Group 7-day waking average?

Leadinglights said:
When people get older it is no joke and you have to fight every step of the way. My other half Mum is 98, no sight, no hearing, has been bed ridden since last Aug when she broke her hip, has a catheter, continuous UTIs, no quality of life. She is being looked after by her daughter who has mobility issues herself and carers 4 times a day. They can't get her into a nursing home as the wait is months and the doctor recommended a place for palliative care but there is a months wait. They now have support from something the GPs have set up which is called Hospital at Home where they can call and get help within an hour.
It is a horrible and sad situation. I do feel for you all in similar situations.
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Have you tried trying a “continuing care package” for her?

You need to use those exact words.
 
I forgot to mention I uploaded my Libre data to LibreView yesterday and I'm quite pleased with the numbers, also the report shows I'm following a strict keto diet and I wasn't aware!

Truth is I usually log in when I eat but don't bother adding the carb count, except for little snacks that are meant to raise my BG and I want to see the effect. So I have a ton of meals with unspecified amount of carbs and a few 10g, 20g...and when the report calculates the average it says I'm having 17g of carbs per day. Don't be fooled, I'm not even low carb, aim for moderate and it works ok for me. Just too lazy to log the carbs in the reader! :D
 
Oops, forgot to hit the "post" option earlier! 🙄

Very happy with a 5.1 this morning and back down to no evening Levemir last night.

@Snowwy Lovely to hear from you but sorry to read that you have been battling other serious health issues. Hope you are winning that battle. Have a great time at Butlins and don't be a stranger here! Happy Easter!

@MeeTooTeeTwo If you are eating chocolate tonight I fully expect a HS from you tomorrow, especially if it is Lindt. 😉

@ColinUK You made me cry this morning! It was very touching though! It is not an easy situation. I moved next door to my parents. Dad and I spend 15 years renovating their outbuildings into a home for me in our spare time ( I was known as Petrocelli at work 🙄) , but that had it's own challenges, living so close to them. I was however able to be with them both when they died and whilst that was incredibly tough, it is some comfort that they managed to remain in the family home until the end, as going into a care home was something they both really feared.

I had an unwelcome house guest today but it wasn't a rodent and it did me a bit of a favour I suppose as it swept the chimney for me.... It was a jackdaw. They always try to nest in the chimney pot, but it is a 10" straight flue so I sometimes end up with a visitor at this time of year.... until they realize that it isn't a good choice of nest site. Thankfully I had the draught excluder in place just above the fire place (a thick disk of felt with a heart shaped ornament hanging below which reminds me to remove it before I light the fire) and the full surround fireguard. I knew it was there earlier this morning but didn't have time to try to extract it, so just managed to remove it at lunchtime when I got back. Hopefully it will have learned it's lesson. I hate the things as they do so much damage to the buildings, pulling masonry out as well as breaking and eating my hens eggs and wild birds eggs as well of course and it was tempting to wring it's neck and be rid of at least one of them, but I couldn't do it in cold blood when it was trapped and helpless. Just pleased it was contained within the fireplace as I would have had a right carry on catching it in the house and I don't want to think about the mess of sooty wings and poop that it could have made before I managed to evict it.
 
Pattidevans said:
Ah mice - we got them in our shed. They ate the linings of Julian's expensive walking boots and the neoprene off the arms of the director's chairs in there plus a load of other stuff. He promptly sealed off the door so they couldn't get in, but they were already in and the poor things expired there. Took ages to get rid of the smell.
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They love our sheds because it’s where I store the bird food. They chewed cushions that were on the rattan suite and then made nests with their spoils under the seat pads. They chew through plastic buckets and through the walls. We’re forever sealing them up but we have fields just metres away and we’ll never be able to stop them. We just try and find a way to live together.
 
rebrascora said:
Oops, forgot to hit the "post" option earlier! 🙄

Very happy with a 5.1 this morning and back down to no evening Levemir last night.

@Snowwy Lovely to hear from you but sorry to read that you have been battling other serious health issues. Hope you are winning that battle. Have a great time at Butlins and don't be a stranger here! Happy Easter!

@MeeTooTeeTwo If you are eating chocolate tonight I fully expect a HS from you tomorrow, especially if it is Lindt. 😉

@ColinUK You made me cry this morning! It was very touching though! It is not an easy situation. I moved next door to my parents. Dad and I spend 15 years renovating their outbuildings into a home for me in our spare time ( I was known as Petrocelli at work 🙄) , but that had it's own challenges, living so close to them. I was however able to be with them both when they died and whilst that was incredibly tough, it is some comfort that they managed to remain in the family home until the end, as going into a care home was something they both really feared.

