Tag: hyperglycemic

Little did I know, this day was the biggest so far…

Driving my niece to school and then appointment at Diabetic Clinic, then tea and thinking. Hopefully not more crying.
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Ketones 2.4, BG 20.4 at 9:30am-tested by the nurse at the Diabetic Clinic. My doctor isn’t available this morning so when the nurse called re: referral for meds she was directed to the doctor in ER. He got freaked out from my high readings and wants to check me out. Feels like a big deal but I don’t feel like things are a big deal.
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(I remember still feeling very numb about all of it/ disbelief.)
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Anyways, I’m in a bed at the back corner of the ER… I hope I’m not here all day. Called ML to tell them that I should probably cancel my shift tomorrow. Weeee! A weekend off!! Haha! I don’t want to be here overnight but I also don’t want to have insulin here and then go home and crash.
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(There’s more here that I didn’t journal- how I was super dehydrated and had an IV of fluids in the ER and that the nurse also showed me how to do the injections right off the bat: ‘You’re going to have to get used to doing it.’)
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Getting admitted. Oh boy! “Soft” admission – more to monitor me and my reaction to meds than anything else. I guess I’ll have time to read that book…
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Just settling up in my room. I’m the youngest of the four patients in this room by about 30 years. Beautiful view of the lake and east to the mountains. So, I was given long and rapid acting insulin (very small amounts =2-4units) mid afternoon in the ER and another 2u of rapid with supper. BG before supper was 15! I haven’t seen it that low. So, I’m admitted so I can get my dosage titrated. As much as I don’t want to be here I’m relieved in a way because being alone out in Balfour with a new insulin order does scare me. The nurse in the ER said I am type 1 but the diabetic nurse said we don’t know yet. My doctor will be in tomorrow to check on me, I’ll ask him. Lifestyle changes include work changes. Lifestyle changes include having a life.

September 17

Waiting for the phone to ring with test results..
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Call came. Fasting BG 16.6. A1C 13.3 (shows my BG have probably been in the 20s for a few months).
Doctor said he dictated a letter to the Diabetic Clinic at hospital. He said if I haven’t heard from them by tomorrow to call them and if I have any problems to call him back.
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Do nice things for yourself today.
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Unexpected tears. I think my brain really thought the A1C would be low, I kinda hoped that the readings I had done were wrong or that my BG was only high from eating poorly through August and with stress and moving. I know this isn’t the end of the world and I know things could be a lot worse but it’s still a really big shock.

August 17

Sleep is all fucky. Awake at 2:30am after 5 hrs… I’m afraid of this… that it is a progression of diabetes – poor wound healing, unexplained weight loss (I’m down to 170 lbs from 180 in June and I’m barely exercising and not eating well at all.) And I’m working way too much… now it’s 3:30 am and technically I have to get up in 1 1/2 hrs and I am feeling exhausted now. Should I try and sleep for an hour? Don’t know if I have a choice, I might have to…