- Messages
- 78
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Animal harmers, Smoking, Ignorance, Rudeness
I had a hypo which has left me petrified and quite paranoid even inside my house incas it ever gets like this again.
One week before Christmas 2007 I had my lunch and decided to take both my dogs onto the Heath beside my house for a run around. I walked for about half an hour and being the bad Diabetic I was back then I had chocolate in my pocket and a bottle of lucozade sport in my hand, I was only treated with exercise and diet at that time.
I began to feel woozy out of nowhere and had no idea what was going on so I drank the full bottle of lucozade sport and ate most of my chocolate because I had this gnawing almost painful pain in my stomach I was starving hungry. I staggered a short distance then spotted a gate and as I felt I was going to pass out I decided to drape myself over it rather than land up on the freezing ground. When I got there a woman was in that part walking her dog, she saw me and called over asking if I was okay and I managed to say no! She decided to phone Police.
I had managed to pull my phone out my pocket and hit my partners number, in the state I was in I had to hand the woman my phone to speak and she tried but was shouting so couldn't be made out. She was told to stay by me by Police. She decided to ask me if I had brought my medication out with me, I managed to groan no to which she screeched at me that I should have, ummm medication wouldn't have helped but anyway I was screeched at, funny how the general person is clueless about Diabetes!
Anyway, my partner arrived along with another Police Officer, she'd heard the call come over her radio and put one and one together, it was at that point I fully collapsed, I lay on that Heath for 4 hours apparently with armed Police Officers and general Police Officers tending to me and trying to get Paramedics to me, it took 10 Officers 4 hours to help find me and have Paramedics pump glucose into my arm then have the Heath warden come to us and drive us off in his 4x4 to the waiting ambulance where I was taken to hospital not because of my hypo but because I had hypothermia.
I have never been so afraid in my life as I was lying on that Heath without power in my body to even speak,!that was when Diabetes became real to me, my blood sugar level taken on the Heath was 1.2 mmol/l and dropped to that from nowhere as I didn't take any medication back then. I use Insulins now so am paranoid about crashing to the point I am always carrying cans of full sugar coke and glucose tablets wherever I go along with my blood meter and a big medical sos bracelet on my wrist. I could have died that day.
My dogs were returned home unharmed for me by Police.
One week before Christmas 2007 I had my lunch and decided to take both my dogs onto the Heath beside my house for a run around. I walked for about half an hour and being the bad Diabetic I was back then I had chocolate in my pocket and a bottle of lucozade sport in my hand, I was only treated with exercise and diet at that time.
I began to feel woozy out of nowhere and had no idea what was going on so I drank the full bottle of lucozade sport and ate most of my chocolate because I had this gnawing almost painful pain in my stomach I was starving hungry. I staggered a short distance then spotted a gate and as I felt I was going to pass out I decided to drape myself over it rather than land up on the freezing ground. When I got there a woman was in that part walking her dog, she saw me and called over asking if I was okay and I managed to say no! She decided to phone Police.
I had managed to pull my phone out my pocket and hit my partners number, in the state I was in I had to hand the woman my phone to speak and she tried but was shouting so couldn't be made out. She was told to stay by me by Police. She decided to ask me if I had brought my medication out with me, I managed to groan no to which she screeched at me that I should have, ummm medication wouldn't have helped but anyway I was screeched at, funny how the general person is clueless about Diabetes!
Anyway, my partner arrived along with another Police Officer, she'd heard the call come over her radio and put one and one together, it was at that point I fully collapsed, I lay on that Heath for 4 hours apparently with armed Police Officers and general Police Officers tending to me and trying to get Paramedics to me, it took 10 Officers 4 hours to help find me and have Paramedics pump glucose into my arm then have the Heath warden come to us and drive us off in his 4x4 to the waiting ambulance where I was taken to hospital not because of my hypo but because I had hypothermia.
I have never been so afraid in my life as I was lying on that Heath without power in my body to even speak,!that was when Diabetes became real to me, my blood sugar level taken on the Heath was 1.2 mmol/l and dropped to that from nowhere as I didn't take any medication back then. I use Insulins now so am paranoid about crashing to the point I am always carrying cans of full sugar coke and glucose tablets wherever I go along with my blood meter and a big medical sos bracelet on my wrist. I could have died that day.
My dogs were returned home unharmed for me by Police.
