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Oops big hypo but good help

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SB2015

SB2015

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I had a 2.5 last night as I was about to go to sleep. I had not picked up the signs as the hotel room seemed hot anyway, I was sleepy, ...

No problem jelly babies on hand, waited 15 min and now 2.8, more JB another wait and only 3.0. Now worried as I only two more lots of JB and no bags of them in the case.

Had enough sense to phone hotel reception.
Immediate response. I am on my way with a bottle of Coca Cola!!!!
He was here so fast. He was T1.

Problem solved after two more treatments.
 
Glad you got good response. Hope you don't feel too bad this morning.
 
Phew. Hope you're feeling ok now.
 
Gosh how worrying for you, and good thinking (hard when that low) to ring hotel reception. How amazing he was a T1! I hope you are feeling ok this morning.
 
Oh gosh hope your feeling ok today! Sounds like you were in the right place though, so glad you managed to get help like that, take it easy xx
 
Thanks all of you.
A bit of head ache this morning and a little higher than usual!!
On my way out to find a big bag of JB.
 
Good response by hotel. Hope you've replenished your jelly baby stocks by now. Hotel rooms usually have packets of sugar among the supplies of tea bags, coffee sachets and milk pots.
 
A very good response by the hotel, and good news that you only had a little headache this morning.
 
Well done to that hotel - it certainly would have helped that the person on reception was also T1. 🙂 Just check your bill - there's probably the cost of a £5 minibar bottle of coke now been added to the tab. 😉:D
 
Copepod said:
Good response by hotel. Hope you've replenished your jelly baby stocks by now. Hotel rooms usually have packets of sugar among the supplies of tea bags, coffee sachets and milk pots.
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Duh. I didnt even think of that!!
Hypo brain!!

I had a problem walking home carrying the shopping. Never occurred to me to look in shopping bag, I was just focused on jbs!!
 
Matt Cycle said:
Well done to that hotel - it certainly would have helped that the person on reception was also T1. 🙂 Just check your bill - there's probably the cost of a £5 minibar bottle of coke now been added to the tab. 😉:D
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Worth it, but I will let you know.
 
SB2015 said:
Worth it, but I will let you know.
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I was only joking 🙂. In my thankfully limited experience of those situations I've found people are always willing to help if it's a medical emergency. After my car accident last year someone (I think it was the policeman) provided a bottle of lucozade. I wasn't able to thank them or reimburse them for it. On another occasion many years ago at the Glastonbury Festival with my sister when I had a bad hypo my sister explained the situation to people in the vicinity and someone willingly provided a bottle of lemonade. I didn't know who it was and again I wasn't able to thank them or reimburse them but it proves there are kind people about.
 
Good to hear a fellow T1 was close at hand to come to your aid, I hope your headache lifts soon.
 
I had been to see a friend, stayed too long, and on way home - driving (no I never tested before I left as I didn't think because I only live a few miles away). I had hardly left her when I realised I could be having a hypo so rather than take the risk of carrying on to get home, I stopped at a pub, went in to ask for a sandwich or something. Of all the pubs it was one that did not sell food. It was full of men playing snooker and darts. I explained the best I could (bit confused by then) that I needed something sweet immediately. They plied me with chocolates after tearing open a bar of chocolate and biting into it I said I would finish the rest in the car. I sat in the car and ate the remaining chocolates. Sat a while until I felt back to normal. I then realised that I did have some glucose tables in the glove compartment and a fruit drink. Anyway when I felt better I went back inside the pub to ask them how much I owe them. They were very nice and said there would be no cost. That was very kind of them but I cannot see why as I was a customer just like anyone else, it was just that I needed serving immediately.
 
It's good when there's people who can help. 🙂
 
The only time since I moved to Coventry nearly 20 years ago I've ever had a hypo I haven't handled myself (well one other was at work when I was otherwise ill and was a 999 jobbie) was a huge one and where was I? At the diabetes clinic! I was about to leave so tested whilst there - mid 3s so I assumed perfectly able to cope myself at first. I'd already drunk all of my own 340 ml (or whatever they are) bottle of orange Lucozade, then I had to ask for assistance so shortly followed by one of theirs and some custard creams from one of the secretary's desk drawers (one of the rooms in there houses some of the secretaries belonging to consultants elsewhere in the hospital) and best part of an hour before I could get to 4.0. I hate custard creams and ordinary Lucozade too! LOL

By the time I'd walked from there back to the carpark I was well above 5 and more like 15 by the time I reached home again because by then I got lumbered with the rush hour traffic.

All in all not entirely the best D appointment of my life!
 
Glad you got help, SB2015 - and how brilliant to find another T1 who knew what to do! There must be something in the air for mega-hypos in public places at the moment - I just posted on Amberzak's thread about the one she had at the station to say I had one this afternoon while visiting open gardens locally. Thankfully I was with R and had glucose and Ryvita in my bag, and I managed to get over 4 long enough to finish the gardens, but I was back hypo again by the time I got home.
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
Glad you got help, SB2015 - and how brilliant to find another T1 who knew what to do! There must be something in the air for mega-hypos in public places at the moment - I just posted on Amberzak's thread about the one she had at the station to say I had one this afternoon while visiting open gardens locally. Thankfully I was with R and had glucose and Ryvita in my bag, and I managed to get over 4 long enough to finish the gardens, but I was back hypo again by the time I got home.
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Glad you had enough stuff with you and you made it home.
Hypos sometimes have an unpleasant element of surprise!
 
Yes, I should have expected it, walking round all those gardens, but I'd tested a bit earlier and was 8.2 then, so the plummeting 2.6 was a bit of a shock!
 
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