Hospital almost killed my dad :(
For those of you wondering where the heck I disappeared to after Friday, let me catch you all up. My dad, as you'll know if you read this blog, has been in the hospital since Father's Day because he fell and broke his leg. Here, the saga continues.
My father's regular doctor is in Columbia - some 30 minutes from here, and does not practice in our local hospital. Ok, normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but for some reason the doctors here from Sentinel Health Partners are apparently suffering from God complexes and/or went to medical school via the internet for 3 months before printing out their license.
Without conferring with my dad's doctor (Dr. Smith in Columbia), doctors here from Sentinel Health (not the hospital - that's Kershaw County Medical Center) decided to change his insulin. The man has a broken leg, they decide to screw around with his diabetes. He's normally on 45 units in the morning and 35 in the afternoon of a certain brand (Humulus? or something 70/30)
They not only changed the brand - they decided - with zero knowledge of his medical history - and without conferring with his regular doctor - to change him to a 'sliding scale' which put him at around 8 units a day. HELLO???
So, within a few days the man's sugar spiked up to 296 from his normal 110-140 levels. They were baffled by this. DUH.
Ok, so finally, on Friday, when I went to see him I learned about all this and found out that he'd stopped eating all together and felt terrible. He was also a bit clammy and had developed a large sore on his shoulder. He was also NOT on a diabetic diet through the hospital cafeteria. They said he was - but folks, since when do you serve a meal to a diabetic that consists of ham, rice, stuffing, jello, and mixed fruit??? How many starches is that??
Not only that - but they were using glucose - a sugar - in his IV bag to help with the antibiotics. Uh - this could have been done with saline solution people.
The man was in the hospital for a broken LEG - and they were trying to kill him! So, on Saturday morning when I saw his nurse - I asked her about this. All of this. She responded that he was on a diabetic diet (sorry, I still disagree with that) and that if my dad wanted he could refuse the treatment for his diabetes. So, I went to his house, got his kit, and brought it back. My mom gave him his late afternoon dose of 35 units of his brand of insulin and 45 minutes later his sugar started falling. It was 245 when we left. The next morning it was 183 and this morning (Monday) it was 117.
His Sentinel Health doctors were a tad put out that he'd chosen to ignore his orders and said they were 'relieving themselves of his case' - thank God! I can't imagine he would have survived much longer with sugar levels that high thanks to their 'medical expertise' - even one of his male nurses had the GALL to say my dad's meds wouldn't be as good as those he was instructed to give my dad. When he checked my dad's sugar he was really arrogant about saying 'It's 183' and my dad said "Well, thats far and away better than 296 that it's been all week - get out of my room."
I have to laugh at my dad sometimes. Anyway, so that's why I disappeared this weekend :(
My father's regular doctor is in Columbia - some 30 minutes from here, and does not practice in our local hospital. Ok, normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but for some reason the doctors here from Sentinel Health Partners are apparently suffering from God complexes and/or went to medical school via the internet for 3 months before printing out their license.
Without conferring with my dad's doctor (Dr. Smith in Columbia), doctors here from Sentinel Health (not the hospital - that's Kershaw County Medical Center) decided to change his insulin. The man has a broken leg, they decide to screw around with his diabetes. He's normally on 45 units in the morning and 35 in the afternoon of a certain brand (Humulus? or something 70/30)
They not only changed the brand - they decided - with zero knowledge of his medical history - and without conferring with his regular doctor - to change him to a 'sliding scale' which put him at around 8 units a day. HELLO???
So, within a few days the man's sugar spiked up to 296 from his normal 110-140 levels. They were baffled by this. DUH.
Ok, so finally, on Friday, when I went to see him I learned about all this and found out that he'd stopped eating all together and felt terrible. He was also a bit clammy and had developed a large sore on his shoulder. He was also NOT on a diabetic diet through the hospital cafeteria. They said he was - but folks, since when do you serve a meal to a diabetic that consists of ham, rice, stuffing, jello, and mixed fruit??? How many starches is that??
Not only that - but they were using glucose - a sugar - in his IV bag to help with the antibiotics. Uh - this could have been done with saline solution people.
The man was in the hospital for a broken LEG - and they were trying to kill him! So, on Saturday morning when I saw his nurse - I asked her about this. All of this. She responded that he was on a diabetic diet (sorry, I still disagree with that) and that if my dad wanted he could refuse the treatment for his diabetes. So, I went to his house, got his kit, and brought it back. My mom gave him his late afternoon dose of 35 units of his brand of insulin and 45 minutes later his sugar started falling. It was 245 when we left. The next morning it was 183 and this morning (Monday) it was 117.
His Sentinel Health doctors were a tad put out that he'd chosen to ignore his orders and said they were 'relieving themselves of his case' - thank God! I can't imagine he would have survived much longer with sugar levels that high thanks to their 'medical expertise' - even one of his male nurses had the GALL to say my dad's meds wouldn't be as good as those he was instructed to give my dad. When he checked my dad's sugar he was really arrogant about saying 'It's 183' and my dad said "Well, thats far and away better than 296 that it's been all week - get out of my room."
I have to laugh at my dad sometimes. Anyway, so that's why I disappeared this weekend :(
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