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Group 7-day waking average?

Robin said:
Morning all, 6.4 here. Sounds windy out there, but at least it’s not raining. Your weather sounds far worse, @eggyg.
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Just seen on FB, a friend of a friend, who lives about 2 miles from me, has had lightning strike her house! Her chimney and part of her roof have collapsed into her bedroom! Everyone is fine but the house is a bit soggy. How frightening, they have twins aged about 9/10. It’s been horrendous up here, luckily the flood defences have held, I really don’t think the city could cope with another flood, there’s folks still not in their homes after Desmond struck in December 2015. I have just this minute put the recycling out, they are usually along to empty it about 7.45 so they had better hurry up or I will be bringing it back in! 😱
 
Don’t know what weather we had here last night. If anything bad I slept through it. Was windy yesterday though.

6.3 for me this morning. Call back from nurse scheduled about insulin, exercise and testing when out walking
 
eggyg said:
Just seen on FB, a friend of a friend, who lives about 2 miles from me, has had lightning strike her house! Her chimney and part of her roof have collapsed into her bedroom! Everyone is fine but the house is a bit soggy. How frightening, they have twins aged about 9/10. It’s been horrendous up here, luckily the flood defences have held, I really don’t think the city could cope with another flood, there’s folks still not in their homes after Desmond struck in December 2015. I have just this minute put the recycling out, they are usually along to empty it about 7.45 so they had better hurry up or I will be bringing it back in! 😱
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I was struck by lightning about 12 years ago now!😱 I was still working in the family restaurant then & walking home from work after Saturday night around 1am. It started to rain so, I put up my umbrella! The next thing I know, I felt a shock through my leather gloved hands around the metal shaft of the umbrella! I didn’t know “what on earth?” until a second later when there was a clap of thunder. I walked the rest of the way home in lashing rain, thunder & lightning & was soaked to the skin without the umbrella.

I was ok until the following night when my whole body started tingling & got worse! I saw the GP on Monday & told her what happened. An ECG was done & the 2 sides of my heart weren’t beating together. I was sent off to A&E. The doctors told me that I received a massive jolt of electricity in my body & the only reason I was alive was because I was wearing shoes with rubber non slip soles that stopped the jolt from leaving my body: if it had; my heart couldn’t have handled it!😱 The tingling was the electricity slowly leaving my body & my heart was adjusting. They said things should get back to normal in a week or two.!

I spent the next 10 days with my body tingling all over 24/7 with no let up: didn’t get much sleep & HAD to take the time off work! The electricity worked it’s way out of my body & a few weeks later another ECG at the hospital showed the 2 sides of my heart were back in sync!🙄

I was struck by lightning & survived!😱
 
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4.9 for me this morning. Feeling oh-so-tired. Not sure what’s up to be honest I slept basically all day and all night yesterday and still feel exhausted. Also feeling really nauseous :(
 
Good morning all🙂

Conspiracy of events last evening, misjudged bolus for meal cos I realised I’d forgotten to put the duvet cover on after replacing the bedding - that was after dinner - then forgot to have the ice cream I’d bolussed for. Anyway, after the unexpected exertion (king size duvet) and usual struggle, I fell asleep in the riser recliner, and woke up this morning on LO.:confused:

Can’t be more accurate for averaging purposes, the bleeding kit is in the bedroom, further away than the fridge, but it’s sorted now🙂

Meanwhile in the real world, Manchester City thrashed Schalke 7-0 last night, so that’s World War 2 finished, Rovers beat Wigan 3-0 in the battle of the pies, and there’s a vote in Parliament about whether to leave the EU with no deal, which will lose, so that’ll be Brexit sorted. Or not.

I’ve got to prepare for a haircut this morning so I’m off for a shower, shave and beard trim, but not before I’ve phoned the pharmacy to deliver the prescriptions. Don’t much fancy a scooter trip down into the village in the wind and sideways rain.:confused:

Have a good day, everyone, or at least the best you can.🙂
 
Morning all. A much more respectable 6.7 this morning. Was worried after that 9.5 last night.
 
mikeyB said:
Good morning all🙂

Conspiracy of events last evening, misjudged bolus for meal cos I realised I’d forgotten to put the duvet cover on after replacing the bedding - that was after dinner - then forgot to have the ice cream I’d bolussed for. Anyway, after the unexpected exertion (king size duvet) and usual struggle, I fell asleep in the riser recliner, and woke up this morning on LO.:confused:

Can’t be more accurate for averaging purposes, the bleeding kit is in the bedroom, further away than the fridge, but it’s sorted now🙂

Meanwhile in the real world, Manchester City thrashed Schalke 7-0 last night, so that’s World War 2 finished, Rovers beat Wigan 3-0 in the battle of the pies, and there’s a vote in Parliament about whether to leave the EU with no deal, which will lose, so that’ll be Brexit sorted. Or not.

