Sprat suffers from migraines and takes a medicine every night to help prevent them. It works like a charm. He started having headaches when he was in the third grade and it seemed like he was taking Tylenol every day for many weeks. We went to the doctor, had his eyes checked and a CT scan done to try and find the cause of these chronic headaches. Sprat has a very high tolerance for pain so I was very concerned with the fact that he was complaining of headaches on a daily basis and requesting pain medicine for them. This was very much out of character for him. After all the tests came back normal, the doctor prescribed him a medicine to take every night before bed to prevent the headaches. A couple of days on this medicine and he did not complain of headaches for a very long time. He does have the occasional migraine and they did give him another medicine to take for instant relief if he does have one.
Because he takes this medicine on a daily basis he has to have yearly "well child check ups." I told the hubby that we had an appointment for a "well child check up" and he laughed and said do you mean whale child check up. My husband has a warped sense of humor for sure. Sprat got the run through; eye exam, blood pressure, updated on shots, and a HA1c. I requested the A1c since the hubbs has such a strong family history for diabetes and I wanted a baseline because this is genetic and both of my boys could develop it. Everything was normal and Baby Huey is still growing.
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Thursday, April 9, 2015
What's up Wednesday. . .
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.
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