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4.2 Good morning all
 
@Kaylz How are you doing with your levels this morning. Hope you aren't having to guzzle too any Lift to keep you in range today. Hope your hands are a little less sore.
 
Congrats on the 5.2 @Bloden 🙂
Here's hoping you get the House Special Hat Trick tomorrow.

Dez
 
Morning all. A late one for me today. Woke late to a 2.8, now up to 4.5 so off to get breakfast.
@eggyg and @SueEK have a lovely day with the grandkids.
@SueEK, glad things went ok yesterday, i hope all goes ahead in January.
@Bloden congratulations on the HS.
 
6.8 this morning and a good result on my keto strip too.

I have an online funeral to attend today. A dear friend who had a heart attack while driving and managed to steer into a roundabout and avoided including any other drivers/cars. He'd just had his second wedding anniversary and it was completely unexpected. I'm finding it very surreal. He's one of those people everyone turned to for a wise/happy/comforting take on the world and I still haven't properly processed that he is gone. I suppose that is what funerals are for.
 
NotWorriedAtAll said:
6.8 this morning and a good result on my keto strip too.

I have an online funeral to attend today. A dear friend who had a heart attack while driving and managed to steer into a roundabout and avoided including any other drivers/cars. He'd just had his second wedding anniversary and it was completely unexpected. I'm finding it very surreal. He's one of those people everyone turned to for a wise/happy/comforting take on the world and I still haven't properly processed that he is gone. I suppose that is what funerals are for.
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Sorry to hear about your friend @NotWorriedAtAll
 
36 minutes on the exercise bike which has taken me down to 4.5.
Shortly off to M&S for our collection slot.
 
HenryBennett said:
36 minutes on the exercise bike which has taken me down to 4.5.
Shortly off to M&S for our collection slot.
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Praise the lord for M & S Xmas collections. Got a friend to pick ours up yesterday but as we ordered before I was diagnosed type 2 I can't eat any of it apart from the turkey. I will have to just stare at the mound of puddings but might have one roast spud, I make great roasties.
 
rebrascora said:
@Kaylz How are you doing with your levels this morning. Hope you aren't having to guzzle too any Lift to keep you in range today. Hope your hands are a little less sore.
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Had 4 and a half chocolate gingerbread digestives at bedtime last night on 6.9. woke to 7.1, after recent behaviour I had 1 Lift tab and an hour later before breakfast was 6.2 so right call IMO, hands are much better just can't seem to get the wrists healing, skin still peeling off there but Bruce is bringing one of my jars of O'Keefe's with him tonight so I'll be able to use as much as I like seen as I'm stocked up haha, thanks for asking 🙂 xx
 
Maca44 said:
Praise the lord for M & S Xmas collections. Got a friend to pick ours up yesterday but as we ordered before I was diagnosed type 2 I can't eat any of it apart from the turkey. I will have to just stare at the mound of puddings but might have one roast spud, I make great roasties.
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Haha, yes M&S!

I assume your food diary hasn‘t yet indicated the level of carbs and the foods you can tolerate without a spike. I’m ok with 3 or 4 spuds or 60g of rice. Christmas pudding isn’t in my food diary! I’ll be careful.
 
HenryBennett said:
Haha, yes M&S!

I assume your food diary hasn‘t yet indicated the level of carbs and the foods you can tolerate without a spike. I’m ok with 3 or 4 spuds or 60g of rice. Christmas pudding isn’t in my food diary! I’ll be careful.
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I'm not taking any chances as my levels are fairly stable and in a short time with the meds and change in diet. I'm really enjoying my food at the moment and bulk my plate up with veg, doing alot of BG testing so can see what not to eat or reduce. Looking forward to dinner Friday and will start walking again in Jan so hope 2021 is a better year.
 
@adrian1der How are things with you today? Hope you are feeling more back to normal.
 
@Kaylz I'm really impressed! I wouldn't have had the gumption/confidence to have a Lift on 7.1.... I just don't trust my diabetes to be that predictable... but then that's because it's not! Really nicely managed on your part!
Wow re 4.5 choc gingers at bedtime! Funny how basal needs can change so radically. You seem to be really good at embracing that change and working ways around it.
 
