Jason Alcock
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
My wife has been ill for 21 years, Cancer was the first part, an incurable type and the medication she went on caused Diabetes type 2 but until this year I never really got how much of a complete *very bad word* it is.
I mean the Cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia was bad, life threatening bad, in fact 5 out of the 6 patients in her clinical trial died, the Medication that kept it away was likewise bad it caused many side effects and we are 99% sure it caused the Diabetes.
It seems to be so random and nasty.
We handled her diabetes via diet and it was going really well normal results were between 5-7 and I thought that meant she was fine, she healed slower and had problems but still in my head nothing like the horrible side effects of the cancer and medication.
December 27th we had a consult appointment, he was very apologetic as he started talking and you know that is a bad sign, it seems her Kidney's were taking damage from the Diabetes and nothing they could do would stop it.
3 months later complete renal failure but we dealt with it like everything else, home dialysis (peritoneal) made things a little more tricky especially because the fluid you pump in every night is glucose based.
Her average blood glucose via hospital blood test came back as 8.2 not too bad.
And still I never really saw Diabetes as the biggest issue even though it had just killed her Kidney's off.
A week ago she woke up with acid reflux and nausea, we thought like anyone else would a stomach bug or something she ate, well after 4 days of trying everything and it getting worse and her getting weaker at 4am this gone Monday after a talk with 111 she was taken via ambulance to hospital.
I had never heard of a silent heart attack, Diabetes can interfere with the pain network so no chest pains or symptoms you ever see.
It isn't good, two of the three major arteries have blocked and they need to do a test Monday to see if the muscle is dead (as in scar tissue) or still viable, if viable they will look into unblocking the arteries, if not then its medication route.
Her heart is functioning at 15%.
Her Renal failure means she can't have an MRI or CT scan because the dye you use to map the heart has no where to go and will kill, so they have to do a special type of echo cardiogram on Monday.
On the scale of everything my wife has wrong from Cancer to Renal Failure diabetes was always a side note I mean we expected the cancer to get her in the end.
I also wish so called silent heart attacks were advertised more.
On my way to hospital now, for the night visit and to set up her dialysis (I know it better than them)
I mean the Cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia was bad, life threatening bad, in fact 5 out of the 6 patients in her clinical trial died, the Medication that kept it away was likewise bad it caused many side effects and we are 99% sure it caused the Diabetes.
It seems to be so random and nasty.
We handled her diabetes via diet and it was going really well normal results were between 5-7 and I thought that meant she was fine, she healed slower and had problems but still in my head nothing like the horrible side effects of the cancer and medication.
December 27th we had a consult appointment, he was very apologetic as he started talking and you know that is a bad sign, it seems her Kidney's were taking damage from the Diabetes and nothing they could do would stop it.
3 months later complete renal failure but we dealt with it like everything else, home dialysis (peritoneal) made things a little more tricky especially because the fluid you pump in every night is glucose based.
Her average blood glucose via hospital blood test came back as 8.2 not too bad.
And still I never really saw Diabetes as the biggest issue even though it had just killed her Kidney's off.
A week ago she woke up with acid reflux and nausea, we thought like anyone else would a stomach bug or something she ate, well after 4 days of trying everything and it getting worse and her getting weaker at 4am this gone Monday after a talk with 111 she was taken via ambulance to hospital.
I had never heard of a silent heart attack, Diabetes can interfere with the pain network so no chest pains or symptoms you ever see.
It isn't good, two of the three major arteries have blocked and they need to do a test Monday to see if the muscle is dead (as in scar tissue) or still viable, if viable they will look into unblocking the arteries, if not then its medication route.
Her heart is functioning at 15%.
Her Renal failure means she can't have an MRI or CT scan because the dye you use to map the heart has no where to go and will kill, so they have to do a special type of echo cardiogram on Monday.
On the scale of everything my wife has wrong from Cancer to Renal Failure diabetes was always a side note I mean we expected the cancer to get her in the end.
I also wish so called silent heart attacks were advertised more.
On my way to hospital now, for the night visit and to set up her dialysis (I know it better than them)
