A1C 7.9

Bless you for helping your wife. Managing diabetes isn’t easy, imo. Best wishes on her upcoming procedure. Please post updates as you are able.

What a good husband you are! Good luck with the surgery and beyond.

Keep up the good work for your wife. In the long run it should help her getting back to somewhat normal living.

I was somewhat similar. I had caught a real bad bacterial infection. Was in the hospital for 3 months before they could get it controlled. Then 3 months of infusions. In the beginning 1 doctor said "I hope we can keep him alive for the next 48 hours. Well I made it to the 3 months. Recovery took almost a year.
The problem was it lowered the functions of just about every organ. My AIC went to 9.5 and I could not get it down that much. Took a couple meds and that did not help. For some unknown reason at the one year mark my A1C started to drop. After another 6 months my A1C went below 6.0 and I have been that way for the last 7 years. One doctor suggested my internal organs which were all low functioning started functioning again at more normal levels. I still have chronic kidney disease which does not bother me much. I guess my "watch what I eat" and exercise at the YMCA helps a lot

I am not a diabetic. I am, however, a steroid dependent asthmatic. With that being said, I developed severe diabetes from steroids (prednisone). 9This has happened twice. Most recently, when I was hospitalized for severe asthma, I was put on extremely high doses to break the attack. After 2 weeks in the hospital, I was finally discharged - still very sick with asthma - and was put on 100mg of Prednisone (after being on 240mg Solumedrol in the hospital). Besides the weight gain, my daily blood sugars were 500-600 with insulin on a sliding scale and A1C at 10. Very scary (and I'm a nursing professor)! Besides this, the weight gain, barely able to walk and constant fear that the diabetes would kill me, I was able to finally wean down on the steroids. After more than 1 1/2 years, I have reduced the steroids tremendously, and finally down to 6mg per day. Blood sugar normalized, no more insulin for months, weight loss, and A1C is now 5.6 (hooray). Mounjaro helped with the A1C .
You are a very kind and caring person. Hope that your wife improves. Don't give up hope. I am blessed to have a wonderful husband who needed to take on many of the household duties. We both work full time and have gotten through this together. Good luck!!

@peter51f
That must have been great news back then. I believe below 6 is non diabetic is that correct?

She will have one more A1C test prior to surgery so we are really trying hard to keep in under control.

I think viruses and bacterial infections can and do play havac with our bodies.

An A1C of 4.0-5.6 is considered normal. That said a 6 or lower is decent control.
Hope the surgery goes well.