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Group 7-day waking average?

I thought I'd posted first thing, but clearly not. Still very windy here, but sunny for at least part of the day. Although I do think the wind is worse now than it has been all day. Probably because J hosed all the salt off the windows.

6.3 this morning. 97% in range, though looks like it was "only just" after lunch.

Been wrapping christmas presents. I "lost" one of Julian's and ransacked the house for nearly an hour. Could not think where I had put it. Until he said very quietly "it's not under the tree is it" I looked and lo and behold yes it was. The person who I had bought it from at a craft fair had placed it in a pretty hessian bag with Christmassy decoration and so instead of hiding it to be wrapped I had put it straight under the tree.... ho hum, senility is setting in!

Dinner is prepped and ready to go in the oven - Gnocchi bake with chicken, mushrooms, spinach and blue cheese sauce. We were supposed to be out all afternoon, so I had done it yesterday, but the afternoon was called off.

Goodness that wind is really getting up now!

Congrats to all the HSs.
 
Good morning - 4.9

Have a great day everyone.
 
Morning a 6.2 for me and another flat line so happy enough.
Quiet day today WFH and had a nice day yesterday albeit a very lazy one apart from lunch out and a short spell in garden in morning sorting out the wind damage. Fortunately it was only plastic plant pots that had been rearranged and sone sweeping up so nothing major.
One of neighbours ridge tiles had come into our garden but again lucky it was at rear so no really effect and missed conservatory.
Anyway whatever you are up to have a good week
 
Morning all. 5.7 today.

Going home today. I love going on holiday but I love going home too. We have up to 10.30 to leave but we’ll be long gone by then. Want to pop into Hayes Garden World on the way home as we saw a table candle thingy ( I’m sure there’s a name for it) it holds 10 candles, and is “ silver” and it’s long. I think it’ll look good on our dining table. Of course we couldn’t carry it when we visited on foot last week and we said if it’s still there Monday it’s meant to be. It was in the sale, reduced quite considerably so it may not be there. We’ll see. Wondering whether to nip to Windermere to Lakeland too as we need cling film and tin foil, and it is the best, but we’ll need our blinkers on as we always spend a fortune on things we didn’t know existed and definitely didn’t know we needed!

Lovely last day yesterday, Darragh was still intent on blowing us over but it didn’t rain until we got back. Very cold though but we had a glimpse of the sun every now and again on our walk to Grasmere. Purchased some gingerbread for @zippyjojo, I had to queue! TBF it’s a teeny tiny shop but there’s always a queue doesn’t matter when you go. They do a roaring trade. Home by 2pm, quite achy, at almost 8 miles it was our longest walk. Packed a few things and just read until tea time.

Back to the grind this week, child/elderly parent care , hospital appointment for Mr E, opticians and haircut/ colour for me. Christmas tree was delivered by youngest daughter yesterday, it’ll stay in the garden until Saturday, haven’t time to even contemplate putting it up before then. Will do it Saturday, that’s early enough for a real tree in my experience. Don’t want to be looking at a bare twig on Boxing Day!

Have a Happy Monday.

Last few photos, if you look carefully you’ll see the sun! It’s been rare this last week.
 

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Good morning everyone

BG 5.3

I felt good yesterday and my hip was fine... that is until... walking home after the service my hip started to feel very painful and was painful for the rest of the day. I over did it I guess and mucked up the healing a bit.

I was in no shape to drag the Christmas decorations from the shed and to put them up. My wife, who had said that she would do them, did nothing all day, so no decorations yet. Not sure I even want the wretched things up cluttering the place. It's tough to celebrate when my only family (daughter) has still rejected us for reasons unknown (/unstated, but I can probably guess with my wife ill). Very sad. Needless. Disappointing.

Today my hip is much better again but still a bit of lingering pain from yesterday. Sigh. I will mostly rest then. Sigh.

