Sunday morning my little brother Hunter boarded a flight home; well to Orlando. It was his very first flight ever. Did I mention that his flight left at 7-so we were at the Indianapolis airport at 6? Oh yes, we were! The airport is about 3 hours from our apartment and 2 hours from my in-law's house; so of course we stayed Saturday night at their house...making us get up around 3:45am instead of 2:45am. Good decision? YES!
After getting Hunter through security and giving him detailed directions on what to do next, The Mr. and I headed back to him parents house with dreams of climbing back into bed. I.WAS.EXHAUSTED! We were able to get back into bed around 9:30am, which was about the time his parents were leaving for church...I had set the alarm on my phone for noon thirty...
What happened next (that I remember) I blame on sheer exhaustion and maybe a little on a high blood sugar that I might have over corrected for. I did not wake up when the alarm went off once, or twice. I can imagine The Mr. reaching over me and hitting snooze just thinking that I was still passed out sleeping. That I was! What really was happening was an extreme low or hypoglycemia. It is a horrible feeling...I woke up not knowing where I was and completely helpless. Once The Mr. calmed me down enough to check my blood sugar he knew what he needed to do. The reading was 40 mg/dl. He ran downstairs to get some much needed juice and returned with a large glass of apple juice. This juice tasted SO good, possibly the best ever. Upon drinking guzzling the juice I started to feel better and recognize my surroundings and realized what had happened. I remember The Mr. asking me if I was okay and me responding with "I just returned from a parallel universe". He laughed, I laughed; all was well. Well, all with the exception of my sweat soaked pajamas. Yes folks, diabetes is sometimes not a pretty and glamorous disease. It is nasty and brutal...so I head to the shower.
Events like this do not happen often, that goodness. I really believe this episode was induces by over exhaustion and just plain being tired. I worked all week and stayed up late playing with Hunter and The Mr. They were able to sleep until 11am each morning while I rose for work around 6:45am. Thus my tiredness.
*Mom and Dad got me this book for Christmas and I was SO excited about it. I am on Chapter 8 now and am loving reading all about the history and how brutal diabetes was in the early 1900s. It really is inspiring and makes me think about how blessed I am to be living now, when diabetes is totally controllable and not a death sentence!
So what did I do on Sunday? After showering and getting ready we went to a yummy Mexican lunch with The Mr.'s parents then returned to their house to work on laundry...we had A LOT of it! I had good intentions on reading my new book I got for Christmas but fell asleep not far into the 3rd Chapter. So yes, I slept for most of the day on Sunday. It was glorious!
This week we have plans that include a little bit of relaxing, eating, movie watching and taking down the Christmas decorations. As sad as I am to take them down, I know in a blink of an eye it will be time to put them up next year and who knows what that will bring :) Hope everyone has a great day!
2 comments:
I'm glad that doesn't happen very often. This is no way can relate to it, but Austin will wake up and not know where he is for a few min. He's a sleep walker. Did I mention I woke up one night to him leaned over me petting my head...can we say freaky! Glad the Mr. was there to help! And that he didn't freak out! And sleeping off and on all day is a good thing!
I'm so glad that doesn't happen very often! What an interesting book. It sounds like you're learning a lot. It does make us grateful for living in a time when we have more understanding about things like that!
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