Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
(Editor's Note: Although Becki Lang lives in the United Kingdom, we thought her story is one that would resonate with American readers. Unfortunately, in the United States there is no national organization that does what Medical Detection Dogs does. One organization that comes close is Northern California-based Dogs for Diabetics, which is limited by the sheer vastness of the state and the country from serving a larger area. Our hope is that Becki's story might inspire other people with diabetes to start similar detection dog programs across America.)
Lying in the hospital bed, underweight, dehydrated, and with a blood sugar reading of over 400, I felt as if my life were over. Diabetes had changed everything for the worse. It had became a dirty word that I spat it out venomously every time I spoke it, and I saw it as a very unwelcome guest in my body.
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2013/02/23/7791/oscar-to-the-rescue-/
Lying in the hospital bed, underweight, dehydrated, and with a blood sugar reading of over 400, I felt as if my life were over. Diabetes had changed everything for the worse. It had became a dirty word that I spat it out venomously every time I spoke it, and I saw it as a very unwelcome guest in my body.
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2013/02/23/7791/oscar-to-the-rescue-/