MOOOOORNING! How are we all diabeeting today? Bloods running well, quite happy there
First day on the road was fabulous! Driving nanas (and grandads) over twisty Welsh mountain roads on a beautiful sunny day, my very first go at driving the ambulance was over a mountain road and into rush hour Cardiff. At the end of the shift my colleague said “you drove well today”. And then told me he was one of their driving instructors... Glad he hadn’t told me at the beginning! They told me on station I can’t do COVID patients because I have diabetes. So I’m crewed up with a cancer survivor because he can’t either... they’ve put anyone with an underlying health condition together to make up crews of people who can and can’t do COVID jobs. So after about an hour of feeling discriminated against, I’m actually feeling well looked after. I was going to insist that as I’ve cleared Occy Health I can do absolutely anything. But having thought about it for a bit, actually, I think I’ll not kick off. I’ll come across it soon enough, they’re only starting us off on patient transport, so why rush into danger. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. If things go the way they think they’ll go, I’ll be back responding to emergencies pretty soon. And just because I run non diabetic levels, doesn’t make me invincible. Being pragmatic here. And there’s PLENTY of work. Especially lates. People always want to do earlies so I’m very popular indeed with the rota planner. I’m working 1100-1900 today & tomorrow, which is the same hours husbeast works at the post office.
I read somewhere or is it here? That the Coronavirus might affect us more if our hba1c is high? Or something like that? What if your hba1c is high but your TIR is above 75%? I’m only asking because my hba1c did go up in January from 59 to 72. I don’t know about now because I don’t have any appointments in place because of the pandemic.
Morning Mei, not enough is really known, they can only go on stats gathered from patients so far. Long term high blood sugars affect every system of our bodies, as I know that you know - and the immune system and healing mechanisms are no exception. They are telling people with an HbA1c of over 79 to shield, so if you can make sure you’re well protected with PPE, it would be safer.
