My son was diagnosed with diabetes at age 12, when we first took him to the ER and found out his diagnosis his sugar was so high that the accucheck couldn't read it, had to draw blood.. his sugar was over 600.. they sent us immediately to the children's hospital who had a bed waiting on us.. they told us had we not noticed something wrong he could have fallen into a coma.. he is now 25..
My wife has done that a couple times. One time she called me out of her head. Made no sense what so ever. I hung up and called her an ambulance.
My wife works a union job. I called her union rep. They were breaking state law for not giving her breaks on time. The Americans with Disabilities Act also covers diabetes. It states they have to provide reasonable accommodation. Evenly spacing breaks out is not unreasonable.
The night it happened I went to her job and the supervisor on duty was a 23 year old punk kid straight out of college with no work history. I got all up in his shit. He asked me to go outside. I told him no. I made a big scene about it.
Something about my wife's life being put in danger really had me pissed off.
A couple days later I met with the main boss. My wife regularly takes lunch during the last hour of an 8 hour shift. I told him it was bullshit. He acted like he didn't know. I told him he wasn't doing his job. I then demanded a print out of her time clock records. Those have been sent to her union and to the state labor board.
I also let my wife know she is partly to blame. I told her when it came time for a break or she needed to eat just clock out and take a break.
Fuck'em and feed'em fish heads.
Sorry to hear about your boy. The key to controlling diabetes is exercise and a good diet. 6-8 small meals a day instead of a few bigger ones. That helps control glucose spikes.
