Hi. Came home and I just phoned the hospital to see how he was doing. Spoke to the same guy I spoke to last night. Alan is okay and sleeping. The guy said "Remember I told you I would send out a urine sample last night?" I said "yeah, and the nurse this morning said there was no sample sent out'.

He replied "I did send it out and now there are two results". I said "oh, I believe you, so I gather the results are the same?" and he said "yes, he has a urinary tract infection and we are waiting for the cultures".

I thanked him and that was that.

So to sum it up, Alan has a UTI, and pneumonia and is being treated with lots of antibiotics, ate up a storm today, had three meals, even asked for a bagel, no fever, blood pressure was a little low earlier. It was 100 over 42 and I said "WTH". and the guy took it again and it went up to 100/52 and then it was normal from then on. They have no idea why. But when I left he was normal blood pressure so I guess his body is fighting these infections.

And oh, you will love this. Alan is diabetic but is not on anything and if he would keep his mouth shut he would be completely controlled.

But he likes to eat and he has to lose weight. This is a no brainer.

I also know that when a diabetic has an kind of infection his sugar reading will be higher than normal.

Alan has bacterial pneumonia (I asked if it was viral or bacterial) and they said "because he responded the way he did and his lungs are clearing up, we know it's bacterial". So he has two infections. I know when they did the finger stick, his sugar might be higher than usual. It was 246.

I said to the nurses aid "this is probably because of the infections, because his last meal was 4 hours ago". She said "Infection doesn't raise blood sugar". I said 'oh really" I beg to differ, if one has a massive infection and is septic one's sugar might go up"

She adamantly said "absolutely not, his sugar reading has nothing to do with his infections".

Okay, everybody jump in and either take my side or her side. rofl.

Melody

P.S. Forgot to add one thing. When they brought him his dinner tray there were three containers of juice. One apple, One grape, One orange. I looked at Alan and said "Are they out of their mind, your diabetic, you should never be brought this". Believe me, He would have drank all three. I then went to get the nurse and I said "Alan's sugar was 246 right?" she said yes. I then said 'THEN WHY ON EARTH ARE THERE THREE CONTAINERS OF JUICE ON HIS TRAY???" She looked at me and said OMG, seriously? she ran in and took two of the containers because he was drinking one of them. She then said "I will make sure he gets a diabetic menu" I then ran after the food lady, found her and said "My husband is Alan, in 4828, she said "yeah, I just gave him his food tray". I said "Yes and there were three containers of juice and HE'S DIABETIC?" The look on her face was priceless, she whips out some piece of paper that indicates he is to be on REGULAR dinner menu. I said "change that right now". It never ends.