Replied, "I can handle it, I just don't get any help from anyone, including my mot Scenario #6:
Mrs. Aiken is a 42-year-old woman with type I diabetes. She is married and has three children.
She is the church secretary. Reading, knitting, and playing bingo are her favorite activities. She
smokes one pack of cigarettes per day. She developed a cold several days ago and then woke up
in the morning very short of breath and with chills and fever. She stopped monitoring her blood
sugar levels. Her blood sugar on admission was 950 mg/dl with glucose in urine and 3+ ketones;
she was diagnosed with hyperglycemia and pneumonia. It is now 3 days after admission, and she
has been on intravenous antibiotics. The fever is gone. Only scattered crackles are heard in the
lung bases. Her oxygen saturation is now at 95%. She will be discharged home in 2 days.
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