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[GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 20:48 |
Ken Henderson
Messages: 8726 Registered: March 2004 Location: Americus, GA
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Since the word's sure to get out, I might as well admit what a dumb thing I
did on Sunday:
On Friday we spent all day clearing our guest house of my mother's
remaining possessions which have had it stuffed for about 5 years. On
Saturday, we had the advertised "Estate Sale" and got thoroughly exhausted.
We were invited to Macon, GA by our son for a Mothers' Day dinner and a
Bill Cosby appearance. We decided to take the GMC so we could sleep in our
own beds without driving home late at night. Since they're only 78 miles
from us, we basically got into the "GMC car" just after noon, and drove
away.
A few miles from home, I realized that I had in my pocket the fast-acting
insulin (Humalog) which I use before each meal, but neither my blood
glucose tester nor a pen of the long-lasting insulin (Lantus) I take at
bedtime. I dismissed the idea of going back for them with the rationale,
"I can just adjust for the Lantus with a little extra Humalog."
Dinner was a bit of a disappointment, since the planned restaurant was
closed and we wound up at an Indian restaurant. My uneducated order was a
loser and I didn't eat much.
Bill Cosby's show was a riot: He shuffled on stage like the 77 yo he is
(like me), and plopped down in an easy chair on a carpet beside a table
with a water pitcher and glass -- the only stage props. He then proceeded
to keep us in stitches for two hours, starting on page 1 of the Book of
Genesis ("...written a long time later by a bunch of old men who weren't
there..." ) to explain the current relationship between man and woman.
Hilarious.
After the show, we went back to our son's and directly to bed in the GMC.
I'm told that just after midnight I began to make strange noises, awakening
HER. When SHE found me incoherent, SHE realized that I was hypoglycemic
and tried to get me to take nourishment -- a banana or a granola bar, the
only foods in the "car". When I refused that, SHE went into the house and
roused my son, who tried to get me to drink orange juice and Pepsi, neither
of which I'd drink much of, so they couldn't get my sugar up. So they
called an ambulance.
I remember, as a part of the nightmare I experienced, something that must
have been the ambulance, but really remember nothing from the time I went
to bed until I awoke in the hospital at 5 AM on Sunday with tubes & wires
running to me "everywhere".
What happened was that the slight nourishment I took in the evening and the
little Humalog injection drove my blood sugar down to 39 mL/dL and my
fatigue from the previous couple of days prevented me from awakening to the
nervousness and profuse sweating which resulted. Things went downhill too
rapidly. If SHE had not awakened, I probably wouldn't be writing this.
As soon as my blood sugar was back to normal, I felt normal, but the
erratic vital signs from the trauma worried the doctors at the hospital,
including the cardiologist who put two stents into me in 2009. I was ready
to come home yesterday afternoon but they kept me until late this afternoon
to run more tests, examine the results, and lecture me about my
foolhardiness. Lectures accepted. :-) That won't happen again. The GMC
will be permanently equipped with more in the way of diabetes supplies and
foodstuffs.
Dumbness confession closed.
Ken H.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249652 is a reply to message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 20:58 |
Carl S.
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Sounds like quite an ordeal, but I'm glad the story has a happy ending and that you're still with us. Take care of yourself, we all need you around for as long as possible.
Carl Stouffer
'75 ex Palm Beach
Tucson, AZ.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249653 is a reply to message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 20:56 |
James Hupy
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Wow, Ken. Close one. Mary had a couple of those episodes, scared the crap
out of me. Funny how unreasonable a person can be during those episodes.
Glad that you are able to relate that to all of us. Stay well.
Jim Hupy and Judy Countermine.
Salem, Or
On May 13, 2014 6:48 PM, "Ken Henderson" wrote:
> Since the word's sure to get out, I might as well admit what a dumb thing I
> did on Sunday:
>
> On Friday we spent all day clearing our guest house of my mother's
> remaining possessions which have had it stuffed for about 5 years. On
> Saturday, we had the advertised "Estate Sale" and got thoroughly exhausted.
>
> We were invited to Macon, GA by our son for a Mothers' Day dinner and a
> Bill Cosby appearance. We decided to take the GMC so we could sleep in our
> own beds without driving home late at night. Since they're only 78 miles
> from us, we basically got into the "GMC car" just after noon, and drove
> away.
