Dear Readers
Today was supposed to be an awesome day - the day that I go home after a two weeks hospital visit where I got intravenous treatment for my lungs.
But something happened last night...
I am on Lantus insulin and I use 12 units each night. So every night one of the staff members bring me my insulin - which they keep in their fridge with the other patients' meds.
So last night I took the pen from the sister and just before I stuck the needle in my thigh I realised - Woah! This is not my insulin pen? It belonged to a 77 year old man who stays in one of the other rooms in my ward.
I showed the name tag to the sister and she apologized and went back to get my insulin pen. So I injected 12 units and went to bed.
This morning it occurred to me: If they brought me the pen from another man, what stopped them from using MY pen on someone else?
I do not change my insulin needle every day - I change it after 3 days. Therefore there now was the chance that I used (or, during some time for the past two weeks have been using) a needle that was used by another random person!
Luckily my doctor came early this morning and I told her about the whole episode last night. She was extremely mad (at the staff) and said that it is completely unacceptable for them to make a mistake like this, (which of course - it is)!
For a moment she thought and then she spoke the dreaded words: "We'll draw some blood and test for Hepatitis B and HIV."
I have to be honest here, I am struggling to keep it all together. I just want to burst into tears every second of every minute, but I try to keep myself together.
All the "What if"'s keep on racing though my mind...
You never think that something like this could happen to you.
I am just praying that everything will be okay. I trust God and I will keep on having faith.
The tests will come back tonight or tomorrow morning. Lets hope and pray for the best.
Much Love
Happy Living
Nina
xXx
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