Group 7-day waking average?

Gwynn said:
but I did become an airborne Avionics test engineer, before much later on, becoming an internal auditor
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That’s an unusual change of career. A lot of kids wanted to be astronauts in the 60’s. It was an exciting time. One of my best friends at primary school was brilliant - 10 ones at ‘O’ level, 4 A‘s at ‘A’ level and a PhD in physics at Imperial College. We were all told he was going to be an astronaut and believed he would. He finished up as a patent attorney in New Jersey. He was happier and way more content with the lower levels of stress.
 
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Yes, a big change of career, but it was after I had had an op for a brain tumour. I was grateful for the new opportunity and enjoyed being an internal auditor. It put me into an authoratitive position where I could make a real positive impact and improve 'the product', testing, production, and most importantly, peoples lives.

Just to expand a little, here in the UK an internal auditor is a technical position not a financial one. So I was still deeply involved in all the technical aspects. But now I was also involved with legal aspects and process aspects too. And I had access to pretty much anyone in the company (to a certain level)

Great fun, but a very responsible position.

Now, I am retired and, a little bored, if I am honest, but the challenge of helping my wife with her own problems keeps me going. And a challenge it can be.
 
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Morning all. 7.1 on this beautiful morning, which I am surprised at as it’s our middle daughter’s birthday today and she doesn’t usually get a nice day, rain is usually the order of the day. She’s at work until 2 and she’s coming up to ours to pick up her daughter ( who is currently fast asleep upstairs) her nieces and nephew are also asleep. Her two sisters are coming over too. We’re going to have a late lunch in the garden and exchange presents. It will feel almost normal.

Having a bit of peace before they all get up. Then we’re going to make a birthday cake, nothing elaborate, just a Victoria sponge, can’t go wrong with that. Anyhoo, she’s “only” 34! Nothing special. 😉

Have a fab Friday. 🙂
 
@Grannylorraine congrats on your HS yesterday x
@Lanny i hope as you say that you are over the worst of it and feel better today x
@Gwynn sounds like you have had a good career, don’t think many people actually end up doing what they wanted to as a youngster. I wanted to be a choreographer or a PE/RE teacher, well that didn’t happen. I worked as a secretary before I had the children, then worked in a toy shop for 20 years whilst they were growing up and went back to secretarial after that. I suppose it has been interesting in its own way, I worked for a cartographer, scientific patent agents, finance, legal (litigation) and now medical so certainly a few different areas. I don’t look back and feel I could have done better, my children were always our first priority and my job definitely came a long way behind 🙂
7.3 for me today. DN was supposed to ring re my review yesterday but she didn’t? Raining today which is a shame but grass looking lovely and green. Sainsbury’s shop today and then housework I suppose, nothing exciting planned but that’s ok too. May get on the treadmill at some point as it is gathering dust in the corner of my lounge.
Have a good day all x
 
5.6 for me today. 🙂
Where's the sun?

Dez
 
4.3 Strapped those spiked shoe plates to my wellies last night and spent an hour aerating the lawn looked daft and fell over a few times when my foot got stuck in lawn but they worked so glad of rain this morning.
 
Maca44 said:
4.3 Strapped those spiked shoe plates to my wellies last night and spent an hour aerating the lawn looked daft and fell over a few times when my foot got stuck in lawn but they worked so glad of rain this morning.
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Haha would like to have seen a video of that 🙂
 
Morning all, 5.9 here, managed to avoid the red overnight after reducing basal by another half. I’m now on my full summer dose of 6 units of Levemir in total (split 4 and 2) instead of 8 (5 and 3) but normally have to go up again when my body adapts to the hotter weather, and all the gardening (or the weather breaks!)
 
Martin.A said:
Bit grey and overcast here in Swanage at the moment but forecast is for it to be sunny this afternoon. Planning a walk along the coast to Durlston this morning and maybe take the steam train to Corfe Castle after lunch.

We're in a very nice B&B just off the sea front, a 15-minute walk along the promenade into town. Had a lovely meal at a bistro yesterday evening. Didn't bother with post-prandial testing and I'm also taking a break from logging everything in my food diary for the time we're here.