>
> A few miles from home, I realized that I had in my pocket the fast-acting
> insulin (Humalog) which I use before each meal, but neither my blood
> glucose tester nor a pen of the long-lasting insulin (Lantus) I take at
> bedtime. I dismissed the idea of going back for them with the rationale,
> "I can just adjust for the Lantus with a little extra Humalog."
>
> Dinner was a bit of a disappointment, since the planned restaurant was
> closed and we wound up at an Indian restaurant. My uneducated order was a
> loser and I didn't eat much.
>
> Bill Cosby's show was a riot: He shuffled on stage like the 77 yo he is
> (like me), and plopped down in an easy chair on a carpet beside a table
> with a water pitcher and glass -- the only stage props. He then proceeded
> to keep us in stitches for two hours, starting on page 1 of the Book of
> Genesis ("...written a long time later by a bunch of old men who weren't
> there..." ) to explain the current relationship between man and woman.
> Hilarious.
>
> After the show, we went back to our son's and directly to bed in the GMC.
>
> I'm told that just after midnight I began to make strange noises, awakening
> HER. When SHE found me incoherent, SHE realized that I was hypoglycemic
> and tried to get me to take nourishment -- a banana or a granola bar, the
> only foods in the "car". When I refused that, SHE went into the house and
> roused my son, who tried to get me to drink orange juice and Pepsi, neither
> of which I'd drink much of, so they couldn't get my sugar up. So they
> called an ambulance.
>
> I remember, as a part of the nightmare I experienced, something that must
> have been the ambulance, but really remember nothing from the time I went
> to bed until I awoke in the hospital at 5 AM on Sunday with tubes & wires
> running to me "everywhere".
>
> What happened was that the slight nourishment I took in the evening and the
> little Humalog injection drove my blood sugar down to 39 mL/dL and my
> fatigue from the previous couple of days prevented me from awakening to the
> nervousness and profuse sweating which resulted. Things went downhill too
> rapidly. If SHE had not awakened, I probably wouldn't be writing this.
>
> As soon as my blood sugar was back to normal, I felt normal, but the
> erratic vital signs from the trauma worried the doctors at the hospital,
> including the cardiologist who put two stents into me in 2009. I was ready
> to come home yesterday afternoon but they kept me until late this afternoon
> to run more tests, examine the results, and lecture me about my
> foolhardiness. Lectures accepted. :-) That won't happen again. The GMC
> will be permanently equipped with more in the way of diabetes supplies and
> foodstuffs.
>
> Dumbness confession closed.
>
> Ken H.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249655 is a reply to message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 21:18 |
rjw
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Ken Henderson wrote on Tue, 13 May 2014 21:48Since the word's sure to get out, I might as well admit what a dumb thing I
did on Sunday:
Dumbness confession closed.
Ken H.
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You better take better care of yourself! There are many of us here that need your expert advise given on and off the net. I wouldn't have been able to install my engine a few years ago without your mentoring.
My sons say the same about me, but I tend to ignore them. Perhaps I better change as well.
Take care of yourself,
Richard
76 Palm Beach
SE Michigan
www.PalmBeachGMC.com
Roller Cam 455, TBI+EBL, 3.42 FD, 4 Bag, Macerator, Lenzi (brakes, vacuum system, front end stuff), Manny Tranny, vacuum step, Tankless + OEM water heaters.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249657 is a reply to message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 21:34 |
Dennis S
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Ken H
VERY glad you are ok. And thanks for sharing -- just like we hope to learn from your technical experiences, maybe this will serve to help some of us remember to take care of our ourselves.
Dennis
Dennis S
73 Painted Desert 230
Memphis TN Metro
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249658 is a reply to message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 21:36 |
kerry pinkerton
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That would explain why you didn't answer your phone this morning. Scared Elaine half to death I suppose.
Sometimes the best lessons can be somewhat painful. If Elaine is anything like Carolyn you will hear "Have you got your insulin pen?" EVERY TIME you get in the car/coach. EVERY TIME!
I'll tell a story on you just to keep the punishment going.
