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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

PenguinMum said:
Hope you are ok Canvaspic and they treat the actual problem before discharging you. I hate being in any hospital. I always starve lol (and that was before diabetes) the food is utter rubbish. Hope someone is bringing some in for you.
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It is odd isnt it that hospitals of all places serve the quality of food they do.....
 
Get well soon
 
Get well soon @Canvaspic
 
You take care @Canvaspic - maybe delay the keto for a while? @PenguinMum Great news re fbg - maybe treat both high and low as imposters - Kiplingesque. @OrsonKartt The other bizarre thing about hospital food, which I have never actually needed to eat, is how there appears to be no medical/dietician supervision on what a patient selects in relation to their condition.
 
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Sounds scary @Canvaspic hope you are up and about again soon
 
I am just going to smile at todays reading..tomorrow is something else! Re hospital food they do claim to supervise choices according to patient requirements but because most meals are costed less than a chocolate bar the choice is poor quality protein and loads of mushy starch and low fat of course. All cooked in an industrial site and kept warm for hours. I always get my family to bring cold food in.
 
When they stripped out hospital kitchens nutrition went too. I havent much good to say about the health service in Ireland but my mother got meals like salmon and fresh veg and roast dinner cooked in the hospital basement kitchen.
 

Please take good care sorry to read this @Canvaspic (liked out of sympathy)
 
Get well soon.
 
good morning all

4.4 today

sunny but quite windy today, am about to brave the seafront to get a loaf for mr. gee (we go through about 2/3rd of a small loaf a week). Probably carry on round the village

Sad reminder of what can happen yesterday, we met a friend of mr. gee's from where he used to work when we were coming out of the hospital (just me in for a follow up meeting ), he was in a wheelchair waiting to be pushed across to the car so his wife could drive him home.

Told us he was in a lot of pain, had finally visited the doctor because got fed up of not feeling well and kept falling asleep, you've guessed it, he was diagnosed with type2 a couple of weeks ago. He has what sounds like quite bad neuropathy in both legs/feet and this was his first appt. at the hospital, they've told him he 'left it quite late' and it may take 6 months for the pain to improve so you can imagine how he was feeling.
Thin, wiry, constantly active farmer, now just getting to retirement age.

He was tired and upset so we didn't have much conversation but mr. gee told him I 'm type 2 and had been diagnosed about two and a half years. He asked if it was going ok with me and asked mr. gee to visit. We often pass his home when walking mum's dog so I think we'll call in next time. I remember how overwhelming it seems when you are first diagnosed.

Keep fighting everyone and have a good day
 
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