In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Back from my walk and groceries done for today.
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Quote:WOO HOO!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I hope things are going well for you both!
BRENDA::Well, I am almost finished with my medical stuff. Just have to get my thyroid test done.
Quote:Sounds worse than waiting for final exam results!
Got a notification from the publisher that they received my stuff and now I wait and look for someone else to send too.
Quote:Good start to summer?
far where I am the heat hasn't been too bad.
What happened with those fires in Alberta? Did they get any rain?
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Quote:Good start to summer?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
:Quote:WOO HOO!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I hope things are going well for you both!
BRENDA::Well, I am almost finished with my medical stuff. Just have to get my thyroid test done.Quote:Sounds worse than waiting for final exam results!
Got a notification from the publisher that they received my stuff and now I wait and look for someone else to send too.Quote:
far where I am the heat hasn't been too bad.
What happened with those fires in Alberta? Did they get any rain?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Yeah, it will be a relief to have it done.
For me it will be. But it is now in the lap of the gods. I have several publishers written down and I have to go over their requirements and then pick.
Hopefully for my corner of BC.
Alberta is still bad and no rain in sight for at least the next week. There are still at least 80 fires burning in Alberta. Homes have been lost and people from various communities in evacuation centres. Smoke from the fires has reached into Ontario.
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Going to mow the lawn today. Nice, sunny, warm day to do it. 
My numbers are pretty even right now, but I do raise above 180 and even get into the very low 200's when my numbers start climbing around 4:00AM and top off around 8:30 to 9:00AM. That's too high, and I'll have to figure out how to correct that.
It's especially strange this morning since when I went to sleep I was only around 125 and I didn't eat any carbs with dinner. I didn't realize I ran out of vegetables and didn't want to cook any rice by itself, so I just had a few burger patties and chicken breasts.
I haven't worked out in 2 days, which may have something to do with this change after two perfect days in range. I also lowered my daily long-active dose from 20 to 18, which may have played a part as well.
I've lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4 lbs in the last 5 days. Not because of the diabetes, but because I'm not eating enough. The cool thing though is that I'm hardly ever hungry, and my stomach must be shrinking due to the fact I'm not gorging on huge amounts of food at only one point during the day like I used to, and I'm spreading out my food intake much more through the day. Energy levels haven't gone down with this weight loss, and my six pack is back after I let a little extra belly fat show up when I was still eating a lot on the insulin but I was not able to monitor my levels constantly with my new continuous monitor system.
Thirst is never an issue anymore, and the last 3 to 4 nights I've been able to get around 6.5 to 7.5 hours of straight sleep without having to wake up to go to the bathroom.
Classes start tomorrow and hopefully I learn a lot.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Out for my walk soon on another bright sunny day.
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Believe it or not, your info is helpful for hubby. Taking blood sugar readings in the AM might not be reflective of his average.
I wonder if an implant would be helpful for him, at least in the short run? Maybe isolate what is causing his blood sugar to read too high, or maybe just demonstrate that it's not his diet but that he needs some other med, bc I know for a fact that he's eating somewhere in the realm of 80 grams of carbs a day. I know doctors are used to patients cheating, but maybe a monitor would convince doc that his isn't a diet problem.
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Back from my walk and all done for today.
Have to keep checking my hearing aides. They keep wanting to come out of my ears, especially the right one.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Believe it or not, your info is helpful for hubby. Taking blood sugar readings in the AM might not be reflective of his average.
I'm glad to provide the unexpected insight.
If his body runs anything like mine, his morning readings might not be at all reflective of his average.
I did have my A1C test done recently and although the exact number escapes my mind, it was somewhere around 275. If you remember, my initial diagnosis was at 409. First visit to the Encologist was 400. Both of these were AM appointments. And then there were the many times I pricked myself first thing in the morning and had anywhere between 360 and 550.
Now, granted, we did have a few weeks there where I was fixing things on the tail end of the 3 month span, and we don't know exactly how far back this thing goes and when it really started ramping up, but I don't believe for a second that those 360 to 550 readings I was getting in the AM hours were at all indicative of my average sugar level given the last few week's results of the continuous monitor.