When we were in Branson last year, Ken was helping me trouble shoot my engine and we had the hatch off and were beating on the 403 pretty hard. Suddenly Ken yelled: "STOP THE COACH!" I slammed on the brakes and before we were even stopped Ken was out the door running back down the road. I watched him in the mirror walk back about 75 feet and pick something up and head back to the coach. When he came in the door, I looked at him with raised eyebrows and he said: "Dropped my insulin pen through the hatch..."
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249662 is a reply to message #249650] |
Tue, 13 May 2014 21:55 |
cbryan
Messages: 451 Registered: May 2012 Location: Ennis, Texas
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Ken,
It's a rare thing to be able to confess something like all of us might catch ourselves doing and uh, well, uh, no one would be interested in OUR little follies.
But, that rare thing might result in saving another's life. In the coach or far from it. Thank you. I was just thinking to myself that it had been while since I saw you post. Greedy for another tidbit like your having that removable steering wheel, making room at the front of the coach for comfortable seating when parked. Who else would have thought of that? Remove the wheel and presto, another comfortable seat.
Glad you are better, hope that cardiologist thinks about your situation and makes the right recommendation. I don't think I would be in a GMC if it weren't for folks like you.
Carey
Carey from Ennis, Texas
78 Royale, 500 Cadillac, Rance Baxter EFI.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249682 is a reply to message #249658] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 00:46 |
sgltrac
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Kerry, funny sh$t and I can picture it.
You'll find a place for the at the ready kit Ken. There's always room for one more thing!!
Todd Sullivan
Sully
77 royale
Seattle
> On May 13, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Kerry Pinkerton wrote:
>
> That would explain why you didn't answer your phone this morning. Scared Elaine half to death I suppose.
>
> Sometimes the best lessons can be somewhat painful. If Elaine is anything like Carolyn you will hear "Have you got your insulin pen?" EVERY TIME you
> get in the car/coach. EVERY TIME!
>
> I'll tell a story on you just to keep the punishment going.
>
> When we were in Branson last year, Ken was helping me trouble shoot my engine and we had the hatch off and were beating on the 403 pretty hard.
> Suddenly Ken yelled: "STOP THE COACH!" I slammed on the brakes and before we were even stopped Ken was out the door running back down the road. I
> watched him in the mirror walk back about 75 feet and pick something up and head back to the coach. When he came in the door, I looked at him with
> raised eyebrows and he said: "Dropped my insulin pen through the hatch..."
> --
> Kerry Pinkerton
>
> North Alabama, near Huntsville,
>
> 77 Eleganza II, "The Lady", 403CI, Manny Brakes, 1 ton, tranny also a 76 Eleganza to be re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249684 is a reply to message #249650] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 01:09 |
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USAussie
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Ken,
Glad you are OK and I appreciate you for sharing this experience; it will help GMCer's to make sure their GMC has adequate medical
supplies for any affliction they might have.
As an ex USAF pilot you'd remember the "Remove Before Flight" tags; maybe a tag that says; "Got Insulin?" attached to the GMC keys
or hung on the steering wheel rim is in order?
I have observed that the older I get the more dumb things I do and I'm 10 years your junior!
Regards,
Rob M.
-----Original Message-----
From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org [mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Ken Henderson
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:48 AM
To: gmclist
Subject: [GMCnet] Dumb Move
Since the word's sure to get out, I might as well admit what a dumb thing I
did on Sunday:
On Friday we spent all day clearing our guest house of my mother's
remaining possessions which have had it stuffed for about 5 years. On
Saturday, we had the advertised "Estate Sale" and got thoroughly exhausted.
We were invited to Macon, GA by our son for a Mothers' Day dinner and a
Bill Cosby appearance. We decided to take the GMC so we could sleep in our
own beds without driving home late at night. Since they're only 78 miles
from us, we basically got into the "GMC car" just after noon, and drove
away.
A few miles from home, I realized that I had in my pocket the fast-acting
insulin (Humalog) which I use before each meal, but neither my blood
glucose tester nor a pen of the long-lasting insulin (Lantus) I take at
bedtime. I dismissed the idea of going back for them with the rationale,
"I can just adjust for the Lantus with a little extra Humalog."
