After dinner TRW and I sat down to watch TV. We had a light dinner, Salad, Hamburgers without the buns and some sweet potato baked fries. I did my usual 10 units of Symlin and 4 units of Humulin R.
As we watched TV, I became very tired. It was hard to keep my eyes open, probably from all of my recent travels. As I am struggling to keep my eyes open, I am thinking I am so tired. I will just sit here and melt into the chair. I close my eyes and I can feel my body relax and I can hear my breathing slow as I fade away.
My hands feel numb, so I flex my fingers. I am so tired I don’t pay much attention to my hands, I drift off to sleep.
TRW is talking to me. I am so tired I can’t pay attention to her.
I see TRW through a fog. She is talking to me, but I don’t know what she is saying. I hear buzzing in my ears. She is leading me up stairs. She is asking me to check my BG, but I am having a hard time doing what she is asking. I am having a hard time understanding what she is asking. Why am I upstairs in the kitchen? I can’t think. I can’t make my body do what I think it should be doing. Some how I have done a BG test and the number is 46. What does that mean? I should know what it means. I can’t make myself think.
TRW gives me something to eat with loads of sugar. I am sitting at the kitchen table now. I don’t know how I got here. The buzzing in my ears is starting to subside. The tingling in my hands had stopped. My tongue is tingling. Thoughts are beginning to form in my head. TRW is looking at me like she looks very scared. What is going on?
TRW said something was wrong. I didn’t look good. She could tell that something was really wrong. I don’t remember I said. How did I get into the kitchen? What happened in the TV show?
TRW asks me where is my CGM? Why didn’t an alarm go off? I took my sensor off as it was finished. I had gotten my six days out of it. I am waiting for Monday to put in a new sensor. We could have used it tonight, she said. Why am I all sweaty? I ask.
Let’s go to bed, TRW suggest. We crawl in bed and I instantly go to sleep.
In the morning I check the memory of my BG tester. 46. Wow that is low. I don’t think I have ever been that low. I was in serious trouble. I was having a hypoglycemic episode and I didn’t know it.
TRW woke and we talked about what happened. This was the first time she had seen this kind of behavior from me. She realized that she possibly saved my life and kept me from ending up in a Hospital. Next time she said she would give me juice instead of food. It would help me to recover faster. She was glad that she saw what happens during a time of extremely low blood glucose.
She was scared. She said.
I didn’t know what was going on. I said.
Everyone is alright and we can learn from this experience.
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