Recent Content by rachaub

Thank you all for your replies, they've been most helpful. Fil is off to the doctors today with a list of questions, including about his eyesight so I hope that will shed some light on all his problems. I wish I could be a fly on the wall but he's not doolaly enough to need an escort yet ( at...

Thanks Catherine, this does help. :D He will speak to the gp about it tomorrow.

Thanks Ken, I will try and see what I can find out. If it was down to me I would have made a complaint but unfortunately it isn't my call. I think his hospital treatment was absolutely disgusting. Thanks again Rach

My thoughts exactly but unfortunately we don't know who to ring. He saw the doctor the day after he came out and he seems as confused as my fil (and he is easily confused :? ) LOL This is the hospital staff that didn't know that he had taken a second dose of insulin even though they gave it to...

Frankly no-one has told him! He didn't even know that you could be type 2 if you are taking insulin. He thinks that if you are controlling with diet or tablets you are type 2 and as soon as you start with insulin you are type 1.Consequently as he understood it he is now type 1 whereas he was...

He's just come out of hospital and no-one has said anything about any of this. All they have done is put him on so much insulin and told him to take it twice a day. All he knows is that he used to be on tablets and now he is on tablets and insulin. They haven't even told him what to do if he has...

My fil has read in the book that came with his sugars monitor that he should seek medical advice if his sugars reach 13.9, what he would like to know is should he go straight to the doctors as soon as it reaches 13.9 or should he leave it a few days to see if it goes down and if it does go down...

My fil has just come out of hospital after his bs's went haywire and they have now put him on insulin. Since coming out of hospital his eyesight has just suddenly deteriorated over two days. His blood sugars are averaging at about 7 atm so I don't think that's it, could the insulin be affecting...