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My blood sugars are regularly around 14 when I go to bed. My diabetic nurse is happy with this because at least I won't hypo! I spoke to a GP recently as my sugars are constantly high - mainly due to a combination of the steroids I take and being in pain - but I got no help at all. So can understand how you feel.
Ali H, regarding your comments about putting them in a home. I asked my partner about this as she is a senior carer in a home and I remembered her saying something in the past. She used to take BG readings and give insulin injections, but a decree from above stopped this a couple of years back. Now a nurse visits the home every morning, gives the injections and leaves. So no better off, don't know if it's the same everywhere?Lou 73, for your own sanity and health, ask to be referred to somebody who does care and can help you. It isn't funny, that is way too high and potentially damaging and they should be helping you. What is it with this bloody ridiculous hypo mantra that is trotted out every time???? My parents and you are a million miles away from a hypo. Mum's pre tea reading tonight, 11.3, oh funny that because that is the mmol figure her A1C equates to as a daily average. That is 7 mmol above hypo territory. I am not asking that they gain the control I currently have, but I do feel that we need to regularly be seeing numbers below 10 and that that is not an unrealistic thing to aim for. Oh but more insulin = more weight gain. Not if they do their jobs as healthcare professionals and explain the effect of carbs. My parents laugh in my face when I discuss it, but until somebody in authority reinforces it I might as well pee in the wind. I am seriously considering marketing the house and placing them into a home and calling it a day tonight. I am totally fed up, demoralised and feel we are in the wilderness when it comes to their care. The carers don't turn up, the district nurses don't turn up and now the diabetes nurse has decided a pat on the arm and a smile will suffice. Why should I keep hitting this brick wall, day in, day out? Have you ever sat and watched your parents die, day by day, afflicted by retinopathy, neuropathy, vascular disease etc etc etc a lot of which is brought on by or exacerbated by out of control levels? Thought not and quite clearly she hasn't........
Ali
@Ali H
If I was faced with this dilemma, I would seriusly consider having my parents come to live with me and then I would be able to keep an eye on the bg levels, food and medicstion.
Circumstances sometimes prevail though and prevent patents being cared for by children... No way could I uproot my mum or stepdad a bungalow 160 miles away from their friends to live in a house with me as a Carer... And they aren't diabetic!!
What will happen to us diabetics that have no family???
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