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Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning 6.9
A bit nippy outside, not looking forward to work today. Yesterday was c**p, thank goodness I have four days off after today :D
Have a good day everyone!
 
Good morning! No idea why I woke so early but imagine it is because I went to bed quite early last nght. Felt shattered obviously not from the physiotherapy non event but from the frustration of waiting for hours to be told there would be no Patient Transport. I now actually wonder if it was the 5mm of snow? A friend is a bus/coach driver on a zero hour contract. He has been on school runs this year - 3 hours morning, 3 hour break and 3 hours afternoon. Yesterday they closed the school(s) as it was sleeting (nothing settled). so for him no pay whilst the teachers get paid for a day off. Hardly fair! Oh, BG 6.1.

Cloudy and very, very cold!
 
Morning all. 5.5 on this extremely cold day. At the moment it’s “only” -6.5 but it will get colder the nearer to dawn we get. Yesterday got to almost -6 by 8am and never ventured above freezing all day.

Yesterday was a day of two halfs. Or is that halves? :confused: Anyhoo, my hairdressers gave me a really nice haircut, I got a nice surprise when picking up my new varifocals, firstly I’d totally forgotten what they looked like and I was really pleased with them. I’d also forgotten I’d picked Ray-Bans, I’m in with the in crowd now.😛 I also got a discount as a former member of staff.
We had a lovely lunch in a newish venue. Then it all went downhill from there. As we were just finishing our lunch and preparing to leave, Mr Eggy received a call from the discharge team at the hospital where MIL has been for four weeks. They were looking to discharge her into a care home, initially for three months as continuing NHS care, so no fees or trying to get funding. They’ve called it End of Life stage. She asked if there was any preference of home, Mr Eggy said no. She listed a few local ones and said they’d get back to him. Did the “big” shop in Aldi, that wasn’t fun, got home freezing cold and lit the fire and chillaxed, no Netflix was involved!😉 5pm, hospital rang, got your mother a room she goes in tomorrow! Can you get some things together for her to make her room homely. He promptly WhatsApped his brothers letting them know the craic and asked for help in the transition. No replies. The caring of his mother has torn the brothers apart, they never speak just bicker over a messaging service. It’s very sad. He went up to the hospital to tell his mother. Five times! Not sure she understood. She was too busy nosy at everyone else in the ward and asking questions about who they were and then shouting at a poor old lady across the ward to”shut up” as she was sobbing. She even whispered “ stupid cow” under her breath! Neither of his brothers turned up to help with this. He’s so stressed with it all and as the eldest he’s next of kin and therefore the hospital defers to him. They don’t know when she will be moving today but he’ll have to go round to her house and collect clothes and personal things that I know, and he knows, she won’t give a fig about. He took photo albums to the hospital when she was first admitted to try and get her to engage but she told him to just take them home and barely looked at them. This isn’t new by the way, she hasn’t engaged with anyone in any meaningful way for years. She’s not interested in anyone else’s lives or feelings. As he said last night everyone has run around her her whole life so she has never really had to do anything, her mother, her husband, and then her sons.The only thing she does now is lie in bed and breath and no one can do that for her. He has a very complex relationship with her, which doesn’t help. So, life is on hold for us all, just waiting on the inevitable. Can I just add, she’s not ill medically, just old and gave up on life 18 years ago when she was widowed. Mr Eggy hasn’t been her son since, but her carer, financial advisor, shopper, organiser, everything really, he’s never properly grieved his dad as it was all about her at the time and continued to be so. It’ll be a relief, in one way, but I suspect will bring out those horrendous feelings of guilt when she finally goes. Sorry for this ramble, I’ve been awake since 3. 30 getting more and more angry with MIL. I needed to let it go and obviously I can’t speak to my nearest and dearest about such things so honestly. Today will be a strange day all round I think.

If you’ve got this far, have a fabulous, flipping freezing Friday.

Oh and PS, grandson failed his driving test for the second time! One thing, but major, he pulled out in front of a car and they had to brake!
 
