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    Default The never ending story - nurses - again

    Readmitted to hospital last night for unsustainable bleeding from my penis. The day after the hip op the nurse on duty wanted to insert a catheter as I hadn't relieved at that point. I said 'No' in no uncertain terms, explaining to her my urethra was badly damaged by a botched catheter placement a few years ago when I underwent a TURPs. Not to be put off she went on and on and on, explaining how good she was at it, silly me folded and I agreed to let her insert.

    Well, 10 minutes later she was up to her knuckles in blood and the catheter was nowhere near were it should have been, so she gave up. I continued to bleed for a day or so and eventually the blood dried up and on the Sunday I was released.

    Next day I went for a slash and low and behold the bleeding started again, but not a little bit this time, it was copious. I considered the loss of blood to be unsustainable at this point so got the wife to call an ambulance.

    I arrived at the hospital with my privates swimming in a plastic bag and wearing a towel as a diaper. The Doc did some tests and considered doing a transfusion such was my hemoglobin count, fortunately, that never happened. Eventually she came to the conclusion that the damage the nurse had caused trying to insert the catheter, coupled with the blood thinners I was on after the hip op, was the culprit and she monitored my condition overnight.

    This morning everything was pretty clear so I was released, but gee whiz, you have to wonder about the professional abilities of these nurses. Rest assured, I will never, never allow a nurse to attempt a catheterization again.

    But that's not the end of story, oh noooo. Public hospitals alway insist on controlling your meds, including insulin requirements. Now of course it is a given that someone who has been monitoring their diabetes and treating it successfully with consistent HbA1cs of around 6.5 for 17 years could not possibly hope to attain the level of expertise a Nurse/Doctor, who doesn't know you from a bar of soap, is capable of in treating your diabetes; so, I'm forced to put up with their decisions with regard to how much insulin I should inject. For the 24 hours I was in hospital my BSL never dipped below 13.9, most of the time it was around 18.

    Before retiring for the night the nurse asked how much Protophane (Protophane is a slow acting insulin used for overnight medication) I would like, given my BSL was 17, I replied '70 units should do it (I'm on steroids BTW).' 'Oh no' she says 'far too much, I shall consult the Doctor.' So, the Doc authorises 6 units a Novo Rapid, a quick acting insulin that I never take at night. As a result I don't eat my usual supper and wake with a BSL in the morning of 18.

    The level of incompetence shown by so called medical professionals is alarming. I would have thought the most important attribute for a medical professional would be the ability to 'listen' to the patient.

    Funnily enough, problems like this only happen in public hospitals. Privately run hospitals always allow me to control my meds and every time I have been admitted to a private hospital I have controlled my meds, my BSLs have remained normal and I have had no problems. Public hospital procedure dictates: if the patient's BSL is below 1o then he/she can eat but no medication is to be given. This of course ensures the diabetics BSL will soar. Extraordinary!

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    The nurses have a tough job, some are good, but there are lots out there that think they know all and they really should be doing something else.

    I feel for you, i had a nurse inflate a catheter before it was in the bladder and the result was a lot of blood, not to mention a stretched urethra. which had to be fixed.

    I was lucky i couldn't feel it due to paraplegia.

    Its annoying that like you said, they insist on controlling everything, even though you know your body and refuse to listen.

    Hope you keep recovering well at home, as i feel public hospitals seem to cause more issues than they are worth.

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