Low blood sugar attack - describing the indescribable

While it's fresh in my mind, let me try to describe how it feels to have a low blood sugar attack. It's often the subject of the online diabetes websites I read.

I've had numerous attacks. They are dangerous. You can go into a coma.

Two nites ago I woke up from a deep sleep, drenched in sweat. I was at Scott's. The TV was on.

I knew I was low. When I looked at the television, the people on it were POROUS. You could see right through them.

So, my vision is always affected when it gets really low.

This was the first time, tho, my thinking was not clear. Had I been home, my head may have been clearer cuz I know what to eat when I'm home.

You've gotta raise your blood sugar PRONTO.

I woke Scott and asked him to help me. He said Go downstairs and eat some raisins. Good idea!

I shoveled raisins in my mouth as fast as I could.

He told me to eat some peanuts with them.

I ate a few and then told him I need CARBS, altho it was certainly a good idea to make this a mini-meal, with the usual Protein, Starch, and Fruit.

When I was feeling steadier I walked home - still munching raisins - and got an apple outa the fridge. Apples are high in carbs, so I ate nearly a whole apple, plus my standard Caraway Rye Triscuits, 8 of which are 21 carbs.

My sugar level was 43. Anything less than 70 is not good.

A person close to me was aghast when I said that my diabetes diagnosis was the worst thing that happened to me.

When I worked at the Intell - before 1986 - I wrote the Med News column and briefly spoke to a diabetes expert Rachmel Cherner who impressed me w/the horrors of the disease.

Look, it's not so bad if you take c/o yourself which I'm still learning to do. I've had the condition since April 14, 2011.