I was supposed to have surgery (lap-band) last Wednesday and was being prepped

I was being prepped for lap-band surgery last Wednesday and the anesthesiologist came in with the pre-op test results that had been done on Monday and said that he didn't think we ought to do the surgery - that my glucose was too high and that it could be dangerous to do surgery on an uncontrolled diabetic. I was totally blown away - I didn't know I was diabetic. In fact, I was doing this because there is a very definite history of diabetes in my family. When I went to my surgeon initially he made me write out why I wanted the surgery and that was the crux of my reasoning for it. I have often expressed to him that I was worried about diabetes so I know he knew of my fears. In his defense, my insurance threw me a curve and forced me to wait 6 months from the time I initially saw him until I could really get going and I have taken a long time from start to what I thought was supposed to be surgery. I'm just horribly disappointed that what I had feared the most (diabetes) happened. But I'm also angry that with all the blood tests that he required - and I've had blood work done repeatedly over many months timespan - that he never saw (or mentioned) that my sugar was high. I know that sounds harsh, but I am really questioning his 'care' because of two additional things. 1. He required an EGD - which I did - they scheduled me to come in to the office 10 days later to discuss the results and when I got there (after driving an hour and waiting 2 hours) I finally got in to see him and he asked what I was there for. I told him that he was supposed to review the EGD results with me and he looked through my file and said that they didn't have them yet. He said something to his nurse about it being unacceptable that they didn't have the results yet - and yes, it was, but to me it was unacceptable that they didn't know why I was there and that I had to wait all that time for nothing. And 2, on the day I was supposed to have the surgery, had he said that he would go ahead with the surgery I would have said to go for it, but he insisted that I go back to my GP to get the diabetes under control and in our conversation I asked him if I could just fax the release from my doctor saying that my diabetes was under control rather than driving an hour for another appointment and he told me no - that he couldn't be responsible for remembering where I was 'in the process'. I guess my question is, am I right to be leery of the doctor? I'm not leery of the surgery, I'm just questioning whether I ought to go somewhere else to have it done or am I trying to blame him for sloppy paperwork (for not watching his patients closely enough) when it's something that's my fault. And, I know that God's hand is in this all. I'm just wondering if He's not trying to tell me I need to go somewhere else.

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