Listening to the Mail Podcast (post #877) I've now got the full text conversation between LL and the designated nurse. The lines in red had not been reported before.
8am – LL finishes night shift
8.47am –
LL: "Did you hear what F's sugar was at 8am?"
Nurse: "No?"
LL: "1.8"
Nurse: "S***!!!!", now I feel awful but leaving it three hours didn’t seem excessive and it was only two and a half hours
LL: "Something isn't right if he is dropping like that with the amount of fluid he’s had and being 1.65kg, don’t think you needed to do it sooner, got to think of his poor heels too"
Nurse: "Exactly, he’s had so much handling. No something not right. Heart rate and sugars."
LL: "Dr Gibbs came so hopefully they will get him sorted. "He is a worry though."
Nurse: "Hope so. He is a worry."
LL: "Hope you sleep well, let me know how F is tonight please."
Nurse: "I will hun".
I think the 3 hours refers to the time between the blood sugar reading at 5am (that LL did), and 8am when the shifts changed.
From Prof Hindmarsh's evidence -
Recap: Lucy Letby trial, Friday, November 25
5.5 (11.32pm)
0.8 (1.54am)
2.3 (2.55am)
1.9 (4.02am)
2.9 (5am)
1.7 (8.09am)
"For the 5am reading, the blood sugar reading signature has the initials 'LL'."
It looks as if LL knew exactly which 3 hours she was referring to, they'd been testing it more or less hourly between 2am and 5am. The nurse was probably really encouraged by the 5am reading.
MOO