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

[gennepher]

Well I hope that today is a better one for you. Interesting kaleidoscope - looks to me like a microscope view of an hour glass

Thank you @dunelm
It was cold earlier on so that was better for me, but now the day has heated up and now it's definitely a burning sun.

 

[gennepher]

6.9 at 04.15 today. Been up and down a bit since then, but not too bad.

It was legs day today so Neil left me at the Health Centre and went off to do the shopping. The Co-op is still fairly empty and even the more exotic things (like the tinned black beans I wanted) are all sold out - presumably because tinned baked beans are not to be found anywhere. Then he found that none of the local suppliers had the piece of wood he was looking for. At least his new glasses were less expensive than he had anticipated, so that's a plus point.

It wasn't particularly hot when we went out, but it was by the time we got home and it was very bright. The sun was burning any bits it could reach through the windscreen and side windows. Still, rain and cooler weather are forecast - just as well, the plants could do with some water.

Alistair was telling me that he was held up yesterday at the end of his delivery because outside the last house he had to go to, a couple were walking 2 dogs, one of indeterminate breed, the other a chihuahua. As he walked by the chihuahua tried to reach him, but he didn't stop to pet it - that is now forbidden. Nevertheless, the dog seemed determined and, as Alistair walked away to his van, somehow it slipped its lead and ran into the road, right into the path of a car. It was killed instantly. There was much screaming and crying and, as a result, the driver of the car did not move his vehicle, blocking the road completely. Hence Alistair was late - not that he minded that. He was just concerned that it wouldn't have happened if he had just stopped to pet the dog and ignored the regulation. He's feeling a bit guilty at the moment but I reminded him that it was the responsibility of the dog owners to keep it under control and if they had, it wouldn't have happened. Sad.

That was sad @Annb But Alistair did the right thing not stroking it. He had no idea if the dog had a sudden vendetta or something.

 

[JohnEGreen]

Fbg this morning was seven point three.
Meeting with palliative care nurse went well she came to my home she is contacting my GP to arrange various pain relief meds and some other meds as well also left contact numbers if I require anything.

 

[debs248]

10.1

I was hoping not to see double figures again but it could just be the permitted range of the monitor, or the fact that I'd had a particularly stressful day already before testing.

I ordered a new bathrobe to replace the one I ordered a few years ago from the same supplier, same size - the sides won't even meet across my chest! Hubby's in a strop for some reason so much stomping and clattering in the kitchen while he heated a tin of soup for himself alone, but no food for me to take my meds with, and the kitchen currently in chaos so I'm having a lie down until it blows over. Could do with a cup of tea but not ready to poke the beast....

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 7.1

It was cold this morning, more my type of temperature, but this afternoon it's heat wave weather again...

The stray ginger cat from yesterday it's fine today. Looks bright and chirpy today.

Managed a trail cam video...
Badger Willow keeps making Cat Merlin angry...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ9VfZwI-Ee/?igsh=d2p4ZHZmdXU5M285

TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdhPJHVq/

Creative is a drawing on my phone of a very long legged girl talking on her phone...

And I need a cuppa and a nap...

Take care

 

[Lamont D]

I thought I would write a line.
I am okay but in a horrendous situation.
Mrs L. In an attempt to be healthy as possible, has been in a mental state of serious concern.
Everyone especially her mental health nurse has been excellent. But it is taking time.
I have been told I need respite.
Mrs L needs hospitalisation for a consistent basis of supervision for her mental state of extraordinary mood swings. And a complete rethinking of how her life can be changed. She has become a danger to herself and her family.
Finally. Social services are concerned about myself.
We have become desperate although I can ring a helpline or the doctors who again have been brilliant.
I am a prisoner to my wife's mental illness.

I really do hope and wish, you lot and your families are as healthy as is possible. My bestest wishes for each and everyone. I will be around but I may not be conversational. I don't have the time to read everything.
So I apologise, if you have been concerned for Mrs L and myself. This will get sorted one way or another.
I will try and update.
I do miss this thread.
And that is a line?
Best wishes.
Lamont.

 

[jjraak]

Can vividly imagine Midnights reaction to the ear drops.
Brings back memories of Errant who was so compliant that he sat on my legs, I put drops in, then massage drops deeper into his ears and he just sat there and let me do it. Only shaking his head a little after he had got off my lap.
I miss him still.

They might steal our hearts, but we're so blessed to have them in our lives .

 

[gennepher]

I thought I would write a line.
I am okay but in a horrendous situation.
Mrs L. In an attempt to be healthy as possible, has been in a mental state of serious concern.
Everyone especially her mental health nurse has been excellent. But it is taking time.
I have been told I need respite.
Mrs L needs hospitalisation for a consistent basis of supervision for her mental state of extraordinary mood swings. And a complete rethinking of how her life can be changed. She has become a danger to herself and her family.
Finally. Social services are concerned about myself.
We have become desperate although I can ring a helpline or the doctors who again have been brilliant.
I am a prisoner to my wife's mental illness.