Dinner was a bit of a disappointment, since the planned restaurant was
closed and we wound up at an Indian restaurant. My uneducated order was a
loser and I didn't eat much.
Bill Cosby's show was a riot: He shuffled on stage like the 77 yo he is
(like me), and plopped down in an easy chair on a carpet beside a table
with a water pitcher and glass -- the only stage props. He then proceeded
to keep us in stitches for two hours, starting on page 1 of the Book of
Genesis ("...written a long time later by a bunch of old men who weren't
there..." ) to explain the current relationship between man and woman.
Hilarious.
After the show, we went back to our son's and directly to bed in the GMC.
I'm told that just after midnight I began to make strange noises, awakening
HER. When SHE found me incoherent, SHE realized that I was hypoglycemic
and tried to get me to take nourishment -- a banana or a granola bar, the
only foods in the "car". When I refused that, SHE went into the house and
roused my son, who tried to get me to drink orange juice and Pepsi, neither
of which I'd drink much of, so they couldn't get my sugar up. So they
called an ambulance.
I remember, as a part of the nightmare I experienced, something that must
have been the ambulance, but really remember nothing from the time I went
to bed until I awoke in the hospital at 5 AM on Sunday with tubes & wires
running to me "everywhere".
What happened was that the slight nourishment I took in the evening and the
little Humalog injection drove my blood sugar down to 39 mL/dL and my
fatigue from the previous couple of days prevented me from awakening to the
nervousness and profuse sweating which resulted. Things went downhill too
rapidly. If SHE had not awakened, I probably wouldn't be writing this.
As soon as my blood sugar was back to normal, I felt normal, but the
erratic vital signs from the trauma worried the doctors at the hospital,
including the cardiologist who put two stents into me in 2009. I was ready
to come home yesterday afternoon but they kept me until late this afternoon
to run more tests, examine the results, and lecture me about my
foolhardiness. Lectures accepted. :-) That won't happen again. The GMC
will be permanently equipped with more in the way of diabetes supplies and
foodstuffs.
Dumbness confession closed.
Ken H.
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Rob M. (USAussie)
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Sydney, Australia
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249694 is a reply to message #249684] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 07:21 |
Kingsley Coach
Messages: 2691 Registered: March 2009 Location: Nova Scotia Canada
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A bit selfish Ken, but you have to look after yourself....WE need you!
Mike in NS
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Robert Mueller wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Glad you are OK and I appreciate you for sharing this experience; it will
> help GMCer's to make sure their GMC has adequate medical
> supplies for any affliction they might have.
>
> As an ex USAF pilot you'd remember the "Remove Before Flight" tags; maybe
> a tag that says; "Got Insulin?" attached to the GMC keys
> or hung on the steering wheel rim is in order?
>
> I have observed that the older I get the more dumb things I do and I'm 10
> years your junior!
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org [mailto:
> gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Ken Henderson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:48 AM
> To: gmclist
> Subject: [GMCnet] Dumb Move
>
> Since the word's sure to get out, I might as well admit what a dumb thing I
> did on Sunday:
>
> On Friday we spent all day clearing our guest house of my mother's
> remaining possessions which have had it stuffed for about 5 years. On
> Saturday, we had the advertised "Estate Sale" and got thoroughly exhausted.
>
> We were invited to Macon, GA by our son for a Mothers' Day dinner and a
> Bill Cosby appearance. We decided to take the GMC so we could sleep in our
> own beds without driving home late at night. Since they're only 78 miles
> from us, we basically got into the "GMC car" just after noon, and drove
> away.
>
> A few miles from home, I realized that I had in my pocket the fast-acting
> insulin (Humalog) which I use before each meal, but neither my blood
> glucose tester nor a pen of the long-lasting insulin (Lantus) I take at
> bedtime. I dismissed the idea of going back for them with the rationale,
> "I can just adjust for the Lantus with a little extra Humalog."
>
> Dinner was a bit of a disappointment, since the planned restaurant was
> closed and we wound up at an Indian restaurant. My uneducated order was a
> loser and I didn't eat much.
>
> Bill Cosby's show was a riot: He shuffled on stage like the 77 yo he is
> (like me), and plopped down in an easy chair on a carpet beside a table
> with a water pitcher and glass -- the only stage props. He then proceeded
> to keep us in stitches for two hours, starting on page 1 of the Book of
> Genesis ("...written a long time later by a bunch of old men who weren't
> there..." ) to explain the current relationship between man and woman.
