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Good morning all! Pleased to say I’m joining @eggyg in the Lakes this morning (in spirit) with a 5.2!

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Love the picture @eggyg - really brilliant! Congratulations on your meeting anniversary too!

@Grannylorraine - sorry to hear about your anxiety and stress from work.

Haircut today and that’s about it apart from regular household chores. At the risk of upsetting some folk, we wrapped all the Christmas presents last night, just a hamper to make up for my parents and that’s about it!

Have a good day everyone!
 
5.8 for me on a grey, mild but thoroughly wet Berkshire morning. I think it rained all night.

A couple of contrasting news stories about our town. Yesterday it appeared in a list of the 20 happiest places to live in Britain, in 10th place. Today it's been exposed as an unlikely hotspot for the world's dirty cash following an international police operation....! Amazing what goes on out of sight of your everyday life.

Congrats @eggyg and @Eternal422 on today's HSs.

Swim later, as usual on a Thursday, but otherwise nothing planned bar household chores and grocery shopping.

Have a good day, everyone.
 
Good morning. 6.6

Congratulations @eggyg 50 years, HS, photograph - good work all round!

@MikeyBikey I am spitting feathers on your behalf. Transport management appears to need a kick op the fundament.

Grey, miserable but at least above the mist line. Me and the weather.

Sent a brisk (i.e nearly rude) e-mail to my solicitor yesterday evening. If she doesn't pull her finger out I can see me whipping up the M4 like a demented yo-yo when I should be looking after the grandkids. Break the chain, woman. Get the sale sorted out. If my purchase falls through everything will be in storage, Peachy will be at livery and Mr Wolf will be with me. Lots of stuff will come on the market in the spring...I'm not quite sure how many times I can tell the wretched woman. AARGH!

Wishing everyone a stress free day.
 
Morning all. 4.8 after an overnight correction. I'm having a morning to myself this morning for a change, then meeting a friend for a coffee this afternoon. I've just had a text asking me to book my blood test so i'll get onto that.

@eggyg congratulations on your happy 50th meeting anniversary, your HS and your fabulous photo. What a trio of lovliness! Enjoy your meal tonight and go on, have a dance to the Osmonds. Ah that takes me back....

@Robin congrats on the great result.

@goodybags fingers crossed it is watertight. Heavy rain and high winds are forecast!

@Grannylorraine big hugs to you. Its horrible feeling like that at work. On a happier note, i'm looking forward to seeing your Nutcracker crochet along! I taught myself to crochet during lockdown and have lots of things to do. I love blankets though, just the repetitiveness of thd rows and the weight of the blanket as it grows is relaxing. Take care of yourself.

@Eternal422 congrats on your HS

@MikeyBikey I hope they sort out the Patient Transport. The service you get is just shocking!

@TinaD lets hope your email has done the trick and the sale goes through quickly.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Good morning. 7'1.

The advent calendar tea of the day was liquorice, and every day also has a little motivational line behind the door. Today's was "be kind to yourself". I should do that, as for some reason last night I went to bed feeling down and beating myself up for not being better at socialising. Guess I felt a bit off in my weekly meeting earlier that day. Then I slept poorly and had some uncomfortable dreams, so I didn't wake up in the best of moods.

This is my 4th day of Metformin and to be honest is hard to tell if it's helping much. I've tried to keep my diet similar to limit the variables in the "experiment", but I've avoided bigger carb excesses...even when my regular cafe has rudely introduced waffles to their menu :D I do struggle to cut down sweet treats in general though. Sometimes I feel I want them more now than when I wasn't diabetic, but it may just be that now I'm more aware of anything I eat. I'm not that happy with that, I don't want to fall in the hole of food guilt.
 
Good morning. It was a 4.4 for me earlier on this damp day.
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@khskel - hope the AAA scan goes well. The one good thing is they tell you there and then rather than having to wait for a letter (still waiting for mine to reach my GP after 2 weeks.
 
Morning all - another grey, damp one!

6.3 (for all of 5 minutes) first thing.

Not doing anything much today, but hope to buckle down and get Christmas cards sorted out! A task I really do not like. It was OK when I had a MS Office database, it was sorted, labels printed and cybercards identified in a few minutes. but I lost the database when I transferred from a PC to my laptop and didn't have a means of putting MS Office on it without paying again.

Can I just repeat to everyone what @freesia has said in her message above, she is so spot on with it all!

Have a happy day everyone!
 
Pam123 said:
She said it was because of my age, ive been diabetic just over a year, to begin with my A1c was 87, they were going to test for type 1 but didn't bother, I am on insulin just Basel, and ive controlled my diet with low carb diet I do have the odd hypo but with the help of the Libre, my TIR is over the last 3 months between 94 to 97 I don't like being told because I am older I feel fine and don't intend changing what's working for me, despite the DN suggesting I might be able to come off insulin I don't want to, it works for me,
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The NHS love their labels. In my area they seem to regard you as old when you hit 50. I have lost count of how many times I have been asked name, where are you, what's the day of the week, count backwards, etc. On one occasion they asked me to count backwards in steps of -3 as they could not keep up with me so I switched to hexadecimal and they stormed off. I also hate the recent label of "severe frailty" as do others at my amputee group. My other label is "ex-smoker (long term)" which is quite vague. I should have said "never smoked" when I was asked years ago as I gave up over 49 years ago. As my cardiologist said it is so long ago it is irrelevant! But the NHS live their labels but I label some of their staff usually the underperforming ones! :rofl:
 
MikeyBikey said:
My other label is "ex-smoker (long term)" which is quite vague. I should have said "never smoked" when I was asked years ago as I gave up over 49 years ago.
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Likewise - I quit in 1971, one of the few New Year's Resolutions that I've actually kept.
 
