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Originally Posted by alicat61

[I find that people in hospitals keep you high just because they are scared that I may get a low. They don't like panic as in a hospital they should understand that to panic is not caring. To understand the patient need rather than just compensating the for the low.)

Whell noted Alicat, When I last in hospital I was tube fed and I was low so I just said get some Lucazade and have that in a big syringe and I just opened up one of the feeding tube's ports and slowly injected the Lucazade in and so I was happy....For a while.

Yes Anthill I can see this happening in some hospitals. Sadly many nurses and doctors are ignorant about diabetes. They either do to much or to little. Some of them like to think they know it all (and know little)
I've seen nurses who want to be diabetic educaters refuse to inject themselve with saline!!(NOW THAT REALLY CHEESED ME OFF)

Yeah.

On the other hand I have seen a nurse try to shove barley sugar into an unconsious patients mouth as her blood sugar was low. (The BSL came up but she choked on the lolly NO luckily she was Ok )

So they have never herd of injectable Glucadon.

One of the things I hate about non diabetics is the judgment Oh you are a bad diabetic as in Naughty because you are eating something that they think you shoudn't.
Also with the medical side of things when you lapse They just rant and rave. (that doesn't help)

They should employ a diabetic in specialize in diabetic care, But then the said know it alls seam to think otherwise and the fight continues.

(I am lucky as I have found a GP and diabetic educater who don't give up on me even though I must frustrate them at times) Take care from Alicat61

Count yourself lucky Alicat.