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Group 7-day waking average?

And after being awake since 3am for no apparent reason I scored a 6.7 this morning.
 
Yes, @eggyg, they’ll all do well and deservedly.

Agree, @ColinUK, he was at the top of his game. There was little to choose between Alex and Bart and Marcus summed it up when he said, “Alex is the future.” imo Santosh made the mistake (as so many do) of doing a bit too much - brilliant as he was.

I think this series was better than it’s been for many years without the trips around the world to the ridiculously outrageously expensive restaurants that 99.99% of viewers will never visit, or even look into.
 
Bexlee said:
I’m not sure I could “do” little kids with cut and stick?! Parties! My sister does little kids sounds stressful. I like control far too much. We had the complexity of density calculations (if only they’d listen to the instructions!) and electrolysis today oh and chromatography Christmas cards with year 7 now that was traumatic when they had scissors out and little bits everywhere! Quizzes tomorrow ..... have a great last day @freesia
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Now that sounds more stressful to me! Density calculations?? Electrolysis?? I thought that was hair removal!! Have a good last day.
Well i was up half the night. New sensor applied when i got home from work, started up an hour before bed. When ready, it kept reading LO before suddenly starting with readings all over the place, one time reading 4.2 when finger prick 8.6!! Settling down now but checking with finger pricks and ringing Abott today.
Anyway, finger prick at breakfast is 7.6.
Have a good day everyone, its Friday
 
Morning all. 🙂 4.4 here.

My Libre sensor has lost the will to give proper readings - “yeah, whatevs, you’re hypo” for the last 24 hours o_O - so it’s a good thing it’s change over day!

Kids n scissors, eek @Bexlee. Nightmare!

I’m glad you found us @Inamuddle. 🙂
 
HenryBennett said:
Stress?!
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Combo of a little stress related to lockdown. Woke feeling a bit melancholy yesterday and work Christmas party on zoom last night.

Ate ok during the day but not so good in the evening even though low carb.

Also developments in the saga of the court case which doesn’t really help.

And trying to balance the books when I don’t know what my income is month on month.

So yes, just a little stress. And a cat who’s been a bit of a pain the last few days. As much as I love him of course.

Still it’s Discovery and Mando day today and I can do those before work!

Going to start going back to the gym during this holiday break too I think. That really helps my mental health. As does eating right.
 
@HenryBennett I rather enjoyed the trips to Noma and those weird “I’m going to forage for only left handed ingredients and then cook them in the flame of fire stolen from crater of an active volcano and then serve it on a slab of wood carved by trained beavers in my restaurant which serves 2 covers and is only open once every 14.5 hrs and has no phone, email, website, or post address but is booked for the next millennia” segments.
 
ColinUK said:
@HenryBennett I rather enjoyed the trips to Noma and those weird “I’m going to forage for only left handed ingredients and then cook them in the flame of fire stolen from crater of an active volcano and then serve it on a slab of wood carved by trained beavers in my restaurant which serves 2 covers and is only open once every 14.5 hrs and has no phone, email, website, or post address but is booked for the next millennia” segments.
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That made me laugh!
 
5.0 for me, sick of this weather I like cold crispy days.
 
Morning all, 5.7 here. Libre said 6.3 when I woke up 15 minutes ago, but I knew a lower reading would be along if I waited. Sometimes if my BG is on the up first thing, the algorithm overeggs it, then it realises I’m not carrying on with the Dawn Rise, and adjusts itself.
The best man on the night won Masterchef, I thought Alex was improving with every episode, including the final, whereas the others, excellent as they both were, had plateaued.
 
5.3 for me this morning. 🙂
Another wet and miserable morning, so indoor exercising is in order.

Stay safe and well.
Dez
 
freesia said:
Well i was up half the night. New sensor applied when i got home from work, started up an hour before bed. When ready, it kept reading LO before suddenly starting with readings all over the place, one time reading 4.2 when finger prick 8.6!! Settling down now but checking with finger pricks and ringing Abott today.
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They do recommend that you wait at least 24 hours before calling about a freshly applied sensor, have you tried applying it 24 hours before activating it? Often it gives the chance to bed in so not as all over the place when activated, that's what I do so I'll be applying mine tonight to activate tomorrow night xx
 
Morning

I have read all posts just not liked them as doing a few things at once

Stressful day yesterday, bulb went at 5:30am yet again! But to top it off when I took the bulb out the inside of the fitting broke! Kitchen light hasn't worked for a few months so mum reported that while on the phone about my room, kitchen = emergency, bedroom = non emergency! Anyways electrician was down the back of 12 (mum only phoned after half 10!) and although my bedroom wasn't on his list he was happy to do it as no point not when he was here anyway, kitchen was as I suspected and was the starter, she'd bought the wrong one and that's why we couldn't get it working!

