Thanks everyone! I'm back at my parents now getting a cuddle from my 7 month old nephew, enough to make anyone feel better!
Throat really isn't too bad, no worse than my usual bouts of tonsillitis. Hospital has only checked my BG twice since I went in, and not at all since I came out of theatre which I though was completely outrageous. I've obviously been checking myself and running a touch high at 13.6 just before I left, but no one in the hospital checked or asked if i had checked myself!
I've got some low sugar jelly setting and my mum has made up some ice lollies using my usual diluting juice so I can have as many as I like without affecting my BG. Glad it's over now!