Ellie Jones
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I had just treated a mild hypo when there was a knock at the front door which was to set off a series of events... My daughter answered a lady was asking if that was our dog as it was trying to get in, Err no says my daughter the dogs are out with my step-dad! I go to the door to find out what going on, and yes its Jones he?s come home alone, asked the women if she seen a man with a German shepherd, no just come out the shop and noticed the dog trying to get in. My daughter looked at me with the knowing look we knew something was terribly wrong with Les...
She grab her mobile, said she head off towards the lane as I only just sorted my own hypo, I could collect myself, secure the house etc then if she hadn?t found him I could go the long way round with the car.. Checked my BG and 5.5mmol/l so rang her mobile to see if any signs of Les, thankfully she had found him collapsed in the lane Ellie by his side on guard... She had already called the Ambulance out, so off I go in the car thinking that once it was sorted even though not far, the car would be better to get him home... As I was getting the car out, somebody brought Ellie home, so as I left the ambulance went past...
Because Les at first wasn?t being the most cooperative patient, the paramedic couldn?t get near so I had an attempt of getting him to have a drink, but no go and he finally went totally unconscious so we were able to get him on a stretcher and into the ambulance... I wasn?t allowed into the ambulance and left standing in the cold and boy was it cold around 4 degrees... Another paramedic turned up then I could hear a commotion in the ambulance, then the police turned up... Apparently as Les started to come around after being given a glucagon shot, started to get very combative with everybody he has actually fallen off the stretcher lying on the ambulance floor... But everybody remained calm, and the police had a natter with the crew and myself, but fortunately Les started to calm down enough to be helped back onto the stretcher and the police were able to go on there way... This affray lasted around a hour but Les was now coherent but his body temperature had dropped and they couldn?t get a reading so it was decided that he had to go to A&E as it was likely he had the beginnings of hypothermia... On arrival at A&E his body temp was 33.5 degrees not good, so he had to be heated under a special heating blanket and heater... This took several hours, and through checks, bloods, ECG and chest x-rays etc the works and we eventually got home at around 11pm with an headache and sore knees..
After talking with Les to work out what happened he said that the dogs alerted him over the fields, but he had forgotten both his hypo kit and mobile, so decided to head home best he could taking the lanes rather than the long way round, he can remember getting part down the lane, and decided to crawl as he couldn?t see in the dark and felt he could go quicker, I?ve worked out he must had crawled about a ? of a mile before he finally collapsed unable to go further and remembers nothing else apart form the seeing a clinic waste bin in the ambulance!
If it wasn?t for Jones coming home for help I dread to think what would have happened, as it may have been another ? hour or so, before I would have become concerned and went looking for him.. We are so proud of both the dogs, Jones for over-coming his fears and getting home a major feat for him and for Ellie for staying with Les until help arrived...
She grab her mobile, said she head off towards the lane as I only just sorted my own hypo, I could collect myself, secure the house etc then if she hadn?t found him I could go the long way round with the car.. Checked my BG and 5.5mmol/l so rang her mobile to see if any signs of Les, thankfully she had found him collapsed in the lane Ellie by his side on guard... She had already called the Ambulance out, so off I go in the car thinking that once it was sorted even though not far, the car would be better to get him home... As I was getting the car out, somebody brought Ellie home, so as I left the ambulance went past...
Because Les at first wasn?t being the most cooperative patient, the paramedic couldn?t get near so I had an attempt of getting him to have a drink, but no go and he finally went totally unconscious so we were able to get him on a stretcher and into the ambulance... I wasn?t allowed into the ambulance and left standing in the cold and boy was it cold around 4 degrees... Another paramedic turned up then I could hear a commotion in the ambulance, then the police turned up... Apparently as Les started to come around after being given a glucagon shot, started to get very combative with everybody he has actually fallen off the stretcher lying on the ambulance floor... But everybody remained calm, and the police had a natter with the crew and myself, but fortunately Les started to calm down enough to be helped back onto the stretcher and the police were able to go on there way... This affray lasted around a hour but Les was now coherent but his body temperature had dropped and they couldn?t get a reading so it was decided that he had to go to A&E as it was likely he had the beginnings of hypothermia... On arrival at A&E his body temp was 33.5 degrees not good, so he had to be heated under a special heating blanket and heater... This took several hours, and through checks, bloods, ECG and chest x-rays etc the works and we eventually got home at around 11pm with an headache and sore knees..
After talking with Les to work out what happened he said that the dogs alerted him over the fields, but he had forgotten both his hypo kit and mobile, so decided to head home best he could taking the lanes rather than the long way round, he can remember getting part down the lane, and decided to crawl as he couldn?t see in the dark and felt he could go quicker, I?ve worked out he must had crawled about a ? of a mile before he finally collapsed unable to go further and remembers nothing else apart form the seeing a clinic waste bin in the ambulance!
If it wasn?t for Jones coming home for help I dread to think what would have happened, as it may have been another ? hour or so, before I would have become concerned and went looking for him.. We are so proud of both the dogs, Jones for over-coming his fears and getting home a major feat for him and for Ellie for staying with Les until help arrived...