MikeyBikey said:
The NHS love their labels. In my area they seem to regard you as old when you hit 50. I have lost count of how many times I have been asked name, where are you, what's the day of the week, count backwards, etc. On one occasion they asked me to count backwards in steps of -3 as they could not keep up with me so I switched to hexadecimal and they stormed off. I also hate the recent label of "severe frailty" as do others at my amputee group. My other label is "ex-smoker (long term)" which is quite vague. I should have said "never smoked" when I was asked years ago as I gave up over 49 years ago. As my cardiologist said it is so long ago it is irrelevant! But the NHS live their labels but I label some of their staff usually the underperforming ones! :rofl:
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I really hate the NHS sorry for the strong words, but they killed my mum through neglect, she has bed sores down to the bone and in the end sepsis, her original reason for being admitted to hospital was a bowel obstruction, over the course of three weeks she was treated terribly, my dad sued the NHS and won, not that that is anything to do with my issues with them, but I wanted to express why I feel so strongly, I won't go to the GPs unless I have to,I only trust 2 of the doctors, the DN is a complete idiot who know nothing, as you say they label people and its just not right, everyone is different regardless of age, my gran dies at the age of 102 never went to the doctors but had a fall 2 months before she died and broke her hip, again different hospital she was treated like a piece of meat and frankly lost the will to live.
I don't intend changing anything regarding my diabetes.
 
Eternal422 said:
I agree with you, if insulin works well for you then you should stay on it. At our health centre they refer any questions about insulin regimes to the local hospital diabetes team as they admit they’re not experts in that area. Maybe it’s worth asking for a referral and get some help in backing you up to stay on insulin? If you’re not having loads of hypos then I would say it looks to be a brilliant result getting 39!
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Thanks ive already told them I won't to take oral meds, she said well its just a suggestion, it was the hospital who put me on insulin, they only made one phone call appointment and then discharged me to the DN at our doctors both the lead DN nursed her assistant on my first suggested Metformin as well as insulin, I refused, I read about the side effects, as I have IBS and and take thyroxine, instead I came here to the forum and learned more how to manage
the condition much better, the doctor who I saw last December who is the diabetic lead, said I was doing really well, I only went to him because I wanted to see if he would prescribe me with the Libre 2 after I had the free trial, at the time my A1c was 57 from 87, and 87 time in range, he said carry one what your doing.
 
4.8 this morning hubby had almost finished our home improvements until I pointed out the new radiator in our bedroom looks odd, on inspection he has put the brackets on wrong, its one of those designer ones in grey, I just fancied a change and in his haste he has put the Botton brackets on the top so that's another job to do the loft being re boarded is in progress but that's a 2 man job so daughter or boyfriend will assist with that, to be honest it will most likely be our daughter, trying a carver at a new Toby inn tonight for a treat, hope everyone has a great day
 
freesia said:
Morning all. 4.8 after an overnight correction. I'm having a morning to myself this morning for a change, then meeting a friend for a coffee this afternoon. I've just had a text asking me to book my blood test so i'll get onto that.

@MikeyBikey I hope they sort out the Patient Transport. The service you get is just shocking!

Have a good day everyone.
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Got to physio in plenty of time and has a good session although my quads are aching and my stump soaked in perspiration.

This poor bloke has been waiting for transport so long they decorated him! I like the face mask angels!

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MikeyBikey said:
Got to physio in plenty of time and has a good session although my quads are aching and my stump soaked in perspiration.

This poor bloke has been waiting for transport so long they decorated him! I like the face mask angels!

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We had a cartoon pinned up in our tearoom at work of a skeleton sitting at his desk with the caption, Congratulations Mr Smith your regrading has just been approved.
 
Good morning everyone

BG 5.4 again

Yesterday morning I tried recording my new song. It was a disaster from the start. It wouldn't play back anything. Rewired everything in different configurations. Checked everything a zillion times. Eventually I got the system to work. Set about recording and a horrible clicking/crackling sound appeared. Took me ages to figure out what was causing it. Then I started recording for real in the evening and hated the sound selected but perservered as my wife had chosen it. Problem tho, every verse is slightly different so copy and paste was a non runner. 3 hours later, recording finished, I was fed up with the whole thing and went to bed. I'll have another go today maybe. Ohh I didn't do the vocals yet, just the music.

By the end of it all my hip was hurting again too. Perfect storm!!! Sleep, the answer. No sign of my wife all day, except her incessant, loud singing, elsewhere in the house, but at least she was happy.

So today I hope I enjoy it better. After all everything is working again. I will record the vocals.... aghhhhh!!!!! Maybe I will re record the music. Maybe I will just rest.

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Have a great day today whatever you are doing.
 
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Good morning - 7.5

Have a great day everyone.
 
Morning a 6.7 and another good overnight line.
Nice day yesterday with boss and some good meetings but spent more time in garden centre than with customers so happy enough as not nice outside.
Quiet WFH today so pleased to get to end of week and literally calm before the storm.
Enjoy
 
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