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Group 7-day waking average?

Snap @ColinUK , a 6 for me as well. @Robin congrats on the HS.
What a dreadful night, couldn’t get off to sleep, horrible thoughts in my head (extremely unusual) and feel dreadful this morning. I am wondering if I will get a call today cancelling my procedure on Tuesday, I really don’t fancy it being as it is in a hospital smack bang in the middle of London and this new strain is just along the coast from us in Hastings. I thought all non-urgent ops were being cancelled in London!! Boxing Day at my daughter’s is cancelled and we have very little food for Christmas in, am sending my hubby to Sainsbury’s this morning with a list but could end up with anything lol.
Thoroughly enjoyed Strictly, well done to Bill
Have a good Sunday all x
 
eggyg said:
Morning all. 5.9 again. I’m aware it won’t be a good morning for some of the gang, what a shocker yesterday, not that the SE and London going into Tier 4 ( sad but inevitably) but that Boris “U-Turn” Johnson un-eased the Christmas five day break. It won’t affect us at all as we only have plans for Christmas Day as I always thought five days was far too long. We all knew that some folks would stretch the five days to six or seven, and we know, as the government do too, that the one day will now be stretched to two or three by some people. We like to push the limits don’t we? When the speed limit is 70 we drive at 80, if it was 50 we’d drive at 60. See what I’m getting at? Let’s just hope it does the trick. I’ve totally got Covid fatigue now and just want to get back to some sort of normality.
Well that’s enough of that. What about last night’s Strictly? Wow! What we going to do next Saturday?
Congrats @Robin. @Maca44 so sorry to hear this, fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.
Have a super Sunday everyone. Five more sleeps! 🙂
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My Mum had a three days rule for her visits to any of us.
Arrive, stay, go. She thought if she didn’t stay too long she would then get invited back.
 
Its a 5.7 for me this morning.
@Maca44, i hope your wife gets better soon and no one else gets it. Take care.
@Kaylz, your hands must be so sore. Slather on the sudocrem, i hope they start to feel better soon.
@rebrascora, you are going through sn emotional and difficult time, be kind to yourself.

Have a good day everyone
 
rebrascora said:
Sorry to hear you have Covid in the household. I hope it is a mild dose and everyone recovers quickly.
I am a bit concerned about your low readings recently particularly as you are a delivery driver. Since you are new to diabetes I wonder if you are aware of the rules regarding BG readings when you are taking medication which can cause hypos as you have mentioned a couple of times you have had lows when you have been at work. The readings you are posting suggest that maybe you don't need to be on gliclazide anyway. Have you spoken to your nurse or GP about your readings since you started getting these lows?
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my meds are Metformin x2 500mg am x 2 500mg pm & 1 Sitagliptin 100mg. I did ask for a nurse to call me but a GP did and just said you can't go low on this med. I think the problem is the time at work without food, if its busy I start 2.30pm & don't get home until gone 7pm, not always but most nights so I might stop and have a snack bar at 5ish. I feel im over medicated but diabetic nurses are not great communicator's and I pick up that its abit of a choir to chat over the phone they were not interested in my BG readings but I need guidance.
 
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@Kaylz, your hands must be so sore. Slather on the sudocrem, i hope they start to feel better soon.
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they are! I've had sore hands before obviously with my OCD but NOTHING like this! Not sure how many packs of Dove I actually have at Bruce's just now but ordered 6 4 packs last night, no I'm not stockpiling but with my OCD I go through a lot of soap anyway, it's on a 2 packs for £4 and I've learnt my lesson to always have Dove in! xx
 
Kaylz said:
they are! I've had sore hands before obviously with my OCD but NOTHING like this! Not sure how many packs of Dove I actually have at Bruce's just now but ordered 6 4 packs last night, no I'm not stockpiling but with my OCD I go through a lot of soap anyway, it's on a 2 packs for £4 and I've learnt my lesson to always have Dove in! xx
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You've probably already tried this but just in case..
Put cream on your hands then gloves on, or cream on then rubber gloves to do the washing up. The warmth helps the cream sink in.
I don't know whether your poor hands are too sore for this though. X
 
10:09 BS 6.0 🙂 Going in the right direction!

It’s lovely sunshine through the gap in my curtains this morning after yesterday’s cold start! 😎🙂

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉 It’s Sunday so, have an easy lazy day folks! :D😎😉

Congratulations on your HS @Robin :D😉

Strictly was fab yesterday & Bill was outstanding! I really enjoyed Nicola & Katya’s dance too & thought it was their best: like another Show Dance but, they had a few weeks training for it that the others didn’t! 😛
 
freesia said:
You've probably already tried this but just in case..
Put cream on your hands then gloves on, or cream on then rubber gloves to do the washing up. The warmth helps the cream sink in.
I don't know whether your poor hands are too sore for this though. X
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I don't do dishes, mum does them but I don't do gloves anyway, I have a phobia after I met a dog that didn't like gloves and it tried to pull my winter glove off and bit me in the process xx
 
G'day all. 7.7 for me. That was very scary yesterday, I felt quick panicked. On the other hand nothing much has changed for us so never mind. We weren't doing anything anyways. We're all spending Christmas Day separate. Mum with brother, me with son, daughter with her hubby and all the rest of the family where they normally are. What a funnypec year.
 
