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Group 7-day waking average?

4.6 for me this morning. 🙂

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Dez
 
Morning All, it's a 6.1 on the door for me today , hope everyone has a good safe day
 
Morning all
5.7 this morning,
all hands on deck today for sanding and sealing my driveway!
Going to be warm!
Stay safe everyone!
Blessings Snowwy
 
7.6 today which is disappointing as have been very good with my food choices but will just carry on and hope it improves. My colleague at work had a fall and has two fractures of her hip, bless her, so may have to go in to work a bit more often. Nothing more to say really except ‘stay a lert’ and don’t be taking anti malaria drugs like that idiot Trump, he’s definitely ‘a lert’!!!
 
Morning all, a very nice, in the fives again, 5.6, I’m loving it. Yeah, we have proper rain, with puddles and everything! Two reasons for being pleased about this, the poor garden was parched, we haven’t had any rain of significance since lockdown I don’t think, and secondly, our daily walk may be quieter and I won’t have a panic attack when I see someone 2 miles away coming towards me! Slight exaggeration, it’s only 1 and a half miles before I start hyperventilating! Have a tiffric Tuesday and don’t panic Mr Mainwaring! 😉
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 6.1 here. Rain, @eggyg? What’s that? The water for our veg seedlings comes out of a watering can here.
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Ours has until last night. It’s stopped now, I think that’s it! Ah well, back to the hosepipe and watering can tomorrow, at least it’ll have filled the butt up.
 
Morning

Had a lovely surprise yesterday afternoon, a woman pressed the buzzer looking for me saying they had a delivery for me so mum let her in, she recognized the voice but couldn’t think who it was, open the door to find a woman that works in sick bay at my old high school (that’s where I got to know her as attended for bad period pains, football injuries etc) she’d seen my post on Facebook and started with “I know you didn’t want anyone to buy you hand cream but” and she handed me a package which contained the round jar of O’Keefe’s working hands cream, what a lovely thing to do! She wouldn’t take anything for it though, she also picked me up some Aldi chocolate the other week (which I did transfer money to her bank for) and offered to pick stuff up at Aldi for me whenever I need anything as she’s there once a week, I almost cried!

BG’s were still all over the place yesterday but I’ve just to keep plodding away doing what I’m doing, wont see any change or improvement if you don’t put the effort in huh, cant be lazy when it comes to looking after and taking care of yourself, at least I can have a rant when I’ve done things right but it hasn’t went that way and not feel like I shouldn’t be

Anyways its a 5.4 for me, sorry if I'm a bit snippy but patience is wearing quite thin atm

Stay safe and have a lovely relaxing day folks, I know that’s what I’m away to try/hoping for!
xx
 
Moooorning! :D
It’s a 4.0 for me.🙂
Where’s the heatwave? It’s drizzling here...oh well, maybe my flower bomb blooms will start appearing with a bit of rain. They’ve been a bit shy so far.😛
 
06:20 BS 9.7 :confused: meaning a so, so smile but, it’s not waking as I’m actually going to bed soon!:confused: Now THAT one is meaning confused: probably you lot’s confusion?😉 I’m still adjusting my sleeping pattern after Saturday’s mammoth sleep session after my long day in hospital on Friday. I’m sleeping less each day, awake for longer until my normal pattern is back & I sleep my normal amount: how I’ve always naturally adjusted when sleep becomes of kilter when ill!

I’m staying up until 09:00 to phone in my BS readings for my GP’s practice nurse: rang me yesterday, being Monday after the weekend, asking for readings to help me adjust my doses as I recover while taking the antibiotics. After that I’m off to bed. But, already had half an oatcake & half my dose of Novorapid, back to 20 units so, half that 10 units injected: to hold my BS steady while I sleep: nurse thinks that’s why I’m waking up with higher BS on Saturday; it plummeted while I slept & rose again when I woke! I was using too much insulin: still a bit panicky about my BS being too high; nurse says the AB’s will probably make my levels drop suddenly & go easy on the insulin! So, yesterday I dialled everything back to what they were before getting ill: midnight Levemir 20 units, midday Levemir 40 units, breakfast Novorapid 20 units, lunch Novorapid 16 units & dinner Novorapid 12 units. BS was still a bit higher than I’d like in the 11mmol range but, the drop could happen unexpectedly as the AB’s really kick in! I was panicking about having ketones! I could smell the sugar, the ketones, when I went to the bathroom all Thursday & could still smell it on Friday when I woke: kept asking for them to check it in A&E on Friday; only checked my blood when I was leaving! By which stage after my BS had been steadily dropping the whole time there was still 0.1 left: I dread to think what they were on Thursday night?

