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

[Annb]

Luckily, this time, we have missed the storm. Rather dreich but quite normal for a wintery day. I do so feel for those of you who are suffering from Darragh today and tomorrow. Keep your heads down folks. Outside is no place to be for man nor beast in those kind of conditions. Outside can take care of itself until the storm passes.

BG at 04.00 today was 7.8. Been around that all day.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Be careful on the way back. The east and south is in the path of Darragh later today.

Luckily Mr K thought it was safer to chauffeur me to classes today. It was torrential rain and windy so I was really grateful.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Take care on the roads @Krystyna23040
I have absolutely no idea of the wind and rain conditions your way, but it is not fit here for beast or man.

I just tried to go out to my back garden. I wanted to see what the damage was. But I needed a hard hat and wellies. I have a paddling pool/moat round my bungalow. I was driven back in. I wanted to see if the potting shed was okay or if it needs it tarpaulin over some of it... I have no idea how it is faring in this wind.... I have a lot of books in there....

EDIT...According to the Windy App, this wind, especially the gusts are not going to die down until tomorrow...

Hope you stayed safe @gennepher. Although not very nice here it is not anything as bad as it is where you are.

 

[Krystyna23040]

We are under siege here @gennepher, the local shops haven't opened.
my moat has refilled, my sheds are rattling. My windows are shaking like me.
it is horrendous, no protection on the coast, just wild and very wet.
My garden is a bit of a mess from foliage again.
plants are taking it well (ish)

A very surprising 6.3.
As I'm full of snot, coughing, a bad head cold, sore throat etc, shaking, arthritis playing up. I was expecting my FBG to be a lot higher. Mind you, I'm fasting today and never ate much yesterday either.
Mrs L told me to rest up and take it easy!
Mrs L has no idea.
But I'm trying to.
Paracetamol is helping, I think.
Have gone through a roll of kitchen roll already.
I'm not well.
My calves hurt.
My body is shaking.
If I can't moan here, where can I?

Hope you lot feel better than I do, it won't be difficult.
Best wishes.

Hope you start feeling a lot better very soon @Lamont D

 

[Krystyna23040]

Fbg 6.9


Nighttime wildlife videos
It is too stormy trying to get out there to change the current SD cards, and I will be wading in about six inches of water, so that can now wait until tomorrow.

I have a lot of SD cards from earlier this year that I have not had time to look at yet and I have found even more with my tidying up...

Older footage from 21 April 24...
I have been tidying up & found lots of SD cards I had mislaid. This video only half the night, there was a lot of activity on 21 April....
There is Ma & Pa Badger, Foxy Loxy, stray black cat Amy, and stray ginger Chunky Marmalade...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDR8xkkokHg/?igsh=OTNuZGdmcDFoZG9m

Same vid on TicTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd6oCfsM/


Creative...a kaleidoscope...of the earthstars I took yesterday...

Have a good night
Take care
Be safe

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Lovely to see the old footage of foxy loxy and the badger family @gennepher and your lovely kaleidoscope

 

[Lamont D]

On our Irish sea coast, the idiots have been out playing chicken, dodging the waves.
And honestly, I never did do that in my younger days, honestly, I'm not lying, honestly.
It was a rite of passage, especially on spring tides. I only got soaked a few times.
Don't snitch on me please?

 

[Lamont D]

Hope you start feeling a lot better very soon @Lamont D

Yes, it has eased, still going through a lot of kitchen roll tho. @Krystyna23040
Have taken more paracetamol before bed as I'm watching the cricket from NZ. The lads are doing a lot better than my footie club.
I'm hoping for a morning walk if the wind and Mrs L obliges. I have missed my constitutional cos of the weather.
I have reading and feeling your pain with your foot injury.
The best tip I learned from a pro physio, was when sitting, relaxing etc. Keep tapping your full foot on the floor.
This keeps your brain knowing that it's better, and the signal back helps with recuperation.
And it your ankle is weak, a good support, keeps the strain away. Try not to limp, on your toes often, and keep walking as much as possible. Even just standing is better than not. And believe it or not, nagging pain is good.
Not the agony sort but that uncomfortable pain.
If it's itchy, then you are on the mend.
Keep safe, it could still be windy down East tomorrow.

 

[gennepher]

On our Irish sea coast, the idiots have been out playing chicken, dodging the waves.
And honestly, I never did do that in my younger days, honestly, I'm not lying, honestly.
It was a rite of passage, especially on spring tides. I only got soaked a few times.
Don't snitch on me please?

Who didn't play chicken with the waves @Lamont D
I was a good runner in my younger days...

 

[JohnEGreen]

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Quite windy and raining here but no we’re near as a lot of places.
@Lamont D hope you shake the rotten cold off soon mate I used to take paracetamol and ibuprofen together when feeling bad like that though can’t take ibuprofen now as on warfarin they don’t go well together.

 

[JohnEGreen]

Oh flippin heck it’s doing it again fasting blood sugar six point four.

 

[JohnEGreen]

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[gennepher]

Oh flippin heck it’s doing it again fasting blood sugar six point four.

Sorry @JohnEGreen, but I have just woke up and that gave me a laugh, and a smile on my face...

