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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all, lovely day... blue sky and fluffy clouds. Could change of course and probably will!

Disappointed to see 8.9 this morning. It went up overnight from 4.4 at bedtime, but I did have 2 x JBs. It seems a lot for 2 x JBs but I suppose it could be late absorption of a late dinner (9pm) which was a bit oily Chipolatas with mediterranean roast veggies cooked in oil and then liberally sprinkled with a balsamic glaze. The oil and the glaze make a nice sauce. Usually I melt goat's cheese on top, but had none in last night. Got a fridge full of French cheese we brought back from holiday, but nothing suitable... reminder to self, cut up cheeses and freeze before they stink the house out!

I find it interesting to read other people's total daily doses, they vary so much. My TDD yesterday was 17.4 which is fairly normal. Of course pumps use only a rapid acting insulin, in my case Apidra. 9.6u basal and yesterday's boluses were 2,8u for lunch, home made butternut squash soup and 2 slices of artisan bread and 4.95u for dinner - the sausages/veg and a fruit platter. Of course it doesn't actually matter, you need what you need.

@TinaD sorry to ask, but where have the lady Ukranians and the children gone? I must have missed that!

@MeeTooTeeTwo 5.2 AGAIN! OMG.... I do envy you!

@eggyg I thought of your bird pictures when we were on a river trip in Bergerac, the guide pointed out a heron (?) and wittered on about how they were becoming extinct on the river., so it was unusual to see one. Everyone on the boat excitedly took a photos of it. On the return he told us it was actually plastic!



Good luck to everyone who is struggling.
 

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Morning all, lovely day... blue sky and fluffy clouds. Could change of course and probably will!

Disappointed to see 8.9 this morning. It went up overnight from 4.4 at bedtime, but I did have 2 x JBs. It seems a lot for 2 x JBs but I suppose it could be late absorption of a late dinner (9pm) which was a bit oily Chipolatas with mediterranean roast veggies cooked in oil and then liberally sprinkled with a balsamic glaze. The oil and the glaze make a nice sauce. Usually I melt goat's cheese on top, but had none in last night. Got a fridge full of French cheese we brought back from holiday, but nothing suitable... reminder to self, cut up cheeses and freeze before they stink the house out!

I find it interesting to read other people's total daily doses, they vary so much. My TDD yesterday was 17.4 which is fairly normal. Of course pumps use only a rapid acting insulin, in my case Apidra. 9.6u basal and yesterday's boluses were 2,8u for lunch, home made butternut squash soup and 2 slices of artisan bread and 4.95u for dinner - the sausages/veg and a fruit platter. Of course it doesn't actually matter, you need what you need.

@TinaD sorry to ask, but where have the lady Ukranians and the children gone? I must have missed that!

@MeeTooTeeTwo 5.2 AGAIN! OMG.... I do envy you!

@eggyg I thought of your bird pictures when we were on a river trip in Bergerac, the guide pointed out a heron (?) and wittered on about how they were becoming extinct on the river., so it was unusual to see one. Everyone on the boat excitedly took a photos of it. On the return he told us it was actually plastic!



Good luck to everyone who is struggling.
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Supposedly nipped back to Ukraine (Ternopil) to update biometric passports. Told UC they would be 3.5 weeks - now 6 weeks. I didn't believe them at the time altho' I said nothing (as had no evidence). Suspected they were looking to see if they could get a better deal in Poland or back home if they left Taras in his good job here but didn't want to burn bridges. Taras seems quite happy but the truancy officer, the oncology department, Anna's employer and the Council are spitting feathers! The Red Cross are being asked to email Taras in Ukrainian to try to ascertain what is going on. He should get the message as he comes over in the evening and logs on his laptop via my wifi link.
 
good afternoon everyone, 4.5 this morning at 5.30am, busy day, appointment with diabetes lead nurse for results of my HbA1c first since my diagnosis on 30th May, then laundry while sun is out, 4 full loads later last lot is on line!
HbA1c now 44 a little disappointed as mysugr app was estimating HbA1c of 34, but thinking about it I didn't start using the app until July.
Added bonus Cholesterol down from 8.3 to 5.7 and risk of stroke heart attack down from 50% to 33% still refused statins will wait to see what it is 3 months.
Hope everyone's having a good day
 
Good afternoon! 7'7 today and no, I didn't get up just now, I forgot to post earlier 😉

I'm going out of town to visit my friend. There is a rail strike so I will be taking the bus this time. At least it will give me time to reflect in some stuff, I was meant to do that yesterday but couldn't focus.
 
G'day all. Badly this morning so haven't measured. Extremely blustery. 🙂 Have a good day.
 
Wannie said:
good afternoon everyone, 4.5 this morning at 5.30am, busy day, appointment with diabetes lead nurse for results of my HbA1c first since my diagnosis on 30th May, then laundry while sun is out, 4 full loads later last lot is on line!
HbA1c now 44 a little disappointed as mysugr app was estimating HbA1c of 34, but thinking about it I didn't start using the app until July.
Added bonus Cholesterol down from 8.3 to 5.7 and risk of stroke heart attack down from 50% to 33% still refused statins will wait to see what it is 3 months.
Hope everyone's having a good day
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44 is not too shabby at all!

