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Friend's daughter fell downstairs hypo

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Monica

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As it says in the title:
My friend?s daughter is 15. Yesterday, she was hypo and tried walking down the stairs. I guess she was wobbly on her legs and fell. She?s been to hospital, staying the night with concussion and bruises. Now back home again poor girl.
I hope Carol will learn a lesson from that and NOT walk down the stairs hypo anymore (but I doubt it).
 
Oh no! :( I do hope she recovers quickly. I suppose one of the problems when you are hypo is that you are not thinking straight and it doesn't occur to you what a risk you might be taking. Hopefully, this incident will lodge in her subconscious and prevent her from making the same mistake again. I always keep a meter and hypo treatment by my bed so I don't have to get up and go hunting - it also means I don't have to get out from under my snuggly duvet into the cold room at this time of the year!
 
Exactly!
But I have told Carol numerous times not to come down the stairs when hypo. She has a monitor and glucotabs in her room. But sometimes she'd rather have a coke. I must admit, she has texted me too, asking to bring a coke up 🙂
 
I guess I could keep a few cans upstairs. They are not actually refrigerated anyway 😛
 
I hope the young lady recovers quickly and no damage was done. A hypo in itself can be pretty scary and I have heard people say thy don't think right when in hypo.
 
I fell down the stairs because of a hypo when I was 12 or 13. I therefore keep my Lucozade upstairs BUT I have the odd hypo which gives me such a food craving that I have to go downstairs.....it doesn't make sense but that's hypo brain for you🙄
 
Crikey! How scary. I've never had a hypo that made me feel wobbly or dizzy like that. It would never orrcur to me to avoid walking downstairs 😱
 
Ooh that's nasty, poor girl. Hypos can be so disorientating and confusing that anything is possible really. Hope she's ok, bet it's shaken her up though. When I was a kid, dad rigged up a door bell attached to my bed with the ringing bit inside their bedroom. So I rang for service! It worked but only because I stayed in bed, wouldn't have been much help in this instance.
 
She's home now, feeling better, but obviously the bruises still hurt, especially the on on her head

A doorbell sounds a brilliant idea, but I'm sure Carol would abuse that 😛 And we'd need the bell downstairs. At night it isn't a problem, because we leave our bedroom doors open, so we can hear her when she shouts.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Crikey! How scary. I've never had a hypo that made me feel wobbly or dizzy like that. It would never orrcur to me to avoid walking downstairs 😱
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We've been told by DSN about not going down the stairs when hypo
 
Monica
Sorry to hear about this poor girl pleased she is home though besT wishes to her
 
Owww LOL

I've never done that exactly but I did headbutt the floor once (concrete, allbeit with underlay and carpet on top) when I fell off the settee whilst hypo. Knocked meself out. Had a great big egg. Fortunately hubby was able to use the Hypokit and I came round again pdq.

Ouch.
 
i've experience the bad hypo in the middle of the night and battling it downstairs lol it is scary i use to keep my stuff upstairs but i always forget nowadays.
 
Sounds as if a mass move to a bungalow is required 😱🙂

Hope the lass's bumps and bruises are soon better.
 
Hope she is ok.

We considered buying a house with an attic conversion and a spiral staircase down from the main bedroom, but I vetoed it as I had horrible ideas of myself falling down the spiral staircase hypo in the middle of the night.

Instead we bought a flat - no pesky stairs at all (well not on the inside anyway)
 
LOL @Sue - we already lived in a bungalow!
 
Lol, yes a bungalow or a ground floor flat would solve the stair problem 😛
 
She's feeling a lot better, even went to school yesterday 🙂 And started MDI 😱

But she is still a bit worried about walking down the stairs
 
I mean obviously we don't know the whys and wherefores but whatever in this day and age was a girl of 15 doing NOT on MDI?
 
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