I've been a bit off colour recently, the reason is now becoming
clearer: the mild viral thang that has been doing the rounds causing
coughing and spluttering seems to be carrying a bacterial passenger.

It got down into mother's lungs, she's back on antibiotics and
steroids.

It's got me somewhere, first my gums started playing up, then my
sinuses, then a giant boil exploded out of my groin, followed by more
on my head and neck.

This could possibly explain why I started retaining water without my
BG going much out of whack.

The knock-on effect is that my BG has now started going south, I got
an 8.7 which I wasn't really expecting after an ill-chosen meal (well
mother wanted spaghetti and I thought I'd made little enough that I'd
saty in the sevens at worst, but she couldn't eat all hers and wanted
to me eat it up to save it going to waste; nevertheless I hadn't
expected to spike that high,

So tonight I had sausages and a bunch of brussel sprouts followed by
strawberries.

Again I'd have expected that to put me into the sevens at worst, and
briefly at that.

I decided to run a series of tests.

After half an hour I was at 9.1

1 hour down to 7.9 which was still higher than I expected

1 1/2 hours back to 5

2 hours still at 4.8

The interesting thing is, after much testing earlier I identified the
peak as usually coming around 1 hour, I don't know if it's a result of
the infection that I'm spiking so much higher *and* so much earlier

<sigh>