Have you ever had a situation where you know you’re going low but unable/unwilling to do anything about it? In my full-on job I have them all the time. Basically most of the meetings I’m in are ones I’m actually running, which requires me to be on full alert at all times, and often requires me to say a lot. For this reason, it’s often tough to (a) get a minute to test or (b) shove some glucose tablets in my mouth without looking like an idiot. A lot of the time I choose just to hang on in the hope that the meeting will finish abruptly and I can go off and have a melt down in peace. I know this isn’t ideal but I don’t always wanna be that girl in the corner having health issues. It’s not that I’m ashamed of the diabetes, I just don’t want to give it centre stage all the time.

Had a case like this today… had had one meeting and gone low in it so had a glucose tablet while some other people were talking. Then got ambushed as I left that meeting and ended up in another for about half an hour. By the time 20mins had gone by I could feel myself going low again but chose to hang on. But of course then you start to look like a bit of an idiot, because your brain is no longer engaging and you’re not even taking anything in, you’re just thinking to yourself, “hmmmm I wonder if I should stop things and take some glucose now of if this will be over soon”.

My nurse reckons the average diabetic thinks about their diabetes every half hour. I reckon she’s probably right. How dull!