I’ve got to prepare for a haircut this morning so I’m off for a shower, shave and beard trim, but not before I’ve phoned the pharmacy to deliver the prescriptions. Don’t much fancy a scooter trip down into the village in the wind and sideways rain.:confused:

Have a good day, everyone, or at least the best you can.🙂
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Oh dear!:( At least you’re trying your best to see the lighter side of it, well done for the 🙂 at the end pf your post.😉
 
Amazingly I’m just back from blood tests. 😱 And what a time I had of it!🙄 Arrived at 9am to find the treatment room half empty & I got ticket no 14. Usually in the 20’s or 30’s! I got in at 09:40 but, my viens wouldn’t cooperate despite all the water I drank this morning at home! Got about a vial & was sent off for urine & drank loads more water. Got another 2 vials of blood & left at 10:20 feeling bloated from all the water & having to go again! Picked up prescription at chemist & now waiting for breakfast to cook in the oven: breaksfast fry up!😱
 
Finally sat down to eat breakfast at 10:56 BS 13. That’s Dawn Phenomenon for you: a rise from 5.8 to 13 in 5 hours; a rise of 7mmol when my usual is 1mmol/hour!😱 It must have been the blood letting episode!🙄 Just finished breakfast & having midday meds & Levemir a bit early! So, that 13 will be taken care of!😉
 
Blimey @Lanny you were lucky!

6.3 this morning for me. BG has settled nicely now I’ve ditched the shakes, the only blip I’m seeing is after I’ve had my lovely appley sachet of Spatone, there’s no carb value on it, but it’s concentrated apple juice so I’m guessing that’s what’s doing it.

Stay safe, lovelies, it’s just horrid out there here.
 
Madeline said:
Blimey @Lanny you were lucky!

6.3 this morning for me. BG has settled nicely now I’ve ditched the shakes, the only blip I’m seeing is after I’ve had my lovely appley sachet of Spatone, there’s no carb value on it, but it’s concentrated apple juice so I’m guessing that’s what’s doing it.

Stay safe, lovelies, it’s just horrid out there here.
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Yeah, I WAS lucky! My GP jokingly asked me if that meant I wouldn’t use an umbrella anymore! I told her that umbrellas in Hong Kong have no exposed metal parts & are completely encased in plastic!. There are typhoons every year in the summer months with thunder & lightning! The GP was fascinated!🙄
 
Lanny said:
Yeah, I WAS lucky! My GP jokingly asked me if that meant I wouldn’t use an umbrella anymore! I told her that umbrellas in Hong Kong have no exposed metal parts & are completely encased in plastic!. There are typhoons every year in the summer months with thunder & lightning! The GP was fascinated!🙄
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I think I’d be more interested in buying sturdy rubber boots
 
Very lucky Lanny, but it is more likely that your saviour was the rain wetting your outer clothing than your shoes. Something from the distant past gives me the idea that the most of lightning would have found the path of least resistance to get to earth and that would be surface disharge through the water film on your clothing rather than through your body.

Behaviour of high voltage discharges is as about as predictable as the diabetes fairy.
 
Just an add on to the morning post.🙂

After my haircut, including ears and eyebrows, and having my best coffin look on, watched the Wednesday afternoon of the Cheltenham Festival. (This is why Ireland is currently deserted). What a magnificent pair of horses. Altior just made it for yet another win - that’s 17 and counting over jumps - in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, and little Tiger Roll in the 4.10 Cross Country - that’s 3m 6f of punishing twists and turns in what was soft going, and challenging fences. Last year’s Grand National winner Tiger Roll was almost cantering around in third or fourth for the first three miles, then took off. And how. Came in first, and you could have made a cup of tea by the time second and third arrived, knackered. Tiger Roll wasn’t even blowing. Irish, of course. So is Altior, though he’s British trained.

Sorry to go on, but the Cheltenham Festival brings my ancestral Irish blood out. Not a pretty sight:D
 
Good evening all, my BS this morning was 5.1. Yesterday I was at hospital having my Implantable Loop Recorder removed. Needed to keep my blood sugars a bit higher as I had to have breakfast before 6:00am. Arrived at hospital at 7:30 as instructed and not taken to theatre until 9:30 or so. Thankfully procedure only takes 30 minutes & when I arrived back in the ward my BS was 12. I was happy with that as you never know what time your going to theatre even when you turn up to hospital on time.
 
Well, there’s a little more info about myself from an unintentional little experiment this morning.🙄

I got up this morning at 06:30 BS 7.6 & rushed out to wheel my wheelie bin 750 steps out onto the main road to be dumped at 7am. The change was made last year to dump the bins at 7am instead of 8am & I never really got used to the change! So, all my bins have been VERY full when I got them dummped. Because 9 times out of 10 I forget to wheel them out the night before & realise in bed. Then, SAY to myself I’ll do it in the morning & get up too late!😱😳

Well I did it again & forgot last night but, because of my trend, these days, of getting up early I managed to get it out in time this morning!😳 Back in after a round trip of 1500 steps & the weight of a bursting wheelie bin my BS shot up to 8.4.😱

Breakfast is now in the oven, as I type this, & I’ve put up my breakfast dose from 28 to 30 units of insulin.🙄

It’s STILL blowing a gale out there this morning! So, take care if you have to go out! I wish you all a wonderful day!🙂 Stay warm & may there be bright sunshine on the inside & it can huff & puff, rain all sorts & it won’t touch the sunshine on the inside!😉

Edited to add:* Oops forgot to add I got back in at 06:38 when BS shot up from 7.6 to 8.4.
 
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