Kaylz said:
Had 4 and a half chocolate gingerbread digestives at bedtime last night on 6.9. woke to 7.1,
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@Kaylz, i'm pleased your levels were more settled last night. Hope you enjoyed your digestives, they sound yummy. I am rather jealous, if i ate those i would have a massive spike.
I ended up having a spike to 12 overnight anyway. Libre showed a hypo before bed but finger prick was 4.2. A bit low to go to bed on so i snacked on crackers. Still had a liver dump, high spike then sudden drop. If it had been a normal working day, i would have been awake and caught the hypo this morning. Oh well, fingers crossed its not a day of ups and downs.
 
🙂Good morning gang 🙂

5.8 today, after half blind hypos in the night. Half blind because for the first time ever my week old sensor has failed, and joined the celestial choir. My new order may arrive today or tomorrow, but it’s interesting how bereft you feel without those nice straight lines and little arrows. My fingers don’t like it either, all soft and lovely, so I must remember not to test quite so often. That delivery better arrive soon before I get anaemic.😱:D

I’d just ordered three sensors, because I’ll be buying the Libre 2 in January, so the alarms should prevent those surprise hypos in the time of Hotel Chocolat advent calendars.🙄

Had to start the day the Tramadol way, paying the price for yesterday’s trip around the village. At least I’ve got a very low key Christmas sorted. Mr Panasonic is currently beavering away on some bread, multi seeded. Mr Kenwood should help me tomorrow with the Christmas Log, and I’ll take the little baa lamb’s leg out of the freezer. I’m not apologising to vegans and vegetarians for that description of our Christmas meal, I’m an omnivore and was born that way. Can’t help it, don’t want to. Out and proud. Might get some liver out of the freezer for my Christmas Eve meal. Even Mrs B won’t eat that, I’ll have to cook two meals. She can have fish, boost her Omega 3 while I boost my B12🙂

Have a good day, everyone, and that includes the casual observers who haven’t registered yet. Go on, you know you want to🙂
 
NotWorriedAtAll said:
6.8 this morning and a good result on my keto strip too.

I have an online funeral to attend today. A dear friend who had a heart attack while driving and managed to steer into a roundabout and avoided including any other drivers/cars. He'd just had his second wedding anniversary and it was completely unexpected. I'm finding it very surreal. He's one of those people everyone turned to for a wise/happy/comforting take on the world and I still haven't properly processed that he is gone. I suppose that is what funerals are for.
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So sorry to hear this and hope the ‘funeral’ in some small way gives you comfort x
 
rebrascora said:
@adrian1der How are things with you today? Hope you are feeling more back to normal.
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Hi @rebrascora
another surreal day yesterday. Doctor phoned and had the notes from A&E. He informed me that I have an elevated hemidiaphragm which I knew having seen the x-rays in the hospital. (Basically the left side of my diaphragm is significantly raised). I then asked why? what do we do about it? and what are the implications? The line then went silent to the
extent that I had to ask if he was still there. He said he was thinking and then said he had to go away and speak to a thoracic expert.... I'll keep you all posted when I hear more. No explanation for why I passed out either other than the possibility that my BP is now too low after he started me on new tablets a few weeks ago. Now producing him a seven day BP chart. :(

Then I had to go into the surgery for a repeat HbA1c after the lab lost my sample from last week. The nurse took two vials "just in case". Managed to finish the Christmas food shopping at the farm shop on the way home. Both the wife and I find turkey rather bland so we always have a rib of beef. Looking forward to it! Not been doing any exercise as I am concerned about the chest problems but still losing weight. 15 stone 10.5lbs on the scales this morning. Two big milestones coming up - dropping into 15 stone and single figures and dropping below 100kg. Mind you that is only 0.5lbs and 17g respectively! 🙂

And finally, another 6.4 from me this morning at 08:35 having slept late. I think I'm still catching up from my night on the tiles (quite literally) in Reading on Friday 🙂
 
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