the charity box.

BG has finally come down to 7.9 under the influence of a good amount of insulin. Hoping it stays that way when I have my one meal today.
 
I have in the past posted links to an anthology of poems and associated art during Advent so I'll do so again if people don't object. The short essays in the book are very good - obviously when you consider the author and my bias. Enjoy either the poems or art or just ignore the eccentric fella who posts them
December 3rd - pretty sure the wildlife lovers here have, however unwittingly, written and drawn similar 100s of times
December 4th - @JohnEGreen? I think we protestants need poems like this to open our eyes and gently remind us of the big picture of which we have lost sight. Blog and diary
 
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SlimLizzy said:
Hi Derek,
Sunblock factor 50 on my face and shoulders. Avoid sun during the hottest part of the day. My skin is adapting to living here and I tan or freckle. Gardening in shorts and vest a lot of the year. However I cover up once the weather gets cooler, so little sun exposure for my skin. I am one of those people who is often cold, having little natural insulation. Apparently vitamin D is stored in fat - and I have very little of that being a naturally skinny bird.
As an underweight child I too was dosed with Cod Liver Oil and Malt Extract, not sure it did me any good, but credit to Mum for trying her best.
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I bet it saved you getting rickets.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from Sopping McSoppingplace. My fbg was 5.1 at why do I need to wake at stupid hundred hours then 5.4 at around 8.25. Both are sub-optimal for the best version of me I will ever see again but not dangerous. @dunelm shame about those jollies being cancelled but proud parents and time with grandchildren should offset that. Thanks for sharing the wonderful creative. @gennepher enjoy the strawberries and cream - we still have some growing in our trug - and thanks for sharing the superbly drawn tree. @Krystyna23040 coffee and cake at the vets sounds good. #1 son's partner brings home pheasants shot by the practice boss - more to my taste. @Annb surely you should have looked up procrastinative another day? Interesting discussion about childhood supplements nothing would have persuaded me to take. As for the modern day ones my oncologists can barely suppress their laughter at such suggestions and their views on Tim Spector are that when he assembles enough evidence we'll listen so don’t take him too seriously. but as you're doing fine we'll indulge you. Decorations in place in the lounge and a Menorah in the front window, outside lights to follow. Splendid job by JKP, 2 yo old grandson (despite frequently hiding pieces in a dolls house) and 4 yo granddaughter while i watched the football barely disturbed. Outside lights may require me to assist. Some images attached but note there is no Dragon so accuracy is missing. Enjoy your day.
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Is that the original one that is depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome? :)
Derek
 
ianpspurs said:
I have in the past posted links to an anthology of poems and associated art during Advent so I'll do so again if people don't object. The short essays in the book are very good - obviously when you consider the author and my bias. Enjoy either the poems or art or just ignore the eccentric fella who posts them
December 3rd - pretty sure the wildlife lovers here have, however unwittingly, written and drawn similar 100s of times
December 4th - @JohnEGreen? I think we protestants need poems like this to open our eyes and gently remind us of the big picture of which we have lost sight.
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Both great poems, Ian. Unfortunately the links don't seem to work but since "someone" was kind enough to send me a copy of the book, I have been reading it. I love the work of John Donne but he is sometimes difficult to follow. Malcolm Guite makes understanding so much easier. Scott Cairns, I find a bit more difficult to follow without the explanation. As with many things, I "feel" it but don't follow the individual words. The one for tomorrow is especially poignant and I'm sure quite a few on this thread would recognise its sentiments. There is another by George Herbert - "Jesu" - which is touching but seems to me to be very modern. If I hadn't found it in a book of Herbert's poems, I would never have thought it was one of his.

Jesu by George Herbert

Comments & analysis: Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name / Is deeply carved there; but th' other week
allpoetry.com allpoetry.com
 
Annb said:
Both great poems, Ian. Unfortunately the links don't seem to work but since "someone" was kind enough to send me a copy of the book, I have been reading it. I love the work of John Donne but he is sometimes difficult to follow. Malcolm Guite makes understanding so much easier. Scott Cairns, I find a bit more difficult to follow without the explanation. As with many things, I "feel" it but don't follow the individual words. The one for tomorrow is especially poignant and I'm sure quite a few on this thread would recognise its sentiments. There is another by George Herbert - "Jesu" - which is touching but seems to me to be very modern. If I hadn't found it in a book of Herbert's poems, I would never have thought it was one of his.