> Hilarious.
>
> After the show, we went back to our son's and directly to bed in the GMC.
>
> I'm told that just after midnight I began to make strange noises, awakening
> HER. When SHE found me incoherent, SHE realized that I was hypoglycemic
> and tried to get me to take nourishment -- a banana or a granola bar, the
> only foods in the "car". When I refused that, SHE went into the house and
> roused my son, who tried to get me to drink orange juice and Pepsi, neither
> of which I'd drink much of, so they couldn't get my sugar up. So they
> called an ambulance.
>
> I remember, as a part of the nightmare I experienced, something that must
> have been the ambulance, but really remember nothing from the time I went
> to bed until I awoke in the hospital at 5 AM on Sunday with tubes & wires
> running to me "everywhere".
>
> What happened was that the slight nourishment I took in the evening and the
> little Humalog injection drove my blood sugar down to 39 mL/dL and my
> fatigue from the previous couple of days prevented me from awakening to the
> nervousness and profuse sweating which resulted. Things went downhill too
> rapidly. If SHE had not awakened, I probably wouldn't be writing this.
>
> As soon as my blood sugar was back to normal, I felt normal, but the
> erratic vital signs from the trauma worried the doctors at the hospital,
> including the cardiologist who put two stents into me in 2009. I was ready
> to come home yesterday afternoon but they kept me until late this afternoon
> to run more tests, examine the results, and lecture me about my
> foolhardiness. Lectures accepted. :-) That won't happen again. The GMC
> will be permanently equipped with more in the way of diabetes supplies and
> foodstuffs.
>
> Dumbness confession closed.
>
> Ken H.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249695 is a reply to message #249694] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 07:44 |
stick miller
Messages: 1036 Registered: March 2010 Location: Americus, Georgia
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Well, I thought something was amiss. I've been to the house 2 times picking up the brake stuff for shipment and some things just didn't add up. I've never seen the coach gone without the toad but Macon explains that.
I thought you'd been abducted by aliens, so I guess the insulin thing is infinitely more plausible.
Hope all is well and that I will see you soon. Stick
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold '84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249697 is a reply to message #249650] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 08:26 |
jhbridges
Messages: 8412 Registered: May 2011 Location: Braselton ga
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Well, I control mine with diet and Metformin <tm>. But I do get "DO YOU HAVE YOUR EPI-PEN" when I go out the door. My failing is yellowjacket or hornet stings. If some of you find me turning blue and choking, please get the dam' thing out of the top kitchen drawer and stick me with it.
Ken, I figured the ability to vary the dose based on what you ate would be one of the few bennies of insulin maintenance. Now I'm not so sure. Another 22 pounds though, and I figure to finish the trip on diet and pills.
Glad yer OK, be more careful.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249698 is a reply to message #249696] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 08:44 |
Chris Grant
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Ken
I'm a type 1 diabetic on an insulin pump and when we travel it's usually with our 2 teenagers (a son and a daughter who also has type 1).
I have a dexcom g4 continuous glucose monitor that I wear when we are on the road. It has a wireless transmitter attached to a small sensor that sends an updated blood glucose reading to a receiver every 5 minutes. It'll alarm any time I'm drifting high or low and I don't have to bother trying to do a finger stick while driving. I can look at a trend of where my BG is going and head off a possible low.
We carry several pouches of "honey stingers" that are like fruit snacks. They are used by runners to replace glucose and electrolyte and pack 39 carbs a pouch. They are really temperature stable (we live in south Florida) and I keep a few packs in the glovebox of all our vehicles. You can get them on amazon.com or from a running/bike/triathlon store.
Glad to hear you are ok. Don't want to talk like your doctor here, but being off a long acting insulin all day with no fast acting for > 4 hours can end you up in diabetic ketoacidosis pretty quickly. You had a tough choice to make, and I'm glad you came out ok. I hear far too many stories from the families of other t1's that don't have happy endings.
