Today is going to be another very
cold day, with a peak of just 4° C
forecast. One big difference
compared to yesterday is that no
sunshine at all is expected.
Another change is this evening it
will rain, and some of that rain
will fall as sleet, and as
midnight approaches it could fall
as snow, although only sleet is
forecast, but with the temperature
down to just 1° C.... Tomorrow may
be close to slightly warm, but at
the cost of lots of rain all day.
Most of it will be light rain, but
some heavy rain is expected as
well. The temperature may reach
13° C before the end of the day.
Yesterday seemed to be a blandly
OK day, but I now realise it was
more like a total disaster....and
I am not really sure why. There is
evidence that I ate far too much,
but I can't seem to remember doing
that, and I can remember taking
some care of what I ate.
I don't think there
are any material things I did
yesterday, although I did do some
computer backups, and they are
very important. I spent a
lot of time just reading - maybe
alternating between screen and
print - until early evening when I
watched some TV. Ideally I would
have been out in the sunshine,
perhaps walking at least a mile or
two, but I had fears that very
cold air would give me chest
pains.
One thing I did do a lot of
was going to the toilet, and not
just for a pee. I think I went for
a poo about five times yesterday,
and each time it was a fairly
solid, non trivial amount. It
seemed like all the lentils and
beans I had from Thursday onwards,
were finally doing their job. This
morning there were signs that all
those stools (as they say in the
medical profession) had negative
weight !
After my breakfast, I think
the next thing I ate was a single
bap filled with sliced beef,
horseradish sauce and some
mayonnaise. In theory that was a
relatively safe meal. I did have
an afternoon snack of a kiwi
fruit, a Persimmon, and a small
Cox's apple (plus the obligatory
small chunk of cheese). Maybe that
fruit had more sugar in than I
thought it would have.
As I was closing the
curtains, around 4.30pm, I noticed
a bright crescent moon, and almost
above it was another bright light.
I am very certain that other light
was Venus. Once upon a time I
thought that Venus was always very
low in the sky, but now I know
different.
I took these pictures using
my Nikon D3200 camera with a 200m
zoom lens at maximum zoom.
The resolution of the original
picture was so good that I could
cut out just the part with the
crescent moon in it, and it still
looks quite sharp.
My dinner was an old and
tried and tested safe recipe, or
at least I think it was safe. It
was basically a light stew of
nothing more than diced beef with
broccoli, a couple of beef stock
cubes, and on this occasion some
finger chillies. I expected those
finger chillies to give it some
kick, but I couldn't really taste
their presence in the stew.
During the day I also had
some very small snacks of salted
peanuts, and I also had 3 small
squares of 85% dark and bitter
chocolate. It seems like I must
have eaten more still, but I can't
seem to remember what it could
have been, and when I ate it.
During the evening I
watched some TV - just the usual
assorted Star Trek episodes, and
also a single episode of QI. There
were three QIs in a row being
shown, but the last one was a Xmas
edition, and I definitely didn't
want to watch that, and the second
one looked like it would be
annoying, and so I didn't watch
that either. One thing I did do
while watching TV was to guzzle a
whole litre of ice cold (at least
at the beginning) plain water. I
wasn't really thirsty as such, but
I do find chilled water to be
delicious.
Drinking so much before
bedtime was no problem because I
have been getting up to pee about
every 2 to 3 hours every night for
ages now, and indeed I hardly
noticed anything
different.....except maybe I
didn't seem to pee as much pee on
each occasion. I was probably
asleep around 9.30pm, and apart
from the usual pee every 2 or so
hours, I seemed to sleep very
well....although maybe I got up a
little bit too early.
It was too early compared
to recently, but still late for
seasons when the sun rises before
6am. I think I got up at about
6.30am, and it was most definitely
still night outside. It was also
very frosty again. It felt like I
needed a poo, and so I went to the
toilet, and concentrated on having
that poo, but nothing happened,
and I also hardly did any pee.
That was rather annoying because
when I got on the scales it seemed
I had put on an awful lot of
weight, although it was actually
only another 300gm.
It may have only been
300gm, but it looked so much was a
total amount of weight. I still
recorded it, and thought that I
was bound to have a pee and a poo
before I had my breakfast. I
didn't. It seems my whole routine
was up the creek this morning. I
even forgot to dish out my morning
pills because I was doing stuff in
a different order. It was all made
worse when I checked my blood
glucose.
Now I look at the figures
again, in the cold light of day, I
see that the average of all three
readings is actually smaller than
yesterday. Maybe I did eat more
carefully than I thought, but
still not carefully enough. The
Contour meter read 8.9mmol/l, and
while that is sort of OK if you
squint your eyes a bit, it is not
good enough. The GlucoRX meter
read 9.0mmol/l (it was 9.5mmol/l
yesterday), and the Sinocare meter
read 9.2mmol/l (exactly the same
as yesterday).
I did not let any of this
change my typical breakfast of a
double small portion of instant
noodles (tomato flavour this
morning). I was half way through
that when, as usual, I reached for
my morning pills, and they weren't
there. I hastily sorted them all,
and took them. Doing it like this
means there is almost no chance of
burping up the horrible taste of
the cod liver oil capsule.
Once I had finished eating
breakfast I sorted out my late
afternoon pills (which I usually
do at the same time as the morning
pills). With that done I realised
I was quite keen to go to the
toilet. These things become a
habit. For a week or more I have
been getting up late, and I have
been having my
first-thing-in-the-morning visit
to the toilet at about 8.30am, and
that was the same time I passed a
big poo, and plenty of pee this
morning - probably more than
enough to account for the 300gm I
seemed to have put on, and maybe
even more, but after eating
breakfast it doesn't count.
Maybe it will help in
getting a lower weight tomorrow -
if I can control my eating today.
That could be difficult. It is
going to be another very
miserable, dull, and cold day, and
so I feel reluctant to do any
outdoor activities, but I may
still go shopping - probably in
Tesco, but Aldi might be
possible. Of course going
food shopping usually brings
terrible temptations, but maybe
eating stuff out the freezer, such
as a frozen ready meal, can be
just as dangerous in my current
state.
I do wonder what my current
state is. For some time now I have
mentioned that it seemed now and
then like I had a cold. It was
maybe during the night when my
mouth was very dry, and I needed a
quick sip to stop a cough, when I
realised that I couldn't remember
when my nose had stopped it's
intermittent dripping, and the
occasional, sometimes slightly wet
cough, I had. This morning I have
this strong feeling that I did
have a mild cold, and that now I
am over it, but I think it will
take another day with no symptoms
until I believe it - both that I
had a cold, and now I haven't.
Things are not always as
they seem. Yesterday I was
reluctant to have a shower for two
reasons. One is that I didn't
really need one because I was not
expecting to see anyone. The
second is that I was worried the
patch over the split in my bathtub
had started leaking again. The day
before yesterday I pulled the bath
mats aside to give what I thought
was wet patches on the carpet a
chance to dry out. Yesterday
evening it looked like the carpet
was still wet. I finally gave it a
feel, and it was dry as a bone.
What I thought was wetness was
just a sort of tidemark, possibly
from before my last (hopefully)
super duper patching.
I guess today it is safe
for me to wash my hair and have a
shower without the bath leaking
(although I shall keep a sharp eye
on it). Being clean would make
shopping easier (knowing I am not
stinky - I hope). Although being
clean would make little
difference, I am almost wondering
if going for a walk instead of
shopping may be possible. Against
all odds, the sun is currently
managing to punch through the
clouds. It won't make any
difference to the temperature
outside, but it does make it all a
bit more cheerful - even if most
of the sky still looks like it
could dump a foot of snow on us !
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