....i know paramedics are generally good peeps but if they got a wellness check call and then didn't fucking do it someone needs to land on them like a ton of bricks. make a shitstorm!
....i know paramedics are generally good peeps but if they got a wellness check call and then didn't fucking do it someone needs to land on them like a ton of bricks. make a shitstorm!
Good that he was found and isn't dead and all but now I'm going to play Mr Moral Righteousness.
Motherfucker needs training on how to handle his diabetes.
I've had the amberlamps called for me a total of 3 times in my 20 years of having this condition, all for dangerously low blood sugar (one time because I was too drunk to keep any sugar down, thx mojitos) . If he's going into a coma because of sugar being too high with type 1 diabetes things are really wrong. I assume he injects insulin. Has he considered a pump? If he's regularly going so high he needs paramedics then having an insulin pump on a timer could help him to keep his sugar in check. Regularly having hyperglycaemia is the man cause of all those horrible going-blind-and-losing-your-feet complications of diabetes. Wiping out two whole days in a hyperglycaemic coma is insanely dangerous and completely within his power to prevent. Having such poor control over his diabetes that the state won't even trust him with a driving license is worrying.
End rant.
There are fortunately many options for your friend to take. Encourage him to consult his physician, go to a local hospital's diabetes specialists, and try giving a course a try. I'm not sure what the American equivalent is, but in my country there's a charity that covers a huge amount of diabetes care, information and research. Here's a link to their site with a list of training courses for patients managing their diabetes. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/education/
The main thing I'd tell him to do is to check hs blood sugar religiously. I check mine five times a day at least, adjusting insulin doses and food consumption to keep my sugars controlled. You have to have high blood sugar for a long-ass time before you fall into a coma, so regular testing would definitely have saved him a trip to the ICU.
Please try to convince this guy to sort his shit out. Diabetes sucks, but it is so easily manageable. Nobody should have to go through what he's been doing.
Depends on how much of it was depression, but if he agrees to this consider that all it means is he leaves his phone somewhere the next time he decides to go MIA on everyone. If he won't pull something like that, it'd be a huge help. If he's actively aware that you'd be able to find him and he ditches his phone to avoid that, it also removes his only means of calling for help.
Depression can get really ugly if someone's determined to vanish on you.