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<blockquote data-quote="ladybird64" data-source="post: 991271" data-attributes="member: 29023"><p>I wrote about this on the forum before, quite a while ago. My issue wasn't so much with the food offered (standard stuff, cereal and toast for brekkie, potatoes etc for dinner) but more with the attitude in general. I was an inpatient twice while I was having IV chemotherapy, I also had daily radiotherapy and on the second admission, I was bedbound and in quite a state.</p><p>I asked the miserable so and so bringing round the drinks if I could have one sugar in my coffee, my taste was skewed and it made it more palateable. She threw (and I do mean threw) a sweetener on my table. When I said I didn't use sweetener and would like one sugar instead, she told me I couldn't have it as I was diabetic. Never mind the rubbish like ice cream that was put in front of me..</p><p>I had enough on my plate so I didn't want high bg's too, as that makes me feel really ill.</p><p></p><p>I did raise this with staff, although on an oncology ward, I appreciated they had more important things to deal with. It was the fact that I was labelled, like a child and was to have no say in what I ate at such a difficult time.</p><p>Luckily, one of the other ladies who brought round the evening meals, noticed that I kept refusing the food on offer - I wasn't being awkward, it would have made me feel awful. We got talking and she was interested in what I had to say, as her hubby was a T2, she had never heard of the link between low carbing and diabetic control. That lovely lady went I nto the kitchen every evening to find me bits of chicken breast, cheese, ham - things I could stomach in small quantities, and I was so grateful. I think it is an individual choice, we have to weigh up the situation at that time but be prepared to be offered high carb foods, as that is what the NHS has deemed fit for us. We can either accept it, or refuse it. But I certainly think it's worth feeding back to the hospital that we follow a lower carb diet (if that's the case) and why - it's probably the best we can do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ladybird64, post: 991271, member: 29023"] I wrote about this on the forum before, quite a while ago. My issue wasn't so much with the food offered (standard stuff, cereal and toast for brekkie, potatoes etc for dinner) but more with the attitude in general. I was an inpatient twice while I was having IV chemotherapy, I also had daily radiotherapy and on the second admission, I was bedbound and in quite a state. I asked the miserable so and so bringing round the drinks if I could have one sugar in my coffee, my taste was skewed and it made it more palateable. She threw (and I do mean threw) a sweetener on my table. When I said I didn't use sweetener and would like one sugar instead, she told me I couldn't have it as I was diabetic. Never mind the rubbish like ice cream that was put in front of me.. I had enough on my plate so I didn't want high bg's too, as that makes me feel really ill. I did raise this with staff, although on an oncology ward, I appreciated they had more important things to deal with. It was the fact that I was labelled, like a child and was to have no say in what I ate at such a difficult time. Luckily, one of the other ladies who brought round the evening meals, noticed that I kept refusing the food on offer - I wasn't being awkward, it would have made me feel awful. We got talking and she was interested in what I had to say, as her hubby was a T2, she had never heard of the link between low carbing and diabetic control. That lovely lady went I nto the kitchen every evening to find me bits of chicken breast, cheese, ham - things I could stomach in small quantities, and I was so grateful. I think it is an individual choice, we have to weigh up the situation at that time but be prepared to be offered high carb foods, as that is what the NHS has deemed fit for us. We can either accept it, or refuse it. But I certainly think it's worth feeding back to the hospital that we follow a lower carb diet (if that's the case) and why - it's probably the best we can do. [/QUOTE]
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