It took me this long to start posting, will be EVEN longer by the time I’ve finished typing, as right after taking the above reading I went backwards through my meter & put all the appropriate labels on them, as it were: eg. waking, before a meal & after a meal etc; in context as my meal times are still all off the norm! It’s why I’ve always said I don’t like the meal labels as they REALLY don’t make sense when I’m ill & my sleep is off kilter: much prefer 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th meals of the day; a 4th meal on the days I’m awake for longer! That’s supposedly why jet lag is much easier going east than going west: east delaying sleep & a longer day; west a shorter day & much harder to force yourself to sleep at an earlier time!

Anyways, a Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!😉

Just under an hour to go & I can sleep at last after calling the nurse!
 
Kaylz said:
Morning

Had a lovely surprise yesterday afternoon, a woman pressed the buzzer looking for me saying they had a delivery for me so mum let her in, she recognized the voice but couldn’t think who it was, open the door to find a woman that works in sick bay at my old high school (that’s where I got to know her as attended for bad period pains, football injuries etc) she’d seen my post on Facebook and started with “I know you didn’t want anyone to buy you hand cream but” and she handed me a package which contained the round jar of O’Keefe’s working hands cream, what a lovely thing to do! She wouldn’t take anything for it though, she also picked me up some Aldi chocolate the other week (which I did transfer money to her bank for) and offered to pick stuff up at Aldi for me whenever I need anything as she’s there once a week, I almost cried!

BG’s were still all over the place yesterday but I’ve just to keep plodding away doing what I’m doing, wont see any change or improvement if you don’t put the effort in huh, cant be lazy when it comes to looking after and taking care of yourself, at least I can have a rant when I’ve done things right but it hasn’t went that way and not feel like I shouldn’t be

Anyways its a 5.4 for me, sorry if I'm a bit snippy but patience is wearing quite thin atm

Stay safe and have a lovely relaxing day folks, I know that’s what I’m away to try/hoping for!
xx
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That's a really lovely gesture, glad you have got some hand cream. People can be really kind in these times. I hope it cheered you a little - we are all getting there. Take care xx
 
SueEK said:
That's a really lovely gesture, glad you have got some hand cream. People can be really kind in these times. I hope it cheered you a little - we are all getting there. Take care xx
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I've been using hand cream constantly just the ones I have don't seem to be helping at all! I have 2 large splits between my fingers at the moment that are so sore and the back of my hands are so dry and tight it's unbelievable, I am very grateful for qhat she did though, I'd revert to emollient but I find them too greasy for my liking or at least Diprobase was when I was prescribed that for a few years as a teenager xx
 
A 7.9 this morning. Succumbed to a very tasty recipe with Connell I beans, and got the split of insulin wrong, so did a bit of a yo yo.

Looking forward to some rain here @eggyg and having a splash in the puddles (or is that supposed to be for children).
Lovely gesture @Kaylz. I would have cried too.
Good to see the levels up a bit @Michael12420

Have a good day one and all.
 
Kaylz said:
I've been using hand cream constantly just the ones I have don't seem to be helping at all! I have 2 large splits between my fingers at the moment that are so sore and the back of my hands are so dry and tight it's unbelievable, I am very grateful for qhat she did though, I'd revert to emollient but I find them too greasy for my liking or at least Diprobase was when I was prescribed that for a few years as a teenager xx
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Do you happen to have any cotton gloves - I've heard that if you cover your hands in hand cream/emollient and then wear cotton gloves it really helps moisturise and soften them. Mind you if you have splits in your hand they probably need the air to help them heal - oh can't win really. Hope you're ok x
 
Morning all it’s a 5.1 and a lovely sunny morning.

That’s a lovely thing to happen @Kaylz🙂

All this extra walking on crutches is causing me problems - ‘crutch walkers elbows’ is my new complication, my elbows are so painful I’m trying not to move them!😱

I hope you’re all doing ok🙂
 
SueEK said:
Do you happen to have any cotton gloves - I've heard that if you cover your hands in hand cream/emollient and then wear cotton gloves it really helps moisturise and soften them. Mind you if you have splits in your hand they probably need the air to help them heal - oh can't win really. Hope you're ok x
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Yes I've tried that before but prefer when they are open splits to allow fresh air to them, the picture isnt the greatest but this was the other day and they are still as bad
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So a bit on the tender side :( xx
 
6.8 this morning. And to get the weight loss back on track I’m going to do the Newcastle diet.
I’ve bought the shakes etc and I’ve read the book and the original article.
I’m currently 101kgs but I’ll weigh in before I start as first I’m going to eat the perishables in the fridge 🙂
 
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