I had an unwelcome house guest today but it wasn't a rodent and it did me a bit of a favour I suppose as it swept the chimney for me.... It was a jackdaw. They always try to nest in the chimney pot, but it is a 10" straight flue so I sometimes end up with a visitor at this time of year.... until they realize that it isn't a good choice of nest site. Thankfully I had the draught excluder in place just above the fire place (a thick disk of felt with a heart shaped ornament hanging below which reminds me to remove it before I light the fire) and the full surround fireguard. I knew it was there earlier this morning but didn't have time to try to extract it, so just managed to remove it at lunchtime when I got back. Hopefully it will have learned it's lesson. I hate the things as they do so much damage to the buildings, pulling masonry out as well as breaking and eating my hens eggs and wild birds eggs as well of course and it was tempting to wring it's neck and be rid of at least one of them, but I couldn't do it in cold blood when it was trapped and helpless. Just pleased it was contained within the fireplace as I would have had a right carry on catching it in the house and I don't want to think about the mess of sooty wings and poop that it could have made before I managed to evict it.
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Oh don’t talk to me about jackdaws and chimney pots. I honestly couldn’t count the number of times we’ve had jackdaws down the chimney. If we’re in when we hear them I usually grab a towel and catch it and release it. But on the occasions we’ve been out we’ve come back to broken ornaments, pictures hanging off the walls. Blood on the windows and bird poop everywhere. If we’ve left the dining room door open they’ve even been up stairs and one got behind a big heavy oak wardrobe. We had to remove everything including drawers to pull it out and try and catch the damn thing. The wall behind was dripping with blood where it had been trying to escape. The door is always closed now and Mr Eggy had fashioned a screen for the fireplace. My house is sounding more and more like a wildlife sanctuary! :rofl:
 
TinaD said:
I am very sorry to hear that. If he has dementia I assume he counts as non compos mentis. In which case why are social services not listening to her and not him? It might be worth asking them.
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I have asked, several times. They say that he still has the ability to say no, despite him not being able to care for himself. Its all very frustrating. I've spoken to so many people about it and asked everywhere for help but got nowhere. We just have to do what we can to help in between working.
 
eggyg said:
They love our sheds because it’s where I store the bird food. They chewed cushions that were on the rattan suite and then made nests with their spoils under the seat pads. They chew through plastic buckets and through the walls. We’re forever sealing them up but we have fields just metres away and we’ll never be able to stop them. We just try and find a way to live together.
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My friend's parents had a big bag of peanuts for the birds in their shed and they suddenly disappeared, but when they got out the cushions for the outside seating they were full of peanuts, they suspected squirrels had transferred them to a 'safe' place.
 
freesia said:
I have asked, several times. They say that he still has the ability to say no, despite him not being able to care for himself. Its all very frustrating. I've spoken to so many people about it and asked everywhere for help but got nowhere. We just have to do what we can to help in between working.
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It felt premature at the time ( and a tad morbid) but we did our POAs about three years ago. Medical and financial, we did it through á solicitor so was quite pricy, I believe you can do it yourself for a lot cheaper, but we used the same solicitors who did our wills and it just seemed right they were looking after them both. It’s probably too late for your mum to get one for her husband if he has been diagnosed with dementia, you have to be of sound mind, but it’s food for thought for anyone, especially if you already have medical issues that it’s never too early.
 
Good day all. Lovely and sunny here. 7.2 this morning. 🙂

Re the cost of taxis, if you don't use your oap bus pass you can swap it for one for taxis. I was going to do that for Mum back in the day.
 
Talking of wildlife. I meant to say this morning that we had two unusual visitors to our garden yesterday. Red legged partridge. Never ever seen them before in the wild never mind our garden. Unfortunately, they didn’t come back today. Lovely looking birds.
 

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freesia said:
I have asked, several times. They say that he still has the ability to say no, despite him not being able to care for himself. Its all very frustrating. I've spoken to so many people about it and asked everywhere for help but got nowhere. We just have to do what we can to help in between working.
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I am truly sorry for you and your Mum. The ability to say "No" does not necessarily indicate that the question has been understood and thought about. Isn't here somebody on here with the necessary expertise to advise on how to get Social Services decision reconsidered or advise how to get an appropriate assessment? Not my field (environmental, land and planning law) but it sounds as though you need somebody to advocate on your Mum's behalf. What about Age UK? They claim to have specialist advisers and dementia care is one of their main interests judging by their website.
 
TinaD said:
I am very sorry to hear that. If he has dementia I assume he counts as non compos mentis. In which case why are social services not listening to her and not him? It might be worth asking them.
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Capacity is much more complicated nowadays and can't be considered on an overall basis, you have to consider which decisions someone is competent to make
 
5.4 for me today. I was going to put my oldest's VR equipment up but can't find where I've put my drill.... So doing some sorting in the hope it will emerge...
 
@eggyg Elaine you made me laugh my cuppa right out of my nose with your chimney full of jackdaws! Ooh matron!!
 
@rebrascora Petrocelli takes me back! He was good but no Rockford. Now he was a Man.
 
MichelleF78 said:
What I wouldn’t give for a flat line at night guys like most of you and wake up at lower levels than I do! And I could dream of eating breakfast straight away :(
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Time, patience and experience will get you there. I used to feel just the same a few years ago, but Rome was not built in a day as they say! Add to that, the honeymoon period and the odds are stacked against you at the moment so you need to downgrade your expectation.
Of course I still need to wait 45 mins for breakfast but have just come to accept that is my new normal and found a routine to make it work. Reminding myself that it is better than the 75 mins I had to wait with NR, helps. 🙄

I do wonder if having Libre so early after diagnosis feeds this dissatisfaction with your results. Those of us who started on finger pricks never knew if we had straight lines overnight or not and getting an in range waking reading was something to celebrate.... ie a reading between 5 and 7..... not that I achieved that very often.
 
We've just come out of the theatre. What a show! We went to see The Commitments. So good. I can't begin to do a review anything like @ColinUK ,s CCC but suffice to say we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
 
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