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Diabetic man on tv tonight

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Steff

Steff

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On channel 4 at 9 in 24 hours in A&E,he has severe stomach pains and needs immediate surgery as they think part of his gut has died.
Just thought I would give a heads up.
 
SOunds like it might be interesting if I can get the telly instead of one of my resident males...
 
Caroline said:
SOunds like it might be interesting if I can get the telly instead of one of my resident males...
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stick telly on channel 4 and take the batteries out of the remote - that should faze 'em :D
 
Klocky said:
stick telly on channel 4 and take the batteries out of the remote - that should faze 'em :D
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That or tell them if u dont see it there will be a household strike and watch there faces fall. Theres always the internet to watch it on
 
Wish they would hurry up and make him better :(
 
I find it a bit worrying that they thought that, in the end, his problems may have been due to an insulin overdose - and yet they thought it was that some of his gut had died and opened him up! 😱 Good to see that all was well at the end of the programme though 🙂
 
I have to say I've been thinking about that. If he had taken too much insulin wouldn't he have been hypo and wouldn't his glucose levels have shown that? They did ask him at the beginning if he had taken his insulin that morning but we never heard if he was high or low.
At the start with the stomach pains, the breathing problems , the dry mouth, the acidosis I though that they were going to say he had DKA but in the end it was the opposite!
All in all as you say quite disturbing.
 
Not seen it yet shall watch tonight , was it 78 yr old reginald?
 
Steff said:
Not seen it yet shall watch tonight , was it 78 yr old reginald?
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Yes it was, Steff.
At no time did they show if his blood was low. They just said the blood gasses keep going up, not good. Poor Reginald - he looked so poorly.
 
Monica said:
Yes it was, Steff.
At no time did they show if his blood was low. They just said the blood gasses keep going up, not good. Poor Reginald - he looked so poorly.
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Just caught up now what a caring doctor that fares was but were was his daughter goodness me grr.He looked so gaunt and poorly didnt he and at oner point he was left on his own shouting for the nurse x
 
I was watching it by myself and was shouting out nurse ..............thinking if I joined in somebody would come and help him :D
 
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