Morning..im here meowee..just havent had anything exciting going on..sry to here u are back on insulin..we have to do what works tho righteven if we dont like it..its full winter here now and the snow is staying kinda pretty out tho..my dh will be home today..he did get an elk and he was so excited..its great that i was able to stay by myself..its empowering to know that even tho im not 100% im ok and i can do for myself..in my puter wanderings i came across a type of jewelry called broken china..i liked it so much i bought myself a bracelet made from sterling silver dinner ware and a heart shapped piece of broken china with a rose on it..they used the handles for the bracelet and attached the silver edged charm..so pretty..check it out in your wanderings..id luv to figure out how they make it..see im rambling.. soooo have a great day everyone(((hugs))) rosey

There are laws, but he is a service dog in training, so the laws don't apply. It's up to my landlady about whether or not the dog is allowed here. She's said it would be ok, so long as I had insurance, which I do, but the estate agents have gone mental about "ruining" the property for future tenants.

Hi, all. End of a frantic week. The Office Visitor went home yesterday, but not before leaving me with a time-consuming and boring task on top of all the other boring tasks I have to do. ick! I do wish I could retire. We've had a steady stream of hot days for about 3 weeks. I wish it would cool down. My apartment accumulates heat and it gets stuffy and uncomfortable. BGL has been all over the place this week. Yesterday it was 118, today, 187.
Rosey - Glad to hear you're getting more confident. That jewelry sounds pretty. In the early '70s there was a craze for making rings out of silverware. Unfortunately, after that you could no longer find reasonably priced old silverware is second hand stores.
Cassandra - Can you afford to offer the landlady a deposit for the dog? That is standard practice here.
Well, it's time to go home. It's laundry night. Hope I beat the other tenants to the washers!

Hi there . . .

Thanks to the wonders of injecting insulin directly into the system, the BGL numbers are looking great -- 5.7 (103) this morning . Weight is still stuck on the ticker number and (also thanks to the wonders of injecting insulin) it will probably take dynamite to get that moving in the proper downward direction again.

We do have a lovely sunny morning even though it is fairly cold and my back is feeling almost normal. I'm debating the wisdom of popping out to the Municipal Polling station and to pick up a couple of things -- fear that it might not take too much of a mis-step to lay me out flat again for another couple of days -- we'll see how things feel by this afternoon.

Hope everybody else has some great and fun Saturday plans . . . see you later . . .

Hello Everyone!

Just returned from Africa yesterday. After travelling for 40 hours to get home, I slept for 12 hours to recuperate. The trip was spectacular! We all (parents, siblings and spouses) had a great time.

In Botswana, they literally fed us 8 times a day. 3 meals and the rest were snacks scattered throughout the day, but we never had a chance to get hungry. I thought I would've gained 10 pounds, but I didn't gain or lose anything! The ticker is still correct.

I only checked my BGL twice during the trip (no time! plus, my family doesn't know I'm diabetic) -- Anyway, it registered high both times as early morning readings -- 150. But, it has to be because of all the wine I was drinking the whole time. Constantly. This morning, it is at 104. I think because the wine has left my system. I did take my medicine religiously, though!

How is everyone here?

Dyan

Hey . . . glad to have you back safe and sound DYAN and also glad to hear that you had such a terrific trip . . .

Seems overly quiet around here this morning -- -- wherever you are.

Back home and on the straight and narrow again track after a very disgusting feeding frenzy kind of conference. I am staying off the scale until I know I am solidly back on track. Things weren't helped my by forgetting my meds! I hope my HA1C isn't whacked all to heck because of three days of really bad eating and no med. Oy!

Good Morning . . .

Yesterday was an eating disaster of a day -- insulin does such a wonderful job of stimulating your appetite. Hey, isn't it wonderful that we get a fresh new start everyday. At least the BGL is looking great these mornings -- 5.3 / 96 this morning.

Wandered around stores for a couple of hours yesterday and this morning the back is still just giving me occasional twinges so guess I didn't do it any extra harm. Today we have overcast and it may rain later, so that won't make the aches and pains lessen any, I'm sure. There's wet snow in the forecast for Wednesday. Hopefully it won't stick around long.

Don't think your three day 'frenzy' will make too much difference RUTH . . . that's only about 3.3 % of the overall picture that the HbgA1C measures. Just "do as I say, not as I do" and get yourself back OP.

Hope everybody had a great weekend and that your Monday is looking fine as well. See you later . . .

Well, weight down a tad but the FBGL is still running a bit high - for me. Backlash from the time without meds?

This is going to be an interesting week. I am trying for "perfect" days. However, I've stopped kidding myself that I am following my Fitday plan and will be doing planned/actual lists in the kitchen on paper - the old-fashioned way! My bloodwork in Thursday morning so we shall see what the scale says then.

Morning everyone..nothing new here..up early the dogs just had to go out better up than cleaning up messes..i had a flu bug over the weekend or something didnt agree with me..spent alot of time in the little girls rm..feeling better today..sl was 87..im researching how to make the "broken china jewelry..found some nice books on methods in ebay..have a great monday..(((hugs))) rosey

Darn . . . the weight is up to 213 this morning and the BGL is down to 4.2 (slightly under 76) and I had to eat breakfast before I even had my coffee -- talk about turning things upside down. Now, I start the day low (in fact I think I'll cut back to 10 units of insulin tonight instead of 12) and get higher by dinner time (8.8/158 yesterday). May move toward twice a day on the insulin (12 hours apart) and cut out the glyburide completely since it is not doing much to keep things level throughout the day. Hopefully some of the weight gain is due to a little too much salt coupled with a little too little water.

Hope everybody has a great day planned -- it is pretty cold and dreary around here, and they are still threatening a bit of snow for tomorrow. Last night on the local news, the resident weather guru mentioned that in 1974, Halifix got 39 cm (over 15 inches) of snow on October 21 -- we can do with out a repeat of that performance thank you.

See you soon.

Hello Everyone!

I believe last night I was finally back to relatively normal sleeping habits. Yesterday was the first day back to work in two weeks (blech). I'm glad everyone is so nice there. But, working? I want to be a lady of leisure!

I haven't had chocolate in a very long time. I had some chocolate yesterday and my bgl shot up to 244. That was a stupid move. My weight is still the same, but now that I'm back in a routine I need to start doing my walking so I can get back to losing. Staying the same isn't the objective.

Rosey, sorry you were feeling ill!
Meowee, hope you get your numbers back where you want them to be!
Ruth, glad to hear you're back on track.

Well, ladies -- off I go to tackle another day back in reality!

Dyan

Hi everyone..i was attacked by a piece of carrot cake,i know better but the will power went out the window..hope u are all having a great day and jeanne if u are lurking we miss you..(((hugs)) rosey