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My husband has been a diabetic since he was 12 and he's 27 now. He takes 62 units of Lantus in the morning around 930-10am when he gets up.The other morning I awoke to my husband making a horrific sound. He was laying half up and slouched forward, (werid I know). He was shaking uncontrollable and sweating perfusely. His eyes were gazed and he was staring at the comforter. I immediately pulled him to the end of the bed and ran to get sugar. I called 911. I gave him grape jelly to raise his sugar. He was still shaking-jerking movements making this noise like grunting or huffing, i don't know it was odd and loud. I was just waiting for the EMS. He was soaked with sweatand his head kept going into his chest like he wanting to curl up in a ball on the bed. I was really scared so I smacked him. He wasn't responding to me. He stopped shaking alittle and I was yelling at the top of my lungs, Chris open your mouth. I spooned about 1/4 of a jar of grape jelly into my poor husband. He started to come around alittle periodically jerking, twitching. So i got a huggie juice. He was able to drink it and about 3 minutes he was talking. He walked himself to the porch and greeted to EMS guys who just showed up. His blood sugar was 51 at that point. Has anyone heard of hypoglycemia seizures? Is this what he experienced? What was that he went through?
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I work nights on a 30 bed ortho/med/surg unit. Some nights are:angryfire some aren't so bad. We have 2 RN's: 6 pts to 1 RN, no aide, on one team of 12 pts. Then the rest of the 18 pts are split at 11p to 2 RN's: 9 pts each RN & the PCA has all 18. At night we get dumps from the ED confused, c-diff, combative, pts with our fresh post-ops, next door. The ortho dr's thinks someday's its a nursing home the way it smells. Not only do we run with the ortho pts but the confused person next door keeps them up all night by her bed alarm and in turn they complain to us. Thats troubling. Its a no win situtaion on my floor some nights, but the time flies so quick some nights 12 hrs is nothing.