Today redo parts of the new song as my wife hates the sound I chose In those parts. Agh!! I must start practicing christmas carols today too. I do like Christmas carols. 🙂

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Have a great day today whatever you are doing
 
Morning all, 5.6 here, not sure I quite trust my new sensor yet, it read 4mol/l lower than a fingerprick when I put it on last night, and the overnight graph looks very up and down wobbly. I've told it to pull its socks up. Last time I threatened a sensor with Abbot if it didn’t behave itself, it started working properly.
 
6.0 for me
All have a good day
16 sleeps to go till Santa comes
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nurse came at 855 bg was 5.7 b4 insulin so she insisted she on a cup of OJ and a round of toast as its gone down and this after breakfast. In vain i said most probably difference in meters She testedagain and it was 6.2 the joy of the diabetic fairy
 
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Morning all. 7.9 here...too many Glucotabs at 4am.

Starting my first Libre 2 Plus sensor today - what are the advantages to the 2 Plus? I couldn’t find any on Abbott’s comparison chart except for it lasting for 15, not 14, days. We’ll see!
 
Morning all. 4.6 which very quickly dropped to 3.8. Had a drop of juice and its gone back up but needs to a bit higher before breakfast.

Not much planned for today apart from some cleaning and trying to find something for hubby for Christmas. We've done Secret Santa this year so theoretically i don't have to but he's been so supportive when i was finding things too tough with work and he's always there to help anybody. I want to give him a treat.

@eggyg have a safe journey back.
 
Morning all. A gentle 5.9 for me, and much much calmer weather on the cards it seems.

Hope everyone’s weeks start smoothly.

Hope the Libre2+ works well for you @Bloden
 
Morning folks. 6.1 this AM

Gym, life admin, housework and maybe some more baking are all that’s on the cards for me today.
 
Good morning 6.9 on waking today, yesterday evening had another before bed hypo, I did drop my evening dose of insulin yesterday (now down to 6)

Congrats to @Gwynn, @ColinUK & @Pam123 on joining me on the HS step yesterday

I’m expecting a phone call from Abbott either today or tomorrow regarding a few issues I’ve been having
not actually with the sensors - but with their App itself, it will be co-incidental if they do call me as when I had lows both yesterday & the day before, although they can be seen in my scan history the TIR & Low Events history doesn’t show them :confused: ok many people wouldn’t mind if the lows or highs weren’t being included in the TIR (I’ve not had any extreme highs recently) but if they are providing the app to go alongside the sensor I’m kind of hoping it will be correct

Happy Monday Everybody 😎
 

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Morning all - 6.5 this morning which is very good for me. TIR up to 86% so that's pleasing, especially as have my diabetes course tomorrow and we'll be putting our graphs up on a screen for the whole group to discuss! I've done quite a bit of scanning this week so that I can show my Logbook and commenting on certain foods I've had etc. I have a sneaky feeling that at least ½ of the group last week didn't quite get that the facilitators were asking us to do this, so we shall see! Thanks so much @eggyg - I'm feeling rather guilty now that my three packs of gingerbread might have taken up so much room in your rucksack that you couldn't fit your packed lunch in? I forgot that you were walking when I put my order in :rofl:. Have a good day everyone xxx
 
Morning

4.7, stomach seems to have settled down overnight, but horrible muzzy head that co-codamol didn’t help with, although I know that is not the best medication for headaches but had run out of paracetamol and I am allergic to aspirin and ibuprofen which hubby takes and seemed to be loads of packets of in the medicine cupboard. Can’t really face the stresses of work today after spending most of the weekend in the bathroom, and for some reason it has triggered my mental health and spent a lot of the night churning over things that have happened both at work in the past and both hubby and I losing our fathers 7 weeks apart in 2nd lockdown in 2020, I know neither of us will never be at peace knowing we could not see our fathers when they were in hospital, that we couldn’t see or hug family for comfort or give them the funerals they deserved, but I thought I had at least rationalised it and accepted it, but I think the current stress of work, the part of me that castrophises (sp) dealing with a new IT system that has come with woefully inadequate training for all staff, yet for some reason everyone thinks as admin people my colleague and I should know how everything works, answer all their questions and I am worried will blame us when we can’t or something goes wrong, but as we are bottom of the heirachy it is easy to push it all our way.