Good afternoon folks 🙂

Bit late reporting due to lie in, and a bit busy since with phone calls here and there. The Libre said 5.2 on waking, with a nice line going up and down from 5.0 to 5.5 all night. That's what I call getting your Levemir dose right🙂

Christmas is cancelled. Daughter phoned to tell me that grandson has been in close contact with a kid who has tested positive, so has to self isolate till Dec 28. So no post Christmas Lanzarote for them, no Christmas Day lunch with them for lunch. Bloody virus.😡 Still, there is a half leg of lamb in the freezer I can use for Christmas lunch. At least that will taste of something, unlike the dreaded turkey.


Anyway, I'm just getting used to my shiny new indoor wheelchair. I'm used to rear wheel drive wheelchairs, but this one has 10 inch drive wheels in the center, and castor wheels front and back. That means it can turn around in its own length, which makes it super manoeuvrable, but the handling is completely different. Cooked last night's meal using the electric rising seat, chopping ingredients and sticking stuff in the oven. In a prescient move, when the kitchen was fitted I specified a Neff oven where the door, as it opens, goes out of sight underneath the oven, so there's no worry about maneuvering round an open oven door. Still have to ask Mrs B to get plates out, and dig out ingredients, mind. And, come to think, open doors for me. In truth, currently, the wheelchair isn't really a need until the late afternoon and evening, which is when my legs start playing silly buggers.Still, it's best to get used to the wheelchair while I can still walk with two crutches when needed. (Like wee emergencies 🙄)

Of course, it's just one more thing to charge, along with outdoor wheelchair, Mobility scooter, phone, watch, iPad, Airpods Pro, Libre reader and vaper. And me, I tell people my Libre sensor is my charge point. Thirty years ago, all I had to worry about was the car battery. Modern life, eh?

Talking of batteries, the Libre sensor contains a silver oxide battery. Should we recycle them with other batteries i wonder?

And on that trouble making note I will wish you all a good day🙂
 
Afternoon. Well yesterday after waking with a 11 and a 10 at lunchtime, no exercise either i had a massive hypo in the afternoon. I was talking to my cousin 200 miles away in Wales so she stayed on the phone for 55 mins to make sure i recovered. I ďid the normal 2 jelly babies then retest 3 times before my reading went back up and then had a piece of bread and jam so of course spent all eve trying to bring it back down again.
A 10 this morning again. Had a mile walk this morning and then met my daughter and granddaughter for a socially distanced walk and a handover of Christmas cards and presents. I gave my daughter a christmas hamper full of cheese and chutney, biscuits, mince pies and christmas pudding. Tomorrow i am getting 2 x boxes of fresh fruit and veg from our amazing local delivery service. So with 2 joints of beef i have basically bought 2 Christmas dinners and they can have theirs at home. Daughter no 2 is staying in London. So thats Christmas sorted.
I feel very sorry for all those of you that have had to change your plans.
It was so lovely to see my granddaughter i have really enjoyed today. Take care everyone xx
 
Hi All. Hope everyone had a good day. Hope people’s plans have been re-jigged for just the one (sensible) day get together. I had a good sleep last night. Feel a lot better today and a 5.7. I’m assuming I was just super tired. What shall I do tomorrow with NO school?!!!?
 
So pleased to see you had a good fasting reading and are now feeling better.
I think you should have a "chill day" tomorrow! Do a bit of pampering!
 
14.9!! The second cannula to become dislodged. On each of these I tried to move round to the back a bit, so didn’t notice. Tonight I kept correcting, after a high carb meal, but at 2:00 when nothing was coming down I finally checked. The cannula was just clinging on so perhaps a bit was getting through but not enough to do the correction. Week 1 of 780 in manual mode, and I sooooooo want to switch back to my Combo!! It is just different from what I am used to and then add in the usual mix of wobbles on any pump and it takes a bit more thought to sort, so now I am wide awake!! Winge over.

For once I have been the first to post in here!! However I suspect that I might be sleeping a bit during the day.
 
Morning all,
A 5.8 this morning and another damp day outside.
It was great to 'see' people on our Zoom church nativity/Carol service yesterday and very well done by all who took part.
The most popular headwear was antlers and so now we know where all the reindeer are hiding prior to the Christmas deliveries!
The man from Iceland came yesterday, no antlers but he did have a red nose and was bearing gifts!
Hope those who are working get to break up soon...

Blessings Snowwy
 
4.2, wife still poorly with covid just waiting for my test kit to arrive, NHS phone ap hasn't flagged up im in close contact with someone with covid and you cant get much closer than the person you sleep with so not sure its working 🙂
 
5.6 to start the week
 
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