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<blockquote data-quote="grannyx3" data-source="post: 1552845" data-attributes="member: 113623"><p>I've only been in hospital to give birth to my three children (1979, 1981, 1988). The food was always late arriving on the ward and then microwaved in the ward kitchenette. Disgusting slop! My friends popped in at lunchtime with a meal for me having put together a rota, and my husband brought in my evening meal. Breakfast was a boiled or scrambled eggs and toast. When my children were on Special Care Baby Unit the sister in charge, who had type 1 diabetes herself, used to ring through my meal request to the staff canteen and go and collect it from them for me to eat. She had many arguments on my behalf and in the end, with the consultants support, it was arranged for the above to happen. The sad things is, that doesn't seemed to have changed. We are constantly being told by doctors/nurses the importance of eating correctly and keeping good control of your blood sugar. How crucial it is to avoid problems (they then proceed to try and frighten you to death by giving you a gruesome ending) but are totally incapable of providing you with correct diet options. I complained to our local hospital on my fathers behalf , about the poor care he was given during a stay. One mealtime because his bm was low they loaded him with food and decided not to give him his insulin! When I visited him and he told me that he fell unwell, I took his bm which read 32! Another time they 'forgot he was diabetic'! He was really confused one day on visiting him, I again did his bm 1.9. They had nothing on the ward to give him, so sent a nurse to another to another ward to see if they had! When she got back my dad was sat in his chair chatting away.......revived by MY lucozade and hypo snack. I got told off for administering 'substance that wasn't suitable for a diabetic'! I told them not to try and teach me how to suck eggs, I've been type 1 for 51 years. Nuff said ....I went on a BIG mission and actually got each ward a 'hypo box'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grannyx3, post: 1552845, member: 113623"] I've only been in hospital to give birth to my three children (1979, 1981, 1988). The food was always late arriving on the ward and then microwaved in the ward kitchenette. Disgusting slop! My friends popped in at lunchtime with a meal for me having put together a rota, and my husband brought in my evening meal. Breakfast was a boiled or scrambled eggs and toast. When my children were on Special Care Baby Unit the sister in charge, who had type 1 diabetes herself, used to ring through my meal request to the staff canteen and go and collect it from them for me to eat. She had many arguments on my behalf and in the end, with the consultants support, it was arranged for the above to happen. The sad things is, that doesn't seemed to have changed. We are constantly being told by doctors/nurses the importance of eating correctly and keeping good control of your blood sugar. How crucial it is to avoid problems (they then proceed to try and frighten you to death by giving you a gruesome ending) but are totally incapable of providing you with correct diet options. I complained to our local hospital on my fathers behalf , about the poor care he was given during a stay. One mealtime because his bm was low they loaded him with food and decided not to give him his insulin! When I visited him and he told me that he fell unwell, I took his bm which read 32! Another time they 'forgot he was diabetic'! He was really confused one day on visiting him, I again did his bm 1.9. They had nothing on the ward to give him, so sent a nurse to another to another ward to see if they had! When she got back my dad was sat in his chair chatting away.......revived by MY lucozade and hypo snack. I got told off for administering 'substance that wasn't suitable for a diabetic'! I told them not to try and teach me how to suck eggs, I've been type 1 for 51 years. Nuff said ....I went on a BIG mission and actually got each ward a 'hypo box'. [/QUOTE]
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