Doctors...

Incredible. My mother asked me to stop by and show her how to use her blood sugar test meter. Turns out all the doctor did was write a prescription. No instructions on how to use the meter, how many times a day or what times of day to test. No instructions on what values to look for. (Naturally, she has no record of her office test results to use for comparison.)

Of course, he wrote the prescription six months ago and she's only just now getting around to trying it. :-(

Her first test was 178 mg/dl. Which I understand is slightly high but in the normal range. We don't know because nothing in the instructions said what to look for, either. Just that above 500 it will flash HI.

According to her, the doctor says she's not diabetic, but pre-diabetic, whatever that means.