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

Morning all on a frosty and misty rather than foggy start here. Not a good day for travelling on country roads so thoughts and prayers for safe travel for both my family and those you love. @gennepher huge respect for you sharing the creative when you are so tired. @dunelm glad the ECG went well - best we gloss over #KYJellygate. Thank you for kindly sharing another skilful piece of art. @JohnEGreen mixed feedback on the wound and interesting evening with radio three. May you all have the readings you wish for and feel no need to eat cabbage casserole.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentleman and those who dream of eating cabbage casserole.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.3

@dunelm a funny for your posting and reminiscing about k y jelly with the radiologist.
I hope they warmed the jelly for you.

Today Mrs J has fixed views which are diametrically opposed to mine and battle will commence shortly, being a realist I know I will lose, but I shall go down with fight and in the last few months I have got quite comfortable waiting in A & E.

Stay safe all, but I’m not taking my advice……
 
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Morning all on a frosty and misty rather than foggy start here. Not a good day for travelling on country roads so thoughts and prayers for safe travel for both my family and those you love. @gennepher huge respect for you sharing the creative when you are so tired. @dunelm glad the ECG went well - best we gloss over #KYJellygate. Thank you for kindly sharing another skilful piece of art. @JohnEGreen mixed feedback on the wound and interesting evening with radio three. May you all have the readings you wish for and feel no need to eat cabbage casserole.
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Thank you Ian...
 
Annb said:
8.2 at 03.20 today.

Just removed the heart monitor and will get Neil to drop it off at the hospital tomorrow. Heart seems to have calmed down a bit for most of the time, as long as I don't make much effort. Minor chest pains though. Not sure what is happening and no idea when the hospital will report results of monitoring to my GP. I can no longer trust any of them to get in touch if there's a problem to be addressed so will have to keep on top of them.

Bright and sunny today and ,as far as I can tell, not too cold.

Good to read that you're getting back into target @Madfarmerswife. Well done after the high readings recently. Good to hear, as well, that the wound in your foot is healing. Not so good about the reconciliation between database and spreadsheet. Hard on the eyes. I used to do that as well but my eyes couldn't cope any more. 1200 lines! Eek.

Hope the echocardiogram goes well today @dunelm. Did the cafe involve goodies as well as coffee? Difficult to resist sometimes.
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Good plan @Annb
Now, I have only just realised recently that I can use PACT in England, and PALS in Wales for any concern or query or anything over the health service, or even cancelling an appointment because I cannot hear on the phone.
I did not know you could use these two things for anything just about. I used PACT in England recently and they were very responsive. I used PALS in Wales more recently and they were a little bit backed up with Enquiries and so were a little slower to get back to me but they did get back to me and thanked me for cancelling my appointment through them.
Okay, what does Scotland have?
https://pass-scotland.org.uk/contact/
You can use this Scotland one for exactly the same things I use for England and Wales was for.
So, when you have a particular concern for example, like you don't think you have been informed over something e.g. your monitoring results. Then you can send PASS a letter of Concern. Saying your concern, and could they find somebody please that will get back to you?
My advice is to use that service to keep on top of everything that you have not been informed of because you say this has been happening a lot. I think you said someone was supposed to have sent your GP a change of medicine for your diabetes, awhile ago, And apparently that was not received by your GP. So if you hear nothing over any appointment, you contact PASS and say is there something I should've been told about this?
I think that might be the only way you could keep on top of all this sloppiness is all I can think of to call it?

At the very least, all your concerns and Enquiries will be registered in the same place, because these are the organisations, which are meant to try and help you.

Good luck @Annb

EDIT: PS. You can also give compliments on this site, on PACT The England site, it says they welcome compliments on any person or department et cetera. I have done this on the England site given compliments to a doctor who has taken consideration of my deafness et cetera.
 
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Fbg 8.9
Still stressed...
Sitting in my warm window this afternoon with the sun shining in my face. I have about another 30 minutes of this before it goes behind the houses...
Creative is snowdrops in Mirrorgraph app...
I have a few snowdrops but not as many as I had planted...

Be good xx

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gennepher said:
Fbg 8.9
Still stressed...
Sitting in my warm window this afternoon with the sun shining in my face. I have about another 30 minutes of this before it goes behind the houses...
Creative is snowdrops in Mirrorgraph app...
I have a few snowdrops but not as many as I had planted...

