Hospital as an emergency.

[TinaD]

Thankfully not Covid but a "summer cold" which exacerbated my COPD so 6 days of 40mg pednisolone on top of intravenous antibiotics. Nebulizer was a life saver during the 3 days of "drowning." Blood sugars and blood pressure way up. Some part of the latter must be ascribed to the NHS catering staff. "Cornflakes or wheatabix?" No thank you I am a diet controlled diabetic. "Toast?" Repeat No thank you.. " Sandwhich?" Black tea. "Sugar?" At every meal time this was repeated with no sensible offer of food proferred although sympathetic nursing staff did sneak me some cheese from the ward fridge. Escaped a day earlier than they planned by chatting to a sensible Asian Dr about the benefits of ghee which so softened him - "Eat ghee live 100 years" - that he let me go. Son in law sensibly brought low carb supplies in car, probably protecting himself from being eaten by Ma-in-law. It is going to take some time to work down to normal limits of BG but why is the NHS incapable of realising that it is not sensible to make a problem worse by stuffing T2s with carbs particularly when they are on steroids? Ecologist daugher and geological engineer husband, who are by preference high carb/low meat eaters, can grasp the need for different diet for me - lovely bit of roast beef with above ground veggies waiting - so why cannot the NHS? Oh well, moan over, need to go and baste the chicken the kids left me....

 

[Ljc]

I agree Hospital food , carbs ,carbs and yet more carbs. They seem to deem everything is fine for all diabetics, including jam sponge and custard.

I hope you are fully recovered now.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Glad to see you are home and on the way to a full recovery. Besides the food I would suspect the steroids would have sent your blood sugars into orbit as well.

 

[Gwynn]

Yup same here. I was admitted to hospital and diagnosed as a diabetic but the food at all meal times was completely wrong for a diabetic. Absolutely no way round the problem. Its as if the catering side has nothing to do the the ward/medicalnside.

I starved, but it could have made me ill.

In a hospital !!!

Not impressed

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear you had a tricky time in hospital @TinaD

Has your course of steroids finished now? Hope your BGs are beginning to return to normal.

 

[TinaD]

Sorry to hear you had a tricky time in hospital @TinaD

Has your course of steroids finished now? Hope your BGs are beginning to return to normal.

Another day to go on 40mg. BG is dropping back now I can drink copious amounts of fluids and eat rather than refuse food. Temperature is down and breathing, whilst wheezy/gooey with productive cough, is getting oxygen to the lungs - back up to 98%. FBG down to 6.3 this a.m. so sliding back down towards normal limits. 0 carbs for a few days will hopefully see me back in the low 5s. One bonus have lost another 3 kilos and now have BMI of 21...gotta take the wins when you get 'em.

 

[Kaylz]

I was admitted to hospital and diagnosed as a diabetic but the food at all meal times was completely wrong for a diabetic

You were originally diagnosed as a Type 1 though were you not? So really it wasn't completely wrong as in theory Type 1's can eat just what anyone else would eat xx

 

[Kaylz]

I agree it must be much more difficult as a non insulin dependant diabetic in hospital

I was admitted to be diagnosed and didn't get discharged until the following afternoon, for breakfast I was given porridge with sugar and then a white roll and jam, for dinner it was vegetable soup and a sandwich but they were controlling the insulin xx