More on "Tough Call"

 It’s Lori’s original post that got me on this.  And she makes a very good point.

I’m not sure what to think about finding out that I am, at nearly 42, still so naive and hopeful to think that a person with diabetes can receive good medical care without being beaten or tasered or blamed for poor diabetes self-management.

Source: Very Old, Very Healthy Diabetic

Frankly, every time I treat a potential low, someone makes me feel guilty that my diabetes self-management requires me to eat a bit of sugar. 

The good news about the Portland incident, is that it is getting BOTH sides to think. 

I don’t think that the police officers involved did anything wrong UNLESS it is already addressed in the policy and they acted against the policy.  However, I do think that policy DOES need to be thought about a bit harder — I used to help with that sort of thing when I did K9 stuff, so I know that side.  

On the other hand, I hope it is a wake up call for the patient.  If you know you get combative when you go low, you owe it to everyone around you to make sure you don’t go low.

Oh, course, this is from the viewpoint of a Type 2 on an insulin pump.  Someone who hates to go low and treats a 90 blood sugar reading as a low.  However, I feel that I owe that not only to myself but everyone I’m going to encounter on the way.

I am not accusing anyone of bad diabetes management — I’m just saying that perhaps her own procedures need to be reviewed.