Be good xx

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Thank you for sharing the wonderful creative. I would never have guessed that came from your snowdrops - don't know about anyone else. Hope creating that helped with the stress.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on another sun shiney start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.8 this a.m. and so pleased to have got tickets to the 2am swing dance extravaganza which did, as advertised do wonders for surprised episodes of cramp. And, bonus of bonuses it counts towards my step count. Garden centre yesterday - deep joy! The cafe was nice. Echo, echo, echocardiogram later today - I thought it would be at the GP surgery - but no, a local hospital. Art bit - somewhat overcast. Hope your day moves steadily forwards - going the other way is not so clever but good for your balance I have been told. Best check on my koffy.
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Brilliant art bit @dunelm
 


Ade on Highland radio in Ireland the lady in the photo is the Granddaughter of Dorothy Day of whom she has written a biography called “The World Will Be Saved By Beauty”
Dorothy Day is on the way to become canonised a saint though she did have rather radical socialist views.
 

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Fbg 7.1

HRV pretty much perfect this morning
Resting pulse 65...best I usually get is 59 to 65.
66 this morning, so that is pretty much okay.
The pixel 8 is a nightmare to take a HRV reading with, because the flash/torch is at the far side of the back of the screen. And the way all these apps are designed, to take your readings, the flash/torch, need to be next to each other. This is not so on the pixel 8.

The pixel eight will probably be the next phone to go the same way as the pixel 4a where Pixel deliberately wrecked the battery life, to force you to get another phone...

So I think my resting pulse has risen by the time I have aligned the back of my pixel eight screen with some kind of light source which slips away as I am keeping my finger on the camera for one full minute. Sometimes I have to do three efforts to do this... consequently the air may not be very pure by the time I have got an acceptable reading.


Early to post today as I have a lot to do...

Creative is a kaleidoscope using Laboscope app on a pile of colourful different materials...

Be good today.... or not...

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ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a frosty and misty rather than foggy start here. Not a good day for travelling on country roads so thoughts and prayers for safe travel for both my family and those you love. @gennepher huge respect for you sharing the creative when you are so tired. @dunelm glad the ECG went well - best we gloss over #KYJellygate. Thank you for kindly sharing another skilful piece of art. @JohnEGreen mixed feedback on the wound and interesting evening with radio three. May you all have the readings you wish for and feel no need to eat cabbage casserole.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 8.9
Still stressed...
Sitting in my warm window this afternoon with the sun shining in my face. I have about another 30 minutes of this before it goes behind the houses...
Creative is snowdrops in Mirrorgraph app...
I have a few snowdrops but not as many as I had planted...

Be good xx

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Intriguing mirrorgraph - snowdrops are beginning to appear here also but not many at present
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.1

HRV pretty much perfect this morning
Resting pulse 65...best I usually get is 59 to 65.
66 this morning, so that is pretty much okay.
The pixel 8 is a nightmare to take a HRV reading with, because the flash/torch is at the far side of the back of the screen. And the way all these apps are designed, to take your readings, the flash/torch, need to be next to each other. This is not so on the pixel 8.

The pixel eight will probably be the next phone to go the same way as the pixel 4a where Pixel deliberately wrecked the battery life, to force you to get another phone...

So I think my resting pulse has risen by the time I have aligned the back of my pixel eight screen with some kind of light source which slips away as I am keeping my finger on the camera for one full minute. Sometimes I have to do three efforts to do this... consequently the air may not be very pure by the time I have got an acceptable reading.


Early to post today as I have a lot to do...

Creative is a kaleidoscope using Laboscope app on a pile of colourful different materials...

Be good today.... or not...

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Lovely bright and cheery kaleidoscope. It’s like a bowl of floating flower heads
 
Good morning everyone on what was until just now a splendidly silent start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this a.m. Moments yesterday; bin lorry came and went leaving tags on some bins because of naughty additions to the recycling list of do’s and dont’s, walk into town and back in the sunshine, commiserated with one of the waitresses in the cafe who has a slipped disc, sprayed the fence and decking with anti-algae stuff dressed as a space man, a nap, read some words in a book, made a steak salad - it’s a rare thing.
Art bit - paint laid with blockbuster video card and then sprayed and left to get on with it for a while. Hope your day is a simple walk. The world is simple and life is too but keeping it simple is difficult. Best make koffy.
 

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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who ? I don’t know either.

Blood sugars this morning were 4.8

Now the indoor rain cabinet is calling and also medication, such is life.
Here the weather forecast is wall to wall rain, but so far just just 4 / 8 th cloud cover.
Time to go……
 
6.6 this morning.
Visit to the specialist root canal dentist went well and so did the shopping.

I can now move on to stage 2 of the treatment. I have very complex root canals in those teeth which my original dentist couldn't treat properly when the root canals were filled in the 1990s.

This appointment was to see if the bone around the roots would regenerate after the antibiotics were inserted in the root canal. If it hadn't the dentist had said he would not proceed with stage 2 - which would ultimately fail and be a waste of my money. So I was really happy when l saw the xrays which showed that the bone had regrown.
 
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