estherj said:
well, as I see that we are left over from phrases I will tell an anecdote.
You talk about the ignorance of people (with all reason) but the worst is when the ignorant is the doctor or hospital staff.
A few months ago they had to do an intervention (not related to diabetes) and had to be fasting until 6 in the afternoon, then the time of the operation and as it was with anesthesia they did not give me dinner, at most a juice or ayogurt.
I tell the doctor that I am diabetics and that I can not be fasting and less so much time (I always get up between 70 and 90 and if not breakfast in the following 20 minutes, the first hicc of the day is coming) and its only answer is "Well, if you want you can take a candy. "
Take now !!!And stays so comfortable !!hahaha.
Total, I repeat that this is impossible and I explain everything again.
The guy is moving and releases me: "Man, is that I have to enter you from in the morning and put on a glucose serum."
Bingo!!!It was so difficult to get there ?????
By God, who is a serum, not a kidney what you have to give me !!!
The day comes, they enter me and ask my nurse that if I am going to be without eating that how much insulin I put on the slow one and that if I do without the fast.The woman has no idea, she calls her partner and she doesn't know it either, she lian each other and in the end they tell me that the slow one but that the fast does not.
It is not because I am very distrustful but I did controls every 45 minutes because after things like that ... I start to raise the sugar a little and the nurse decides to take off my serum for a while to put it later.Until there well.
At that time the wardens arrive to take me to Quirofano and I tell him that they have to put the serum again and skip me "if they have removed it it will be for something."I insist again, that they have to make me not to sleep like this, that you can give me hypoglycemia.His partner decides to call the nurse and she tells her yes, that she has to put the serum.
To what I go with this story, I, that I am not a doctor, or nurse or anything, do I have to be the one who is saying what they have to do?Is it the one who has to be aware of his work?
Diabetes is a fairly common disease, they should have plenty of knowledge about it, I don't think it is the first diabetic person who goes through Quirofano.
With what tranquility is one in the hospital?Are they not basic knowledge that a doctor and a nurse would have to have?
Anyway, and it was not in a shabby hospital or anything, it was in one of the best hospitals in Madrid (I save the name).
There is that ... I'm about to start going to healers and santeras, seeing what was seen ...
I believe you perfectly because something similar or equal to me happened to me too.
However, I'm glad to know your diabetes and be your own doctor, who better than you.
A hug and continue like this.