Couple that with being let down by my friend over seeing her Boxing Day, hubby is working so I will now be on my own, and more upset that she didn’t offer an apology, just a long text about what she wanted, I can understand she has changed her mind, but surely you should at least apologise or use something like, I hope you don’t mind, or maybe I know you will be disappointed but. Just made me feel no thought for my feelings as long as her own were met.

Sorry for the long woe is me but really tearful and actually no where else to put this as hubby doesn’t understand, he just accepts what happened with our dads as we couldn’t change anything, and as he is not a very sociable person and quite happy to sit at home on his own, doesn’t understand why I am upset with my friend.
 
zippyjojo said:
! Thanks so much @eggyg - I'm feeling rather guilty now that my three packs of gingerbread might have taken up so much room in your rucksack that you couldn't fit your packed lunch in? I forgot that you were walking when I put my order in :rofl:
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I had it all planned. Walk to Grasmere, eat packed lunch, buy gingerbread, walk back. 😉
 
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Morning

4.7, stomach seems to have settled down overnight, but horrible muzzy head that co-codamol didn’t help with, although I know that is not the best medication for headaches but had run out of paracetamol and I am allergic to aspirin and ibuprofen which hubby takes and seemed to be loads of packets of in the medicine cupboard. Can’t really face the stresses of work today after spending most of the weekend in the bathroom, and for some reason it has triggered my mental health and spent a lot of the night churning over things that have happened both at work in the past and both hubby and I losing our fathers 7 weeks apart in 2nd lockdown in 2020, I know neither of us will never be at peace knowing we could not see our fathers when they were in hospital, that we couldn’t see or hug family for comfort or give them the funerals they deserved, but I thought I had at least rationalised it and accepted it, but I think the current stress of work, the part of me that castrophises (sp) dealing with a new IT system that has come with woefully inadequate training for all staff, yet for some reason everyone thinks as admin people my colleague and I should know how everything works, answer all their questions and I am worried will blame us when we can’t or something goes wrong, but as we are bottom of the heirachy it is easy to push it all our way.

Couple that with being let down by my friend over seeing her Boxing Day, hubby is working so I will now be on my own, and more upset that she didn’t offer an apology, just a long text about what she wanted, I can understand she has changed her mind, but surely you should at least apologise or use something like, I hope you don’t mind, or maybe I know you will be disappointed but. Just made me feel no thought for my feelings as long as her own were met.

Sorry for the long woe is me but really tearful and actually no where else to put this as hubby doesn’t understand, he just accepts what happened with our dads as we couldn’t change anything, and as he is not a very sociable person and quite happy to sit at home on his own, doesn’t understand why I am upset with my friend.
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Big hugs Lorraine. You might feel better now for putting this down in words, that usually works for me. It stops it whirring around in your head so much. I tend to catastrophize ( sp) too when I’m awake in the night. I tend to keep it to myself because in the cold light of day it sometimes feels a bit daft, I’m no way down playing your feelings, and I can rationalise it a little bit more. Maybe write a list of your concerns/worries in order of what bothers you the most and work through them one by one, see if it helps, some things there’s nothing that can be done. ie both your dad and hubby’s dad, it was a truly dreadful situation and there’s lots of anger, understandably, but that anger isn’t going to change anything, is there a support group near you that could help you with through something like that? Could you speak to your mum or another relative about it?
I hope your nocturnal bathroom visits get sorted, feeling ill and being tired is definitely not helping the situation. Once that’s fixed I’m sure things will feel better for you. Xx
 
A 5.9 for me this am. 🙂

Dez
 
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