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Good morning - 7.2

Have a great day everyone.
 
A 4.4 for me this morning. It's -5ºC outside. 😱
@Lanny it's good to see you back on here again.

Dez
 
06:30 BS 4.3. Low but, no red line overnight so, ok ish with that as it’ll rise now I’m awake! 🙂 I didn’t increase my dinner NR, though, as my instinct was telling me not to as the higher basal is still in my system. My BS was too high for the 4/5 hours I was awake before dropping off but, dropped after I fell asleep & stayed above the red. I WILL add dinner NR back up bit by bit to possibly 40 or 44 but, keeping it at 32 as the lower basal doses goes through.

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

06:49 BS 4.9 there we are DP rise & I’ll have a bit more time before I eat breakfast when it’ll be around BS 7 instead of the usual BS 9-11 as I STILL don’t really eat breakfast right after waking that often: that’s just me! 🙄

Currently REALLY enjoying the recent latest series 3 of The Traitors & it’s SO compulsive viewing! :starstruck: That’s me with my eyes glued to my iPad screen watching it on iPlayer! :rofl:😉
 
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Morning all. 6.9 for me on waking, after a pretty flat and uneventful night, thankfully. Still VERY chilly here, though we expect a thaw to start setting in later today. :thankyou:

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CliffH said:
Before I left the NHS a few years ago, I learnt to accept that, even though I've always considered myself to be a radical feminist, I was a hopeless dinosaur and still had all kinds of subconscious sexist (and racist and homophobic) attitudes that had been instilled in me as a white, straight, cis male, middle-class Londoner brought up in the 1970s. I did my best to change with the times though and hopefully didn't offend anyone too much.

I don't approve of drag queens: it seems to me that it's an excuse for men to promote sexist and homophobic stereotypes and to make fun of women. The concept's on a par with pantomime dames, as far as I can see. Yes, I know, "It's only a bit of fun" - but that's what they said about The Black and White Minstrel Show.
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Women do drag as well. There are drag kings as well as queens. Either gender can do either.

Perhaps learning about the history of drag (the word is from a Shakespeare written character description “Dressed as a girl”) as well as the political nature of drag might change your views a little.

What is your view on panto dames as you mentioned them?
 
morning all managed to drag flu filled self to dinning room feel lot better today just feel tired and ackey have to be well today got appoinment with new and old care co they are coming to see me
BG 7.1 a wee bit high
 
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eggyg said:
Morning all. 5.5 on this extremely cold day. At the moment it’s “only” -6.5 but it will get colder the nearer to dawn we get. Yesterday got to almost -6 by 8am and never ventured above freezing all day.

