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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
I was due to have a nose operation this coming Tuesday and attended the hospital last Tuesday for a pre-op assessment.
As part of the pre-op assessment they test blood sugar (sorry if that is the wrong term new to this)
The first reading was 16.5 which seemed to surprise the nurse, she made me wash my hands and then re did the test which read 20.8. At this point she said I think that the machine is playing up and went to get another tester. When she came back and did it again with a new machine the reading was 17.5.
She then said the staff nurse would be along to see me.
The staff nurse then gave me a form for a fasting blood test which I had on Wednesday morning. I told the staff nurse that I was away until Sunday in Ireland at a wedding and she said to call on Monday to see if operation is going ahead.
The staff nurse called me on my mobile in Ireland on Friday to say that my fasting result was 13.9 and that i needed to collect my results and take them to my GP on Monday and that my operation would not be going ahead.
This has come out of nowhere!!! I asked her what that result meant but all she would say is it was not good.
Is it all doom and gloom
As part of the pre-op assessment they test blood sugar (sorry if that is the wrong term new to this)
The first reading was 16.5 which seemed to surprise the nurse, she made me wash my hands and then re did the test which read 20.8. At this point she said I think that the machine is playing up and went to get another tester. When she came back and did it again with a new machine the reading was 17.5.
She then said the staff nurse would be along to see me.
The staff nurse then gave me a form for a fasting blood test which I had on Wednesday morning. I told the staff nurse that I was away until Sunday in Ireland at a wedding and she said to call on Monday to see if operation is going ahead.
The staff nurse called me on my mobile in Ireland on Friday to say that my fasting result was 13.9 and that i needed to collect my results and take them to my GP on Monday and that my operation would not be going ahead.
This has come out of nowhere!!! I asked her what that result meant but all she would say is it was not good.
Is it all doom and gloom