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Group 7-day waking average?

@eggyg thanks for the heads up on the lift, just watched it, very funny :D
 
SueEK said:
@eggyg thanks for the heads up on the lift, just watched it, very funny :D
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I’m going to have another watch of it. One of my sons -in-law is a Scot and although he’s lived in England for 20 years there’s times I can’t understand him. When my daughter met him she spent the first few dates just nodding her head and not having a clue what he was saying! She’s learnt the lingo now! Oh and BTW I’m half Scots but have never lived in Scotland, my grandparents emigrated a whole 10 miles over the border in the 1930s.
 
6.1 this morning
 
eggyg said:
I’m going to have another watch of it. One of my sons -in-law is a Scot and although he’s lived in England for 20 years there’s times I can’t understand him. When my daughter met him she spent the first few dates just nodding her head and not having a clue what he was saying! She’s learnt the lingo now! Oh and BTW I’m half Scots but have never lived in Scotland, my grandparents emigrated a whole 10 miles over the border in the 1930s.
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Ha! Just watched it! Daughter spent a year in Dundee, and I happened to be visiting when the gas man had to come and repair her boiler. I understood about one word in three, but she couldn’t see the problem because she’d got attuned to it. I then realised he’d actually toned down his accent for us, when he had to call his colleague for advice, and lapsed into Pure Dundonian, well, I could understand bits, most of it seemed to boil down to a lot of words beginning with F!
 
Bazzlejet said:
Good morning all - 6.2 this morning. Had some basmati rice last night, seemed to have very little effect, so think this may be a little treat for me every now and then 😉

@rebrascora that dosent sound great, hope you are back on track soon.

Have a great day everyone 🙂
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Actually I am now 12.9 and rising at the moment so another day of injecting corrections by the look of it! Arghh!! No idea why my levels are being so difficult other than the DF is obviously visiting. New Levemir cartridge yesterday and that hasn't made any difference. Toyed with increasing to 18 daytime units today but after my night of hypos and increased evening Levemir I decided to stick with 17 units this morning. Now I wish I had been braver!

I don't really mind hypos that much in themselves as I don't feel desperately unwell with them but I am all too aware of the dangers and I hate the disrupted sleep and having to eat jelly babies/lift tablets through the night, as that is not good for my teeth.
 
eggyg said:
I’m going to have another watch of it. One of my sons -in-law is a Scot and although he’s lived in England for 20 years there’s times I can’t understand him. When my daughter met him she spent the first few dates just nodding her head and not having a clue what he was saying! She’s learnt the lingo now! Oh and BTW I’m half Scots but have never lived in Scotland, my grandparents emigrated a whole 10 miles over the border in the 1930s.
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My best friends husband was from Glasgow, difficult to understand at the best of times but when he had a drink I couldn’t understand a word and he did like a drink!!!
 
ColinUK said:
I’d say go to the vaccination hub. From what I’ve heard and seen from others they are very well run and very safe.
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Tried to book online at a hub and just got the message saying no appointments available. Try again tomorrow!
 
Kaylz said:
@Veenorthants and @SaraKaya thanks for the biscuit support, as I say I don't have the luxury of adjusting basal on an hourly basis nor the luxury of a basal that I can adjust at the drop of a hat, my basal needs are higher throughout the day presumably because the more the day goes on the more my anxiety and stress levels go up so I manage how I know to and what works! Grrr lol
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I hear you @Kaylz - Tresiba is so much better than Lantus (for me personally), but it’s snail’s pace reaction to a dose adjustment is a right pain. 🙄 And I’m just realising that the right dose for overnight is the wrong dose for during the day, and vice versa. Tresiba should come with a free packet of biscuits!o_O🙂
 
Bloden said:
I hear you @Kaylz - Tresiba is so much better than Lantus (for me personally), but it’s snail’s pace reaction to a dose adjustment is a right pain. 🙄 And I’m just realising that the right dose for overnight is the wrong dose for during the day, and vice versa. Tresiba should come with a free packet of biscuits!o_O🙂
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Highly recommend the flexibility of split dose Levemir even if I am not a good advert for it's use at the moment. I think all basal insulins have benefits and drawbacks and you just have to figure out a best fit for you in your circumstances.
 
rebrascora said:
Highly recommend the flexibility of split dose Levemir even if I am not a good advert for it's use at the moment. I think all basal insulins have benefits and drawbacks and you just have to figure out a best fit for you in your circumstances.
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I’m digging my heels in for a pump. 🙂 If I need to do the maths for a split dose, I might as well go the whole hog n do the maths for a pump. My A1c has been superglued at 8% for the last ten years, so I fit the criteria...just need to get this pandemic out of the way first!😛
 
The latest episode in my continuing saga
BT promised an engineer visit yesterday to re-connect my old copper wire connection. Did he turn up? Did he 'eck!. 😡
But just now an Openreach engineer did appear to check a problem on my non existent fibre broadband which hasn't been installed yet. He took one look at the problem and said basically there is no power connection to the box - the empty white box that they screwed to my wall, beside the current telephone line box, way back in October. I bet he thought he had a right dopey old senile here. You should have seen the look on his face 😳 when he looked inside after I pointed out that it was in fact empty.

Any way as he only knows about fibre he can't do anything to do with the copper side of things. So its back on the phone to BT again.

On the positive side my first vaccination is booked for tomorrow afternoon.:D
 
Loving the Scottish interest here, my wife is from Edinburgh and her mum was from Montrose. When we first met I had trouble understanding the mother a fierce 4'10" lady who took no prisoners! My dad was from Cowie in Stirlingshire and even though I was born a southerner, I had a slight advantange when it came to translation...
My wife's accent has since mellowed but the MIL never lost her's until the day she died!

Blessings Snowwy
 
eggyg said:
That’s very sad. It’s almost nesting time, where are the birds supposed to go to? Mr Eggy isn’t allowed to touch our hedges and trees until well into the autumn when I’m 100% certain there’s no babies there, and even then it’s a tidy up, no flailing allowed.
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I know that 'hedge trimming' is not allowed until 1st July because of nesting birds but I don't know what date 'it starts' so to speak.
 
Snowwy said:
Loving the Scottish interest here, my wife is from Edinburgh and her mum was from Montrose.
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o_O Montrose is the next town to me, 9 miles along the road! xx
 
Bloden said:
I hear you @Kaylz - Tresiba is so much better than Lantus (for me personally), but it’s snail’s pace reaction to a dose adjustment is a right pain. 🙄 And I’m just realising that the right dose for overnight is the wrong dose for during the day, and vice versa. Tresiba should come with a free packet of biscuits!o_O🙂
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it should as costing me a fortune! Snaffling my way through a pack of digestives a week although I'm not complaining as Lidl's ones are really good lol, see I was thinking the same as you in turning to a pump but I'd only be interested in the Omnipod and not sure that's an option in my area xx
 
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