Yesterday was a day of two halfs. Or is that halves? :confused: Anyhoo, my hairdressers gave me a really nice haircut, I got a nice surprise when picking up my new varifocals, firstly I’d totally forgotten what they looked like and I was really pleased with them. I’d also forgotten I’d picked Ray-Bans, I’m in with the in crowd now.😛 I also got a discount as a former member of staff.
We had a lovely lunch in a newish venue. Then it all went downhill from there. As we were just finishing our lunch and preparing to leave, Mr Eggy received a call from the discharge team at the hospital where MIL has been for four weeks. They were looking to discharge her into a care home, initially for three months as continuing NHS care, so no fees or trying to get funding. They’ve called it End of Life stage. She asked if there was any preference of home, Mr Eggy said no. She listed a few local ones and said they’d get back to him. Did the “big” shop in Aldi, that wasn’t fun, got home freezing cold and lit the fire and chillaxed, no Netflix was involved!😉 5pm, hospital rang, got your mother a room she goes in tomorrow! Can you get some things together for her to make her room homely. He promptly WhatsApped his brothers letting them know the craic and asked for help in the transition. No replies. The caring of his mother has torn the brothers apart, they never speak just bicker over a messaging service. It’s very sad. He went up to the hospital to tell his mother. Five times! Not sure she understood. She was too busy nosy at everyone else in the ward and asking questions about who they were and then shouting at a poor old lady across the ward to”shut up” as she was sobbing. She even whispered “ stupid cow” under her breath! Neither of his brothers turned up to help with this. He’s so stressed with it all and as the eldest he’s next of kin and therefore the hospital defers to him. They don’t know when she will be moving today but he’ll have to go round to her house and collect clothes and personal things that I know, and he knows, she won’t give a fig about. He took photo albums to the hospital when she was first admitted to try and get her to engage but she told him to just take them home and barely looked at them. This isn’t new by the way, she hasn’t engaged with anyone in any meaningful way for years. She’s not interested in anyone else’s lives or feelings. As he said last night everyone has run around her her whole life so she has never really had to do anything, her mother, her husband, and then her sons.The only thing she does now is lie in bed and breath and no one can do that for her. He has a very complex relationship with her, which doesn’t help. So, life is on hold for us all, just waiting on the inevitable. Can I just add, she’s not ill medically, just old and gave up on life 18 years ago when she was widowed. Mr Eggy hasn’t been her son since, but her carer, financial advisor, shopper, organiser, everything really, he’s never properly grieved his dad as it was all about her at the time and continued to be so. It’ll be a relief, in one way, but I suspect will bring out those horrendous feelings of guilt when she finally goes. Sorry for this ramble, I’ve been awake since 3. 30 getting more and more angry with MIL. I needed to let it go and obviously I can’t speak to my nearest and dearest about such things so honestly. Today will be a strange day all round I think.

If you’ve got this far, have a fabulous, flipping freezing Friday.

Oh and PS, grandson failed his driving test for the second time! One thing, but major, he pulled out in front of a car and they had to brake!
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Elaine please send my best to Bri. It sounds like it’s a terribly difficult situation he’s in with his mother and with his brothers.

You’re probably correct about everything coming out when he had the opportunity to properly grieve for his dad.

He’s very fortunate that he’s got you and everyone else in your magnificent family that loves him for who he is not for what he can do for them. You’re all so incredibly fortunate to have that family support that’s seemingly rock solid from an outsiders perspective.

He’ll grieve when the time is right and in the way that best suits him. And he’ll have you by his side.

Love to you both
 
Morning all, 11.1 here. 😱 Thought I’d maybe forgotten overnight basal,but no, it’s just this pesky cold. It’s odd, sometimes colds don’t affect my BG at all, but this ones got its claws into me.
 
5.7

Lovely zoom interview with the Olivier Awards folk yesterday. Gave them a potted history of me, spoke about some ballet performances I liked and some I don’t. Made them laugh a bit which is never a bad thing.

Commitment is Feb 25 - Feb 26 and it’s seeing all ballet/dance productions that are eligible as not all venues stage work that is. In this case it’s primarily Covent Garden for the Royal Ballet, Saddlers Wells (for quite a few companies) and they now have three venues, English National Ballet (whilst they’re at the Coliseum) plus occasional forays on to the Southbank for things that may be staged there.

That doesn’t sound like it’s a lot but it’s roughly 80 - 120 productions a year!

The public panel for Dance is actually quite a lot more influential than the ones for other awards as it’s the only public panel that not only shortlists but also decides the winner. There is no professional panel that has the final vote. I asked why and the answer sends to be that everyone is happy with how the panel works so there’s no need to change things.

I’ll hear back by the end of next week. If I don’t get it then I’ll apply again next year for sure, but in the words of that A Chorus Line number, I hope I get it.
 
10.6 this morning but still experimenting with a couple of things so to be expected. Normal service will be resumed over the weekend 🙂

In the office today and then my son goes to Italy very early Sunday morning. Not used to him not being in the house. Going to be a very quiet week!!
 
CliffH said:
Before I left the NHS a few years ago, I learnt to accept that, even though I've always considered myself to be a radical feminist, I was a hopeless dinosaur and still had all kinds of subconscious sexist (and racist and homophobic) attitudes that had been instilled in me as a white, straight, cis male, middle-class Londoner brought up in the 1970s. I did my best to change with the times though and hopefully didn't offend anyone too much.

