In hospital
14 years ago
General
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Greetings all
I am posting this from my phone at the hospital so pardon any typos.
I came here yesterday when my friend Mykell brought me. Thought I was just having troubles with high bloodsuger. Found out it was much more serious as I was diagnosed with severe diabetic ketoacidosis. I have now been in the hospital for 27 hours and am still not sure when I will get out. I am doing better now the DKA is subsided and I am just being kept under observation. Will update you all as I can.
Sed
I am posting this from my phone at the hospital so pardon any typos.
I came here yesterday when my friend Mykell brought me. Thought I was just having troubles with high bloodsuger. Found out it was much more serious as I was diagnosed with severe diabetic ketoacidosis. I have now been in the hospital for 27 hours and am still not sure when I will get out. I am doing better now the DKA is subsided and I am just being kept under observation. Will update you all as I can.
Sed
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I'm sorry to hear, hun. Please, feel better soon. :c
Really hope things get better and miss you tons
The joy that is type 1 diabetes. (Yeah, can happen in type 2, but is incredibly rare)
It's what used to kill diabetics before they introduced insulin.
That's exactly how I ended up finding out I was diabetic actually. Though I was in there for about 6 days though. (That said, they don't kick people out of hospital in Oz ASAP like they do there.)
I hope you can get your glucose under control. DKA is fucking horrible and, as I'm sure you are aware, can be fatal. =(
I hope the rest of the season gets better and you get it under control. =3
And as I've said before, don't beat yourself up about it. DKA can hit even the most strictly regulated diabetic (of which I'm far from one! lol)
It's like hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic episodes - you're going to get them too, unfortunately.
As to the amount of days, I'd probably have been released after 2 or 3 normally. But since I was newly diagnosed and it was a weekend, I had to wait until I'd been seen to a diabetic nurse, etc.
That and I was from a regional area (50km from the town with the hospital), had stuff all vision, etc. ;)
(My BGL was a tad over 28mmol/L or 502mg/dL, and I had obvious DKA by the acetone smell)
Look after yourself, my friend! Hoepfully no more hospital journals!