Friends please bow your heads for a moment of silence. At 2:00pm on August 15th 2014 the dessert pocket was sewn shut! Its been nailed closed. Its been filled with rocks. There will be no desserts eaten for some time.
We have a new player in our little game of hormones! Please welcome Dr Who to the arena. No, nothing to do with science fiction she just has big glasses and an open expression. Dr Who is an endocrinologist and will be managing my diabetes. She was very straight forward and didn't say directly but indicated I had been fooling myself about how well I was handling my sugars. Yes there were unusual circumstances (medications etc) but I need to get a grip RIGHT now. So I'm going to be on insulin once a day long acting and insulin three times at meals short acting with at least four readings a day on my meter. For the foreseeable future. Maybe when I get finished the kidney treatment in 6 months we can look at a tablet solution.
Yep I am well and truly a diabetic and until I get my own insulin sorted I won't get out of here. Nurse educator is due tomorrow to give me my pen and .... education. Dietician is due tomorrow to slap me about portion size.
I still have one little issue and that's my pulse, its in the forties. And for those that are healthy it would be a great thing, a sign that you are fit. for me it means something else is not quite right. They have dropped my second blood pressure med and are watching the pulse and every time I get my obs taken the nurses are a bit freaked but do that " nothing to worry about here side ways dance" all way back to their pals at the nursing station to see what to do. Then they come back with a really relieved look on their face. Or I could be wrong. anyway that's more of what they want to make sure of before they let me go.
So I think I won't be going home tomorrow and I may be on track to go home on Tuesday
Bluey is going home to HB tomorrow because she has a meeting tomorrow night. I may get the train home or she may come back depending on when I actually get released. I'm due back at ICON on Friday anyway so who knows.
More later from the land that dessert forgot. Or is it desserted
Chris
1 comment:
Nnnnnoooooo! Not the dessert pocket! That played a major role in my childhood!
Seriously though, hope you are doing better and outta there soon!
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