Just an update,
I had my surgery in Feb which was fine but had several complications afterwards (not diabetes related). Generally the care was good and the nurses were great but they were not too sure about doing the BGs, I soon found out why.
Unfortunately I couldn't eat for 5 days and was exhausted, so they offered to do the BGs for me, that's when the fun started. Their monitor took ages, they had to swipe in thier staff barcodes off their staff cards, then mine off the charts, then calibrate the machine, then could do the BG. As most times one of these stages failed (staff card not readable so had to find a colleagues, chart barcode too crumpled, calibration process not working) it was significantly quicker to do it myself. They were very very embarrassed by the technology not being effective consistently but this was the hospital policy and it did not work. I was worried that thier monitor and mine might not be reading the same as it appeared to be such a problem, so felt happy to let them use mine when I could not ... they were not allowed to according to the Trust policy so I had to. The policy also said that BGs between 4-10 were fine, even though I am much better when at 5-6 !
I lost over a stone in weight and came home with real problems getting back on track. It took a month to get the diet and BGs back on track but at 11 weeks I am still stuggling to keep it below 7.5 overnight and post meals. The nurse now wants me on metformin but I am resisting as I feel its still from my hospital experiecne and should be allowed more time to settle.