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I woke up at 3:00 a.m. to the rustle of the plastic bag that Mike was trying to open.\u00a0 \u201cAre you okay?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Mike said.\u00a0 \u201cMy blood sugar is 44.\u00a0 I\u2019m dropping.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to eat these Chomps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have glucose tablets,\u201d I said.\u00a0 \u201cDo you want one?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the Chomps,\u201d Mike said, but he was still struggling to open the bag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWant me to open it for you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you sure?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to be annoying, but I offered my glucose tablets to Mike again.\u00a0 He refused them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCan I get you something else?\u00a0 Food?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Mike said.\u00a0 Then he got the Chomps bag open and chewed four little candies.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I should know by now not to listen to the \u201cno\u2019s\u201d of hypoglycemia.\u00a0 I should not try to be respectful of Mike\u2019s pride.\u00a0 I should have stuck a glucose tablet in his mouth and told him to chew.\u00a0 I should have grabbed the Chomps bag and opened it for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou okay?\u201d I asked Mike.\u00a0 I wanted to hear a \u201cyes\u201d and go back to sleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as I drifted back into sleep, I heard the thumps of heavy, clumsy footsteps on the steep stairway.\u00a0 Mike was stumbling to the kitchen for food.\u00a0 His way down was dangerous and something I could have prevented if I\u2019d been more aggressive about treating his hypoglycemia. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The line between helping and offending is so fine. There is no set number to go by.\u00a0 Sometimes a 45 comes up in no time.\u00a0 Other times a 70 drops to 50 even after the glucose tablet.\u00a0 And it\u2019s always so much worse at night, trying to snap out of dreams and into the unpredictable reality of hypoglycemia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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