I was told that i would have to attend a carb counting course before i got a pump and it would last 5 days, i told the doctor i had been carb counting for 28 years and there was no way was i going. He then got very angry and said there was no pump until i did, i just got up and said we will see about that. I walked to PALS and told them what had happened and they said they would look into it, i waited 3 weeks and got a letter off the hospital manager saying that i would have to have a meeting with them. So on the day i went there was only one person there and she said we have looked at your case and would you do a half day course, i said i no you have been looking into my records and you no you have not got a leg to stand on she muttered a few words. I asked if they had got a letter from my legal team who were going to sue them and put it in the local newspaper, she said she did not no. I agreed to a half day course and by the end of it the person doing the course was over the moon it was over, she started the course off with we have done a study on 50,000 diabetics and this is what we found. I stopped her there and said i was told that every diabetic is different all you are doing is trying to find the middle ground, she said yes every diabetic is different. So we kept going through the different foods and i said that will not work for me and i asked her how long had she been teaching carb counting and she said 4 years as it was a new thing to which i pointed out that i had been doing it since 1979. Near the end of the course the smug doctor came in to ask how it was going and i give the lady her due she said all diabetics are different and that they no their bodies better than anyone, i looked at him and just told him i get my pump next week. He asked who had told me that i said the trusts manager and medtronic, his face was red so i asked did they not send you a letter guess i am getting my pump then. He tried for the next 3 months to make my life hell so i asked the trust to have a meeting with everyone there. We had this meeting and the doctor was lying in the end i had enough and asked him why did you bring me into hospital to try and get the pump to work which he started to raise his voice and started pointing at me so i told him if he kept on shouting and pointing at me i was going to put him through the window. I was asked to wait outside and then called back in and the doctor told me he was sorry about the way he had gone on, i told him it was the others who was under his care and i would not be seeing him again but i did want a copy of the meeting. It was 5 months after i got my pump and i went to a different hospital and the man i saw got my pump under control in 4 weeks. My advice would be to contact Pals and go and seek a legal team. You find there is a new course every year or if you are on insulin they change it when a new one comes out, you find the hospital trusts make deals with different drug companies to use their medication and i am sure i have not seen a copy of you have to go on every couurse they want you to.
