Yet another newbie

Hi guys and gals - I'm newly diagnosed type 2, but it's probably been lying around in there for some years cos I have real bad peripheral neuropathy among other probs. I have started testing bsls, but haven't had the chance to do the course to learn what they are all about!! Up until today, I have been running at between 8 and 10, with the odd 12, but this morning they came in at 16.8, which I found quite scary, so I did them again a couple of hours later, and got 17.6 - needless to say, I have not done them again :shock: Over here (I'm in Western Australia), we have a free 24 hour medical advice line where you get to talk to a Registered Nurse, and when I told her, she insisted on putting me through to their Doctor, and when I told him, he insisted I take myself immediately, if not sooner, to my nearest Doctor, but being Sunday, and no Doctors nearby, he then insisted I go to nearest hospital within the hour roblem: This was all five hours ago, and as I had a volunteer work commitment that kept me at home for the afternoon, answering phones, I could not do as I was bid. It's now 5.30pm., and I am still alive, and I am wondering what I should do now - I mean, what can they do for me at hospital, that I can't do for myself here in the peace and quiet and comfort of my own home (not to mention a "not to be missed" T.V. program coming up in a couple of hours......Can someone tell me, in the simplest of terms, what a day or two at 16 - 20 can do to me?????