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Before Tea/Evening Meal

MikeyBikey said:
I had a two hour sleep this afternoon after last night's awful night. Whilst not totally refreshed the migraine has subsided. Pleased with a BG of 5.6 (100mg/dL - my original consultant's ideal figure in 60s. 70s, 80s). 🙂
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I was seriously never told by mine. I was peeing on a stick till 88. Not joking. But I was aware of hospital BG testing on wards in the 1970s.
 
4.8 for me this evening.
 
6.8 this fine evening, although I have been up to 12 today while at work. With all the goings on it is a very stressful place to be, I'm so glad I'm getting out soon.
 
6.4 for me. Been running on the low side today - even after my pie and chips n cheeky Coke I've not had a spike like I often do after eating.

Dosing more accurately, exercising more and timing my bolus better all helping 🙂
 
Satan’s little helper said:
I was seriously never told by mine. I was peeing on a stick till 88. Not joking. But I was aware of hospital BG testing on wards in the 1970s.
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I started (well my parents did) on Clinitest (5 drops of urine, 10 of water, drop in a reagent tablet and look at the colour). Although I got a meter in 81/82 I carried on with regular urine tests for quite a few years. Initially you had to self fund your meter (mine was £200 down from £1000 the previous year) and test strips were limited. Only clinics could prescribe and I was only prescribed 25 for six months! I was told to test on different days and times so they could get a profile, and as we all know with CGM that is a nonsense! At £15 for 25 I could not buy that many extra. I will only have had Libre for two years in February after a four year battle.

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Like a half brick...
 
Was 8.7 for me. Think I overstressed about SA and had to spend morning sorting out appointments (will do a thread at some stage).
 
Bit of a high one 9.8 tonight
(although hasn’t affected my TIR drastically)
 
Lisa65 said:
6.8 this fine evening, although I have been up to 12 today while at work. With all the goings on it is a very stressful place to be, I'm so glad I'm getting out soon.
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I was axed in early 2019, 10 weeks after returning to work following bypass surgery. Although I had not planned to retire it became retirement as I really wanted a part-time job as I was still recovering from "car crash" surgery. By then I had spent over 30 years as a Software Craftsman (often with ludicrous job titles) mainly designing and coding SQL in C, C# (only briefly used C++) and Python although I also used about eight other languages including Fortran and LISP). Whilst I miss the technical challenges I definitely did not miss the micro-management. One conversation went something like this:

MD - "How long do you think it will take to code...?"
Mikey - "About two to three days"
MD - "I was thinking a couple of hours"
"Mikey - "Why do you say that"
MD - "I did some pregaming at university!"

They had graduated in 1980! I did not ask what language but from their degree imagine it was either Basic and Fortran! :(

Also for my two jobs post Millennium outpatient appointments were always an issue and I ended up usually taking a half-days leave, and was forever told it was not really convenient. For my two pre-Millennium jobs appointments were never an issue bar with one manager. He was such a control freak he sacked about six of us one day. In the afternoon he was axed and we were all reinstated! When I was with ICI the on-site nurse always wanted an update and kept a supply of urine test strips. 🙂
 
MikeyBikey said:
I started (well my parents did) on Clinitest (5 drops of urine, 10 of water, drop in a reagent tablet and look at the colour). Although I got a meter in 81/82 I carried on with regular urine tests for quite a few years. Initially you had to self fund your meter (mine was £200 down from £1000 the previous year) and test strips were limited. Only clinics could prescribe and I was only prescribed 25 for six months! I was told to test on different days and times so they could get a profile, and as we all know with CGM that is a nonsense! At £15 for 25 I could not buy that many extra. I will only have had Libre for two years in February after a four year battle.

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lol, it looks like our old heating controller? Yes I remember clinitest pee in a test tube then pee strips in a pot. First meter was about the size of an old Ericsson T28 phone? I think it took 60seconds to test.
 
MikeyBikey said:
I was axed in early 2019, 10 weeks after returning to work following bypass surgery. Although I had not planned to retire it became retirement as I really wanted a part-time job as I was still recovering from "car crash" surgery. By then I had spent over 30 years as a Software Craftsman (often with ludicrous job titles) mainly designing and coding SQL in C, C# (only briefly used C++) and Python although I also used about eight other languages including Fortran and LISP). Whilst I miss the technical challenges I definitely did not miss the micro-management. One conversation went something like this:

MD - "How long do you think it will take to code...?"
Mikey - "About two to three days"
MD - "I was thinking a couple of hours"
"Mikey - "Why do you say that"
MD - "I did some pregaming at university!"

They had graduated in 1980! I did not ask what language but from their degree imagine it was either Basic and Fortran! :(

Also for my two jobs post Millennium outpatient appointments were always an issue and I ended up usually taking a half-days leave, and was forever told it was not really convenient. For my two pre-Millennium jobs appointments were never an issue bar with one manager. He was such a control freak he sacked about six of us one day. In the afternoon he was axed and we were all reinstated! When I was with ICI the on-site nurse always wanted an update and kept a supply of urine test strips. 🙂
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I'm retiring at the end of March (from being self-employed for the last few years), having been winding down gradually over the past six months. I realise that I'm very privileged to be able to do this - possibly the last generation with the realistic option of retiring early :(. Amongst my many plans is to be able to attend medical appointments without trying to juggle them around work: such is life as a middle-aged person with Type 1 Diabetes!
 
I was 5.7 this evening, but was running high after we were told there was going to be redundancies in the next few weeks.

@MikeyBikey interested, I'm a Software Engineer, currently doing the application for high end white goods (Nice big touch screens.) They want iPhone looking user interfaces on a cheap as chips, um, chip and have to keep dialling it down when I tell implement it and show them that it looks rubbish when it can only draw two frames of gaussian blending dialogues on top of each other! 🙂
 
And mine was an 8.9 before I went out this evening.
 
7.1 this evening, we had a staff meeting this afternoon and were told that Hampshire Council will be pulling their funded residents out of the care home in the next few weeks. As we only have a few private clients, it looks like the place will close. I should add that this is down to certain bad decisions made by the owner and nothing to do with the standards of care given by the people who work there. And as the owner refuses to let anyone else run the place, that's it.
I feel sorry for the residents and staff, but personally I feel a bit better now the uncertainty has lifted and we know what's happening.
I've been there almost eleven years and it's like losing a family. It's very sad :(
 
Evening all, a happy 7.4 for me on another damp and miserable day.
 
mine this evening was 5.4 same as this morning tried a marks chicken and leek pie with peas and a small portion of mash, confess I didn't eat much just the pie filling and a couple of fork fulls of mash and peas feeling deflated about my eye problems
 
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