Question About Taking Insulin

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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