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MikeyBikey - The Road Back

rebrascora said:
I wonder if the regrading of your alleged "frailty" was down to you having to forcefully challenge them so often about your diabetes management!! Mind you that should have earned you a "raging bull" upgrade I would have thought and rightly so! Really sorry to hear they are being awkward about your diabetes management again now. I really don't know how you contain your frustration.
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I actually never totally lost and used four letter words. The only occasion was when I was having a r new cannula inserted and I found the first attempt seriously painful and said we best avoid that area. However she only moved it about 1/3rd of an inch and drove the needle straight into a tendon. As you will appreciate my journey at times but I have avoided screaming or swearing bar occasionally swelling under the covers at phantom cramps. But this pain was a level outside what I have ever experienced and I let out the Eff word! The nurse was unphased and moved further up the arm. One person in a nearby bay complained that people in pain should be moved elsewhere. I was not moved but a few days later a person in my bay screamed as two doctors probed a nasty leg ulcer!!
 
PattiEvans said:
I hope it was the person who complained!
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No, it wasn't. The person who screamed was in my bay. Most of the time most of the guys were diabetic with foot problems bar the one with a leg ulcer. The scale of the problem is vast but I now think Libre (or equivalent) should be rolled out to Type IIs as it should reduce complications and long hospital stays.
 
Woke to a BG of 8.0 but breakfast around an hour late as a tissue viability nurse turned up. Finished with a spectacular bandage to just under my knee! I am getting confused by the differing responsibilities of community podiatrists, hospital podiatrists working with the consultant, tissue viability nurses (community and hospital based) and district nurses bar many like passing on responsibility!

When they tested my BG before lunch they said it was higher than expected and I pointed out I had had a late breakfast and that lunch was ll over half-an-hour away. Then because of yesterday they mid-afternoon and over two hours later said there was no .need to test before tea. I insisted they did and it was 2.5 mmol/L lower.

Quite annoying nurse this evening. About 8!00 she pulled the blinds down and offered to turn off the lights! And less than an hour later she offers to do it again! And just before I posted the sister came in and without a word adjusted the bed,! Why?
 
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MikeyBikey said:
Woke to a BG of 8.0 but breakfast around an hour late as a tissue viability nurse turned up. Finished with a spectacular bandage to just under my knee! I am getting confused by the differing responsibilities of community podiatrists, hospital podiatrists working with the consultant, tissue viability nurses (community and hospital based) and district nurses bar many like passing on responsibility!

When they tested my BG before lunch they said it was higher than expected and I pointed out I had had a late breakfast and that lunch was ll over half-an-hour away. Then because of yesterday they mid-afternoon and over two hours later said there was no .need to test before tea. I insisted they did and it was 2.5 mmol/L lower.

Quite annoying nurse this evening. About 8!00 she pulled the blinds down and offered to turn off the lights! And less than an hour later she offers to do it again! And just before I posted the sister came in and without a word adjusted the bed,! Why?
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Words fail.........mmm
 
Had a hypo this evening. After I had eaten some sweet biscuits and a sandwich they decided I should have something called Gluco Boost! Unnecessary as my BG was rising by then. It's quite nauseating and when they brought a second I told them of my experience of chucking up glucose remedies do they left it on the side.. Hypos seem to make hospital staff panic and overtreat them! :(
 
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