Well, that was interesting...
My mother got in a car accident tonight. (She's okay, no injuries.) Her car is pretty bad off even though it was an extremely slow speed collision. The scariest thing is why she got in accident. My mother is a diabetic, and she was having a low. She ran into some guy who was parked in front of a store (he said she was going like 10 miles an hour at most.)
I'd just gotten home from work when I got the call about it. My father was about 2 hours away, but his number was the only one my mother could remember well enough to give to the cop on the scene. My Dad gave the nice officer my number and the phone was ringing as I came into the house. I grabbed my mother's Life Vial out of the fridge, its a little container that has all her medications, doctor's info and critical medical history on it, and dashed around the corner to where the accident happened.
The paramedics said my mother's blood sugar was 23, normally you want your blood sugar to be between 70 to 145 on the high side. My mother usually is best at around 100, anything lower she starts getting impaired. 23 is very low, as in couple of numbers lower and you're in a coma. Everyone's symptoms are different when they have blood sugar lows, but with my mother her vision gets impaired, she gets confused and her motor skills all but disappear. So basically there was a zombie driving my mother's car. She could have very easily killed herself or someone else.
My mother is usually very good about controlling her sugar. She tests, takes her medicine, keeps to her diet and exercises regularly. Today she didn't eat her cottage cheese at lunch because she snacked on some extra fruit and it nearly killed her. The universe is strange and unfair.