Diabetes Blog Week 2011 – Diabetes Bloopers
It was the funniest hypo I’ve ever had, and I’ve not had one like it since! Famous last words? I hope not. I’d read about others having hypos like this one, but I’d never experienced it myself. I’d laughed at others posting about the same situation, but I always thought – I just don’t have hypos that way. Yup, famous last words.
It was late in the afternoon, often a time I run a bit lower than usual and I was just hanging around at home reading. That afternoon, I’d had a substantial lunch and had probably carb-guessed totally incorrectly. I don’t often notice hypos until they’re right on top of me.
Suddenly, I got this overwhelming, ravenously hungry feeling. I can barely describe how compelling it was and how I suddenly started shaking and my brain refused to function. I couldn’t remember what I was supposed to do. Like treating hypos for many years and this time, what was happening wasn’t registering.
The next thing I know, I found myself sitting on the floor, in front of the fridge, eating everything in sight. I had a roasted chicken leg in my hand, luncheon meats open and half eaten, and cheeses unwrapped and half eaten along with a bunch of other stuff from the fridge. Like protein is going to work fast – noooooo!
Then I noticed an open bottle of juice on the floor – the only thing that would have immediately helped the hypo I was having. And I think there was some bread or crackers, I can’t exactly remember. But at least half the bottle of juice was gone – easily 40-50 carbs. Oh no!
I started laughing, obviously feeling better and realising I must have had the juice first because it was working, but honestly, what was I thinking? Protein to treat a hypo? That’s what hypos do to your brain – renders it senseless, literally.
And what else had I eaten? How much insulin should I have for what I’d eaten? I had no idea. From the sublime to the ridiculous! I could vaguely guess what I’d eaten but not exactly. Who keeps a carb-count of their fridge contents? I sure don’t! So I had fun that evening correcting high readings many, many times. The fall-out wasn’t fun, but the picture of me in front of that fridge doing something I’d never done before, still makes me laugh some 2 years later.
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