My older brother died last Wednesday, of a heart attack at 71. He'd been on statins for many years and 4 x metformin for Type 2.
He was in sheltered housing because of a very low IQ and I was asking his carer for more details.
She said his blood sugar was always a little bit up after the weekend, after eating cakes - around 8.5 or 9 - but that on this morning he'd had his usual breakfast of two weetabix and some bread and butter.
He had been advised that he must eat plenty of carboyhydrates with his diabetes.
This makes me so so cross - can't have cake at the weekend yet has to base his diet on carbohydrates - just what IS the NHS doing ?
Silly question; of course it's trying to get us to take as many drugs as possible.
He was in sheltered housing because of a very low IQ and I was asking his carer for more details.
She said his blood sugar was always a little bit up after the weekend, after eating cakes - around 8.5 or 9 - but that on this morning he'd had his usual breakfast of two weetabix and some bread and butter.
He had been advised that he must eat plenty of carboyhydrates with his diabetes.
This makes me so so cross - can't have cake at the weekend yet has to base his diet on carbohydrates - just what IS the NHS doing ?
Silly question; of course it's trying to get us to take as many drugs as possible.
