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I am so darn annoyed with one of our neighbours, diagnosed 12yrs ago with type 2, doesnt take a blind bit of notice, wont change his lifestyle, lives on take aways, pastries, jam doughnuts, crisps and biscuits, gloats that he has done this for all those years and still has no complications, that proves that all this talk about complications is just scaremongering.
Fair enough, you takes your chances, you take the consequences like the rest of us, I hasten to add that I am not pestering to do low carb, I have however in the past pointed him towards daisy's welcome post and some other threads.
He told me a while ago that his GP has added Gliclazide, recently Janumet as well, I asked if he is testing his bg levels, he said he doesnt need to, I pointed out to him that Gliclazide can cause hypos, although deep down I thought with the sort of food that he eats there is little chance of it happening.
Well this afternoon I walked back home with the kids when we saw this bloke staggering out of his car as if he was drunk, left the engine running, car door open, had problems unlocking his front door, I thought something isnt right there, another neighbour and I walked over to him, he was sweating profusely, shaking, first thought was its a heart attack.
Quickly realised it wasnt, got my tester, he was 2.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plenty of hypo treatment in his house, but the very thought that he doesnt test, that he drives a car and this happens is making my blood run cold.
I am normally a calm and collected person, but this time I went ballistic. I waited until he had gone back up to safer levels, then told him that he has exactly 2hours 30 mins to get to the pharmacy to buy himself a tester and strips, he can afford them and if he doesnt come round to show me that he has done this I will be on the phone to the DVLA and police first thing in the morning. I sincerely hope he knows I mean business. He needs to get back to his GP as well, he said he has been having a few similar attacks recently but not as severe as this one.
Thanks for listening folks, I am still feeling rather unsettled by this incident.
Fair enough, you takes your chances, you take the consequences like the rest of us, I hasten to add that I am not pestering to do low carb, I have however in the past pointed him towards daisy's welcome post and some other threads.
He told me a while ago that his GP has added Gliclazide, recently Janumet as well, I asked if he is testing his bg levels, he said he doesnt need to, I pointed out to him that Gliclazide can cause hypos, although deep down I thought with the sort of food that he eats there is little chance of it happening.
Well this afternoon I walked back home with the kids when we saw this bloke staggering out of his car as if he was drunk, left the engine running, car door open, had problems unlocking his front door, I thought something isnt right there, another neighbour and I walked over to him, he was sweating profusely, shaking, first thought was its a heart attack.
Quickly realised it wasnt, got my tester, he was 2.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plenty of hypo treatment in his house, but the very thought that he doesnt test, that he drives a car and this happens is making my blood run cold.
I am normally a calm and collected person, but this time I went ballistic. I waited until he had gone back up to safer levels, then told him that he has exactly 2hours 30 mins to get to the pharmacy to buy himself a tester and strips, he can afford them and if he doesnt come round to show me that he has done this I will be on the phone to the DVLA and police first thing in the morning. I sincerely hope he knows I mean business. He needs to get back to his GP as well, he said he has been having a few similar attacks recently but not as severe as this one.
Thanks for listening folks, I am still feeling rather unsettled by this incident.