Jesu by George Herbert

Comments & analysis: Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name / Is deeply carved there; but th' other week
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Thanks @Annb. Hadn't come across that poem before - loved it. I've put a link to his blog which has a calendar to take yo to the poems and artwork.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Not something to jest about but at least I'm not statin intolerant. Odd as I'm almost completely intolerant of most people and social situations. O/T dangerous around here but that story sleighed me. C'mon, open goal there.
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I wonder why God created chloresterol? Did he want to kill us, statins are a big con they had my sister next to paralysed walking round having to support herself with the furniture many years before she became demented.
The fact that our lipid profile is wrong is not corrected by statins, but by diet and healthy life stile if we have reasonably healthy bodies
Even the expensive drugs to correct lipid can't fix it and of doubtful use.

This mass medication is another big earner for big pharma.
Derek
 
Annb said:
My brother was not robust although I was - very much so. Not sure that the malt and cod liver oil did much for our bones because we come from a family with pretty solid bone structure. I think our parents just wanted to give us every chance at future health.
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I bet you didn't wear sun block when you were outside a lot of the time. Kids today are inside a lot on playstations.
I was around when there were very few sweets from June 1939..there wasn't very much for years and no welfare state to catch you and feed you if you were ill. If men were sick they didn't get paid. They paid into clubs when working and got something if they should fall on hard times
Widows got some relief from state, war widows more. Old people got a small pension.

Working class men often did not live long after retirement age...most were habitual smokers and had knackered their lungs.
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lindisfel said:
I bet you didn't wear sun block when you were outside a lot of the time. Kids today are inside a lot on playstations.
I was around when there were very few sweets from June 1939..there wasn't very much for years and no welfare state to catch you and feed you if you were ill. If men were sick they didn't get paid. They paid into clubs when working and got something if they should fall on hard times
Widows got some relief from state, war widows more. Old people got a small pension.

Working class men often did not live long after retirement age...most were habitual smokers and had knackered their lungs.
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I don't think we had heard of sun block when we were young. I only remember getting badly burned once, as a teenager. Still have a picture to prove it. Both my brother and myself develop "rodent ulcers" (basal cell carcinomas) on our faces, ears and hands which have had to be cut out but they were dealt with before any harm came from them. I've had a couple that turned nasty and had to be cut out with relatively large areas around them, leaving scars but on the whole, it hasn't caused us much problem. I still have lots of spots which I am gtold are sun damage but not malignant so no action needed. Apparently the risk of damage from the sun is quite high here in the Hebrides because there is little pollution to screen out the harmful rays. Generally, though, not much sun either.
 
Annb said:
I don't think we had heard of sun block when we were young. I only remember getting badly burned once, as a teenager. Still have a picture to prove it. Both my brother and myself develop "rodent ulcers" (basal cell carcinomas) on our faces, ears and hands which have had to be cut out but they were dealt with before any harm came from them. I've had a couple that turned nasty and had to be cut out with relatively large areas around them, leaving scars but on the whole, it hasn't caused us much problem. I still have lots of spots which I am gtold are sun damage but not malignant so no action needed. Apparently the risk of damage from the sun is quite high here in the Hebrides because there is little pollution to screen out the harmful rays. Generally, though, not much sun either.
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When I worked in Medical Physics I was friends with the Dermatology consultant and he started off having my skin checked yearly and bits were cut off. Small rodent ulcers and mainly pre cancerous lesions. This year they picked up a melanoma on my back which they removed within two weeks and was said be in situ according the lab which it's not likely to have spread. Stage 1 cancer.
Some surface lesions could be removed by freezing eg.rodent ulcers they are no concern.

I did all this damage before I was 40 taking my shirt off when I was a young guy.

Incendentally Dr Dermatologist was a great guy, he had me in his ward and looked after me when I went into the hospital with Sepsis with a complete body rash and temp of 104 for three weeks.

We looked after his phototherapy machines I even modified one temporarily until they got a new one. I also made him an arm treatment puva machine. Mainly for bad Psoriasis.

He was a very clever man and wrote many papers on the subject of dermatology.
D.
PS l didn't realise basal cell carcinomas were also rodent ulcers?
 
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