Yesterday was my son's birthday, and we had his party already on
Saturday night. Sunday was relax day... until I got a phone call that my
older brother, age 26, was having some health issue. He had nearly
passed out at work, so they sent him home. He, being t he stubborn man
he is, refused to go to the hospital, but his girlfriend forced him to
go. When he was triaged, his blood glucose level was over 500. Hours
later they finally called him into a room. After a couple of bags of
fluid and insulin, he was checked again, and his level was 340. The
doctor came in and announced Type 2 diabetes, He refused to answer any
questions. His response was, "Follow up with this doctor tomorrow." It
is a holiday weekend! I have been doing a little bit of research and
talking to family and friends with the diagnoses, and it seems that it
is manageable. He'll have to make some serious lifestyle changes, but he
will be just fine once he gets past the learning curve. How do you deal
with an unexpected diagnoses as the patient or as the family of the
patient?
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