diabetes awareness month - this is real life

its dark, definitely not morning yet. your semi awake and you know theres something wrong. you start feeling hot then cold and your so hungry that if feels like you havent eaten in days.
 
you reach out for your phone to see the time. its 1am.
 
your a little shaky, your eyes aren't working the way they should. you swing your legs around and sit up in bed. you try to remember where you left your glucose monitor before you slept, its the other side of the room.
 
standing up is an effort, your legs feel like they are gunna give way any moment, your vision is going too, black patches start to take over where you start looking, but you have to move, you need to test your levels.
 
you get a strip, put it in the meter, stab your finger and test.
 
the countdown seems to take longer than normal.
 
1.6mmols
 
shit.
 
that's not great, not in the slightest. you start to panic a little, wheres the lucozade? and wheres some food to eat to get me back to normal, and fast.....
 
gulping down the lucozade helps, but now your sat down again its an effort to get back up to find some proper food. you do it though. you get food and you eat before rechecking your sugar levels, and falling back into bed.
 
its taken 30mins to do. and you know that now your going to feel rubbish later. you know now that you will wake up to high levels because you over treated the low sugar level. in that moment it doesn't matter, all that matters is that its over.
 
 
as it is diabetes awareness month i thought i would share what last night felt like when i woke up to a sugar level of 1.6.
considering sugar levels are meant to stay between 4-7mmols and anything below 4 is considered dangerous, last night really wasnt ideal.

for me this happens in real life. its not nice and it never fails to ruin the next day for me. it terrifies me every time it happens because at uni i am alone in dealing with it. there are no other people to see whats going on and help me out as they are all asleep like i should have been.
this morning i woke up to a sugar level of 10.8 thanks to over treating the hypo in the night. it meant that my first day of work experience didn't start well. it meant that i wasn't the best i could have been in the classroom today. and most of all it meant that i didn't necessarily make the best first impression. that sucked.

but it happens, and you move on. im just grateful that i was able to wake up and treat it. hypos are dangerous and can be fatal. people sometimes dont realise the seriousness of them.