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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
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lindisfel
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It cleared very quickly late afternoon and overnight. We saw it on Skiddaw and it was thick above two thousand feet and it had been like that for a few days
jjraak
Expert
Fascinating to watch all the life in your garden, @gennepher.
A win for that assertiveness.
But a hug for the whole palaver.
A little note, we had a room of trainees, once, all asked what assertive meant.
Loads of differing but acceptable answers, but lady leading the course nailed it.
"Is what your saying or asking reasonable to expect or have happen ? "
A lot of us learned a life lesson that day.
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jjraak
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Hi Jackie.
I kind of get that.
But I think the meter shows you now, in real time if you're doing this right.
Get it wrong, just sit & think what you need to alter & try again.
No need to hang about for months to get the results.
Most meals you should see a drop if your changing your diet to lchf.
Each testing gives you info, establishes 'safe' foods, and helps you tailor the next meal in a better way.
Information IS King here.
I tested early days, I needed to know, but be mindful, early results for fbg is like testing the hot water tap when its running, hard to tell if the waters hot and it takes a while before you're sure.
try not to let the anxiety rule.
(Yes, easier said than done, i know only too well )
But try to maybe see the FBG testing as a potential release of pressure, not too many turns at first, safety first, so not too much happens
But once you begin to see the FBG start to drop you'll feel a little more relaxed about testing
best wishes on your journey.
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gennepher
Oracle
Thank you @jjraak
That back garden is a hive of activity every night.
How could I (or even all of us) be aware of things going on around us, unseen to us.
Energy wise, it was like pushing against brick wall/sticky thick fog kind of day.
I am beginning to wind down now...
Assertiveness:
I think I agree with that. I had not thought of phrasing it that way.
* I know what I want to happen.
* I know what I need to happen.
* There might be (in all probability) a mismatch there on likely expectations of what will probably happen.
* And then, how can I within the parameters (they may appear almost impossibly tight parameters) available, make it useful/productive as possible for me?
Just my two penny worth....
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lindisfel
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Been busy during daughter being up for week sorting us out.What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
Our 4 year old granddaughter has had scarlet fever then tonsillitis then chicken pox and is now in hospital with pneumonia. Her parents were told there would be a 15 hour wait for an ambulance despite the East of England area not taking industrial action. Goodness knows what the rest of the...www.diabetes.co.uk
@lindisfel post.
Dont talk to me about about the cosy rellationship between optemetrists and these private companies purporting to do optical work for the nhs.
The eye was worse after the operation by a ham fisted surgeon who tore the new lens putting it in.
It took me 18 months getting my eye right. c.six months by the best eye man in n.w Cumbria. He took the faulty lens out that the "surgeon" tore putting in and put a new one in privately at the Cumberland Infirmary. I had to wait a few months with the eye capsule that need laser treatment to clarify the capsule.
The eye has to wait to stabilise.
And now my eye is as good as the other one, I can see well without glasses and pass the driving qualification without specs if I wanted to change my the spec on driving.
I use them when birding for extra distance detail.
I knew this guy at Penrith was good I should have paid to get the work done two years before.
Driving with one eye is legal but not ideal.
Well spent £3000.
He is Carlisle hospitals top eye man and has his own private clinic near the M6 at Penrith.
I wouldnt go near one of these private companies doing private work for the nhs near me, but the poor have no alternative.
D.
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Annb
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0245 BG 9.9. Now 8.5.
No word yet about DIL getting home. They were tryiing her on "soft" food yesterday. An advance anyway on tube feeding although my brother says the food he was given when they closed hs tracheotomy was absolutely foul and he refused to eat it most of the time and eventually doctors had to give in and allow him to have real food with real flavours. I imagine it will be a few days more before she will be fit to travel home. At least we can be thankful that the operation itself appears to have been a success and she is past the danger of being paralysed from the neck down.
Alistair is still managing to keep the laundry going single handed alongside his extra Christmas post duties - running on empty, I think, but still running. He'll need his days off at Christmas (no doubt taken up by cooking and baking for the family).
No word yet about DIL getting home. They were tryiing her on "soft" food yesterday. An advance anyway on tube feeding although my brother says the food he was given when they closed hs tracheotomy was absolutely foul and he refused to eat it most of the time and eventually doctors had to give in and allow him to have real food with real flavours. I imagine it will be a few days more before she will be fit to travel home. At least we can be thankful that the operation itself appears to have been a success and she is past the danger of being paralysed from the neck down.
Alistair is still managing to keep the laundry going single handed alongside his extra Christmas post duties - running on empty, I think, but still running. He'll need his days off at Christmas (no doubt taken up by cooking and baking for the family).
dunelm
Master
Smashing and so fitting for the time of year
dunelm
Master
Good news on the operation - steady as you go. Well done to Alistair it must be very tiring.
dunelm
Master
Welcome. Well you are doing something about it so that’s a start. Perhaps test first thing in the morning to begin with and keep a record to see how the low carb is going for you - it will encourage you I feel. All the best whatever you decide to do.
Well, I tested for the first time in a month , I've had very high A1c as i had uterine cancer in January , and with the stress anxiety and not eating right it shot up , but I started low carb 3 day ago and instead of 31 it is now 14.2. I am pleased with this . It will shock many though , but to be honest when you suffer cancer not much really affects you .
Thank you , I just posted above . Feeling good about myself after that reading .
dunelm
Master
Good morning everyone on what may just be a tad warmer here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.9 this am. Thanks to a big box of magic potions the pain is subsiding in left knee and I am not staggering about like someone drunk on cocktail cannabis, chloroform and morphine (exciting as that may be!). Back this morning to discuss results of blood tests. It’s the Christmas Farmers Market tomorrow so I need to be steady on my feet to wander round sucking my teeth and declaring, “how much!”. There will be some free warmth and tea in the community hall as well. Their koffy is dreadful so we have the tea - it’s OK - they do try their best so very thankful. Art bit, more dip pen. I think that I will do some more with this, but here it is. Have a smashing Friday if Friday is your chosen day. I really must get some koffy.
Annb
Expert
Just heard that DIL, just before she went to Glasgow, bought a new puppy (online from somewhere on the mainland) and arranged for one of her sons who live on the mainland to pick it up and bring it to his sister in Glasgow before she returned to the Island. It is a cross between an American bulldog and a black labrador and has the colouring of a rottweiler. That is going to be one unpopular dog in the village. And meantime, that's another job for Alistair to deal with - looking after a young pup and house training it! I love my DIL, but sometimes I wonder what she is thinking. When I told Neil, he said nothing just compressed his lips and rolled his eyes.
Krystyna23040
Expert
6.4 this morning. Very good number as I was so hungry after the evening classes that I feasted on Mr K 's stash of salted peanuts when I got home. That would normally raise fbg sky high but for once it didn't.
JohnEGreen
Master
6.8 this morning.
Lady next door who we are quite friendly with had a mini stroke the other day she has been sitting in with us most evenings has her hubby works nights or Mel has been sitting in with her next door to keep her company well she has been booked in to the stroke ward this morning for further evaluation so she is quite anxious but says she needs to no what the results are no matter what. Do hope all goes well for her.
Lady next door who we are quite friendly with had a mini stroke the other day she has been sitting in with us most evenings has her hubby works nights or Mel has been sitting in with her next door to keep her company well she has been booked in to the stroke ward this morning for further evaluation so she is quite anxious but says she needs to no what the results are no matter what. Do hope all goes well for her.
Krystyna23040
Expert
Yes, I totally agree @Annb
Krystyna23040
Expert
Well done @gennepher
gennepher
Oracle
Thank you @Krystyna23040
