Caroline Wilson
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
My grown up son is a Star Trek Deep Space Nine fan. We were watching an episode where the doctor the captain and another charecter got transported back in time to 2024.
Any way in one scene there was a lady sitting fanning herself, and the doctor was very concerned and asked if she was having 'a hypoglaecemic attack'. She said yes, there were no meters or anything to support the diagnosis, but he was supposed to be a doctor. Anyway the doctor was going to get the lady some chocolate to sort it out. A bit later he was injecting her and saying 'the glucogel will help'.
I thought what do they know about chocolate that we don't about treating a hypo...
Any way in one scene there was a lady sitting fanning herself, and the doctor was very concerned and asked if she was having 'a hypoglaecemic attack'. She said yes, there were no meters or anything to support the diagnosis, but he was supposed to be a doctor. Anyway the doctor was going to get the lady some chocolate to sort it out. A bit later he was injecting her and saying 'the glucogel will help'.
I thought what do they know about chocolate that we don't about treating a hypo...