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I wonder if an implant would be helpful for him, at least in the short run? Maybe isolate what is causing his blood sugar to read too high, or maybe just demonstrate that it's not his diet but that he needs some other med, bc I know for a fact that he's eating somewhere in the realm of 80 grams of carbs a day. I know doctors are used to patients cheating, but maybe a monitor would convince doc that his isn't a diet problem.
It wouldn't outright convince the doctor he isn't cheating on carb intake. That's in the system for me, but its incumbent upon me to enter in how many carbs I'm taking in, how much insulin I'm taking, and how often/long/intense I'm working out. The monitor doesn't do any of that on its own. It just logs when I put that info in.
But you're going to get 288 readings per day on this thing as long as he keeps it close and doesn't wander too far away from the receiver. (If I were designing the new version, I would make this give a reading every 60 seconds if you drop below 70mg/dL instead of the standard 5 minutes).
Supposedly you can even swim with this thing on, but I haven't tested that out yet. Showers are okay, but defo be cognizant that you've got it installed when washing off so as not to manhandle it on accident.
In any event, I can't see anything but better results if he tries a continuous monitor. In fact, the 2 hours I had to wait for the new sensor to warm up the other day that left me in the dark was driving me nuts.
Exercise really does work too. I mowed the lawn and pulled some weeds for about 2.25 hours today. I was running a little high from the morning rise before that going into the work. Since then, I ate a HUGE banana, a 1/2 cup of peanuts and then had to eat a cup of Cheerios with a cup of skim milk just to keep my blood sugar up because it kept dropping shortly after it went up from eating each of those things.
FREE CARBS!!!
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Exercise.
That too!
He's been so wigged out about his back he's basically been chairbound. Afraid he's going to fall and snap a rod or pull out a screw. But I took him to Home Depot and he picked out some wood and today he was planing. (He has a smallish project in mind, turning an old door into a table.)
So maybe that'll help bc diet-wise there's not much else I can do, unless he's prepared to starve himself.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Exercise.
That too!
He's been so wigged out about his back he's basically been chairbound. Afraid he's going to fall and snap a rod or pull out a screw. But I took him to Home Depot and he picked out some wood and today he was planing. (He has a smallish project in mind, turning an old door into a table.)
So maybe that'll help bc diet-wise there's not much else I can do, unless he's prepared to starve himself.
I'm sorry to hear that his back is bad too. I'm honestly hoping I don't get anybody at the class tomorrow that looks at me crosseyed since I don't look the part of a Type 1 diabetic. As difficult as this has been so far for me coming to terms with it and changing up a lot of the way I used to live, the physicality part was relatively easy since I didn't need to lose any weight and I'm still relatively youngish.
It does STILL get hard for me though sometimes. I had to give up on weeding because when I'd get up from being on my knees pulling to throw the weeds in the can, I'd get really light headed. It wasn't happening at first, but the more I did it the worse it got and I started getting worried that I'd have a stroke or something if I kept on with it. The ONLY other time I remember feeling that way was when I was recently sober and I was mowing the lawn on a sunny day in the 90's and I needed to sit down.
My sugar wasn't low at that point, but it was on the steady decrease and at 95 when it was happening. Shortly after I went inside it was dipping to the mid-70's and that's when I had the extra large banana. I immediately felt better, and it wasn't too long until I went up and topped out exactly at 180 breifly before crashing again. That's when I ate the 1/2 cup of peanuts and the spike was much less pronounced to about 135 before going right back down to the 70's while I was taking a shower. That's when I had the 1 cup of Cheerios and 1 cup of skim milk. Once again I shot up but only to 170 this time and I'm back down to 125 right now. No Rapid-Active insulin used at all today, and just the 18 units of Long-Active.
If it weren't for the early morning rises above 180-200 I really want to lower that Long-Active again down from 18 and try to even out those drops in the afternoon/night. But if I'm going to do that I can't mess around anymore and I have to work out at least for one 15 minute session every day if not two when I'm not mowing the lawn or doing other yard work.
I hope your husband can get some action so he can eat and you both can figure out what's going on, and I REALLY hope you can get a continuous monitor on him at least for a month or two because it's a million times better than testing with lancets and strips.
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