Hi everyone,
I am curious how you all deal with hypo’s or hypers at the working place and in particular how you communicate them to your colleagues (while you’re in a hypo/low blood sugar)?
Below I will first provide a small list of the symptoms I experience in case of a hypo/low blood sugar.
Then I will put forward some situations in which I have difficulties to act properly or to communicate them effectively to colleagues. In this post I first focus on hypo’s. In the next on hypers.
What I need to say in advance is that since I have impaired hypo-unawareness I do notice my hypo’s relatively late, resp. mostly by neurological malfunctioning.
Hypo symptoms:
- Experience difficulties executing appropriate goal-directed actions (having an impaired sense of which actions are needed to generate certain outcomes).
- Unable to follow a storyline because for instance when the eight word starts, you have already forgotten the first.
- Impaired access to memory: don’t know what I intended to say (forgetting the thing that came up a few seconds ago).
- Difficulties integrating all the sensory input into a coherent whole.
- Sensory stimuli (sounds, light, colors, smell, etc.) are experienced as overwhelming because the ‘normal filter’ doesn’t function anymore.
- My lips are less controllable, which makes it difficult to pronounce the words I am intending to say; and if my lips move, they move clumsy and in slow motion.
- Loss of my facial expressions: failure of laughing, gentle nodding, looking interested, etc.
- Loss of a great part of my personality: logical/analytical thinking, humor, skills, habits, etc.
- No power in my muscles (unable to greet colleagues in the hall/corridor by putting my hand up).
Situations
- In a meeting with colleagues
- In a 1-on-1 interaction with your new supervisor
- When giving a lecture (with a powerpoint)
- In a phone call with someone who is higher in rank
How do you deal with these situations?
- Do you have a card with a text on it describing the hypo-situation you are in and written down what the other might expect (“unfortunately no presentation/meeting possible in the upcoming 15 minutes”).
- Do you have a separate room in your office where you can go to in order to raise your blood glucose level as fast as possible, meaning: a stimulus-free environment?
- Have you made some arrangements with your boss that once your sensor is alarming in a meeting, you give a small signal to your boss and leave the room?
- Are you still able to produce a few simple words making clear that your brain and muscles don’t function appropriately anymore?
In other words: what do yoú do?
Can one of you give me some tips and tricks on how to deal with such situations professionally?
Since I like to start with a new job in a while, I would like to prepare myself by anticipating on hypo-situations and how to deal with them properly….
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Welmoed
I am curious how you all deal with hypo’s or hypers at the working place and in particular how you communicate them to your colleagues (while you’re in a hypo/low blood sugar)?
Below I will first provide a small list of the symptoms I experience in case of a hypo/low blood sugar.
Then I will put forward some situations in which I have difficulties to act properly or to communicate them effectively to colleagues. In this post I first focus on hypo’s. In the next on hypers.
What I need to say in advance is that since I have impaired hypo-unawareness I do notice my hypo’s relatively late, resp. mostly by neurological malfunctioning.
Hypo symptoms:
- Experience difficulties executing appropriate goal-directed actions (having an impaired sense of which actions are needed to generate certain outcomes).
- Unable to follow a storyline because for instance when the eight word starts, you have already forgotten the first.
- Impaired access to memory: don’t know what I intended to say (forgetting the thing that came up a few seconds ago).
- Difficulties integrating all the sensory input into a coherent whole.
- Sensory stimuli (sounds, light, colors, smell, etc.) are experienced as overwhelming because the ‘normal filter’ doesn’t function anymore.
- My lips are less controllable, which makes it difficult to pronounce the words I am intending to say; and if my lips move, they move clumsy and in slow motion.
- Loss of my facial expressions: failure of laughing, gentle nodding, looking interested, etc.
- Loss of a great part of my personality: logical/analytical thinking, humor, skills, habits, etc.
- No power in my muscles (unable to greet colleagues in the hall/corridor by putting my hand up).
Situations
- In a meeting with colleagues
- In a 1-on-1 interaction with your new supervisor
- When giving a lecture (with a powerpoint)
- In a phone call with someone who is higher in rank
How do you deal with these situations?
- Do you have a card with a text on it describing the hypo-situation you are in and written down what the other might expect (“unfortunately no presentation/meeting possible in the upcoming 15 minutes”).
- Do you have a separate room in your office where you can go to in order to raise your blood glucose level as fast as possible, meaning: a stimulus-free environment?
- Have you made some arrangements with your boss that once your sensor is alarming in a meeting, you give a small signal to your boss and leave the room?
- Are you still able to produce a few simple words making clear that your brain and muscles don’t function appropriately anymore?
In other words: what do yoú do?
Can one of you give me some tips and tricks on how to deal with such situations professionally?
Since I like to start with a new job in a while, I would like to prepare myself by anticipating on hypo-situations and how to deal with them properly….
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Welmoed
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