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eggyg said:
Forget others, however guilty it makes you feel, YOU are the priority here. I know it’s difficult, I rarely put myself first, but you really can’t go on as you are, can you?

On another note. What a clever nephew you have, sounds like a real boffin. Looking forward to hearing all about his progress and your shameless boasting. 😛
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He his intellect and humility from me of course!
 
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A good start to Friday with a 5.1 on the old meter and weekly BP check 109/66, so more than happy with those numbers. On the downside I had a restless night with my IBS giving me grief again, although it's not so bad at the moment.

@Eternal422 - glad you're enjoying Sydney. We liked Manly when we were there, preferring it to Bondi.

@Gwynn congrats on another HS - I almost joined you.

Usual Friday Big Shop and a run out to the garden centre greengrocer coming up later, once I've read the paper. I was planning on cutting the grass today but it's been drizzling all morning so that's probably put paid to that.

Whatever your plans, have a good day.
 
eggyg said:
Not this one I don’t think, it’s a tiny place! But you just reminded me that I have ate Japanese food, in Jamaica. I was staying at a Sandals resort ( I was one of a dozen travel agents on a fam trip, hard work but someone had to do it) and one night we had a show night where they were throwing bits of meat and fish about and chopping them up in the air. Not sure any of us actually got anything to eat, it was all over the place!
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As long as you have fun and enjoy your meal.
Funny how others posts can remind people of things and your trip to Jamaica reminded me of a couple of things.
Most important was the honeymoon in St Lucia but your “ travel agent “ bit reminded me when I finished my Geography studies and a Canadian Professor wanted me to do a PhD in Latin American Studies at Calgary.
The two thesis subjects were “ Tourism in the Caribbean” and “ The future of the Amazonian Indigenous population”.
In the end I did not do it as I just wanted to earn money and another 3 years of study seemed a long time.
As you get older you realise you should have done it as it is a blink of the eye but I would have had a totally different life but happy with how it has all turned out
 
Grannylorraine said:
Morn8ng

9.8 after a carb binge yesterday, have very blurry eyes this morning, am so ashamed of my binge I nearly didn’t post this morning. My mental health is really getting the better of me at the moment

@Gwynn - congratulations on your HS.

@ColinUK - weigh up the pros and cons and do what is best for your mental health.
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Sending you hugs!
 
@ColinUK I had a feeling something was wrong, because you have been uncharacteristically quiet of late. Stress is a terrible thing and can lead to physical ailments if not relieved. So please do what's best for you, and if that's either halting the process you are going through with the police, or stopping it altogether then so be it. You are never going to heal if it's on your mind day after day and you can't discuss it with the person you are working with day to day, you will just be internalising it. You know we're all here to support you whatever you decide.

@Grannylorraine I say the same to you - I had a bad time with bullying in one job - I had survived 7.5 years there which was longer than anyone else on the staff, but eventually I went to see the GP who signed me off. What a relief that was! I actually never went back as I was offered another job by a previous manager who had suffered in the same way. Your mental health is worth more than any job.
 
I used to go to Japan a lot. Food was either relatively cheap and unappetising, (think sausages on sticks) or really lovely but excuciatingly expensive! Julian and I had a superb meal one time (in latter years we flew together on married rosters), cooked at the table for us by a lady in full Japanese kimono. It consisted of thin slices of beef cooked in broth and eggs. Can't remember what it was called, but there was no raw fish to be seen. The most painful thing about that (apart from the bill) was having to kneel on the floor!

@Wendal - be grateful you did not choose to spend 3 years studying in Calgary - it was the most boring and uninviting city I ever visited!

@Gwynn, congrats on your HS.
 
@Pattidevans I knew that my absence and when I have been here my lack of conversation etc wouldn’t have gone unnoticed.
At the start of the week I just couldn’t even begin to put into words what was going on in my head.
I’m pleased that now I can and I can open up and move forward processing my thoughts and feelings etc.

Throw into the mix that last Friday I had my three month check in with my therapist (we’re half way through a 6 month pause) and that was the final straw really. Lots of things came up that I hadn’t been prepared for and without him there this week that’s been scary.

Also police requested SAR for full medical records and therapy notes from every single therapist I’ve seen since 1999, those notes coming to me, my having to read them and then send them on is also tough.

Obviously still dealing with the folks getting old and their inevitable deaths is not easy when you live alone as there’s no one to share the burden with. So it’s all on my shoulders. Or so it seems.
 
Pattidevans said:
I used to go to Japan a lot. Food was either relatively cheap and unappetising, (think sausages on sticks) or really lovely but excuciatingly expensive! Julian and I had a superb meal one time (in latter years we flew together on married rosters), cooked at the table for us by a lady in full Japanese kimono. It consisted of thin slices of beef cooked in broth and eggs. Can't remember what it was called, but there was no raw fish to be seen. The most painful thing about that (apart from the bill) was having to kneel on the floor!

@Wendal - be grateful you did not choose to spend 3 years studying in Calgary - it was the most boring and uninviting city I ever visited!

@Gwynn, congrats on your HS.
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I loved Calgary!
 
Morning all - weather report from West Cornwall is that it's grey again! However yesterday turned out nice in the end so fingers crossed.

6.9 this morning. I think I overdid the basal tweak a little from 06:00 so I need to increase basal a tad starting around 06:00.

Still not taking Clopidogrel - thank you @Leadinglights and @Wendal for suggesting Apixaban. It doesn't seem to have the same side effects as Clopidogrel. A girlfriend popped in for a cuppa yesterday afternoon and she is also on Apixaban with no problems. I shall be emailing my GP to see if I can swap.

