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jjraak said:
Morning all.

Another busy week with rounds of appointments.

Decided to let the eye heal until after summer , if I can, before considering my next actions for it.

Rehab & personal trainer helping mood & conditioning.

CBT moving towards a more in-depth look at the accident, so not looking forward to that too much, but it is what is, as they say .

Most good news coming from having seen psychiatrist.

Prescribed sleeping tablets, so sleep improving bigly, as some say in the states .

And a med to improve/flatten the anxiety which is making those jagged peaks a little smoother to travel over.

As an added bonus it's also a rather powerful painkiller, and helping with the daily chronic pain I was having.

In the vein of old dogs new tricks, having been used to ms teams & averse to FB, I've never used Skype properly, but had a skype meeting I managed not to mess up ..

And began using chatgpt to do a little research.

Seems the pain relief 'might' be short lived
And while I still have & can still feel the underlying issues, I'm taking the time of less pain as the welcome relief & bonus it is

And icing on the cake is I'm now managing to balance all of that with the help of some other meds AND a little closer attention to my diet that's been returning daily fbgs in the mid 5's for the last week or so .

A perfect set up for a long awaited trip back to lands I once knew ...whoop whoop .

Happy trails, y'all
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Absolutely amazing @jjraak
ChatGPT is very useful.
It saves tons of time doing research.
Sometimes I go over to Poe, And asked the same question. Poe comes up with different stuff, sometimes the same stuff, and it is interesting doing a comparison between the two AI bots.

Have a great day...
 
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gennepher said:
Absolutely amazing @jjraak
ChatGPT is very useful.
It saves tons of time doing research.
Sometimes I go over to Poe, And asked the same question. Poe comes up with different stuff, sometimes the same stuff, and it is interesting doing a comparison between the two AI bots.

Have a great day...
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Thank you @gennepher .

New to chatgpt but am aware there are others, grok comes up a lot, but I don't think it offers better than chatgpt.

Not used the Chinese deep seek (?)
Does seem to be some concerns over it, but I guess anything on the web has that potential.

Not heard of Poe ...must goes check it out

Cheers for the heads up.
 
gennepher said:
Bonnie is coming along very well....
Good training @Krystyna23040
Well done.
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Thank you @gennepher. We have got the training class tonight at our vets then the 1:1 with the highly recommended trainer on Friday. My list of questions for her is getting longer.

It is going to be so good to get training tailored to us and Bonnie.
 
jjraak said:
Thank you @gennepher .

New to chatgpt but am aware there are others, grok comes up a lot, but I don't think it offers better than chatgpt.

Not used the Chinese deep seek (?)
Does seem to be some concerns over it, but I guess anything on the web has that potential.

Not heard of Poe ...must goes check it out

Cheers for the heads up.
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Hi @jjraak
I have not heard of grok. I am exploring a lot of AI's at the moment. I am trying to follow a course on them, but all the shenanigans before the operation got in the way and I had to drop it for the moment, but I'll be getting back to it.

I prefer ChatGBT 4 at the moment. But before I had the cataract operation I was asking so many questions. I kept being told you can't use this for 2 hours and then the last one was you can't use this for 12 hours. I can continue if I move over to ChatGPT 3.5, And continue to ask questions but it does not have so much processing power and the in-depth answers I wanted weren't enough. So I had to wait the full 12 hours to use ChatGPT4 again. Or I could pay, but the cost becomes horrendous.

I believe Chinese DeepSeek is aiming to be completely free, and open source unlike the other revenue models. Seems to me they are rushing things through.in this race of the AI's. That surely must present some cause for concern.

Going back to ChatGPT, somewhere in settings is the information it holds on you. It may not be much, but you may not want it to hold that stuff and you can delete it. I look every so often in mine and I delete some stuff it holds.

Just a thought...
 
Creative... I noticed that the buddliah leaf I looked at with my left eye seemed very spring like, in colouring. But when I look at the same buddliah leaf with my right eye, my new cataract eye, the leaf is very grey and pale blue more blue than what I have put on here on the right leaf.
So this is the same leaf as seen by the left eye, and then the cataract eye in the second leaf.
I stuck to a limited palette. This is a box of Maimeri watercolour paints.

