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Group 7-day waking average?

Good Morning All
A 6.0 for me this morning at 07:57.
@MeeTooTeeTwo I’m glad your glucose meter has started working properly again. Lol

@rebrascora @Robin @Bruce Stephens @Gwynn
Thank you for your comments about my meal preparation and calculations. I thought I had the ideas correct but it’s good that you confirm my thinking.
True it might be slightly over complicated but it did not take too long Yes it’s easier just to tip things into the pan but then blood sugar will probably go skywards or into orbit.
I’m not yet calculating the doses of my NovoRapid as the DN has not yet set the ratios. They are thinking about putting me on a Dafne course but that will come eventually. Heath service v DVLA. Any guesses who might win!

Have a great day
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 7.3 here, jelly baby assisted at 4am, and one too ma by the looks. Note to self, as someone recently put on a thread, more glucose doesn’t make it get into your system any faster!
Managed a walk over a headland called Baggy Point yesterday. For any Grand Designs watchers, we had a good view of the £10 million lighthouse that ended in disaster and divorce. It still isn’t finished, judging by the hoardings round it, and the crane and pile driver. I was amused, because the programme always made it sound isolated, but in fact it overlooks the holidays parks and surf school at Croyde bay, and there are other houses dotted all the way round the headland. Rain forecast today, so no chance of another cliff top walk, still holding out for Hartland Point, @eggyg , if the sun comes out again. Need to keep the muscles going for if we ever get back to the Dolomites. May go for a walk along the dunes from Westward Ho! just for the excitement of going somewhere with an exclamation mark in its name.
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That made me laugh, as the only reason we went to Westward Ho! was because it had an exclamation mark. Don’t get too excited, it was raining the day we went too! 🙄 It’ll all be very grey until you come across the very colourful row of terraced houses in the town. They’re very bright!
 
Morning

9.4 for me today

Grandad was happy with his pj's and chocolates off mum and warm cardigan from me and Bruce, says it fits nicely and is cosy so all good 🙂

Still have no idea what the disturbance up the street with the armed police was, The Courier has a story but of course I can't read it unless I subscribe and I'm not doing that lol xx
 
Afternoon all. I have had a very long lie in. I must have needed it but I’ve gone from 5.9 at 4.30am after a loo visit to 7.2 when I got up at 8.40am!

Very warm but very wet here, looks like it’s here for the day. No walk today which I’d wanted to do as I never got out yesterday as was far too busy with ladies’ things like hoovering and ironing, I was wearing a full Victorian gown including bustle though @Barfly. 😉

Have a good, but I suspect soggy, Tuesday.🙂
 
silentsquirrel said:
Not sure how this will work - presumably some liquid will be involved, some of which will evaporate during cooking, so pre- and post-cooking total weights will be different?
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Very much so, though some thing vary lots more than others. For the green beans and things who cares? But for pasta, potatoes, rice, you really need to be careful about whether the weights are before or after cooking.
 
5.8 for me today after eating 2 brioche rolls at 10pm last night (they were my dinner as I am was out running then straight to yoga).

My official race photo from Sunday's run at IWM Duxford.

Have a good day everyone on this grey and windy day here in Essex.
 

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Well I tried to get away without any Levemir last night after another 8.5 mile walk yesterday but levels started to rise so I stuck 2 units in at 3am and then 1.5 units of Fiasp at 6am to bring me down from a level plateau on 9 because I hate starting the day so high and it was a more reasonable 7.2 when I got up. I have dialed my morning Levemir back a couple of units as well because I hypoed yesterday twice on my walk and the second one took rather a lot of hypo treatment to sort out.

@SueEK So pleased you are able to enjoy the simple pleasures of life again!
 
Another 6.1 for me at 06:11 this morning. This seems to be becoming a habit!

Got my HbA1c result back from last week's blood test and very pleased with a 35 🙂

Dull, grey and windy here in West Berks today.
 
eggyg said:
That made me laugh, as the only reason we went to Westward Ho! was because it had an exclamation mark. Don’t get too excited, it was raining the day we went too! 🙄 It’ll all be very grey until you come across the very colourful row of terraced houses in the town. They’re very bright!
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A bit like the Lizard and Land's End, which were very disappointing.
 
@adrian1der Many congratulations on your fab HbA1c result. It reflects the amount of thought and effort you have put into your diagnosis. Very well deserved.

@Bloden So pleased that your DSN was really encouraging and extremely happy with your management. Many congratulations to you too. It really does make you want to try harder when you get a pat on the back.
 
Going to post this here in case anyone else uses GlucoRx meters? My health centre rang me to say they don’t stock meters anymore & gave me their phone number to order another meter.

I rang GlucRx custmer services & they say it IS a battery problem & I should only use their batteries in their meters, Duracell doesn’t cut it apparently, as they’re doubled something or other I can’t remember never heard of before either, & can be ordered online & delivered free of charge when needed! So, they will send me a couple of packs of their batteries & in the meantime I should be alright with the Duracell battery in the current meter I’m using but, to change the battery to theirs otherwise a problem could develop later? 🙄
 
Lanny said:
Going to post this here in case anyone else uses GlucoRx meters? My health centre rang me to say they don’t stock meters anymore & gave me their phone number to order another meter.

I rang GlucRx custmer services & they say it IS a battery problem & I should only use their batteries in their meters, Duracell doesn’t cut it apparently, as they’re doubled something or other I can’t remember never heard of before either, & can be ordered online & delivered free of charge when needed! So, they will send me a couple of packs of their batteries & in the meantime I should be alright with the Duracell battery in the current meter I’m using but, to change the battery to theirs otherwise a problem could develop later? 🙄
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Batteries are not as straightforward as one might think. In the lab we had many rechargeable pipetting devices which didn't have interchangeable chargers and if they were plugged into the wrong one they would melt. The precise voltage is very relevant.
 
😱 AND suddenly it’s a mad dash again today as only just got another call from the hospital after the GlucoRx call & I need to get bloods done today at 2pm so, just enough time to eat & take a taxi down to Coleraine, 8 miles away, to the hospital for blood tests! Esish! An Hba1c right now in the middle of a cold & there’s no time to try & get my BS is decent shape! 😱 It’s psychological, I know, but I wish they were more steady right now & it wouldn’t really make a difference to my control, or lack of, the last few months! 🙄

Must stop now & get ready to leave the house: I HATE going out with a cold! :(
 
@adrian1der well done on your great hba1c results, so well deserved x
@Robin glad you’re having a lovely holiday despite the weather x
@Bloden good to hear your new hospital and DSN are so encouraging x
 
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