Hi all. I would like to share on this topic "Hypoglycemia" that actually took my mother's life 2.5yr ago.
My mom had diabetic, and she also undergone surgery and chemotherapy for her breast cancer. There was no doctor that educated my family about possibility of hypoglycemia, which is low blood sugar. All the while, our common understanding is that high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) IS the only major concern.
There are many other complications she suffered, but here I would only like to educate on the symptoms she suffered that was linked to hypoglycemia. One morning, we (dad & I) found my mom still sleeping until near afternoon. We tried to wake her up many times, but we finally managed to. We did not seek any doctor consulation over that as we thought there's nothing serious. She was "normal" throughout the day and I had even fed her a scope of ice cream during dinner.
The following morning, again she could not wake up and we could not wake her up as well. We tried and tried and failed, thus we had her sent to hospital. She was warded few days, connected to a machine....I don't know it was for. She never woke up at all... And one unfortunate morning, we received the bad news from hospital that my mom had passed away. The COD was hypoglycemia! I surfed the net for info and learnt of it.
Until today, I still feel slight anger that no medical experts educated my family of potential hypoglycemia. We thought there possibility of hyperglycemia is under control as my mom was taking medicine for diabetic.
Anyway, the key message here is for those with family member(s) having diabetic, and without any family doctor, to get educated on all potential difficulties that could occur and how to prevent them. Feel free to go to the links I am sharing here and learn more, if applicable.
Thanks for your time to read my post, appreciate it.
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Hey... sorry for hearing about your mum case...
I had met the same case like u did..
1. My Grandma
She is having diabetes as well, one day she found overslept and we can't wake her up. As we heard from others b4, may be the sugar level is too low and cause her unconcious. What we did is, we fed her with glukose while getting doctor to the house. Luckily, she is save after doctor give her an injection..... Advise from doctor is, get them a sweet to help them to maintain needed sugar in the blood.
2. my Aunt... her case even worse.... pass away in dream... reason.... glucose level too low....
You may help to get some key learnings and added to your post.. i might help up others.......
Hi plan4it,
Firstly, thanks 4 visiting my blog and appreciate your valuable comments. Secondly, my apology on my extremely late follow-up as I've been side-tracked and overlooked my health blog.
Glad to hear about your grandma, but my condolence over your aunt.
Truthfully there's no key learning I could share. I did not even know of such diabetic coma (hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia) at the first place, and my mom's doctor had never educated my family of it.
Anyhow, I do echo your point to get key learnings posted as well, be it to this post or any other topics in future. Thanks :)
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