I have some ideas for colour experiments, as suggested by @dunelm But it will take me awhile to work them out.

Have have a good the rest of your day

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I have been having difficulty squeezing one eye drop out of these 4 bottles given me by the hospital. The sides of the bottles are so hard I cannot squeeze them not even with two hands and by the time I get a drop out, my hand or arm has drifted to the side or up or down.

Earlier today, this morning I accidentally shook one of the bottles, not shake but just turned it upside down and back again just a few times. It was an absent-minded gesture I did for no reason at all.

I lay back on my chair positioned myself with the bottle and the drop fell out quickly, immediately with that bottle.

And I'm thinking, is all I've got to do is just turn the bottle upside down and back again a few times take the top off and the drop will come out pretty quickly... flipping heck... One bottle took 30 seconds for the drop to come out with that technique and I did not squeeze it at all. This enabled me to keep my hand and arm in the right position for the drop to come out, instead of the arm and hand drifting away as I am trying very hard to squeeze it...

Any good to you @jjraak ?
Or maybe you figured this out...
 
gennepher said:
I have been having difficulty squeezing one eye drop out of these 4 bottles given me by the hospital. The sides of the bottles are so hard I cannot squeeze them not even with two hands and by the time I get a drop out, my hand or arm has drifted to the side or up or down.

Earlier today, this morning I accidentally shook one of the bottles, not shake but just turned it upside down and back again just a few times. It was an absent-minded gesture I did for no reason at all.

I lay back on my chair positioned myself with the bottle and the drop fell out quickly, immediately with that bottle.

And I'm thinking, is all I've got to do is just turn the bottle upside down and back again a few times take the top off and the drop will come out pretty quickly... flipping heck... One bottle took 30 seconds for the drop to come out with that technique and I did not squeeze it at all. This enabled me to keep my hand and arm in the right position for the drop to come out, instead of the arm and hand drifting away as I am trying very hard to squeeze it...

Any good to you @jjraak ?
Or maybe you figured this out...
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Not really genn, tho I do appreciate the issues outlined.

No end of drops missing the mark when the eye you need to see with is the one that you can't actually see with.

My drops finished months ago, but well done you for finding a way that works so effortlessly.

I must try to remember that for next time I need eye drops.
 
Morning all, I've been missing in action. Just been catching up on what you've all been up to...

Fbg was 9.4 this morning after a string of higher readings. I've swapped my insulin to before dinner, rather than first thing. It's hopefully now settling down, and I'm not getting borderline hypos (4 point something) at lunchtime. I can tell if it drops below 6.

I'm having a rubbish time at work ATM. Hoping my meeting with my line manager is positive today.

Have a great day everybody!
 
A mixed bag there @Madfarmerswife .

Wavered on a win for the switch of timings bringing better results.

But I well remember how work got super hard when I was first dx'd
And I wasn't on that see saw of balancing life with the insulin you have to.

Hope the meeting offers some effective work around to ease the difficulties you're having at the moment.
 
Fbg 6.6

HRV reading said I had paced myself well yesterday. But my readings for pulse and HRV were at the top end of the acceptable range. I was working on my bedroom yesterday and I was changing all the covers on my chair bed and some are going to be washed, and some went on the washing line which had been blown down by the wind, and I had to get that back up again and they were on the washing line airing off all day. But I took it very slowly all day, because bending was involved..." and so it looks like I was exerting myself to the max but stopping just short of over exerting myself because I kept having rests. I know I was very tired at the end of the day and I could barely get onto the chair bed.

It was was something that that an able bodied person could probably take less than an hour to do.

I have just realised I have left some stuff out overnight airing off in the garden. I have a bamboo cane between a couple of trees. There is stuff still on that. I'll have to go and bring that in, in a minute before it rains.

So I realised with the help of the Visible App and the morning readings, that when my HRV reading is very low and outside of normal range low, that appears to be when stress is affecting me badly. And when I am physically exerting myself the HRV reading goes towards the top end or just beyond of the normal range. But ablebodied people could achieve what it takes me all day to achieve, in a fraction of that time in the morning... it is what it is...

