http://asweetlife.org/catherine/blogs/type-1-blogs/home-alone/2371/ the source for the healthy diabetic Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:12:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://asweetlife.org/catherine/blogs/type-1-blogs/home-alone/2371/comment-page-1/#comment-179 loubird Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:43:09 +0000 http://asweetlife.org/?p=2371#comment-179 It had never occurred to me that staying alone might be dangerous. I frequently house sit my mothers place when she travels, and had never given a second thought to what might happen if I did severely hypo in the middle of the night or something. However I am lucky that after 10 years of the big D that my hypo awareness still kicks in at 4mmol  -sorry I am bad at converting. My question though is do you know that you are hypoing when you are asleep? I find that I always do, because hypos induce nightmares for me. Often the most difficult part is actually pulling the doona off my head and testing, rather than just hiding in terror. Of course that might just be the irrationalism. Anyway I've been reading your blogs for a while now - they are great! It had never occurred to me that staying alone might be dangerous. I frequently house sit my mothers place when she travels, and had never given a second thought to what might happen if I did severely hypo in the middle of the night or something. However I am lucky that after 10 years of the big D that my hypo awareness still kicks in at 4mmol  -sorry I am bad at converting.
My question though is do you know that you are hypoing when you are asleep? I find that I always do, because hypos induce nightmares for me. Often the most difficult part is actually pulling the doona off my head and testing, rather than just hiding in terror. Of course that might just be the irrationalism.
Anyway I’ve been reading your blogs for a while now – they are great!

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