Mr Bishop rused into hospital

[Blandmum]

Today has to be one of the worst days ever. I came home from work, and the front door was open and the TV on, but I couldn't find DH. I phoned round a few mates who sometimes take him out for the day, and thankfully they came round. I found dh collapsed in the bathroom.

I thought he was dead.

Thankfully he wasn't, but it too a 999 call and the paramedics to find out that he was in a diabetic coma.

It was all so awful, it has been the thing that I've worried about most of all in his illness, coming home and finding him dead and I really thought that it had happened.

Amazingly the docs still think that he is well enough to chemo tomorrow and will arrange for us to have oxygen at home, and his o2 sats are poor, probably due to the tumous mass.

christ but this is hard. Thank god I had people with me when it happened, and MIL is visiting. If I had stayed in work for a meeting that I was supposed to go to, I think that he really could have died.

you poor thing MB
Anything we can do?

Omg, how awful. My heart was in my mouth just reading this, I can't imagine how you must have felt.

It made me realise that we are a lot closer to the 'end' than I would like to be. And for all that you think that you are 'prepared' you are not.

MB

Gird your loins.......question lecture statement of fact coming now...

You have taken your leavers as far as they can go, take your foot off the pedal.

I totally agree with Bree.

That must have been really awful MB

DH is diabetic and used to fit and go into a coma first thing in the morning as he used to sleep through the warning signs. He was changed onto an insulin called Lantus which has really helped with this as it lasts 24 hours and is even release (also known as Insulin Glargine). He dictated that last bit as I've got a bit blase about it now and had forgotten why it works better. Don't know if it would help Mr MB at all but just thought I'd mention it.

Sending love and thinking of you XXXX

Oh MB you poor thing - it must have been so scary.

Hope the chemo goes OK tomorrow.

oh Christ MB. Don't know what to say, other than there are many, many here who will try to catch you.

Oh MB you poor thing - it must have been so scary.

Hope the chemo goes OK tomorrow.

lantus is v good, i've just swapped onto it. do you have any glucagon injections in your fridge mb?

oh god how awful {{{{{hugs}}}}}}

Oh god yes MB. But also as you know 'prepared' is hard isn't it. And you've had a terrible shock too. Is your MIL there now?

What an awful shockso sorry
xxx

oh mb, that sounds so frightening.

Oh what a shock for you MB!!

MIL is with us until the end of the week, when we were due to go away for a few days. Not too sure what will happen now. To a degree it depends on how the chemo goes and what the side effects are like

Yes. And they do think he can have chemo tomorrow, yes?

OK. So a day at a time, right.

Pleased she is there - if you are.

oh yes, she is fab

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Gosh MB how incredibly scary for you and for Mr MN too, I would imagine

I hope you are all okay and get over the shock without too many nightmares!

I'm just sort of stunned, if I'm honest. If anything this is even worse than when he got the diagnosis, as I was more than half expecting that to happen. This was so much more shocking.

Oh MB, how horrible for you.

Love to you, thinking of you often.

dh has no memory of it really, just a sort of vague wooly dream of moving a little to avoid lying on the part of his head that he had hit on the door as he fell.