Had a scare last night. My lovely other half is a diabetic. She went off to Yoga and I was reading. When I looked at my watch next it was nearly 10pm and she hadn’t returned and hadn’t called. Very unlike her – she always calls when she is running late or has changed her plans. She’s obsessive about it normally. Drives me mental sometimes because I usually don’t need to know every detail of what she is doing but it’s her way. So not calling is very out of character.

Then I started thinking that her blood sugar has been a little up and down over the last couple of weeks. I instantly thought “Shit she’s had a hypo somewhere”. No answer on her mobile. No answer from the Yoga place. I called RPA and got put through to Emergency – no Lu’s there and no women in their late twenties admitted with hypoglycemia. I asked about the latter because if she’s had a hypo she may not have been able to tell them her name or my name. So that’s good I think – not at the hospital.

Then I get more worried because what if she had a hypo in the car or pulled over and passed out? No one might see her or find her for quite a while. So I called B and he – being the extremely reliable soul he is – drives up the street and picks me up and we drive her route to and from Yoga. We had just pulled up outside the Yoga place and I was going to go up and down the street looking for her car when she rings me. I nearly fell over with relief. She had given someone a lift home and spent a while with her having a cup of tea, chatting and cat admiring.

It can be really scary sometimes. Ever since the hypo last year (which was a bad one – convulsions, fitting, the works) if she goes to bed before me – which is normal – I often come check on her every hour or so. Just hover near the doorway and make sure she is breathing normally and not twitching or looking like she is going low. I still can’t get her to wear her MediAlert bracelet. I am going to do some serious badgering over the next few days to see if I can get her to change her mind. Too many ambos don’t recognise a hypo and without a MediAlert they often misdiagnose – epilepsy or a drug overdose being common mistakes. Makes me scared and stressed.