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Group 7-day waking average?

Well done @harbottle on the HS. A 5.5 for me today. 🙂

Dez
 
Morning

6.3 still feeling tired from yesterday’s long and very challenging day at work, but I got through it, today I am doing be weighed, not expecting to have least anything, but going to really start being good from today, last week was just walking through the door when hubby could take me.

@harbottle - congratulations on your HS.

Also congratulations to yesterday’s HS.
 
Morning all, a happy 5.1 for me on a very grey day with rain on the way soon.
 
5.3 today for me.

Yesterday’s hospital appointment didn’t go too well as I didn’t manage without the catheter (almost but not enough). So, the instructions are for another 2 weeks on the Tamsulosin and try again, otherwise it will have to be an operation. Feeling a bit despondent and wanting all of this to be over so I can get back to normal. Still, there are worse things.

@harbottle - congratulations on your HS.

Take care everyone.
 
MikeyBikey said:
Good moaning! No idea why but BG started climbing around 3:00.and hit11.0 on waking.Could be stress and a number of hypos yesterday.

Weekly Podiatry dressing change this morning. Hope it goes better than yesterday. After arriving at Opthalmology late yesterday the nursing staff did the usual checks but there was no consultant available so they will write to me. A long tiring day with nothing really achieved. I was told things had been reorganized after this happened last year! (querying emoji).

Yesterday's cloud broke for a sunny afternoon but cloudy again this morning.
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Bad to worse. Today's Podiatry got cancelled just before the pickup window and the dressing definitely needs changing. I hate being a eff 'ing cripple!
 
No sign of the sun here so far, and no sunshine in the forecast either. Shame as it was a really lovely day yesterday, although the breeze, being northerly, was a little cool. 5.9 when I tested this morning.

Sad to read yesterday that Frank Ifield, another singer who graced the charts in my early teens, has passed away, aged 86. Anyone of my generation will remember him. Another piece of my musical past gone. Some of his hits - I Remember You, Lovesick Blues, Confessin' - are on a couple of my 1960s compilation albums, so in that sense he lives on.

Tuesday is swim day and with no one WFH it'll be the bus or, should the sun come out, Shank's Pony.

Congrats @harbottle on your HS, and @MeeTooTeeTo & @khskel on yours yesterday.

Whatever your plans, enjoy your day.
 
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Eternal422 said:
5.3 today for me.

Yesterday’s hospital appointment didn’t go too well as I didn’t manage without the catheter (almost but not enough). So, the instructions are for another 2 weeks on the Tamsulosin and try again, otherwise it will have to be an operation. Feeling a bit despondent and wanting all of this to be over so I can get back to normal. Still, there are worse things.

@harbottle - congratulations on your HS.

Take care everyone.
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When my other half had the enlarged prostate he was on both Finasteride and Tamsulosin.
Sorry your appointment didn't give you what you hoped for.
 
Eternal422 said:
5.3 today for me.

Yesterday’s hospital appointment didn’t go too well as I didn’t manage without the catheter (almost but not enough). So, the instructions are for another 2 weeks on the Tamsulosin and try again, otherwise it will have to be an operation. Feeling a bit despondent and wanting all of this to be over so I can get back to normal. Still, there are worse things.

@harbottle - congratulations on your HS.

Take care everyone.
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@Eternal422 - Same for me but the urinary clinic gave me Finasteride to go with the Tamsulosin and a supply of single use catheters for to use as necessary whilst things settled down and the pills got to work. My experience was that the single use catheters made the transition from full catheter to no catheter much smoother. Might be worth asking about when they next TWOC * you!

I was back to near normal in a couple of weeks and all talk of surgery disappeared but I have a few single use catheters squirrelled away ..... just in case!

* The nurses referred to catheter removal as TWOCing ---- Trial WithOut Catheter. They were much amused by the acronym being the same as that for with Taking WithOut Consent, the term the police use to describe car theft.
 
Attempted to make cottage cheese, egg, ground almond pancake batter this morning. For breakfast pancakes rather than just for the heck of it. Didn’t follow a recipe. Huge fail! I ended up with cottage cheese semi scrambled floury eggs. They’re in the bin.
My advice would be follow a recipe!

Hung out with this cutie yesterday…
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With her dad as well. And I really didn’t mind strangers assuming I was her grandpa!
 
ColinUK said:
Attempted to make cottage cheese, egg, ground almond pancake batter this morning. For breakfast pancakes rather than just for the heck of it. Didn’t follow a recipe. Huge fail! I ended up with cottage cheese semi scrambled floury eggs. They’re in the bin.
My advice would be follow a recipe!

Hung out with this cutie yesterday…
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With her dad as well. And I really didn’t mind strangers assuming I was her grandpa!
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Fabulous photo.
 
ColinUK said:
Attempted to make cottage cheese, egg, ground almond pancake batter this morning. For breakfast pancakes rather than just for the heck of it. Didn’t follow a recipe. Huge fail! I ended up with cottage cheese semi scrambled floury eggs. They’re in the bin.
My advice would be follow a recipe!

Hung out with this cutie yesterday…
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With her dad as well. And I really didn’t mind strangers assuming I was her grandpa!
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What a cutie. And the baby looks ok. 😉
 
Morning all - light overcast today with some blue patches. Hopefully it'll clear.

7.1 - better, but still not good enough. Got a new phone yesterday. The nice man in Currys copied the contents of my old phone onto it, so it's more or less set up. I have 5 days to go on the current sensor so I was a bit apprehensive that it wouldn't work with the new phone (which has the latest version of the Libre software on it - I've been using an old version - 2.5.3 that worked with my old phone). It does work, but no alarms until I start a new one with this phone. I'm assuming that also applies to why it's not a CGM either.

Going to meet a g/f for lunch in town today. Hope the cafe we've arranged to meet in has improved since we last ate there when we had fish in vinegar sauce much to our horror. I understand it's changed hands so we will see.

Congratulations to @khskel on your HS yesterday, which no one noticed! Congratulations to @harbottle on yours today.

@ColinUK she's so cute... no wonder you are proud to be thought grandpa.

@eggyg what a scandalous price for Cornish new potatoes... must be transport costs!

Take care and be happy folks.
 
7.2 for me this morning. Cloudy here with no sign of sun in the forecast, no rain, apparently (I have my doubts about that one). Been busy searching for things online and getting frustrated at getting nowhere fast!
 
MikeyBikey said:
Bad to worse. Today's Podiatry got cancelled just before the pickup window and the dressing definitely needs changing. I hate being a eff 'ing cripple!
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My second conversation with Podiatry was with the Duty Podiatrist who has been in attendance when I last visited the Foot Clinic. He said "No way can it be left for two weeks" but unfortunately the only appointment is early on Friday the day after physio when I am usually shattered. I can help feeling podiatry clinics should be moved back into hospitals as they were far more flexible then. Also NHS Podiatry is also for those with a clinical need. They also need an injection of cash, staff and (for some) morale! Such is life.
 
Bloden said:
Enjoy your school trip
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It was good but a very long day. I've had two small hypos since i got home! The kids enjoyed it though.
 
Morning all. Clickety click 6.6, and I’m first up! TBF I’ve been up since 5.50 but I’ve pottered about.

Forecasted rain didn’t materialise yesterday but it’s definitely on its way today, weather warning for us until tomorrow. Heavy rain from about 10 this morning. Day indoors it is then, apart from a trip to the shops for some beef mince to make a ragu. Forgot it on Monday. I’m annoyed with myself. Otherwise nowt exciting in Eggyland.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.
 
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