Kay's blood test is back.

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I took Kay to the lab for a recheck of the potassium.   Don't expect necessarily a completely honest report by the doctor.  I think they minimize things in order not to alarm the patient.  But they said the potassium was ok.  But there is OK and then there is a real healthy OK.  They can consider what is healthy for a young person then there are readings that they consider healthy for an old person.  But you can die from the ok reading for an old person.  Like an a1c reading for a diabetic as an example. A healthy young person will get a reading of less than 5.0 a1c. But there is a wide range of what is OK for an older person according to doctors.  Actually it boils down to what the Dr figures he can manage without causing  the patient to died from an overdose of Insulin.  This is the result of the patient being totally ignorant of how to manage their own diabetes Expecting the doctor to do it for them.  But as the dr can not be there every time the patient takes a bite of something to adjust the mediction it s impossible for the Dr. to manage it.  That is the reason the doctors let the blood sugar run so high.  Medication prescribed to take care of  the b/g to a close tolerance makes it very easy to overdose and die from hypogylcemia.  In King county Washington State each year medics make over 4,000 emergency calls for overdosed diabetics. So you can see that doctors don't want to prescribe a close management of b/g for a pattient.  That HAS to be done by the patient.   Most of them can't do this.


The other day     MG/DL came back 92.  I was a little surprised because she was not supposed to be diabetic. Now 92 is not high for a diabetic. A non diabetic however should run under ninety, around 83/85. Doctors don't see it that way though.  But Kay had not eaten for a couple hours and if she was not diabetic her insulin should have brought it down to the normal diabetic. In other words 83 or 5.  But it was 92.  So as long as she was going in for a blood test anyway I asked the Dr, to take an a1c read. She was skeptical of course as the mg/dl was 92. But she humored me by ordering a test also.  Well, low and behold when the report came back the next day it was 6.2! That's higher than mine! Mine was 5.2 or 5.6 which I am real  unhappy about as I have had it 4.9 to 5.2. The doctor kissed it off as not bad enough to medicate which I agree with as Kay would be unable to help in her diabetes management. Kay had told me in previous years that her mother had diabetes which  I did't really know about. But I wasn't into those things in those days. 


This is probably why her GFI is where it is.  Her b/g is ruining her kidneys. So if I want to save Kay I will have to change her diet as her b/g is obviously going sky high from what she is eating now.  The problem now is to get her to eat what is not going to kill her.  Like this morning I made her a poached egg on toast in milk.  I don't think she ate more than a bite of egg.  The  rest of the day she has been snacking on things that will run  her b/g up where it should not be.  This new situation will require some thinking. 


 Bill Sheldon June 17, 1920. April 4, 2001. Four years in the 3rd Infantry Division WW2 His story. Find it at Four years in the 3rd Inf in WW2
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