They took me in and checked my blood sugar.

(I don't blame them, who just knocks on an ambulance?) At this point I explained that I had diabetes, my blood sugar was low, and that line for food was reeeeeaaaaly long. I knocked on the door and was greeted by 2 EMTs who looked confused.

That's when I saw the ambulance stationed at the end zone. By the time I walked the 100 yards to the concessions, I really felt like crap. Unfortunately the line was stupidly long because it was halftime and everyone wanted snacks. I did have my credit card however, so I decided to grab myself some food from the concession stand. I didn't have any glucose tabs on me due to the lack of pockets on my marching band uniform. I got back to my seat and realized that I was going low. I was in the marching band in college, and we just finished our halftime performance at a football game. I've posted this before, but I freaked out some emts once I’ll never forget her kindness and she way she helped me that day. She was well aware of my newly diagnosed T1D and her mom was a diabetic so she was an angel. I was in tears from embarrassment but I managed to get to the hallway and my teacher came to help me. I suddenly stood up, the teacher asked me what I was doing, I took a few steps forward as I mumbled something to her, and fell flat on my face in front of the whole class. It probably doesn’t even sound that bad to other T1Ds!Īlthough the list is long, the most memorable is low blood sugar in my 7th grade Spanish class. Sure it sounds like I’m a poorly controlled T1D, but I’m not. I’ve had seizures only to be awakened by multiple paramedics holding me down trying to keep me from hitting them a time my poor mothers hand shook so bad she couldn’t give me the glucagon shot (so my little bro grabbed it from her and stabbed me in the ass!) and then times of complete embarrassment as sudden low blood sugar left me rambling on incoherently to strangers unaware of my disease. Most of the most memorable ones were from my first few years of diagnosis (diagnosed at 13).

Atc blood sugar story mar. 5