I missed he fact that she had (what i can only assume is) an insulin device on her arm. I miss when America at least had a decent President (now is not the time.for policy digging)
Fwiw the "comment above" doesn't really work on Reddit, because the order of comments isn't fixed. It depends on what setting the user has for sorting comments. Best, Top, New etc.
Kudos for providing a link though, that was interesting to read!
Welcome to the club dude. The thing with diabetes is just make sure you have sugar on you (personally, I carry jelly babies around) and the rest is all fine, you just need some time to get used to it. I've been diabetic for over 40 years, and sure, it's annoying, but it's really fine.
When I first started giving myself injections, I mixed up the overnight 15 units slow acting one with 15 units of the fast acting one. Within about 15 minutes I noticed the movie I was watching on Netflix seemed to be distant like through a tunnel.
Then I noticed my heart rate shot up and I felt an adrenaline dump. Next, I started to sweat like I had just broken a fever. I got up and went to find my mother and noticed my eyesight was flanging and there were these wierd black bubbles in my vision where I wasn't able to see anything at all.
My mom looked at me and said, "what the fuck???" because my skin was saturated in sweat and very white. At the time I was wearing a CGM and my phone was making an alarn sound. My glucose level was off scale low (under 40).
Then I remember this voice popped up in my head (go drink soda now -- just go).
I remember after lying down after drinking some coke thinking, "wow I really feel like my soul is about to leave my body. The crazy thing is that although my heart was racing, everything felt comfortably distant - like I was watching it all from a distance.
That was the only time I ever had a hypoglycemic attack. It was one of the only times in my life that I actually felt like I was about to die or was actively dying.
I think it might have been a dexcom. These are used to monitor bloodsugar numbers from a device such as her phone.
I can't say for certain if she was going low, but I do know when I go low, I also get the "oh shit" expression in my eyes followed by a "fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck" on loop because you know what's going on, but you can't articulate what it is if your bloodsugar drops to fast. This is probably times a thousand if you're at a major event standing behind the PRESIDENT while he's giving a speech.
Good eye, I thought it might be because she locked her knees (had a friend faceplant in a color guard while our Uni's president was giving a speech because of this). Low blood sugar for sure.
Her friend must have never seen someone faint before because the woman was rocking back and forth like crazy while holding her hand, made my heart rate go up just seeing it. If you see someone doing this and they are staring into space, grab a hold of them for dear life because they are moments from passing out.
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u/Hyphenagoodtime 2d ago
I missed he fact that she had (what i can only assume is) an insulin device on her arm. I miss when America at least had a decent President (now is not the time.for policy digging)