I have just remembered something, in the hospital just before the op they took my blood pressure reading. It was high... then when I came out of theatre and I had walked to my chair at the end of a couple of corridors, the nurse took my blood pressure again. She looked at me and then said just let me get another machine. And I am thinking oh flipping heck what is up? She took my blood pressure again and said with surprise, it's 120/80!
Yes, that's my normal reading, I said.

I have just thought, maybe your blood pressure reading is not normally that low/normal after surgery. Either I am doing something right in my meditations et cetera or me observing everything that happened that I wrote about that I did the picture of during the op, was maybe some kind of calming thing for my body and brain. I was focused on seeing everything for the purpose of painting it later.

Anyway, I have another problem. Last night I was locking up, and in the other back room, I noticed something on the inside doorstep that shouldn't have been there. I had cleaned it all out just before I went into the hospital. And it was still clean when I came back home.. then I realised something had chewed a hole from under the outside doorstep and through the doorstep inside and made a hole and a mess and had chewed up my wallpaper and more.

So that is my job for today and more bending when I shouldn't be bending.... why are these mice or whatever? I'm not thinking about the whatever, trying to break into my bungalow? So as a quick measure last night I poured bleach down the hole, and then I got the chilli powder out poured that into the hole and poured it all around the doorstep outside about half a kilogram of Chili powder... overkill I know but I wanted to be able to sleep safe.

Have a great day.
I will post my creative later when I have done it, but I want to get the day started...
 
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Good morning everyone on what just might me a sun shiney start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this a.m - still not prime. Oh well.
A chilly day yesterday exploring the back alleys and “yards” of Whitby. Up and then eventually down the 199 steps to the Abbey - now renamed by the grandchildren as Dracula’s Ruin - a bit like Mother’s Ruin but with Tabasco for an extra bite.
Mrs Miggins is meeting up with a friend for a catch up so they are taking respective grandchildren to an indoor trampoline place where there is a cafe - sound delightful - I have far more interesting things to do than that ; visit the pharmacy and do some shopping - oh, and sort the washing out. How do three miniature humans go through so many items of clothing?
Art bit - well it’s whatever you see it as.
Hope your day goes well. Each day offers a different banquet, enjoy your meal. Mine starts with koffy.
 

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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what just might me a sun shiney start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this a.m - still not prime. Oh well.
A chilly day yesterday exploring the back alleys and “yards” of Whitby. Up and then eventually down the 199 steps to the Abbey - now renamed by the grandchildren as Dracula’s Ruin - a bit like Mother’s Ruin but with Tabasco for an extra bite.
Mrs Miggins is meeting up with a friend for a catch up so they are taking respective grandchildren to an indoor trampoline place where there is a cafe - sound delightful - I have far more interesting things to do than that ; visit the pharmacy and do some shopping - oh, and sort the washing out. How do three miniature humans go through so many items of clothing?
Art bit - well it’s whatever you see it as.
Hope your day goes well. Each day offers a different banquet, enjoy your meal. Mine starts with koffy.
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Thank you for the Rorschach test I see a Nazgûl riding his Fellbeast attacking two hairy dwarfs.
Don’t now what that tells you apart from me reading to much Tolkien.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what just might me a sun shiney start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this a.m - still not prime. Oh well.
A chilly day yesterday exploring the back alleys and “yards” of Whitby. Up and then eventually down the 199 steps to the Abbey - now renamed by the grandchildren as Dracula’s Ruin - a bit like Mother’s Ruin but with Tabasco for an extra bite.
Mrs Miggins is meeting up with a friend for a catch up so they are taking respective grandchildren to an indoor trampoline place where there is a cafe - sound delightful - I have far more interesting things to do than that ; visit the pharmacy and do some shopping - oh, and sort the washing out. How do three miniature humans go through so many items of clothing?
Art bit - well it’s whatever you see it as.
Hope your day goes well. Each day offers a different banquet, enjoy your meal. Mine starts with koffy.
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I see a strong sturdy oak tree in your art bit @dunelm
 
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