 

[gennepher]

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I have given you a deserved hug for that as well.. it is most frustrating @JohnEGreen

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from a moderately wet and windy L.A. more sulky than dramatic, as though it couldn't be bothered to be a proper storm but feels the need to make an effort. @Lamont D hug for the cold but good news on some improvement. Interesting tips from that physio, thanks. @gennepher thank you for sharing yesterday's video and kaleidoscope. Busy day here in that I needed to wish #2 son a happy birthday, will have to press a button twice to light the second purple Advent candle on our wreath, eat some pheasant for lunch and make a decision about going to Ely Cathedral or watching Spurs being torn a new something or other later. Not surprisingly "the science" doesn't say if any of that is an adjuvant for managing my ailments but tea may be so I'll have some more asap. The pheasant may have been shot by a minor royal don'tcha know. Dad used to "keep an eye" (basically look out of his bedroom window or walk across a road at worst) on a piece of shooting land and would often find a brace of pheasants on his doorstep in season , very kind (tax deductible?). Stay safe, stay in the fight, stay woke (every little helps) and make conspicuous consumption du jour: Kier and Rachel's cunning plan very much needs y'all to spend, spend, spend, yes, even you up there guarding the Ice Wall in the D and D.

 

[Krystyna23040]

On our Irish sea coast, the idiots have been out playing chicken, dodging the waves.
And honestly, I never did do that in my younger days, honestly, I'm not lying, honestly.
It was a rite of passage, especially on spring tides. I only got soaked a few times.
Don't snitch on me please?

I was an intrepid tree and cliff climber as a child but turned into an adult scared of hieghts. Perhaps I fell out of a tree once too often.

I only once did something really dangerous. We lived near a main trunk road with a huge hill. A group of boys i was cycling with thought it would be fun to try to race lorries down the hill on the nearside of the lorries.

I foolishly did try it once but it was so scary that I sensibly left them to it. Luckily no-one got killed.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Yes, it has eased, still going through a lot of kitchen roll tho. @Krystyna23040
Have taken more paracetamol before bed as I'm watching the cricket from NZ. The lads are doing a lot better than my footie club.
I'm hoping for a morning walk if the wind and Mrs L obliges. I have missed my constitutional cos of the weather.
I have reading and feeling your pain with your foot injury.
The best tip I learned from a pro physio, was when sitting, relaxing etc. Keep tapping your full foot on the floor.
This keeps your brain knowing that it's better, and the signal back helps with recuperation.
And it your ankle is weak, a good support, keeps the strain away. Try not to limp, on your toes often, and keep walking as much as possible. Even just standing is better than not. And believe it or not, nagging pain is good.
Not the agony sort but that uncomfortable pain.
If it's itchy, then you are on the mend.
Keep safe, it could still be windy down East tomorrow.

Very very good advice @Lamont D. The support has been invaluable as it was a quite severe sprain. It has really helped me keep walking and heal faster.

Now I am not teaching I am experimenting with increasing the time without support around the house but outside the house and in classes I will wear the support until it is stronger to avoid spraining it again.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Yes, it has eased, still going through a lot of kitchen roll tho. @Krystyna23040
Have taken more paracetamol before bed as I'm watching the cricket from NZ. The lads are doing a lot better than my footie club.
I'm hoping for a morning walk if the wind and Mrs L obliges. I have missed my constitutional cos of the weather.
I have reading and feeling your pain with your foot injury.
The best tip I learned from a pro physio, was when sitting, relaxing etc. Keep tapping your full foot on the floor.
This keeps your brain knowing that it's better, and the signal back helps with recuperation.
And it your ankle is weak, a good support, keeps the strain away. Try not to limp, on your toes often, and keep walking as much as possible. Even just standing is better than not. And believe it or not, nagging pain is good.
Not the agony sort but that uncomfortable pain.
If it's itchy, then you are on the mend.
Keep safe, it could still be windy down East tomorrow.

Good that you are feeling a bit better. Hope you enjoy your walk.
it is horrible here with 55mph wind gusts and heavy rain.

 

[gennepher]

Morning all from a moderately wet and windy L.A. more sulky than dramatic, as though it couldn't be bothered to be a proper storm but feels the need to make an effort. @Lamont D hug for the cold but good news on some improvement. Interesting tips from that physio, thanks. @gennepher thank you for sharing yesterday's video and kaleidoscope. Busy day here in that I needed to wish #2 son a happy birthday, will have to press a button twice to light the second purple Advent candle on our wreath, eat some pheasant for lunch and make a decision about going to Ely Cathedral or watching Spurs being torn a new something or other later. Not surprisingly "the science" doesn't say if any of that is an adjuvant for managing my ailments but tea may be so I'll have some more asap. The pheasant may have been shot by a minor royal don'tcha know. Dad used to "keep an eye" (basically look out of his bedroom window or walk across a road at worst) on a piece of shooting land and would often find a brace of pheasants on his doorstep in season , very kind (tax deductible?). Stay safe, stay in the fight, stay woke (every little helps) and make conspicuous consumption du jour: Kier and Rachel's cunning plan very much needs y'all to spend, spend, spend, yes, even you up there guarding the Ice Wall in the D and D.

Thank you Ian...enjoy your day...

 

[gennepher]

We currently have windgusts of 45 mph.
A vast improvement on yesterday.
Over the road who I was hoping would help me are still not back home so I can't WhatsApp them.
Next door, Mr Insensitive is not home either they have gone away, so it's unlikely he knows what's happened to his fence and my wall.
I don't think anyone in the road realises what has happened because they can't see it from the road... and I don't have contact details of anyone else.
I am going to venture now and see if I can clear a path to my gate...
If I don't return, the windgusts would've got me....

 

[JohnEGreen]

@gennepher you are a lady with disabilities trapped in your home I suggest 999 would be justified.