{"id":35650,"date":"2014-04-01T06:55:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35650"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:41:44","slug":"low-blood-sugar-harder-on-those-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35650","title":{"rendered":"Low Blood Sugar: Harder on Those We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hypoglycemia1-1.png\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35651 lazyload\" title=\"Low Blood Sugar\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hypoglycemia1-1.png\" alt=\"Low Blood Sugar\" width=\"275\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>As a diabetic I know that low blood sugar is difficult to deal with. But, for the people close to me, for the people who love me, it\u2019s harder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My cousin Daniel once told me what it\u2019s like sometimes when my blood sugar goes very low. We were recounting what happened after he spent 15 minutes coercing two boxed fruit juices down my throat to bring me out of a particularly severe episode. I had no memory of it at all. \u201cJust before you got really bad, I could tell,\u201d he said. \u201cYour eyes go dead. It\u2019s like you\u2019re not even there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s easier on me in many ways because I don\u2019t remember. It\u2019s easier because I\u2019m not there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first time my blood sugar really crashed hard I was in college. It was during a class in which we sat in a circle and read what we were writing. In that class on this particular afternoon I took my glasses off and started chewing on them. I looked at my friend Ed Dumas and said to him, \u201cEd, I\u2019m fucked,\u201d before falling to the floor and flopping around like a con man in a revival meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For reasons that, to this day, Ed doesn\u2019t even understand, he jumped up, ripped a set of venetian blinds off the window, and yelled, \u201cNobody move! He\u2019s a diabetic!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then he called an ambulance. I came to in an emergency room. When the doctor asked my name I didn\u2019t know. \u201cI\u2019m sure it\u2019s in my wallet.\u201d I was unable to answer the doctor\u2019s question about the day. I didn\u2019t even know what year it was. It came back to me when Ed stepped up, put his hand on my shoulder, and asked if I was all right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once, at a new job, my sugar went so suddenly low at my desk that I could barely see or stand, much less think. My friend Jeremy noticed I was not myself. He tried to get me to drink a Coke. I, however, was in a total panic. I was certain my boss would see me in this condition, and that I would lose my job. I begged Jeremy, in a loud slur, to not tell. This attracted attention. I ran from our farm of cubicles into a hallway, then collapsed on the floor irrationally terrified over my impending termination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next thing I recall, my new boss and Jeremy were holding me as I drank some juice, then helping me to my feet. It turned out my boss\u2019s wife was a diabetic. When I came back to my cubicle everyone gathered around me looking stricken and concerned. Then my boss relaxed everyone by joking that he needed to stop putting the fear of God in his employees like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently, when I become inappropriately affectionate, it\u2019s a sign of impending doom. I know this because the first time I told my girlfriend that I loved her we had only been dating two weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWell,\u201d she said, \u201cthat\u2019s nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I then proceeded to insist to her that her mother\u2019s birthday was December 14, which it is not. She realized something was not quite right, convinced me to drink some orange juice, and filled me in on the surreal drama that had just taken place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some weeks later I told her that I loved her. She asked me if I needed some juice. I said no, I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGood,\u201d she said, \u201cI love you, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[264],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Low Blood Sugar: Harder on Those We Love<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As a diabetic I know that low blood sugar is difficult to deal with. 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