As some of you may remember i have been in limbo between hospitals and receiving no support since diagnosis, After seeing the new consultant a few weeks ago my control suddenly changed to very poor to so so (no serious mid to high 20's anymore) and was feeling rather proud even managed to get a few in range readings!
Monday this week despite not changing my doses my levels suddenly soared high, early of Wednesday morning i woke up at 28.4 and felt like i was dying of thirst, by Wednesday morning my sugars had dropped to 18 but found 3+ketones. GP told me to go to A&E urgently and was confirmed had DKA drips insulin and 2 canulas later was feeling good!
I was transferred to Emergency Assessment unit and BM checked every hour, the ward was great EXCEPT FOR NIGHT TIME STAFF!!!! I have since lodged a complaint with the hospital as had so many problems, Going hypo on sliding scale due to BMs not being checked when they should be, staff refusing to give me info on my treatment using the words 'ive sorted it out' staff aggressive and rude to elderly patients etc.
Last night was the worst, i came of sliding scale and went back to managing my own treatment, my levels rockets to 21 when i was injected with actrapid by the nurse i was being sick and was very vacant, felt like i was floating up above looking down. My better half was worried sick but had to leave to collect our daughter (on top of all the medical stress it was first time i had spent time away from our baby and really upset me). i then felt like was hypoing which i was the nurse went to fetch me something and returned about 15 minutes later with some toast which she put on the bed and walked off not to be seen again for ages, while i struggled with the worst and longest hypo i have had. There was no follow up from her on how my sugars where even tho i had told how i had run out of test strips from my own supply she never checked my sugars again till the morning.
I am furious with care i recieved those 2 nights and the total lack of compassion and care.
luckily i am home now and can start battling to get my sugars under control which isnt easy am going from hyper to hypo in space of an hour or 2. one thing for sure im not going back to that ward anytime soon, my other half could have handled most of the care better himself than the nurses and assistants did and after less than 4 hours sleep in total since tuesday night i plan on sleeping all weekend!
Monday this week despite not changing my doses my levels suddenly soared high, early of Wednesday morning i woke up at 28.4 and felt like i was dying of thirst, by Wednesday morning my sugars had dropped to 18 but found 3+ketones. GP told me to go to A&E urgently and was confirmed had DKA drips insulin and 2 canulas later was feeling good!
I was transferred to Emergency Assessment unit and BM checked every hour, the ward was great EXCEPT FOR NIGHT TIME STAFF!!!! I have since lodged a complaint with the hospital as had so many problems, Going hypo on sliding scale due to BMs not being checked when they should be, staff refusing to give me info on my treatment using the words 'ive sorted it out' staff aggressive and rude to elderly patients etc.
Last night was the worst, i came of sliding scale and went back to managing my own treatment, my levels rockets to 21 when i was injected with actrapid by the nurse i was being sick and was very vacant, felt like i was floating up above looking down. My better half was worried sick but had to leave to collect our daughter (on top of all the medical stress it was first time i had spent time away from our baby and really upset me). i then felt like was hypoing which i was the nurse went to fetch me something and returned about 15 minutes later with some toast which she put on the bed and walked off not to be seen again for ages, while i struggled with the worst and longest hypo i have had. There was no follow up from her on how my sugars where even tho i had told how i had run out of test strips from my own supply she never checked my sugars again till the morning.
I am furious with care i recieved those 2 nights and the total lack of compassion and care.
luckily i am home now and can start battling to get my sugars under control which isnt easy am going from hyper to hypo in space of an hour or 2. one thing for sure im not going back to that ward anytime soon, my other half could have handled most of the care better himself than the nurses and assistants did and after less than 4 hours sleep in total since tuesday night i plan on sleeping all weekend!