Back at 5.7 this morning.
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Hope you have a lovely few days x
 
7.8 for me this morning but I had a bit of a midnight feast so consider that a pretty good reading all things considered. Didn't get finished and into the house until 10.30pm and hadn't had anything since noon other than the odd JB to treat hypos and I was low again, so had some pea and ham soup and then jabbed myself 2.5 units of Fiasp to cover it and some ratatouille. Then really fancied a dessert and in the back of the cupboard I found an extremely out of date individual Xmas pud so I nuked that in the microwave, shot myself 5 units (educated guess as the writing was faded), poured over some rum and then cream and wolfed it off. Yum! Very risky going to bed with 7.5 units of active insulin on board but I was fading fast. Set an alarm for an hour (1am) and woke up just into the red, so had just one lift tablet as I was pretty sure there were plenty of carbs to come and went back to sleep and Libre shows a nice steady increase to my waking reading from there.
It was really foolhardy I know but I did enjoy it and I was feeling quite "hangry" last night after a long day and low BG and just needed a splurge. Back on track today and a nice 6.6 now after breakfast.
 
Good Morning All
Friday has come round yet again so the weekend is nearly upon us.
5.7 this morning at 08:00 which slightly confused as at 00:00 I’d been 5.6 and no food but two black coffees ( with no sugar or sweetener). Thought it would have dropped, but there again I’ll watch it, analyse the results, think about it then like most scientists throw hands in air and say, ****** ******.
I got the book from JDRF, “Straight to the point”, yesterday. Read half of it so far. Very informative for newbies, but what goes through the heart of it is, Moderation in everything we do.
I’ll just add,
Moderation in everything including Moderation.
have a great day.
 
Good morning everyone 🙂

6:27am - 13.3 for me this morning after having a chinese takeaway prawn fried rice last night - 3 units humalog correction and 19 units of Tresiba
23:46pm - 14.7 - bedtime - after chinese takeaway
21:45pm - 15.8 a short while after eating chinese takeaway - also had a yoghurt at this point 24g of carbs - 2 units of humalog for yoghurt and 5 units correction
 
DuncanLord said:
Very informative for newbies, but what goes through the heart of it is, Moderation in everything we do.
I’ll just add,
Moderation in everything including Moderation.
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True story.
 
A double nickel 5.5 for me at 05:07 this morning. It's currently raining here in West Berks which wasn't forecast. Meant to be sunny tomorrow so planning to fire up the barbie.
 
@mum2westiesGill
Are you just taking your Humalog after your meal which I am assuming is the "correction" you mention.... so in effect, only 5 units for your Chinese meal and 2 for your yoghurt? How long after the meal did you test and jnject? If this is what you are doing then you are almost always going to be under dosing because the carbs from the Chinese will continue to release after this, so your correction is only going to treat the carbs which have broken down at that point and Chinese can be quite slow to hit the blood stream. I would have expected a normal Chinese with rice to be nearer 100g carbs.
Did you test before your evening meal and was there any correction required then (ie. were you above range before you started eating the takeaway?) as that would also need to be taken into consideration when injecting your Humalog unless you wait 4-5 hours before injecting so that all the carbs have hit your blood stream and then during that time your BG levels could be up into the 20s and then come rattling back down when you inject your Humalog. None of which is good for your system. It looks like your levels have been in the teens all night as a result of this dosing tactic which is also not good and you are going to bed with active insulin in your system, albeit not enough, but still possibly a risk. I would rethink this strategy of injecting after your meal unless you inject some (maybe half) before you eat and then the rest an hour or so afterwards.
 
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@mum2westiesGill
Are you just taking your Humalog after your meal which I am assuming is the "correction" you mention.... so in effect, only 5 units for your Chinese meal and 2 for your yoghurt? How long after the meal did you test and jnject? If this is what you are doing then you are almost always going to be under dosing because the carbs from the Chinese will continue to release after this, so your correction is only going to treat the carbs which have broken down at that point and Chinese can be quite slow to hit the blood stream. I would have expected a normal Chinese with rice to be nearer 100g carbs.
Did you test before your evening meal and was there any correction required then (ie. were you above range before you started eating the takeaway?) as that would also need to be taken into consideration when injecting your Humalog unless you wait 4-5 hours before injecting so that all the carbs have hit your blood stream and then during that time your BG levels could be up into the 20s and then come rattling back down when you inject your Humalog. None of which is good for your system. It looks like your levels have been in the teens all night as a result of this dosing tactic which is also not good and you are going to bed with active insulin in your system, albeit not enough, but still possibly a risk. I would rethink this strategy of injecting after your meal unless you inject some (maybe half) before you eat and then the rest an hour or so afterwards.
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Hi, yes I took the humalog after my meal. I tested and injected a couple of hours after my meal. I tested before my meal and bg was 4.7 so no correction needed then.
Maybe my next chinese meal I will test and inject maybe 3 or 4 units then test again an hour after I've finished eating and inject the rest. If you say it's 100g of carbs on my 1:10 ratio that would be 10.0 units
 
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