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| Topic | Have you ever had to dial "911"??? (or your country's equivalent) |
| captpackrat 12/12/19 2:46:31 PM #29: | Had to call 911 a few times when my grandmother became unresponsive. She was a type-1 diabetic (that's the insulin dependent type) and was always terrible at controlling her blood sugar especially as she got older. One time the paramedics arrived and her blood sugar was 12 (normal is 72-144 mg/dl). High blood sugar is bad but will eventually come down even in a diabetic. Low blood sugar in a type-1 diabetic will only come back up after eating, which you can't do if you're passed out. This requires medical intervention with either a glucose IV or an injection of glucagon. I also called 911 when I came home from a business trip and found my spouse dead on the floor. I have seen enough crime/medical shows to know he was gone with no hope of revival (algor mortis, rigor mortis and livor mortis had occurred, as had the beginning of putrefaction) but I had absolutely no clue who I was supposed to call. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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