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pidunk 04:01 am UTC 07/21/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Is This All That You Guys Had To Do While I Was In The Hospital? - daveake 10:47 pm UTC 07/20/07 |
> You've made my point for me, thankyou. If you go in and > they diagnose low blood sugar, why do they then starve you > for 72 hours? Low blood sugar + nothing for 72 hours = no > more pidunk. > Actually, they would have had greater success achieving such a goal if there had been a 72 hour Daveake. But, such as it is, it was only a fast. They did not give the fast until around 32 hour after the hypoglycemic episode was observed. The part I didn't understand was why, when they saw that I was obviously hypoglycemic, did they need the diagnostic test to diagnose it? So they said, they needed to see the causes of the hypoglycemia, rather than the diagnosis itself. They were not exactly clear, but said that they thought they needed to check for the presence of a tumor. They were concerned about a tumor because the level was so low that nobody including myself had ever heard of it. The doctor told me the number which I thought was on another scale, and asked what it meant. Same scale, lowest number he ever saw, but he had the test conducted himself. So, they put me through this, and what the options were to that, if I had chosen to defy their advice, I don't know. They were selling it like a car. They didn't say I could go home or have the test. They said I had to have the test. They didn't say I could have the test the next week, they said I had to have the test that night. I was admitted Saturday evening after I don't know what kind of wait there was, into a diabetic ward where I seemed to have been the only hypoglycemic. It was in a PCU unit, where they limit visitors to ten minutes each, and I was monitored three different places beeping at me all night long and two IV lines, one for each arm. They told me what they wanted to do on Sunday, moved me to another unit where they conduct clinical research including blood sugar studies mostly on diabetics, and though I no longer had the beeping monitors, I still had two IV lines. They wanted the two lines in case they needed to take blood from one and give sugar to the other, so they said, but if I needed sugar I thought, they could wait for the blood....but I also thought that if I needed sugar and one line was not working, the backup line could give me the dextrose. I figured they just didn't want to say that. They kept checking how well the lines worked. Those were ostensibly, if the push came to the shove, my feeding conduits. Living on the edge, is most applicable a phrase. I didn't know, and they didn't know, if the reading of the ER was going to repeat itself, but if it did, they were ready. I didn't know, and they didn't know, if I was going to have a twelve hour fast or a seventy two hour fast, according to what was underlying the phenomenon. I made one condition with them, that they tell me what the glucose levels were at every reading. They at first were going to let me go through this without knowing how low a level was going, and I said I could not go for that. There was alot that I asked before saying I would do it. If they would have given me the option I could have checked out and returned to the hospital during the next week for the test, after having appropriately prepared for three days away, but they indicated it was urgent to do. It was all confusing to me. How could I have disagreed with them after having passed out? | |
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