Emergency Bikers

[Northerner]

Guy just on had BG of 0.6 and unconscious! 😱 Glucagon administered which woke him up then gave him some hypostop. Surprised the meter read something so low, rather than just displaying 'LO', but he did a second test and it was 0.7. Paramedic said he had witnessed a 0.3 once! The man didn't have any medical ID on him that they could find to confirm he was diabetic.

 

[Steff]

Alan you beat me too it was just gonna do a thread,poor guy was his first day at work too,its good for me to see something like that I know ive never experienced a hypo and i may never but I now see just how dangerous those things can be.

Ive seen 2 or 3 diabetics on there now,one guy last week was convulsing for ages I think he was 1.4

 

[Northerner]

Alan you beat me too it was just gonna do a thread,poor gut was his first day too,its good for me to see something like that I know ive never experienced a hypo and i may never but I now see just how dangetous those things can be.

Ive seen 2 or 3 diabetics on there now,one guy last week was convulsing for ages I think he was 1.4

Liked the way they said he 'just went on standby'! Lowest I've ever been was 1.7 but I was able to treat it myself. Reassuring that the paramedic really knew his stuff 🙂

 

[Steff]

Liked the way they said he 'just went on standby'! Lowest I've ever been was 1.7 but I was able to treat it myself. Reassuring that the paramedic really knew his stuff 🙂

Yeah when there clued up like that its always reassuring, I know theres been cases where one of the paramedics has made a mistake on this show before

 

[trophywench]

I've been so low the paramedic's meter refused to give any reading, I assume it must have been lower than LO. weird one that, entirely unable to either move or speak (apparently I went rigid) but could hear every single word. (and I never got me own back for some of what was said by one person, either) - but bless him, the paramedic talked to ME and only me, the whole time he was treating me.

Then an ambulance came from Warwick and I had to walk down 3 flights of stairs they only carried the drip and expected me to carry my coat and handbag - our office manager insisted on carrying em and walking with me holding me all the way ... then they didn't know how to get to the hospital where I was left in a corridor ...... for two hours .... then Pete who'd met me at the hospital went in and told em to come and take the drip out and demanded the forms to discharge me, cos we were going home NOW.

Only then did they come and check my BG. Funnily enough it was well in the teens.

I seriously hope I never ever ever have to go into hospital round here and only ever get ill miles away!

 

[Natalie123]

Oh, I missed it. What channel was it on? I might be able to find it on iplayer or one of the others

 

[Steff]

Oh, I missed it. What channel was it on? I might be able to find it on iplayer or one of the others

Channel 5 Nat x


Just typed emergency bikers into google hun and clicked on the first suggestion it took me to the 5 demand site and said watch full episode....easy as that,its the first case on there so you wont have to wait long

 

[Tina63]

Thank you for that link. Still being relatively new to this game and a parent, I am dreading the day something really goes amiss. We haven't had any true scares yet or ever had to put sick day rules into practice, so I still live in great fear of what would happen if my son ever became unconscious, how bad it would be, how quickly I would have to act, how quickly the glucogon works etc etc. I found it very reassuring and it has taken some of the mystery out of it for me. Thank you.