Sometimes they’re the ones in the black shirts.

not personal experience.

Happy you are feeling better.

You are an amazing soul! 💗💗💗💐🙏🏼

faster for you but her heart was in the right place. I had a 35 low and 8 paramedics in my house! Paramedic guy told my husband that I should have been unconscious at that point. I was drinking juice as fast as I could. It is a terrible feeling. Then the adrenaline kicks in and you feel even worse. Glad you got help. I go nowhere without my meter and smarties. Be careful out there

Usually if I have low blood sugar, I get shaky, and clammy; this time I just got hot. Apparently, a nursing assistant thought something was off (it was 1 AM) and did a test. I spent the next 45 minutes drinking juice and eating graham crackers.

The week before, after surgery for gangrene, my sugar bounced up to 440. As the nurse said then, “440 won’t kill you, but 0 will.”

Orange juice if you can get some quick.

Guy collapsed in front of me at the supermarket checkout.
Slurred his words but answered positively when I asked him if he was diabetic.
Got one of the workers to get him some orange juice.
He came good, but it took a while.

I'm type 2 and get sufficient warning, but the shaky, clammy hot feeling are sure warning signs.

I am a Type II diabetic and I can tell when my blood sugar is dropping. Low blood sugar is very dangerous

stressful period, changing jobs, moving, driving back and forth from old to new, there were all kinds of problems on one trip, and I ended up not eating for nearly 40 hours (stupid, I know, but the whole trip was weird). I finally got into a small restaurant, got food, and decided I had better stay put for a bit, til my blood sugar leveled out. When I was leaving, I made a casual remark to the server about feeling better. She said, "you certainly look a lot better. When you came in, we were deciding whether we needed to call an ambulance. We were that worried." Which, apparently, had accounted for the very attentive service I had received. I thanked her and the rest of the staff for looking after me, and kicked myself for not having my emergency stash with me.

Angels do walk amoung us.

Thanks for sharing

Hopefully you can avoid such risks in the future

beefsticks and cinnamon sticks handy. But during that trip, there was one problem after another. It was very weird. As soon as I got home, I restocked my car, and my purse (where I always have something!) . It was, thankfully, a singular occurence.

I can feel hypoglycemia coming on even without glucose meter. You have to be careful with low blood sugar.

The earth needs more Tinas.

Thank you for posting this.

She went above and beyond.
I'm sorry to hear of your diabetes. My husband suffers with it, too.
Happy Valentine's Day!

So glad to hear about this.

A diabetic with low blood sugar is an emergency. She saved your life. It boggles my mind that you chose the nearest fast food restaurant, and the customer service person at the order window, had a loved one with diabetes and knew from your voice, you needed help. What a caring and present individual. You won the lottery.

Glad you're okay, and you are sharing your experience.

Tina.

Kindness and compassion. A smile and a thank you for sharing.

Bless your heart, Rebecca. What a good, loving, caring person you are!

evil runs amok, that there is a shining light of positivity, that there are tons of good people out there that do care about all of us.

I have hope for the human race and it makes me so proud, so happy, that we all have such people on our side.

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Restores my belief in some parts of humanity.

What contrasting stories: We have this wonderful, caring, compassionate and loving person. ..and then we have the fucking monsters at the KC SuperBowl parade.

Heartwarming. Love this so much!
Am hypoglycemic and can so relate to this story.
Traveling can be a real challenge. What great person.

Tell my family and friends, every day is a new 24 hours of meticulous planning & caution! Am queen of snacks….

We keep a stock of 15 gram glucose packets at home, in all our vehicles, and she carries some in her purse. We buy the Transcend brand, orange flavored, from Amazon, a 30-pack box at a time -- tear off the end and squeeze the sugary glop into her mouth and swallow.

I'm an EMT and these packets are the same thing we carry on our ambulances for diabetic emergencies caused by low blood glucose levels. High blood glucose will cause organ damage and possibly cause death but it takes years; low blood glucose can kill you in minutes if not corrected.

The drive-thru window lady is a real hero -- she saved a life.

Thanks for sharing

a great-uncle died of type 1 in the 50's. she got lucky.

Second week of college I got arrested during a very low sugar. Out of body, animal mind low. They found the bracelet after driving to the station. As luck would have it the chief had a diabetic son and had just trained them not to do that. So they still booked me gave me juice and took me to that campus dining room via the exit door.
Tip for any Type 1 diabetics you know, Walmart has cheep diabetic supplies. They have dextrose tablets, they should get the 10 and 50 packs. I've made sweet tea for years to titrate my blood sugar but the tablets still help sometimes.

so these kind of incidents we can identify with. Good to see people who understand and know what to do and willing to do what she did.