I could use some support. [View all]
My husband woke me up very early this morning to tell me he needed to go to the hospital. He is diabetic, and his blood sugar was getting dangerously high in spite of giving himself some insulin. Since then, he has been admitted to the hospital. They're taking good care of him, and I have every reason to believe he's going to be okay, but I'm all tied up in knots in spite of that. This is the third time in (I think?) 6 years that he's had to be hospitalized due to his blood sugar going through the roof, and he has come through fine in the past, but it's very worrisome that it keeps happening,
Obviously, he is not managing his diabetes as well as he needs to, and I am going to have to get more actively involved. He's very independent and hardly ever asks for help with anything. For a long time after the diagnosis he seemed to be managing fine, and I was happy to let him do so. The first time he had this kind of problem, he was getting over the flu, and the second time it happened, he was recovering from having a lot of teeth removed. Both times, he wasn't eating right, and also got dehydrated, and things kind of spiraled out of control before we knew it. We figured, okay, we will just have to remember to keep an extra close eye on his blood sugar any time he's under the weather.This time, there wasn't any precipitating factor like an illness, which is even more scary. So like I said, I am just going to have to stick my nose into things after this, and try to help him figure out how to keep this from happening again.
Later today, I will call my daughter and ask her to go with me to see him. In the meantime, I need to get some sleep. I was up really last last night (as is my habit), so I had only had about 3 hours of sleep when he shook ms awake to tell me what was going on. I know that if I don't get some sleep soon, I'm going to crash hard at some point. I was too keyed up to feel like sleeping for a while there, but fortunately, writing this has helped me calm down.
That's it for now. Will post again when I have an update.
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