Comments on: the Ugly & the sweet (….was big brother) http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2007/02/25/the-ugly-amp-the-sweet-was-big-brother/ for anyone who has been touched by this disease Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:36:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Arlen Roberts http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2007/02/25/the-ugly-amp-the-sweet-was-big-brother/#comment-4257 Arlen Roberts Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:11:40 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2007/02/25/the-ugly-amp-the-sweet-was-big-brother/#comment-4257 Jeff, I agree with you completely. I ask something of all of you in the group. If I EVER start to sound like I don't care about my patients, PLEASE call me on the carpet. In the file of 'bad' nurses, I had one right after I had my daughter.... C-section. I was post op by about 3 hours, still not allowed to eat or drink anything. My sugar dropped, and I told my nurse I could not take anything PO. She insisted I drink, not one, but TWO glasses of OJ. I argued with her initially, but the sugar got so low, I could not remember the reasoning behind my objection. So, I drank the TWO of them. And proceeded to have such an upset stomach (immediately), she had a bit of a mess to clean up. From there, my husband got another nurse who know what she was doing with a diabetic patient, and gave a little IV glucose. I am a vomiting phobic, but that time I was glad I did! It is my biggest fear to have even a brief moment of being a really stupid nurse. Joan Jeff,

I agree with you completely. I ask something of all of you in the group. If I EVER start to sound like I don’t care about my patients, PLEASE call me on the carpet.

In the file of ‘bad’ nurses, I had one right after I had my daughter…. C-section. I was post op by about 3 hours, still not allowed to eat or drink anything. My sugar dropped, and I told my nurse I could not take anything PO. She insisted I drink, not one, but TWO glasses of OJ. I argued with her initially, but the sugar got so low, I could not remember the reasoning behind my objection. So, I drank the TWO of them. And proceeded to have such an upset stomach (immediately), she had a bit of a mess to clean up. From there, my husband got another nurse who know what she was doing with a diabetic patient, and gave a little IV glucose. I am a vomiting phobic, but that time I was glad I did!

It is my biggest fear to have even a brief moment of being a really stupid nurse.

Joan

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