Anyway 5.6 for me, thought I'd post as I was answering a few messages etc
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Self-inflicted 7.2 today, I had some Maltesers yesterday, why I don’t know, I just did. Not much self-control going on at present. Just watched a story on BBC news about the wonderful 6 yr with no legs completing his 6mile walk, what a superhero and what a very sad story, I shed a tear.
@Inamuddle we have had some groups start up in our area for people suffering loneliness and depression where you can support each other on social media. My daughters friend started one as she is feeling very low indeed and she had a huge response for people feeling the same as her. Don’t know if maybe you feel up to doing the same, just putting it out there. Wishing you well and joining us here is a great start. Remember there is usually someone around at all times if you need someone to ‘talk’ to.
Have a good day everyone x
 
6.6 for me and that was with one unit of Levemir last night again, so I feel I am doing quite well so far with my new routine although my levels wandered up to 13.3 😳 last night after eating a few nuts (ok... too many nuts... but not that many!!) and then plummeted into a nasty hypo 2 hours after I stuck in a 2.5 unit correction. Such a difference in effectiveness between corrections when you are fairly sedentary and corrections when you are physically working. Had a really nasty one in the stables last night and yet I caught it at 3.7.

Still working off finger pricks. Ran along to the surgery to get my sensor prescription only to get there as the girls were getting into their cars to go home... bummer!... Thurs is half day at the surgery. The route was really muddy and I guess it took me significantly longer as a result.... so back I go today to get them. Also haven't managed to collect my replacement sensor from Abbott which has been left at a dingy, pokey Post Office/Spar shop about 3 miles away that I really don't fancy entering in the current situation.... Arrggh! I am guessing they have closed the sorting office collection point to protect the Postal staff over the busy Christmas period. Going through test strips like Billio at the moment and apparently I need to see the appropriate clinician for a review on them before they will be re-authorise for repeat. Thankfully I had a bit of a stash built up when I got the Libre and use almost none when I have a good sensor on so I will be OK until the new year for test strips and then I will have to see the New Diabetes nurse since the previous one has just retired... Nothing like breaking in a new, (and probably minimally trained in the current crisis) diabetes nurse. I have met her though and she seems really nice. She took my HbA1c blood in Oct. Going to see if I can get blood ketone test strips put on repeat as I only have a few the DSN on my DAFNE course gave me and if I need them, I will probably need them at short notice and with the pandemic, little happens at short notice, so need to get that sorted!
 
ColinUK said:
@HenryBennett I rather enjoyed the trips to Noma and those weird “I’m going to forage for only left handed ingredients and then cook them in the flame of fire stolen from crater of an active volcano and then serve it on a slab of wood carved by trained beavers in my restaurant which serves 2 covers and is only open once every 14.5 hrs and has no phone, email, website, or post address but is booked for the next millennia” segments.
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08:26 BS 7.7 🙂 I’m ok with that after a late night watching stuff!😛

I was watching a series on Apple TV+ Home about extraordinary homes designed by people around the world. 3 of them stood out for me:- 1. A log cabin built inside a large greenhouse in Sweden that transforms the Scandinavian climate around the house into a mediterranean one: while hand building the log cabin by himself, along with his father, he wanted a way to keep the elements out & not get wet so, he put up a large green house around the building site; finished the house without getting rained on again & has an Italian garden around his house! 2. A house in Bali Indonesia made entirely from bamboo that took 4 or 5 years to grow & doesn’t have any straight walls or right angles in it that’s all curves designed by a former fine arts designer that painted fabrics for Donna Karen in New York: left the fashion world disliking the impermanent nature of ir; now runs a company that’s designed & built 20 bamboo houses around Bali & the Orient! But, the most impressively designed home was actually the smallest being a 300 square foot apartment in Hong Kong designed by an architect that has all his walls hung from tracks in the ceiling so he can pull out & move to the front whatever room he needs at the time: his bed, furniture, a home cinema, bathtub etc. all pull out, & retract, from the walls; he says instead of him moving from room to room in the home, he moves the rooms to him when he wants them! He calls his home The Domestic Transformer, teaches architecture & has, what he calls, a skinny sky scraper built with small 250 square foot apartments in it all with movable walls & says it’s the way forward to making the best use of limited space in cities! 😱😛😎

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

PS:- I really enjoy watching Apple TV+ with the free year’s subscription that comes with buying a new device: looks fabulous on the retina display of the iPhone SE! 😛😎:D😉
 
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@rebrascora can't you arrange a redelivery of it? We had a parcel Saturday that was due at Bruce's but the lazy git was still in his pit and missed it! There was no tracking or anything but the postie had taken 2 back to the sorting office on Friday that I'd arranged redelivery for, one for Monday and the other for Tuesday as I didn't have a tracking number for one until Sunday and it's supposed to be 2 days, anyway one of the kind women at the sorting office had just put all 3 together and they were all left behind the porch door Monday thankfully as they are reduced hours and it doesn't fit in with Bruce's work, sorry I'm rambling cause I'm on my own and bored lol
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@Kaylz Thanks for the suggestion but I can't guarantee I will be in when it is redelivered and clearly the postie didn't want to leave it as normally stuff for me is left in the shed. Not sure if that is because it is tracked.
Will psych myself up and go to the shop. Hopefully it has been cleaned since I was last in there because it looked pretty grim then... not that I can talk when I spend half my time in a smelly stable and farmyard... but more worried about what can be caught from people than dirt and animals these days.
 
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