Do you have/carry glucagon with you? I keep it at work, and have shown my coworkers how to use it but don't carry with me. My daughter keeps it in her purse. You may want to think about having your wife carry it in hers. We have had an ambulance show up to deal with a severe low back when my daughter was first diagnosed and they didn't even have any on the ambulance. It's a real life saver if you guys are off the grid at all and you lose consciousness since you won't be able to eat or drink anything.
Stay safe.
Chris
76 Birchaven
Jupiter, FL
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> On May 14, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Larry wrote:
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> Wow Ken, Sounds like SHE is your HERO! Kudos to Elaine! So glad you are still around. Don't do that again!
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> Larry
> 78 Royale w/500 Caddy
> Menomonie, WI.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249705 is a reply to message #249650] |
Wed, 14 May 2014 10:01 |
Marsh Wilkes
Messages: 155 Registered: January 2004
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Hi Ken,
I am glad you are ok, will add you to my prayer list.
I don't know if refrigeration is required?
Could you set up the GMC and your other vehicles?
Marsh Wilkes
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:48 PM
To: gmclist
Subject: [GMCnet] Dumb Move
Since the word's sure to get out, I might as well admit what a dumb thing I
did on Sunday:
On Friday we spent all day clearing our guest house of my mother's
remaining possessions which have had it stuffed for about 5 years. On
Saturday, we had the advertised "Estate Sale" and got thoroughly exhausted.
We were invited to Macon, GA by our son for a Mothers' Day dinner and a
Bill Cosby appearance. We decided to take the GMC so we could sleep in our
own beds without driving home late at night. Since they're only 78 miles
from us, we basically got into the "GMC car" just after noon, and drove
away.
A few miles from home, I realized that I had in my pocket the fast-acting
insulin (Humalog) which I use before each meal, but neither my blood
glucose tester nor a pen of the long-lasting insulin (Lantus) I take at
bedtime. I dismissed the idea of going back for them with the rationale,
"I can just adjust for the Lantus with a little extra Humalog."
Dinner was a bit of a disappointment, since the planned restaurant was
closed and we wound up at an Indian restaurant. My uneducated order was a
loser and I didn't eat much.
Bill Cosby's show was a riot: He shuffled on stage like the 77 yo he is
(like me), and plopped down in an easy chair on a carpet beside a table
with a water pitcher and glass -- the only stage props. He then proceeded
to keep us in stitches for two hours, starting on page 1 of the Book of
Genesis ("...written a long time later by a bunch of old men who weren't
there..." ) to explain the current relationship between man and woman.
Hilarious.
After the show, we went back to our son's and directly to bed in the GMC.
I'm told that just after midnight I began to make strange noises, awakening
HER. When SHE found me incoherent, SHE realized that I was hypoglycemic
and tried to get me to take nourishment -- a banana or a granola bar, the
only foods in the "car". When I refused that, SHE went into the house and
roused my son, who tried to get me to drink orange juice and Pepsi, neither
of which I'd drink much of, so they couldn't get my sugar up. So they
called an ambulance.
I remember, as a part of the nightmare I experienced, something that must
have been the ambulance, but really remember nothing from the time I went
to bed until I awoke in the hospital at 5 AM on Sunday with tubes & wires
running to me "everywhere".
What happened was that the slight nourishment I took in the evening and the
little Humalog injection drove my blood sugar down to 39 mL/dL and my
fatigue from the previous couple of days prevented me from awakening to the
nervousness and profuse sweating which resulted. Things went downhill too
rapidly. If SHE had not awakened, I probably wouldn't be writing this.
As soon as my blood sugar was back to normal, I felt normal, but the
erratic vital signs from the trauma worried the doctors at the hospital,
including the cardiologist who put two stents into me in 2009. I was ready
to come home yesterday afternoon but they kept me until late this afternoon
to run more tests, examine the results, and lecture me about my
foolhardiness. Lectures accepted. :-) That won't happen again. The GMC
will be permanently equipped with more in the way of diabetes supplies and
foodstuffs.
Dumbness confession closed.
Ken H.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249784 is a reply to message #249705] |
Thu, 15 May 2014 08:10 |
shawnee
Messages: 422 Registered: February 2004 Location: NC
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Ken,
Be more careful, We don"t want to lose you.
Gene Dotson
74 Canyonlands
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