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Hypos and losing things

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abs

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Location
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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
About a month ago i had a hypo at work and basically did not treat it straight away felt it coming on but had no one to cover me, work was busy and didn't treat it until my levels had gone to 2. Which i know is stupid and would never do that again. During the hypo i basically put down my work keys and i know i must have locked the door with them but cant remember what i did with them. I know that took a while to get my levels back up. Is this sort of thing normal to forget what you have done with something? Find out in the morning how much trouble i will be in with work when they tell head office dreading it as chance of losing my job because of this. Im not sure if they will take into account that i was having a hypo and also under extreme stress with PTSD?
 
I suspect it is quite normal, depending upon how low you let your BG go. When I was in 6th form, I went hypo over lunchtime after I'd been in the workshops. I gave my keys to the metalwork teacher thinking that I was actually giving him his own keys back. I ended up passing out in the 6th form common room and being brought round by one of the biology teachers who knew that I was diabetic.
Thankfully, this was in the now long gone days of having two injections a day of Actrapid and Monotard and manual mixing.
 
Gosh, I'd forgotten all about manual mixing! Thank goodness we don't have to do that any more.

My mind often blanks everything out as my bg gets lower and lower. I tend to be okay until about 2.5 and then anything below that is a mystery to me. I don't even remember that I don't remember if you know what I mean.

Hope you found the keys?
 
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