I really do hope and wish, you lot and your families are as healthy as is possible. My bestest wishes for each and everyone. I will be around but I may not be conversational. I don't have the time to read everything.
So I apologise, if you have been concerned for Mrs L and myself. This will get sorted one way or another.
I will try and update.
I do miss this thread.
And that is a line?
Best wishes.
Lamont.

Hugs @Lamont D
We are all thinking of you and your family xx

 

[jjraak]

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

It would be a massive mistake to publish my blood sugars.

Last Saturday night, early Sunday morning I was admitted into hospital with low blood sugars, a life threatening 1.5 and was discharged from hospital late yesterday.afternoon.
Throughout this recent stay in hospital, I found the staff brilliant. In hindsight I the time and motion consultants have been brought in.

I have a number of medical issues rattling around at the moment and the medics are looking for a cause, heart, lungs, liver, existing medication etc, etc and the medics due to my dangerously low blood sugars in the middle of the night have fitted me with a Freestyle Libre 2 plus sensor. Also they have taken me off some of my medications and decreased the dosage of others. Warfarin, Insulin.

During my younger life sporting or otherwise I have had a number of close calls, but Saturday night, Monday morning was the closest according to the medics.

Now it is 18:07 on a Friday night and it ain’t alright for fighting. These days

Blimey, so sorry to hear that matey .

Hope they find the root cause

And close calls indeed,
Just have to remember we're less like cats in our agility , & more like a dropped box of eggs, just hoping the outer packaging protects the inner bits ...eek .

God speed on the recovery, finding a way through it and heading In to summer in better fettle .

Best wishes to those last strands of mrs alf's patience , as always.

Xxx

 

[jjraak]

No, it is not. But what happened is this...
I had to go to Liverpool to sort out some business that could not be sorted out anywhere else. The nearest parking space I found was outside the William Brown Street Liverpool libraries.
I went and did my business. Came back to the car on my mobility scooter. Then I went into the library. It is a massive massive library, one of the biggest you have ever seen. Some of it has been modernised., and some of it is all the original library as it was built in 1860. I used it all the time when I lived in Liverpool.

It now has a café on the ground floor. It now has computer rooms and you can stay in those computers all day if you need to, and it has much other stuff.

I thought it would be an idea to spend a whole day here. I have not tried that yet, but I got the library books out knowing I would have to return them sometime.. so my plan was a day out for me... I did arrange to be able to renew them online, but I hit a hurdle on Friday. They need returning before Tuesday.. and the library system was having problems with its website and I could not renew them on Friday. I have emailed the library. But I will have to go in Monday or Tuesday and do my original plan of spending a day there. It definitely is cooler in there than my bungalow.... so I will be finding all that out.

The art gallery is next door. And on the other side is the Liverpool museum. Each has a café., so it could be a pleasant full day... if I don't peg out before the end of the day...

Just to mention Mondays a bank holiday, genn .

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.9

Good morning from Poop Alley.

That is my job this morning to try and deter that horrid Magpie from pooping outside my kitchen door and on my herbs.

I have already put some camouflage netting up to protect my herbs. The magpie has been pooping on them on his fly past through my alley...

The cat food is hidden and protected under little tables.
I need now to deter that magpie from flying through.

And my recycle bags have had to be protected from the pooping magpie. I already had them hanging high up on an archway, protected from the badger below. But now I have to protect them from this huge white deposits from above.. so I covered one of the archways with some weed covering, and camouflage netting.

The badger Willow has been a pest.
I think I have named the badgers the wrong way round. I thought Willow was a girl. But now I am coming to the conclusion, that Willow is the boy. And the grandly named Thor is a girl, who has possibly had babies?.......
More badgers!!!!!
The badger Willow has been digging tunnels in my garden... and I have been filling them in.
Also, I suspect Willow is the one who has managed to get the cover of my one and only remaining wormery off and has been eating the worms. And the rest of the worms have legged it in the night.

I give up.
Nature wins every which way...

No wonder I cannot get on with tidying up my bungalow..... I'm falling behind rapidly.

I need a compartment complex with a single sterile room, with no garden, no air, no garden, no birds, and no badgers... or stray cats....

Creative today is a photo of some sweetly scented lilac....

Last night I was feeding the strays, as well as putting up some more camouflage netting, and in came mother blackbird with her great big lump of a baby, up to one of the cat bowls. And is feeding her baby, and the cats took no notice. My phone was in the kitchen and so I had no means of taking a photo.....
I do have a rule which I implemented years ago, that no cats were to catch birds in this garden. It is just a rule I thought of, visualised it, and believed it, because when I first moved here, yes the cats did catch birds 20 years ago. But I believed it wasn't an inevitability like most of us think. So I just visualised them all being in harmony together in my garden.
To be honest, watching this last night was unbelievable. I've seen it many times on my trail cameras.
Years ago on the swing with the cats, I moved here with, we would be sitting on the swing, and the cat was going to full alert as a bird jumped on the ground, and I would say no and stroke the cat. Overtime, they left the birds alone, and somehow it just continued even with the stray cats.... and I carried on believing....but it did take awhile.

