Meant to post this last night sorry. . .
Not cooking tonight. We had taco Tuesday yesterday. The hubbs is progressing along very well this week. Therapy went great and he is getting around much better. We went to Big T's baseball game last night, they got beat but it was a good game. The hubbs enjoyed being outside after being couped up in the house for a month.
We may be seeing the light at the end of this injured knee tunnel. Lots of therapy in his future. The physical therapist was very pleased with his progress in strengthening his quadriceps muscle. You would not think a muscle that size would atrophy in 3 weeks but it did.
One more thing I will pass on to you. My hubby is a type 2 diabetic. His is genetic, a long family history of diabetes. Until this incident with the knee I did not know that trauma and surgery can cause diabetes to go crazy out of control. I learned this the hard way, experiencing it first hand. Hubby was a controlled diabetic, but after surgery his glucose went very high. They started giving him insulin to get it back under control. I did not know they would do that either. He was controlled and did not use insulin. The whole time he was in the hospital they were giving him insulin. We were not told this was standard procedure for diabetics after surgery. I was very concerned and called our family doctor and he explained everything to me. Very thankful we have such a good family doctor that will take the time to speak to a worried wife.
When a diabetic has surgery or any type of trauma it sends their glucose out of whack. If they do not get their glucose under control it increases the recovery time. I really wish someone would have shared this with me, it sure would have saved me at least one sleepless night. There is a hospital in Arizona that has been studying the effects of trauma and surgery on diabetics. A non diabetic patient can also have high glucose post surgery or trauma. This particular hospital in Arizona has also been using insulin in non-diabetic patients to get their glucose under control after surgery.
We may be seeing the light at the end of this injured knee tunnel. Lots of therapy in his future. The physical therapist was very pleased with his progress in strengthening his quadriceps muscle. You would not think a muscle that size would atrophy in 3 weeks but it did.
One more thing I will pass on to you. My hubby is a type 2 diabetic. His is genetic, a long family history of diabetes. Until this incident with the knee I did not know that trauma and surgery can cause diabetes to go crazy out of control. I learned this the hard way, experiencing it first hand. Hubby was a controlled diabetic, but after surgery his glucose went very high. They started giving him insulin to get it back under control. I did not know they would do that either. He was controlled and did not use insulin. The whole time he was in the hospital they were giving him insulin. We were not told this was standard procedure for diabetics after surgery. I was very concerned and called our family doctor and he explained everything to me. Very thankful we have such a good family doctor that will take the time to speak to a worried wife.
When a diabetic has surgery or any type of trauma it sends their glucose out of whack. If they do not get their glucose under control it increases the recovery time. I really wish someone would have shared this with me, it sure would have saved me at least one sleepless night. There is a hospital in Arizona that has been studying the effects of trauma and surgery on diabetics. A non diabetic patient can also have high glucose post surgery or trauma. This particular hospital in Arizona has also been using insulin in non-diabetic patients to get their glucose under control after surgery.
We are still fighting to get the hubbs glucose under control, I dread his next check up and A1C. He was very well controlled before he fell and now I am just thankful he is under 150 for a morning glucose. That is a far cry from the 400+ it was in the hospital but it is not as good as it was before the fall.
The hubbs has not been eating pizza either, that was strictly for the kiddos. Since he has been home from the hospital he has kept himself on a strict low carb and high protein diet.
2 comments:
Glad to hear Mark is on the road to recovery! That's pretty scary about his glucose though. Hopefully that will all be under control very soon!
Thank you Beth. He is working very hard to get it under control.
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