I have a question, my fiancé recently passed away and he was a type 1 diabetic. He had been having a lot of hypo's b4 he died, and he didn't take very good care of himself, he drank every night and chewed tobacco. He was having a lot of hypos as I said b4 and recently was very tired (unlike him, he was a morning person, and he was sleeping in like 2-3 hours later than usual). As his fiancé I cannot get the medical records from the hospital (because I'm not technically 'related' to him) to find out more info about the night he died. He had recently had a doctors appt. and after that he started (at times) giving me weird looks, like he wanted to tell me something, but when I asked him if something was wrong, he would clam up.
Trying to put things together in my head to figure out what exactly happened has been tough, but here's what I got: I came home to him lying on the bed snoring. I thought he was sleeping and left him alone for about 1 hr., then I decided to wake him and tell him what happened on my day trip to the city(I was gone all day). I couldn't wake him up! He was lying there and snoring and was already in a coma! I tested his blood sugar and it was 30, I called for an ambulance, tested him again, and it was 41. The ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital and they couldn't revive him! He died 1 1/2 hours after his arrival at the hospital. It was heartbreaking, my fiancé was only 52 and we were to elope in 3 months. I still have flashbacks of that night and sometimes cannot sleep in the bed for fear I will have another flashback of that night when I couldn't wake him.
I wonder if he overdosed on his insulin. Usually he would come out of a hypo as low as 27 and be fine. I know he was drinking that day, and even still had some chewing tobacco under his upper lip, I don't know how much he had to eat, and we always had to remind him to eat! I've read that emergency glucose shots wont work if someone has been drinking alcohol and that was the cause of the hypo. He had done some things like made long phone calls to family members who lived far away from us, gave his daughter the combination to the safe, and he had a lot of money in his wallet (unusual, for him), said once to me that his kids would be better off (financially) without him, things that could mean he was planning to od, but it is all speculation on my part. I don't know how this could have happened, and am desperately trying to find out in hopes of getting some kind of closure about what happened to him?