Now it is time to engage battle with that magpie...he and his family live over the road in that massive oak tree...

Have a good day, free from bird poop...

 

[gennepher]

Just to mention Mondays a bank holiday, genn .

Who made it a bank holiday....
Blooming heck...
Thanks for the heads up @jjraak

 

[gennepher]

Just have to remember we're less like cats in our agility , & more like a dropped box of eggs, just hoping the outer packaging protects the inner bits ...eek .

Such an accurate poetic description @jjraak

I never thought I would feel that vulnerable about my body....

 

[Annb]

8.4 at 04.40 today.

Bright sunshine just now, but rain is forecast for later. Not too warm though.

 

[Annb]

I thought I would write a line.
I am okay but in a horrendous situation.
Mrs L. In an attempt to be healthy as possible, has been in a mental state of serious concern.
Everyone especially her mental health nurse has been excellent. But it is taking time.
I have been told I need respite.
Mrs L needs hospitalisation for a consistent basis of supervision for her mental state of extraordinary mood swings. And a complete rethinking of how her life can be changed. She has become a danger to herself and her family.
Finally. Social services are concerned about myself.
We have become desperate although I can ring a helpline or the doctors who again have been brilliant.
I am a prisoner to my wife's mental illness.

I really do hope and wish, you lot and your families are as healthy as is possible. My bestest wishes for each and everyone. I will be around but I may not be conversational. I don't have the time to read everything.
So I apologise, if you have been concerned for Mrs L and myself. This will get sorted one way or another.
I will try and update.
I do miss this thread.
And that is a line?
Best wishes.
Lamont.

Best wishes and prayers for both yourself and Mrs L. I thought that this might have been the reason you were missing from the forum and have been praying daily for both of you and your family. Don't know if that has helped at all, but it's the best I can do.

At least now, you are getting some help and with any luck you will feel a bit stronger and less stressed as a result.

 

[jjraak]

For the @ianpspurs among us ..

 

[SlimLizzy]

23.05
FBG 5.8
BBQLast night included a delicious potato salad, Dutch style, which has ham and eggs as well as potatoes. And an excellent homemade satay sauce. Very pleasant evening despite the chilly wind.
Our friend may be able to help identify some of the roses in our garden.
MrSlim is still feeling the effects of his fall three weeks ago, but insists he is recovering. More worrying is the back pain which may be related to his a CKD.
Shussssh. We are not allowed to talk about that. It's years since he saw a doctor about it. My thoughts are he needs at least a yearly review, and dietry, lifestyle advice. But he is " not going to be one of those old people who obsess and can talk about nothing but their health problems. "

 

[Peanut234]

12.0 this morning.
The appointment of the day went well. Our optician is both highly intelligent, and kind. Runs her own practice and knows her stuff.
She has checked my eyelid cyst and agrees it needs dealing with. Thankfully the eye is not affected yet, but if we leave it, it can be. She explained it as most probably 'a case of blocked eyelid plumbing which the immune system is getting annoyed with' and won't resolve itself. She has a contact who she refers things like this to. She even managed to adapt her eye photo equipment to take some photos for the referral.
Such a refreshing experience!
Oh, and prescription slightly different but wait to hear about the insulin pump as that will change things.
Interestingly she told me that some diabetics used to have different glasses for different times of day as their blood sugar changed their prescription. The higher blood sugar makes us more long sighted.

My day of cooking turned out to be a half day after a sleep in/nap. Tried 4 new recipes, and 3 are good.
Thought I would really suffer the next day but my hips were OK Ish - which is brilliant considering. Toe was not impressed though.
Interestingly my blood sugars have been coping better with the vegan food I made which is interesting. I wonder if it is those pesky dairy products stretching out things.
I have enjoyed the day of eating leftovers from the fridge

Endocrinologist appointment tomorrow about getting a pump. Even the optometrist was very positive and enthusiastic about it. Which was a shock because her usual demeanour is quite quiet and restrained with the odd small pun or polite and tasteful joke.
I have all my fingers and toes crossed.

 

[ianpspurs]

For the @ianpspurs among us ..

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Thank you. The actual cup has no handles and Ange didn't say what he wins in his 3rd season - if he gets one. Maybe he channels Jaws - we're gonna need a bigger cabinet

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.6 this morning.
I managed a rather spectacular somersault down the stairs. Not sure how it happened but luckily no broken bones. Just quite a lot of sore places.

Now a sensible person would cancel classes this evening and tomorrow - but as you know I am not that sensible person. Have done lots of icing and actually do feel better moving around.