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

ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a too autumnal for me L.A. on GCSE results day 2024. Not quite this and anyhow that will be even worse but the song just lodged itself in my very odd brain. How on earth did we allow ourselves to get here, especially the last part? @alf_Josiah good to see you here, I hope the medical issues are going well or as well as possible. @gennepher once again thank you for the kaleidoscope yesterday. If Laboscope or anything else needs Apple that's a major red line for me, just won't happen. I'm happy with Android and Microsoft. I'm also much more comfortable using my time exploring ideas such as the attached than anything creative or reading fiction. Yesterday I had 28 gms carb and did over 5k steps, my sleep score was good and sats level 98%. No idea if that is good or awful but it doesn't make me feel remotely pleased. Y'all have a great day but watch out for Lillian. Go Coach Walz :woot:
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I thought Lillian was remnants of Ernesto?
Or have we had a sex change in the weather?
Looks a bit rough for the test tomorrow.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Nighttime wildlife video
56 secs
Badgers rooting among my mats...for grubs and discarded birdfood...


Creative, messing about on a kaleidoscope app in my Android for a change. But it wouldn't save, so some messing about here...The initial photo was of some bottles...

Tired here...time for afternoon nap...

Have a good day...

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Back of my shed, through a rainbow!
You are a stalker.
So colourful, vibrant, different, but I like it.
 
7.2 this little box in corner sorted and in 4k.
Cricket viewing is brill.
Gonna be a trawl going through it all and flicking the channels finding this and doing that while seeing how it sets up so I can see how to get to where I want, when I want it.
Have flicking honestly, but someone has to do it.
The kids stuff, YouTube favourite progs, news and information.
Oh and the footie and sports channels how do you say sky sports plus?
And use the speaker to get my accent.
Does it understand scouse?
Modern technology huh?

Have had a quiet day with Mrs L hiding away in bed, or not to be in the way when the fella fixes the box.
So catching up on things, no garden, no shopping, its like a day off, p!ease don't ruin it, now I've said it.
Question......
If you didn't understand my situation.....
That would sound horrible.
Have you ever regretted saying something that could be harsh, not mean it, but understandable in so many ways?
Karma will always get you!

Weather is pre storm, due later on.
It's windy and cold, tho not much rain so far. Not much overnight either.
Heating came on automatically this morning setting is on sixteen degrees, it's August ain't it?

Kitchen duties to do.
Mrs L wants a cuppa.
I have flicking to do.
It is an adventure all this, ain't it!
 
SlimLizzy said:
It could be so much worse...
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The fire started under the stairs, by the time my BIL woke up both of the eldest girls would most likely have been dead, because their bedrooms are nearer the stairs.
This is where the stairs used to be
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife videos
Badgers & Cat drinking water...

Creative...a kaleidoscope in Laboscope.

Have a good day...

Arthritis in my right hand and fingers giving me gyp....
Why? Arthritis go away and leave me alone...
Left knee joining the Sharp Pains party...
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I need that basket of mystery potions....


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Love this kaleidoscope with nasturtiums or capuchine as they are called here
 
Leg wrapping day today. Then 3 hours later, an appointment for my eyes to see if they can do anything about the double vision. Answer - no. Wear an eye patch over one eye. I don't want to look like a pirate so I'll put up with the wonky vision. In any case I have to get my eyes tested soon and may need to start wearing glasses. Not sure that an eye patch will fit over or under glasses.

BG was still a bit on the high side this morning, but it seems to have settled down a bit, after very little in the way of food.

The 3 hour gap between appointments meant we got home after the first one at 11.30 and left again at 13.00 for the 2nd one. Very tired now and not feeling up to any food prep, so just going without.
 
SlimLizzy said:
The fire started under the stairs, by the time my BIL woke up both of the eldest girls would most likely have been dead, because their bedrooms are nearer the stairs.
This is where the stairs used to be
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Much like the bombed houses around my area when I was a toddler.
 
SlimLizzy said:
The fire started under the stairs, by the time my BIL woke up both of the eldest girls would most likely have been dead, because their bedrooms are nearer the stairs.
This is where the stairs used to be
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That was a really terrible fire @SlimLizzy. Thank goodness no one was injured.
 
