Uncontrolled diabetes
Hello Vicky,
Unfortunately there are many different perspectives on this strange beast diabetes. If everyone had mine <ggg
I offer that many times I STILL prefer someone else, ANYONE else do either for me… as often as they might wish to do so. It is a bizarre thing… yup in order to be healthy, I need to hurt myself testing, injecting in order to be healthy. Required obviously, but its still self-abuse in some ways…
Still the sooner anybody learns to do them on their own the better off… now you have 2 or 3 people willing and able.
The only thing you MUST CHECK is obviously checking their insulin dosage. Can’t tell you the number of times if I had been in charge as a kid that I would have killed myself, had the idea occurred to me to alter the dosage
With kids, and particularly young kids… you cannot easily tell whats happeneing to get their numbers, whatever they might be. High or low, your high or the doctors high… somebody isn’t happy about something somewhere. The danger to too tight control, ANY TYPE OF CONTROL runs the risk of causing the lows which result from having an “iron fist” about the numbers. Too heavy, too much poking, too much injecting and I propose you run the risk of literally becoming a basketcase… looneytunes, and obsessive to boot.
Be careful, be GRADUAL in what you do. If we do things too fast, or too impuulsively and you pay the price for doing so. Caution won’t kill you… caution is a friend : )
jeff
November 15th, 2004 at 12:05 am
Morning Kate,
Sorry still haven’t mastered this combining messages so as not to take up too much listserve space. Someday I’ll get the idea…
Two simple questions re: the situation you described. 1) how do you stop yourself when you are drinking ONLY a half a coke???? I’ve never, ever gotten that idea, and been doing it for a very very long time. Low is low and dangerous, high I can micromanage later on. how can/do you stop yourself at half a can especuially when you’re low?
2) As for only being a little low, why would you change your treatment methods? Consider, a single habit for taking care of business versus two or three different treatments… might become a problem if alone and in the danger zone, no?
But regarding having the awareness of different things… certainly. Your mind, my mind are still able to function when only a little low. When that level drops lower still our ability to access higher thought processes is gone. It is a differen feel because our brain chemistry and ability to think is literally different. The brain requires sugar to function correctly. No sugar and you get primal survival responses… no thinking involved
Jeff