Posted on 04/20/2005 8:59:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
But then who will pay for her recuperation?
I have a granddaughter that is a diabetic - she is 5 years old--and was just diagnosed last December so I am still learning, but I do know that on several occasions she didn't eat her breakfast, and would be jumping and playing one minute, and the very next, she would be passed out, and we would have to shove cake icing or honey in her mouth--
Luckily, she "came to" after that, but what would have happened if we weren't there to put the honey or cake icing in her mouth?
Her uncle was 23, and had the flu, couldn't keep any food down, and died in the middle of the night.
That age is tough! I was diagnosed when I was five, like your granddaughter. The hardest part for little kids is not being able to recognize the warning signs. I had a number of incidents like the one you describe when I was much younger. I ran a support group a few years back for the parents of kids with diabetes, just providing info to help them through the rough spots, so I know how tough it can be. Your granddaughter is lucky to have such attentive grandparents looking after her!
I forgot to say that her uncle had type 1 diabetes that he got when HE was 5 years old---he just died a few years ago, so that makes us double careful with her--
We keep a glucagon injection with us at all time, so far the cake icing has brought her around..
That's true. I always have a snack around 8-9 o'clock. I LOVE my evening snacks! I test my sugar before I eat to be sure it's not too low (it can be early evenings)because once it got to 43 and my husband couldn't wake me up. I ended up in the hospital. That scared me. So I always have a snack unless we eat later than usual and I make a big pig of myself.
17! My heavens! That IS low, and you're still alive to tell me about it? Whew. Yes, I had the glucagon injections by the ambulance squad. I didn't even feel them nor did I feel them put in an IV! I must have really been out of it. Thank God you survived that.
To counter protest this woman's hunger strike, I will force myself to grill a steak tonight and have a large portion of banana pudding for desert. Maybe a cold one to wash it down with too.
Remember when al sharpton was on a hunger strike? he still ate Hungry Man soup and gain about 15 lbs.
A typical Berzerkely overspill wingnut. They make her out to be a recent arrival, but in reality, she's a petty bourgeois, typical East Bay Lefty. I wonder which Commie rag she was reading when she got her grand idea?
maybe this wingnut should call a COMPASSIONATE, SYMPATHETIC INTERNATIONALIST, ANTI-AMERICAN senator to hear her case - like Voinivich, McCain or Dodd.
These articles always refer to it as "the MEXICAN border". They should start calling it the UNITED STATES BORDER. It is a subtle point, but it puts a spin on it.
Yeah, but what we save in food stamps will be dwarfed by the cost of her "free" visit to the hospital ER for treatment of the effects of her hunger strike.
"How dare they call us terrorists," she said.
How dare you be so stupid, woman? Nobody is calling illegal criminal alien invaders terrorists. we're reserving that epithet for the real terrorists. And if you're here legally, we aren't even talking about you.
OTOH, if you are here illegally, what's your diabetes treatment costing California taxpayers...hmmm??
From today's Sierra Vista Herald, which serves the area where the Minutemen are, out in the boonies:
SIERRA VISTA - The Cochise County Sheriff's Department is warning residents to be on the watch for unusual behavior in wild animals after three skunks in the Sierra Vista area have tested positive for rabies.
Three other skunks were found dead.
SHHHH! She mighta started out that way.
You should see how overweight this lady is. She will probably last a year with the layers of fat stored on her body!
Poor misguided fools!
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Hunger striker: "I'm gonna keep hurting myself until you stop."
Too bad for you I'm a sadist; I'm just going to pull up a chair, eat grease burgers, sip gin & tonics, and watch. Bet I can take your pain longer than you.
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