SlimLizzy said:
The fire started under the stairs, by the time my BIL woke up both of the eldest girls would most likely have been dead, because their bedrooms are nearer the stairs.
This is where the stairs used to be
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I think I have mentioned before, where I was born and dragged up. Our house stood alone amongst a couple of bomb sites. It was structural sound, my parents were led to believe.
but others were knocked down in other roads close by. Most left till the nineties to be redeveloped, cos the council struggled until the slum clearance was desperate.
I remember close to the docks, a whole row of tenements were blown away. Some properties were rebuilt, but a lot were just left to rot or they became dangerous.
derelict buildings were common and some were propped up by huge wooden supports.
bombed sites were all over the area. Where there was rebuild, the numbers of houses were not aligned, on one main road, it went, 1,3,5, 11, 17, 19, 23, ...
plenty of places around bonny night and plenty of wood to burn on them.
where the tunnel ventilator is now, was very close two up two down houses, that had to be demolished as others around the promenade area, the bomb damage wasn't that bad. But the domino effect of the blast was enough to condemn them.
Lots of new social housing built in our town in the fiftys and sixties.
New estates, sadly sold off by Thatcher!
but I do remember seeing similar burnt out buildings still in that sort of state into the early sixties.
 
Annb said:
BG 7.5 at 03.30 today. Not great, but considering that it was 15 when I went to bed, I can't really complain. Rising now, on the strength of 2 cups of tea.

Today I have to have a US scan of my bladder for some reason. Don't know who ordered it or why. Maybe something to do with that last blood test, but there's no information available, apparently. Not even an indication of who referred me for the scan.
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I've undergone one of those urinary bladder ultrasound scans @Annb. It shows how much urine the bladder holds and whether when passing urine, the patient empties it completely.

After drinking all that water in one go, I thought my bladder would never feel the same again!


Thursday's FBG, 4.5 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Annb said:
Back from the US scan. Feeling fairly bloated with all the water I had to drink an hour before the scan. Turns out I have a duplex kidney. Never knew that, or even heard of it before. No problems though; bladder and kidneys are fine. I'm just odd. It seems that my kidneys are lower than usual in my back and my heart is too close to the centre of my chest. On top of that, I'm type O Rh negative and a bit dopey. Just me being my usual odd self.
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A duplex kidney, one side or bilateral, is not uncommon @Annb and, if you've come this far in life without even knowing, is unlikely to cause any symptoms.

I'd say your heart's in the right place too.


Thursday's FBG, 4.5 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Fbg not taken cos we got mini power cuts in the night, so, I forgot. No point now.

Up early, filling flasks hot water & tea.

Midnight came charging in, in the middle of the night all wind blown and soaked...I think he is now an indoors cat.


Nighttime wildlife video.
Badger startles Cat Jade. This is Pa Badger from last year, and with him is Foxy Loxy. They often both enter the garden together...

Creative done with kaleider kaleidoscope app in Android. I photographed the red post box. There are many settings and contols. A lot of figuring out...

Wet and windy here.

Hope you have a good day.


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5.8 this morning.
Very windy here, but the sun is shining and the wind is very warm. We didn't walk around the park - we were blown around it.

@ianpspurs I wondered if you could have a word with the pilots living in your neighbourhood and ask them to stop flying noisily over our village when I am relaxing with a coffee. :) :) :)
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.8 this morning.
Very windy here, but the sun is shining and the wind is very warm. We didn't walk around the park - we were blown around it.

@ianpspurs I wondered if you could have a word with the pilots living in your neighbourhood and ask them to stop flying noisily over our village when I am relaxing with a coffee. :) :) :)
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@Krystyna23040 I will try to have a word with my next door neighbour who controls the flights in and out of one base but I have no contact with the other two - sorry. Windy here as well, sub-optimal but not Lilian windy. .Heavy rain forecast here for tomorrow which is whatever comes below sub-optimal but before oh calamity.
 
LivingLightly said:
A duplex kidney, one side or bilateral, is not uncommon @Annb and, if you've come this far in life without even knowing, is unlikely to cause any symptoms.
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Apparently, it depends on exactly where the duplicate ureter is attached to the kidney whether there may be any ill-effects, like frequent UTI's. I have had those for many years, usually without treatment because I always seemed to heal pretty well from everything. Recently healing hasn't been so easy and even antibiotics have difficulty dealing with them. Maybe there is something there to think about. Maybe not. At least my kidneys are working, as far as I know.
 
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