Hilo Benioff Medical Center

My father in law has been here twice in the last 3 days. The first time he was there because of high blood sugar. He was then diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. They gave him some metformin and sent him on his way even though he was telling them he as experiencing some significant vision loss. Two days later (last night), were on the phone with him to check on him and he tells us that he feels very weak and dizzy and to our surprise, that he hasnt taken his metformin or his blood pressure medication or checked his sugar because HE CANT SEE!! Then we start noticing that hes not making sense. Hes very confused and doesnt seem to know what hes saying. He tells us hes seeing black, red and yellow dots and he cant see so he cant find his medicine. We call EMS because not only does he likely have high blood sugar which as a fellow diabetic, I recognize the symptoms but most likely has high blood pressure since he hasnt taken his meds and then now he cant even see. They take him to the ER and we ask to talk to the doctor. Their signal is horrible and we can barely make out what theyre saying. We dont even know if he was given insulin, and then they tell us theyre waiting on a sugar check? Why cant they at least prick his finger in the meanwhile to get the ball rolling? Then after all this they just send him home. They sent this older man whos by himself home with still a high blood sugar, and no way to check it because the monitor he got from the pharmacy didnt work, who is partially blind at this point and is dizzy and very unsteady and confused. He goes home and bam, he falls. They did absolutely nothing for him. Just sent him home to what? Stroke out, is that what they want? Completely unacceptable.
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