Hello,
I introduce myself, and ask some questions at the end first of all thanks for being there, it is a great help for those who started being able to read this forum.
I am 53 years old and last month they operated to resect a tumor in Vater's blister (where bile ducts flow into the duodenum), for the Whipple procedure, removing the duodenum, the gallbladder, and the head of the pancreas.By complications, two days later they had to operate again to remove the rest of the pancreas and the spleen.
Thus, very summarized, I will say that I was 1 month in hospital, but I am currently at home without more complications, it only remains to recover strength and that it finishes healing the incision.I have fought for cancer hairs, but I have come full of diabetes.
I am starting then in this and I have been reading a lot, learning from everyone and above all to contemplate life from another perspective.
I have empathized with many of the people who write here since they describe how hard it is sometimes and also the strength and mood they have, they are a greataid.
I have my moments of Baba, since as much as I would like to feed myself well and not take junk food or refined or fat or sweet .., etc., this is a 180º turn regarding what I have to consider according to my eyes ...They have interrupted ... and on top, it was apprehensive to the needles jjjejje
I am pending psychology in the hospital, and that in the association of diabetics of my town they meet, after the holidays.I suppose that when the convalescence of surgery ends I can have a better mood to face this new life.
In the hospital the diabetes nurses and the endocrine have been teaching me to click, to measure before eating and 2 hours later, to inject slow and fast insulin with its accessories, now I am pointing out the fast insulin and the rations that as, butWhat I still have to expect is what I read in some messages, which is to be able to prick more fast insulin if they eat more HC.They say in the hospital that when you control this phase, we will go to the next.
I still have no idea, and in some situations I overwhelm myself because I prefer to stop eating HC, to see climbs from those who do not know how to react, other times I have no idea how to calculate the HC (for example food already preparedof my mother ... like the Manchego ratatus of which I obviously do not know the amount of each ingredient ... meals that we do not weigh at home, as a salad with several ingredients, ..).I don't know, I suppose they are common situations to the people we debut in this.
To top it off, Abbot Freestyle Opium Neo glucometer turns out that it cannot be used with Mac for reports.They told me when I called them that I had given them faults and had disabled him.I would do very well to visualize the trend, the peaks, ...
The questions that arise right now, are:
- Is there any app to point the newspaper that I have to do right now?(Meals, portions, glycemia, injected insulin, etc)
- What tips are there to face family meals on Christmas dates without much depressed?
- What menus are not the typical of meat/fish with salad?Because sometimes, to simplify the decisions of what we eat today, it is the only thing that approaches a glycemia trend within the advisable ranges.As long as I can't/know how to prick according to the HC you eat, I don't know how to vary the menu.
- What should I take into account now as essential to have the least possible problems in the future?(I say it becauseThe endocrine and nurses tell me that for many peaks that have hyperglycemia, that there is no problem, as long as it does not pass from limits, of course ... and I believe that it is not logical if I want to prevent the medium and long term).
Thanks, greetings,