So.... off to meet up with friends in town this afternoon - our usual Friday engagement which is always fun.

Have a good day all.
 
ColinUK said:
I loved Calgary!
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I bet you were not there on a winter Sunday when the city was completely deserted and nothing at all was open, not a shop, restaurant or bar and not even the cinema! It's probably changed now, I was last there in the early 80s.
 
ColinUK said:
@Pattidevans I knew that my absence and when I have been here my lack of conversation etc wouldn’t have gone unnoticed.
At the start of the week I just couldn’t even begin to put into words what was going on in my head.
I’m pleased that now I can and I can open up and move forward processing my thoughts and feelings etc.

Throw into the mix that last Friday I had my three month check in with my therapist (we’re half way through a 6 month pause) and that was the final straw really. Lots of things came up that I hadn’t been prepared for and without him there this week that’s been scary.

Also police requested SAR for full medical records and therapy notes from every single therapist I’ve seen since 1999, those notes coming to me, my having to read them and then send them on is also tough.

Obviously still dealing with the folks getting old and their inevitable deaths is not easy when you live alone as there’s no one to share the burden with. So it’s all on my shoulders. Or so it seems.
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Ugh - that Police request must have been horrible, almost like they were pushing the blame onto you. No wonder you are suffering. I can't help feeling that the Police are just making everything worse.
 
ColinUK said:
I feel you.
I have eaten unwise choices this week. You’re far from alone.

Hopefully our mental health improves for both of us soon.
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Me too. I've got a blood test today, have had two days of Full English breakfasts (Cholesterol was a bit higher than they liked at the last blood test, so it's not going to be good today), had a stressful time at work, an absolutely insane event in private life that has caused pulse rate to go insane, blood sugar to go up, and have been daft with food - yesterday was a curry and rice for lunch, the day before potato with meal and veg (I was at a customer site for work, and lunched in their staff restaurant.)

I've pre-warned the nurse who deals with me the results are not going to be good!

Oh, and I've forgotten to taken any metformin for about 4 or 5 days...

So no one is alone.

On the plus side, after the blood test, I'm going to go to five guys for a burger and diabetes can go f**k itself for a day.
 
ColinUK said:
@Pattidevans I knew that my absence and when I have been here my lack of conversation etc wouldn’t have gone unnoticed.
At the start of the week I just couldn’t even begin to put into words what was going on in my head.
I’m pleased that now I can and I can open up and move forward processing my thoughts and feelings etc.

Throw into the mix that last Friday I had my three month check in with my therapist (we’re half way through a 6 month pause) and that was the final straw really. Lots of things came up that I hadn’t been prepared for and without him there this week that’s been scary.

Also police requested SAR for full medical records and therapy notes from every single therapist I’ve seen since 1999, those notes coming to me, my having to read them and then send them on is also tough.

Obviously still dealing with the folks getting old and their inevitable deaths is not easy when you live alone as there’s no one to share the burden with. So it’s all on my shoulders. Or so it seems.
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Sending you hugs.
 
Morning all

A happy 4.8 for me earlier this grey morning.
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Pattidevans said:
I used to go to Japan a lot. Food was either relatively cheap and unappetising, (think sausages on sticks) or really lovely but excuciatingly expensive! Julian and I had a superb meal one time (in latter years we flew together on married rosters), cooked at the table for us by a lady in full Japanese kimono. It consisted of thin slices of beef cooked in broth and eggs.
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Agree about Japanese food - went there a couple of times when I had a proper job. I think the meal you described is a variant of Shabu Shabu. We sat round a big pot of boiling water and plates of all sorts were brought out and you selected stuff and dipped it in the pot to cook it. At the end, the water in the pot was ladled into bowls and drunk by the company. The bill, which seemed to depend on the number of plate of Kobi beef consumed was horrific! Did you ever try Tepanyaki where you had your own chef who cooked individual items on a hot plate?

All the posh stuff was great but much more interesting was when after much effort we managed to get our Japanese hosts to take us out to the sort of restaurant they would normally go to after work before the two hour+ train ride home. A mad, bustling, crowded place where you ordered from hundreds of small dishes on a pad which then miraculously appeared on your table. Food was ordered in "rounds" until you had had enough. I remember that for our round we ordered the nearest thing to a British cafe meal of sausage egg and chips that we could find on the menu. Food was average, but the experience memorable.

Happy days.
 
Pattidevans said:
Ugh - that Police request must have been horrible, almost like they were pushing the blame onto you. No wonder you are suffering. I can't help feeling that the Police are just making everything worse.
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They're very careful to not do that. But it does feel like it is what they're doing sometimes.
 
harbottle said:
Me too. I've got a blood test today, have had two days of Full English breakfasts (Cholesterol was a bit higher than they liked at the last blood test, so it's not going to be good today), had a stressful time at work, an absolutely insane event in private life that has caused pulse rate to go insane, blood sugar to go up, and have been daft with food - yesterday was a curry and rice for lunch, the day before potato with meal and veg (I was at a customer site for work, and lunched in their staff restaurant.)

I've pre-warned the nurse who deals with me the results are not going to be good!

Oh, and I've forgotten to taken any metformin for about 4 or 5 days...

So no one is alone.

On the plus side, after the blood test, I'm going to go to five guys for a burger and diabetes can go f**k itself for a day.
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ooh I forgot that I've skipped some meds for 4 days as well...

Took all scheduled ones this morning and refilled my dosset box for the week.
 
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