Re: Cream for leg problem, was: Re: Question About Taking Insulin

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I forget what they are called. Just moisturizing lotion and this other

cream in a round jar tht had on his night stand at the hospital.

There is one cream in a tube that is something like neosporin or whatever it

is. It is just a rough spot on my heel on the bottomm and it hurts like

heck even if he does not seem to think it is infected by the way it looks.

Question About Taking Insulin

> >

> > Hi All,

> > has been home one week and he has been taking some insulin

> > whenever his blood sugar comes above 120, well, we go above 125 and he

> is

> > being tested four times a day because they were concerned about the

> > glucose content in the food he gets in the feeding tube and the fact he

> > has pancreatitis.

> > So they may be over cautious with him. It was a bugger getting the

> > insurance to pay for the insulin and the pharmacy was wonderful enough

> to

> > let him have a box the first night Georgie tried to pick it up. I think

> it

> > has 100 units in there and it is so tiny.

> > Georgie has been injecting and we are using my Prodigy because

> the

> > meter and test strips they supplied with 's prescription are not

> > compatible with each other. He has the ten strips with his meter and

> they

> > claim to be the same company yet are made differently than the separate

> > strips. Lucky I had bought that supply of test strips and have just

> > started the ones I got from CCS Medical.

> > Well, I decided to get a couple testings right when I get up before my

> > medication in the morning and give it to the doctor today. when he

> comes.

> > I had 151, 170 and today a whopping 230.

> > I think I know he is going to put me on insulin. I have been dreading

> it.

> > Now, what do you guys recommend I get so I can give it to myself or can

> I

> > do with what they provide. I see what a tiny amount 2 units must be and

> it

> > gives me the Willies along with just thinking of injecting myself. It

> even

> > gives me Willies to think of Georgie doing it to me. I still skip a

> beat

> > when he does the lancet for testing even though I have had two months

> to

> > get used to it.

> > I still have about 28 glyburides left in this bottle but I think he is

> > going to make a change and I am anxious about what he is going to say

> > about my foot too.

> > I had a rough night with calling me every 5 or 10 minutes

> between

> > 1:30 and 3:30 this morning until I just started crying and could not

> stop

> > and told him nothing could be so important as to call me that many

> times

> > in two hours. It was just little things like move his leg an inch this

> or

> > that way, straighten his head pillow, pick him upward in the ged, pull

> him

> > up toward the head of the bed, move his arm, recover his site where the

> > feeding tube is, just dittling with this and that.

> > I felt awful and am darned scared of what Dr. will say and do

> > about my case. Also have to keep track of some matters about 's

> > case.

> > It was an awful setback to burst out crying in front of him when he is

> so

> > weak and helpless. But I really did feel he was pulling my chain for

> > security or I should say insecurity reasons.

> > So maybe you can put my mind a little more at ease about insulin as you

> > did about testing.

> > Thanks.

> > Lora

> >

> >