TYPE ONE

Chapter 13 - Hypoglycemia (Part 2)

I never thought I would ever need to update this chapter but unfortunately I had my third hypoglycemic episode on 6 February 2022 at about 1 am, in my sleep. This was also ironically the morning after my second episodes date from 3 years back in 2017. I was always scared that this would happen in my sleep but I thought it wouldn't since my lows woke me u whenever I had them in the middle of the night and then I could treat the low before it got too low. 

This episode happend while I was away for the weekend with my parents for my boyfirend's 21st birthday weekend, which we celebrated along side his mom and brother as well as his best friend and his friend and his parents. I'm not sure what happend but I remember going to bed after a busy day ad the woke up to me sitting up and my mom next to me with my dad across from me. I was them asked did I know where I was and some other questions as well.

I had no idea where I was and as soon as I realized, I just burst into tears because why did it happend now, why did it open up an old wound of trauma that I had just gotten over in the last 3 years.

Now about 2 weeks after the episode I've been having trouble falling asleep at night because there's this voice going: "What if it happens again?", "What if I don't wake up tomorrow because my parents didn't help me in time?" All this so really scary for me and I really don't want something like this to ever happen because what happens if I do go into a coma and never wake up. I don't want my parents to lose their child at a young age.

I mean I don't know what will happen if it should happen in my sleep, what would happen to my parents, my boyfriend, my family, my friends. What would happen to my studies, I just started second year of studying Graphic Design so all that would be for nothing, my parents paying for my future would be for nothing as well as my hard work. I don't want to imagine something like that but it's the truth behind the what ifs of having these episodes, as type one diabetics we could go into a coma and in some very rare cases wake up or either never wake up again. Now I don't know about you but that all sounds so scary because you'll leave behind a whole life and everything you worked for.

Don't get me wrong when it's your time to go l, it's your time to go but I don't want to die at this age I am at now. I'm 20 by the way and I mean I want a future, I want to get married, have kids, grow old with the love of my life and most of all I want to do what I love as a graphic designer because I've dreamt about it since I was 13.

My point is that both, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia are very dangerous. Both can cause use you to go into a come because your blood sugar goes either dangerously low or high. So please if you're a type one diabetic and you're reading this, please that care of yourself as much as you can. Don't do stupid stuff to destroy your health and maybe risk yourself falling into a coma.

Thank you all for reading and supporting my book so far, I am truly grateful.

Much love,
Karla xx-xx