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Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning everyone🙂

Bit breezy here this morning, grey day, and raining. I see the weather folk are predicting 50mph winds in some parts of the country. I'm well used to that. There's a simple couple of rules. Make sure your wheelie bins are secure, and apart from that don't go out. Whatever you are doing, it ain't worth it.:confused: Should make the footie interesting, goalkeepers booting the ball upfield and watching it go back into the net.:D

Anyway, woke up on 4.7 this morning, I'm just letting the DP and an Americano lift that up a bit.🙄

I see the Army is under strength by up to 40% in the Scots Guards, and other units are under strength almost as badly. This is nothing to do with Brexit, or austerity. We will need the Army for the border guards in Northumberland. No, it's because the Army had to outsource recruitment to the dreadful Capita company, who, since 2010 have overseen a series of **** ups in public services, prisons, the DWP and others. How they manage to keep getting these contracts is beyond me. You don't recruit soldiers for profit, so why use a profit making company to do it. The fall in recruitment dates exactly from the start of their time in the job. Its a job that is so specialised that incomers can't possibly describe it to applicants, or spot where folk would achieve their best in the Army. As anyone with any sense would realise. (That excludes the government)

On a lighter note, my grandson is always taken for swimming lessons on a Friday with his other granddad. When daughter went to pick him up, he insisted that he wanted to have his tea with us, so a nice cheesy pasta creation was created which he wolfed down. He swims with no flotation aids now, which is more than i could do at his age. Starts school in September, which makes me feel old. Maybe I am:D

So, have a good day folks, hope your roof tiles and hairpieces stay on, and watch out for Eddie Stobart lorries blowing over.:D
 
Late today, actually had a lie in, almost 9 o’clock and I went to bed before 10. My body must have needed it. Well like @MeeTooTeeTwo the longer I sleep the higher the numbers 7.1. Torrential rain all through the night and continuing this morning but no wind, thank goodness. Lots of photos on FB of localised flooding but that’s just because the drains can’t cope with the deluge, it’ll all go down soon. I think I’ll stay in today, have a load of courgettes from the garden need dealing with. Any suggestions other than ratatouille? Have a super, soggy Saturday. 🙂
 
7.5 for me this morning, sunny arm, but is windy and can see clouds approaching. I cannot shake off this cold and still not eating great. Determined to get back on track, didn't lose any weight last week so I need to get back on it as I have 4 weeks until I go to Spain, but more importantly is my levels have been in the 6,7 and 8s for the last couple of weeks due to holiday and cold and I need to get them under control as only about 6 weeks until my next HbA1c, which is booked for the week after I come back from Spain. So eyed to get my act together.
 
5.7 for me back on the gliclazide - 6's and 7's without it.

You are not old, MikeyB, when your grandkids start going to school. You only have a right to feel old when they finish school, like mine.
 
Hello folks - 4.9 today

Must have needed the sleep, 12 hours straight through. So much to do today

Enjoy your weekend everyone
 
Good morning lovely people, 4.8🙂 on a very cloudy and windy day. I got back from Folkstone at 20:00 yesterday after the journey from hell,🙄 I`ll do a separate post on that and the holiday. Just catching up with everyone so hopefully all are as well as can be expected.🙂

Stay safe folks, take care.🙂
 
Morning all, I’ve got a lurgy. 😱 Sick day rules in action, here!
I felt really shivery after I'd gone to bed last night, then woke at 3am drenched in sweat (sorry, TMI) and blood sugar of 10.8. No other symptoms apart from a blocked ear three days ago, which cleared in a couple of days, and a general achyness.
Did a cautious correction of 1.5 units at 3am, was 10.2 on waking, did a further 3units and a 50% increase in basal and I was 6.4 by 10am. Now up to 13.0 after a slice of toast and 2 more units. It’s going to be a long day.
 
Robin said:
Morning all, I’ve got a lurgy. 😱 Sick day rules in action, here!
I felt really shivery after I'd gone to bed last night, then woke at 3am drenched in sweat (sorry, TMI) and blood sugar of 10.8. No other symptoms apart from a blocked ear three days ago, which cleared in a couple of days, and a general achyness.
Did a cautious correction of 1.5 units at 3am, was 10.2 on waking, did a further 3units and a 50% increase in basal and I was 6.4 by 10am. Now up to 13.0 after a slice of toast and 2 more units. It’s going to be a long day.
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oh no!! get better soon! xx
 
Well I am still getting disappointingly high readings despite upping my Levemir again (now on 12 units for past 2 nights) Reading was 11.8 this morning but I was horribly stressed last night and hardly slept as a result. Had 4 units of NR with an evening meal that had no appreciable carbs last night and it went up instead of down. Arrgh!
The best reading I have had in the past few days was an 8.3 and that was 2hrs after I had injected 3 units of N/R but before eating anything, so I am not doing very well. Need to see if more structured exercise will bring it down. I'm feeling rather tempted to be naughty and eat something bad since being good is not being rewarded with lower readings. Resisting the urge at the moment.
 
Woke to. 6.0

Didn’t sleep well.

Stopped the insulin as I see no point in getting dependent on it when I seem to be able to control this stupid condition with metformin and diet perfectly well.

I resent diabetes today.
 
Morning all, it's still dark, all the lights on, like winter

Treated a hypo at midnight, so I suppose 5.8 is good

Stay safe everyone
 
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Morning Folks,

Reporting a reading of 9.0 this morning very windy and rain coming so dog walkies will be in between showers.
 
06:57 BS 7.3. Ok, JUST, 🙄 Woke with a bit of a scratchy throat so, hope it doesn’t develop into anything! 😱

Yesterday was grey the whole day but, dry so, drains had a chance to clear. Rain only came back last night but, nowhere near the downpour of before. It seems that the stormy weather hit us in the west about 1/2 days before it hits you lot to the east: remember from high school geography lessons that most of the UK weather comes from the South West so, that’s often the way of it; Ireland gets hit first & takes the brunt of it before it hits Great Britain! 😱🙄 Definitely a bit chilly though & feels like the start of Autumn already! 😱

A bit later than usual, Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉 Have an easy, lazy Sunday folks! 🙂
 
Morning all on this not so sunny Sunday and a not so sunny 7.4! At least it’s dry so far today, yesterday was unbelievable. Shows cancelled, roads, fields, parks flooded. I’ve not heard of any getting into any homes which I know after the floods of 2005 and 2015 will be a relief to the folks of Carlisle. I know some of my friends will have been getting twitchy. We live on a hill thank goodness. Just watching two woodpeckers on my feeders, life’s good. Have a fab day and I hope you’re not too waterlogged where you are. 🙂
 
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