MY MOM- The Light of My Life My mother had type 2 diabetes. My mother had type II Diabetes, the illness started out slow, buteventually it escalated to where she needed to take insulin. This was all new to her, having to test her own blood and give herself just the right amount of insulin. For someone with no medical bakground and little information on how to administer insulin, in the wrong hands it could be considered lethal. Well, it happened to my mother and my point of view is that people are not fully aware of many of the dangers of diabetes, and that should change. Now what happened to my mom is this. She was not able to see the levels on the needle very well, maybe gave herself to much insulin, went to bed and her glucose levels droped low, and never woke up. When my dad found her and called 911 it was to late it had already caused severe brain damage. Yet they revived her, put her on a respirator, but that was all they could do. They did everything they could, but three weeks had gone by with no improvement so we decided to take off the respirator, and now she's gone. I would like to do this walk for my mother and someone else's loved one who is living with diabetes. |