I’ve been trained since I was a child how to deal with this, so I got cake frosting, rubbed it on the inside of his lips, waited about 15 minutes, and started feeding him bread until he came around.

He is insulin-sensitive, but hadn’t had an episode for close to a year. But all it takes is one time. He had dinner a little too early, and didn’t quite eat enough. He later had a sandwich at 10pm. His human-error was that he did not check his glucose levels before bed. But it can happen. If I hadn’t have been there, his body would have produced a little sugar at around 5am naturally, which would have helped him make it to 7am, when Diabetes Response Service calls his phone. If he didn’t pick up, Diabetes Response Service would contact his neighbors, and enable 911 if his neighbors could not be reached. Without the call service, if I hadn’t have been there on Thanksgiving, my dad would have died or had severe complications. He now gets text message reminders from Diabetes Response Service reminds him he needs to check his glucose, for those times he can forget, or fall asleep from a nap.

So this is just a reminder, Holidays can throw you off schedule.