@TinaD thank you for the update. Gosh after all the effort you have put in on their behalf you must be rather disappointed in them. I would be feeling rather hurt.
 
I did Wordle for the first time in a while yesterday and took 4. I think 4 again today, but I forgot to click the share button so can't check.

BG this morning was 6.1. Had a very busy day at work and got to do lots of paperwork this evening, but will make some tea first! I'll get paid extra for the extra time so that's something at least
 
03:04 BS 8.0 It’s consistent, at least! 🙂

A Very Early Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

Forgot to post this earlier as I had breakfast while watching ITT & this week’s Rupaul’s Drag Race UK on iPlayer.

Things have improved a slight bit so, going to the bathroom is a bit less time to recover as I don’t go quite so high in panting & heart rate! 🙄:D The extra puffs, now every 8 instead of 12 hours, is doing its thing & turned the heater down a degree from 19 to 18 C as I don’t feel so cold now with the very quick cycle gone now: it was sudden & fast this time; just one big lot, possibly due to coughing, at the start & that was it!:confused: Slept bit less & awake a bit more! Things are moving along & improving slowly!🙂
 
Good morning everyone

BG 5.1 big tease
BP 111/69
Pulse 70

All good.

My diet has changed as I ensure that I get the Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio closer to 1:2 (as recommended). Today it is an excellent 1:1.8 (I can only do this as I changed my App to include O3 and O6 analysis - but I did forget to include O9)

Today exercise (even in the very windy weather), keyboard practice, repair of my rather large 4ft Saturn V rocket (that got broken by a certain person dusting things and knocking it off its plinth), cooking mince and marrow for tea.

Have a great day today whatever you are doing 🙂

Here's a picture of the broken space vehicle. Sigh.

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Good morning 5.9 today
 
Bom dia folks. Not 100% sure what my number is as my Libre is playing silly beggars. At 5.30 the alarm went off and it said I was 3 going down, I wasn’t, I was 5.7, but I’ve not been back to sleep since! 😡 Read for a while then got up, Libre 5.6 but I’ll go with 6.4 which is what my meter told me.
Knocked my Libre off with my rucksack strap yesterday, luckily there was only seven hours left on it. Put a new one on as soon as we got back from our walk. About 11.30am. It perfectly tallied with my meter, I was happy. Then it just did it’s own thing for the rest of the day. Said I was high, I wasn’t, said I was low, I wasn’t. None of these show on the graph and consequently I emerged this morning with a unicorn! Fingers crossed it behaves itself today. I do have a spare one just in case.

Today holds much the same as yesterday, an early walk, which was lovely, through the lovely cobbled streets of old Albufeira and back along the beach. Just over five miles. Then back for lunch on the balcony and a lie around the pool. The only difference is we’re going out for a meal tonight. Hoping my stomach will be ok, after two days of being “ normal” I had a blip last night and funnily enough we had salad again which had set me off the other night. Hmmm…..? :confused: Extra, extra Creon tonight I think. Fingers crossed as well as the Libre behaving itself so does my dodgy gastric system.:(

Have a good one all. I’ll leave you with today’s funny pic. I was trying to be all arty and photograph Mr Eggy wandering barefoot on the beach, I have to take off my prescription sunglasses before I can use my camera and quite often just point and shoot. When I got back and downloaded my camera onto my phone I realised we had a “ photo bomber”! :rofl: I could crop her out but I thought it was hilarious.
 

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Morning all, 5.8 here. I suddenly started feeling much better yesterday afternoon, and took a punt that my insulin needs would probably suddenly reduce. So I put last night's basal back down and produced a figure in the 5s this morning.
 
Morning all 9.8
Not sure if it was the no bolus mini snack attack last night (should know better) or dawn showing up. No graph, no clue.

Kiddo got her disabled bus pass in yesterday with her +1 companion on it which is free bus travel Scotland wide and hefty rail discounts for us both. Can see her dragging me out somewhere today to try it out if she gets out of bed at a reasonable time :rofl:

Hope you all have a great day x
 
Shalom folks!

Bloods drawn with zero fuss yesterday by the brilliant practice nurse who never seems to have issues getting the red stuff from my arm. Over the years, many have had real issues and I often end up black and blue in both arms with them finally putting a butterfly cannula in the back of my hand.

6.8 this morning.

And the bloods are for repeat liver function tests not kidney. Looking back at my medical record and it seems that for the last ten years at least my liver test results have been way above the reference level. I’m going to wait for the results and insist on further investigation of what’s going on. It’s probably nothing but it would be good to have it checked out I think. As long as I ask the right doctor it won’t be an issue getting the referral.
 
Morning everyone, 5.2 this morning. No rain as yet but sky is grey again. Hope everyone is feeling better today
 
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