Life with (and I'm sure *as*) a Type 1 diabetic is hard...
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We get a call last night from our son who is a type 1 diabetic. He's at a meeting about 20 minutes away from our place, and he says the car won't start. When we try to tell him to call AAA (a car club that can offer jump starts and such), he mentions that it won't work, the keys are in the car, he's out of the car, and other equally strange stuff. It finally starts to come clear that he's having a low and isn't quite with it...
Fortunately he had gone over to a bingo hall and gotten a carb drink to bring his blood sugars back up. After 15 minutes of conversation and making sure he was coherant, all was well, his blood sugars were back in line, and he was able to get home. But needless to say, mom and I were a wreck...
It could have been so much worse...
We get a call last night from our son who is a type 1 diabetic. He's at a meeting about 20 minutes away from our place, and he says the car won't start. When we try to tell him to call AAA (a car club that can offer jump starts and such), he mentions that it won't work, the keys are in the car, he's out of the car, and other equally strange stuff. It finally starts to come clear that he's having a low and isn't quite with it...
Fortunately he had gone over to a bingo hall and gotten a carb drink to bring his blood sugars back up. After 15 minutes of conversation and making sure he was coherant, all was well, his blood sugars were back in line, and he was able to get home. But needless to say, mom and I were a wreck...
It could have been so much worse...
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Sean---
Posted by Sean Burgess At 11:47:53 On 07/04/2005 | - Website - |