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Hi all . I have recently been discharged from hospital and , happy to say, I’m well and in one piece but there was an incident during my stay on the ward. I have been put on a sliding scale for a period of time awaiting endoscopy and unable to eat for a day. In the mean time I fell asleep early afternoon and was supposed to have my bm checked hourly. I suddenly woke up feeling need for toilet , nth else, and soon collapsed back on the bed and lost consciousness. It turned up my bm hasn’t been monitored regularly and sliding scales ran out of glucose which meant I was asleep having insulin only constantly infused with no glucose to cover. An incident form has not been produced until one of doctors realised what was going on the day after ! With my poor sense for low bgs I’m not sure I would have made it alive if my badder didn’t wake me up.What procedure should I go for apart from hospital internal investigation being carried out atm? Hope it doesn’t happen to anyone ever again in that hospital. It should be a safe place for all patients to be . Any ideas or experience like mine?