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[GMCnet] Dumb Move [message #249650]

Tue, 13 May 2014 20:48

Ken Henderson

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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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