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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldorado" data-source="post: 890080" data-attributes="member: 184281">Some of these comments have given me such a laugh. Well, you have to laugh really, don't you. Unbelievable.I've been lucky. I haven't heard any similar howlers from doctors, but I did have a bit of a nightmare experience in my local hospital about ten years ago.I was in for a hysterectomy and it had already been postponed once. On arrival on the ward the staff nurse announced that I couldn't be trusted to control my BG and she demanded my kit, which was taken and locked away. I'd only been diabetic for around 20 years, but never mind. I suppose that when you're a patient you are the responsibility of the hospital. I wouldn't have minded too much if the nursing staff hadn't made such a mess of things. My BG was all over the place.Just before surgery a nurse appeared and asked me to put on the weird stockings. I was feeling a bit odd and said 'You'll have to do this. I think my BG is too low. What shall I do? Will the surgery have to be postponed?' Obviously it's not ideal to eat just before surgery.She said something like ' Don't worry. You'll be alright'. And went off somewhere. Never to be seen again. I must have drunk some fruit juice because the surgery went ahead. But they let me go home two days later. I told the doctor what had happened and I think they were worried I'd kick up a fuss so they let me go.My husband has a friend who is an anaesthesiologist. He told me that diabetics routinely present for surgery with a BG of either 2 or 20. I hope things have improved, but somehow I doubt it.</blockquote>

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