I don't approve of drag queens: it seems to me that it's an excuse for men to promote sexist and homophobic stereotypes and to make fun of women. The concept's on a par with pantomime dames, as far as I can see. Yes, I know, "It's only a bit of fun" - but that's what they said about The Black and White Minstrel Show.
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Morning,
A 5.8 for me this morning but needed a couple of correction doses as went high just before bed which spoiled my TIR.
Cliff I grew up at a similar time but very much in a working class household in NE but was generally a very hostile environment to anyone different and although very friendly and warm hearted it was not very tolerant of certain groups which were considered “ outsiders”.
Must admit having lived in totally different much more multicultural environments such as Leeds and Bradford and then worked all over the U.K. I actually have found I embrace a much wider view of folk others may consider “ different”. I very much fall under the category of Live and let live and the more I have experienced different cultures or viewpoints then I find many more similarities than differences.
ATB
 
@Robin Happy belated birthday and hope you’re feeling better soon.

Would you like some chicken soup? I’ll send some over!
 
@Wendal Not totally different to my upbringing. London, suburban, middle class family with very much working class roots (friends say mum sounds like Babs Windsor ffs!) and a family and culture with religious intolerance writ large to boot.

The TV station would be changed or it would be turned off when a female impersonator was on. Unless it was Danny LaRue. Homophobia was openly expressed when openly gay men started to feature in the airwaves. Kenny Everett was forbidden. But Are You Being Served was fine as was It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and Gloria was dad’s favourite character. Kenneth Williams was fine but Quentin Crisp was a freak. John Hurt, by dint of his playing Crisp in An Englishman in NY was also deemed to be a freak. Yet the most favourite Hitchcock film was Rope.

I’m glad that generally people have become more accepting of difference although I’m upset that what’s happening today is that there’s just a wider gulf between those who accept and those who won’t, don’t or can’t.

We are more alike than we are different. All of us are.
 
ColinUK said:
@Robin Happy belated birthday and hope you’re feeling better soon.

Would you like some chicken soup? I’ll send some over!
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Very kind of you, but I’m afraid the envelope might get soggy. (I did actually make soup yesterday, with the goose stock left over from Christmas, does goose have the same miracle cure effect as chicken, do you think?)
 
Robin said:
Very kind of you, but I’m afraid the envelope might get soggy. (I did actually make soup yesterday, with the goose stock left over from Christmas, does goose have the same miracle cure effect as chicken, do you think?)
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I wasn’t going to post it, I was going to hand deliver it!

Goose soup sounds very Marx Bros :rofl:
 
ColinUK said:
Elaine please send my best to Bri. It sounds like it’s a terribly difficult situation he’s in with his mother and with his brothers.

You’re probably correct about everything coming out when he had the opportunity to properly grieve for his dad.

He’s very fortunate that he’s got you and everyone else in your magnificent family that loves him for who he is not for what he can do for them. You’re all so incredibly fortunate to have that family support that’s seemingly rock solid from an outsiders perspective.

He’ll grieve when the time is right and in the way that best suits him. And he’ll have you by his side.

Love to you both
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Thanks Colin. We told the girls last night about their grandma and told them that neither of us want them to be our “carers” they’re our daughters first and foremost. I told them they’ll be enough to put us away if need be, unless we spend it on holidays and fast cars! Oops! Already done that!
They all agreed their grandmother brought it on herself and in the last few years they haven’t spent a lot of time with her, her other grandchildren are the same. Eldest daughter said she lost her grandma a long time ago. Youngest daughter said that we would never be like that as we’re so fiercely independent and full of life. In fact she described her grandmother as fiercely dependent! She hit the nail on the head as that’s exactly what she’s been like her whole life. I know some people might think I’m being very harsh but unless you’ve lived it you can’t judge. As the old saying goes “ you can’t pick your family.” Sadly, I don’t think the brothers will ever get their relationship back.
 
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