This morning, I woke up to find K with an extremely high BG. Her glucose meter reads "HIGH" instead of a number, which means it's over 600. I fell asleep last night, before she and the caregiver finally got home from dialysis, and apparently she fell asleep on the floor of her closet, before she could think about taking any insulin for her glucose, which was already going up. I've no idea if we can get it down into an acceptable range for them in time, without crashing it. If it goes too low, with no food intake allowed since midnight, she won't be able to recover without canceling the surgery due to food in stomach. This is unbelievably frustrating.
Update- They just deferred the deferred surgery. Her BG was coming down rapidly, and at 11, when she was supposed to go into surgery, it was fast approaching the number they said yesterday would have been acceptable. I question their reasoning for canceling. Sounds like they will admit her today, and "get her BG stabilized" before they do the surgery later or tomorrow. But I question their ability to do any better a job with BG, considering recent past experience. I guess if I just stopped sleeping, I could watch it all night for her, and this wouldn't have happened. What a slacker.
Update- She's been admitted to Swedish Hospital. No surgery slots available this afternoon or tomorrow morning. They'll try again tomorrow afternoon, pre-op at 1pm, surgery at 3pm.
And now begins the frantic effort to cancel or reschedule every activity she had scheduled between now and Saturday morning...
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