steven mortimer
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Hi 🙂 my name is steve and was diagnosed with type one diabetes on Tuesday 26th of Jan 2010. This happen as a result of a mouth infection. Two weeks before this happened I had been feeling tired and just put it down to the work I do as a sales assistant/health & safety trainer/champion within Homebase. When getting home from work I was sleeping for two hous before my evening meal. However only half of the meal was eaten. On Saturday the 23rd I went to work at 7am as normal but by 9.30am my manager told me to go home as he said I looked very ill. As Saturday went on, there was a horrbile metalic taste in my mouth. By Sunday I was sick. Monday afternoon Mum took me to the doctors as she was concerned. The GP prescribed me with Nystatin for oral thrush. Then things took a turn for the worse, I was vomiting every hour from then on. I was still of work on Tuesday morning when Mum looked in on me and immediately called the GP again. Having taken a turn for the worse, I was taken to the doctors who could not believe the drastic change in me. Not being able to speak beacause of a dry mouth and hardly able to walk. The GP did a glucose test which came out at 24.9mmol/L, the GP immediately called the hospital, the hospital asked if I could sit in the chair for a while. The GP was fumming 😡 and said he cannot speak and can hardly walk, he needs IV fluids now! at which the hospital said send him straight up with a cover note. Upon arrival at A&E Mum got someone to push me in in a wheel chair (a detail Mum had to tell me when I eventually was put on a ward), from there I was pushed almost straight away into resus at 1pm.
The consultant who first saw me said it was DKA. An hour later they had pushed six bags of saline & three each of Potassium,glucose & dextrose into my body. After several hours I was moved to AAU where the treatment continued. The following day at 4pm I was addmited onto Linnet ward at Great Western Hospital. The Consultant from that ward who had been assigned to my case came round and told me if I had been mins later getting into hospital the previous day I would have died.😱 But now they know it is type 1 Diabetes
Having Got over the shock of the diagnosis three days later, I settled with the idea of having diabetes. On a possitive note the Prayer support I recieved from my church was overwhelming. In addition to which were all the cards i received and the vists not just from my Mum, Dad & Sister but also from my friends at Church some of whom having been going through a tough time with their own health, not forgetting to metion the medical/non medical staff of Linnet ward. Over all to know that God was working through the medical/non medical staff, He still is in control of everything in my life which gives me an inner peace that words cannot describe, I cannot imagine going through an experience without Him ther beside me day by day, hour by hour,minute by minute and second by second.
The consultant who first saw me said it was DKA. An hour later they had pushed six bags of saline & three each of Potassium,glucose & dextrose into my body. After several hours I was moved to AAU where the treatment continued. The following day at 4pm I was addmited onto Linnet ward at Great Western Hospital. The Consultant from that ward who had been assigned to my case came round and told me if I had been mins later getting into hospital the previous day I would have died.😱 But now they know it is type 1 Diabetes
Having Got over the shock of the diagnosis three days later, I settled with the idea of having diabetes. On a possitive note the Prayer support I recieved from my church was overwhelming. In addition to which were all the cards i received and the vists not just from my Mum, Dad & Sister but also from my friends at Church some of whom having been going through a tough time with their own health, not forgetting to metion the medical/non medical staff of Linnet ward. Over all to know that God was working through the medical/non medical staff, He still is in control of everything in my life which gives me an inner peace that words cannot describe, I cannot imagine going through an experience without Him ther beside me day by day, hour by hour,minute by minute and second by second.
