- Messages
- 5,227
- Location
- Worthing, UK.
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Not being able to eat as many chocolate digestives as I used to.
I hope Mrs Urb packed a load of jelly babies with your kit when she bought it in. I remember having to tot all the carb up when it was in font of me when I had a knee replacement not all that long ago and there being very little to choose from that wasn’t high sugar, high fat: you’d think carbohydrate content would have been added to the requirements given to the caterers with all the people with diabetes who end up on the Wards..... oh, that could be why so many end up there. By numbers is right. One poor nurse thought my sensor (self funded back then) was one of the ones that’d been stuck on pre op and I had to apologise profusely to her about the shriek when she made to rip it off. Sensors are too new a tech for most, and I suspect successful self-governing diabetes management is rare. Reform is needed!
Beyond belief really isn't it that we're all allowed to manage ourselves every single day, often with minimal medical input, yet the minute we become patients we're not to be trusted - nor given access to the food we choose which is vital to our diabetes management. Madness. Glad you got your stuff out of your locker!They initially locked my stuff in the cupboard above my bed, but at the 1st mealtime I asked a different nurse if I could have my insulin and nobody tried to take it back. Silly.
So yes I am mostly managing my own affairs but I'm on a reduced carb diet at home and here you are not in Matron's good books if you don't eat 3 carby meals a day. And without knowing the carb values, I am struggling a bit. I got a lasagne very wrong yesterday and ended up at 15mmol.
Before the op' they designated me nil-by-mouth from 2am, 2 nights in a row. I asked what I'm supposed to do if I go hypo when I'm NBM and the nurse said she would ask the doctor but I never did get an answer.
They managed me on a sliding scale for a few hours before the actual op which was all new to me.
I have been placed on the Orthopedic ward and I was the only bloke who was mobile. The others all have problems with legs/feet and need assistance. For my last night I have been moved into an isolation room so that they could give my spot to somebody else who needs assistance. It's a bit lonely as there's nobody to talk to but on the other hand, I can do what I like food/insulin wise.
Hope you’re home and feeling a bit less diachallenged now @urbanracer, and your thumb’s healing.
Thanks @Fairygodmother ! Yes I am home now and enjoying home brewed tea and a proper night's sleep without being woken. Doing my best to keep the right hand above the level of the heart as instructed by the doc. Mrs Urb is off shift today and she's being a star as regards helping out with things.
Glad yer home Urb, that should help things along..
Has your arm been strapped up " first aid style?" (I don't know what else to call it.) Half Nelson??
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