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Group 7-day waking average?

Update. I've tested positive. Guess I won’t be going for my booster tomorrow, then! Typical. I flew through two busy airports over the summer, and went all over Europe, and didn’t get it. I go on a walking holiday in the fresh air in a remote part of Scotland and pick it up. (we did go to loads of public loos, cafes, supermarkets etc, so fair enough)
 
Robin said:
Update. I've tested positive. Guess I won’t be going for my booster tomorrow, then! Typical. I flew through two busy airports over the summer, and went all over Europe, and didn’t get it. I go on a walking holiday in the fresh air in a remote part of Scotland and pick it up. (we did go to loads of public loos, cafes, supermarkets etc, so fair enough)
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Hopefully it’s mild and you’re fully recovered soon.
 
Robin said:
Update. I've tested positive. Guess I won’t be going for my booster tomorrow, then! Typical. I flew through two busy airports over the summer, and went all over Europe, and didn’t get it. I go on a walking holiday in the fresh air in a remote part of Scotland and pick it up. (we did go to loads of public loos, cafes, supermarkets etc, so fair enough)
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That's typical, I hope you don't feel too bad. I believe you can't have the booster within 4 weeks of having Covid or at least we were asked the question.
 
And HbA1C results are in….
Expected a slight increase from last time so quite happy with a very slight decrease to 44.

Objectively it’s higher than I’d like it to be and I can get it down without too much trouble I think but subjectively, with the six months I’ve had, I’m chuffed with that.
 
eggyg said:
I fancy Tavira but is the opposite end to where we’re going. I’ve looked at the buses to get there and it takes quite a long time and was very costly. We contemplated hiring a car, we usually do, but it was very expensive and we wouldn’t get the full use of it as we’ve been most places already, although I’d like another look at Lagos. We may look at picking up a car for a couple of days from Albufeira. We’ll see how things go. We’ll wing it!
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In Eggyg world if you hired a car you would probably witness a car chase, have a policeman jump in the back and take off in hot persuit!
 
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MikeyBikey said:
Ib Eggyg world if you hired a car you would probably witness a car chase, have a policeman jump in the back and take off in hot persuit!
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Last time my folks hired a car in the US they were joined by an FBI agent who leapt into the back seat waving a badger screaming “follow that car!”
Mum screamed and dad stalled the car so the agent grumbled about tourists and got out and into another car!
 
Badge, not badger!
 
4.3 at 5.30am and 4.7 Two hours after breakfast!
 
Well, my consistency failed to last longer than 3 days. 9.4 this morning but was in the 10s and possibly 11 throughout the night despite the same evening Levemir, same or slightly more activity yesterday and more or less the same food last night. I was 7.1 at bedtime which again seemed reasonable and consistent, but instead of coming down gently as the previous 3 days it went up.

So sorry to read that you too have Covid @Robin. Hope it has very little impact on your health. Holidays are clearly a Covid risk wherever you go.

Congrats to @MeeTooTeeTwo on a Dez special.

Congrats to @ColinUK on a very impressive HbA1c result in difficult circumstances. I can totally understand you being "chuffed" and probably quite relieved. It is surprising how that number can impact you mentally especially when you have been struggling so I hope that it gives you a boost of motivation. At the end of the day as a Type 1 I would be totally ecstatic with a 44 and my consultant would be saying it is too low, so there can't be much concern about maintaining that level when you have no risk of hypo.
 
khskel said:
Damn your correction an opportunity for ribald commenting missed.
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Since when would you or I allow a correction to deprive us of such an opportunity?!
 
ColinUK said:
Last time my folks hired a car in the US they were joined by an FBI agent who leapt into the back seat waving a badger screaming “follow that car!”
Mum screamed and dad stalled the car so the agent grumbled about tourists and got out and into another car!
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I sincerely hope badger isn't some sort of euphemism.
 
Leadinglights said:
Do you find anything helps with your shoulders, mine are agony in bed, painkillers, voltorol gel, devil's claw gel, nothing seems to help. They are Ok during the day, but it is at night they give me jip. I even bought a special pillow but it doesn't help.
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Have you had a diagnosis of what is causing it? My chiropractor says mine is a rotator cuff problem - though I do suspect that it might be the fact that he straightened my crooked pelvis (due to a self injury during Pilates) which was causing leg pain and apparently there are muscles that go from the pelvis to the opposite shoulder. On the other hand yours might be a rotator cuff tear or tendonitis. You need a CT scan to diagnose exactly what it is. Apparently there's an op if it's a tendon tear. On the other hand it could be frozen shoulder which is more prevalent in people with diabetes. Apparently accupuncture is very effective for frozen shoulder.

My shoulders are painful all day and it's been going on about 3 months now.... I find it really hard to lift my arms even as high as my shoulders. Left one is worse. Supposed to be seeing the chiropractor on Friday, but having got Covid I think I should rearrange the appointment.
 
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