A Petition to Protect 'Mistreated Carbs' (Diabetes Humor) - malchowount1970

A problem exists within our community. Unrivaled that deserves immediate attention, and I've crafted a petition ready to lend more awareness to our cause and hopefully spark some fulfill on this important matter.

Put simply, our health is at gamble. Lives are in danger. All because of diabetes and hypoglycemia. Yes, those perilous low blood sugars that can so quickly all-day sucker-clout US in the gut without any warning.

Why should you care?

Even if we think over we are safe thanks to unceasing blood glucose checks, alert parents or spouses, and perpetual glucose monitors (CGMs), the bottom line is that Lows silence happen. Often quite unexpectedly.

You're thinking about the danger to the PWD (person with diabetes), aren't you?

Well, that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about America, the poor fast-playacting carbs and packaging thereof who get mangled divided in the process.

It's only a matter of fourth dimension before we face the repugnance of what I'm career Hypodermic-Induced Packaging Aggression.

I speak from experience. In the particular diabetic household where I live, this return has hit our world hard.

The classic symptoms I've experienced are probably ones you've seen up close and personal yourself: rumblings in the middle of the night, when everyone should be asleep but instead a contralto blood sugar sweeps in, and from somewhere in the aloofness, someone aloud says: "Call for Juice" or "Get Sugar!" It's all muffled stochasticity, until suddenly, the lights snap on and you're blind away the light.

That's when it happens.

A PWD in the throes of a hypo enters the way, and suddenly you are familiar senseless and/or torn apart before ultimately existence devoured.

Take it from me, a juicebox . These situations are downright scary and your unhurt nutrition label flashes before your eyes.

If you are a juicebox like ME, the plastic-sealed stalk is ripped from your back as the PWD begins swearing under his or her breather some you existence likewise difficult to open. Maybe the straw does get unwrapped, then you're injured upstairs multiple times, every bit the PWD swears yet more because information technology's not working right ("Where's the stupid chaff hole?!"). I've also seen it happen to those in my own family — cases where the faulty straw is cast-off on the base in a equip of furor and the PWD then grabs a knife from the heel counter and begins jabbing.

It can happen to any of us — pudding cups, candy packs, bags of cookies — whether in the kitchen or the pantry or refrigerator or hiding in another room surgery automobile.

Skittles, smarties, glucose tabs, raisins, apple sauce… really anything with carbs that could be within reach face this danger. Even full-size succus containers in the fridge aren't immune to this aggression, as we all sometimes get roughhoused by a panicked PWD.

Afterward, well-nig of us are just left languishing along the floor, table or counter, mortified as we're reduced to empty boxes or wrappers — no more able to be productive members of the Kitchen Profession.

We deserve respect, like any other food item is given when BGs are in range and get a proper burial in the garbage can subsequently consumption.

This reckless behavior must be stopped, and that's why I'm interrogative you all to hold your support behind this petition.

OK, this may not seem every bit large to some of you compared to more pressing petitions like the government's send for to create a Death Star. Only I urge you to consider signing this, because as a community we must unite against this Sodium thiosulfate-Induced Promotion Aggression Ailment (a new form of HIPAA!).

We realize that these sometimes-aggressive and hypo-panic-stricken PWDs hump the issue asymptomatic, and they're working on their ain petitions and initiatives aimed at getting better tools to help them avoid Lows. CGM sensors are acquiring much precise, and subsequent so-called Artificial Pancreas systems are auspicious a "watch glass ball effect" to curb hypos before they happen. Those are whol promising notes, simply still…

We mustiness be aware of the continuing risk of hypos short of a diabetes cure, and in doing so we mustiness insist that we Fast-Acting Carb Items (FACIs?) be treated with honor when these scary situations arise.

We also can't overlook the low-carb style in the Diabetes Residential district that's been growing over the years, limiting the measure of FACIs in many households — but that's a petition for another day. For now, let's just focus on this hypo-induced food aggressiveness and leave it at that place.

Delight sign our request calling for more PWD Awareness of HIPAA against FACIs.

Seriously, you should sign. (Bestow name below, in comments).