I had another interesting experience today. I was in a restaurant and an older woman sitting at a table near me began to get sick. She was vomiting a little and the people she was with, her son and her friend weren't exactly sure what was happening. Her waitress and the restaurant manager were obviously and understandably a little nervous. Other people began to talk and wonder what was going on and then finally I heard those famous words again, "I'm diabetic". So I went over to her and I introduced myself, eerily similar to my "diabetic angel" experience. I asked her what was going and told her that I was also diabetic. She told me she had been having some high sugars and she hadn't been feeling well. She said her blood sugar was in the 400's earlier and she had just taken 6 units to get it down.

This little lady was so sweet.

She was more concerned about throwing up in this restaurant than with her emergency diabetic situation. She exclaimed to me that she, "never would have expected to get sick in such a place" and that she was "so sorry".

Well, all I can say is that I felt it was my responsibility to ensure this nice woman, that it wasn't her fault and it didn't matter that she got sick, and that nobody cared she did. I assured her, her son and her lady friend that all anybody cared about was that she was ok.

She told me she was feeling better and then her waitress got her a cup of hot tea.

This experience will be engrained in my memory. I really appreciated that once people found out she was diabetic that nobody panicked. This experience was quite different from the old man I came across a couple weeks ago who was severely low. In that episode, no one else wanted to stop and help this person. In this ordeal, everyone in the restaurant, from the wait staff to the strangers sitting around this woman, was offering help.

Maybe this was a sign to let me know that more and more people are not so freaked out when a "diabetic situation" like this occurs. In this case, there wasn't really anything else to do. All that needed to happen was for her sugar to keep coming down and it eventually did. Instead of people being scared to come to her aid, people were there to offer their love and support for a fellow human being. A lot of time's just asking what you can do can make all the difference in the world.

She, her son and her friend appreciated my, and everyone else's, genuineness. Even though I didn't fell like I had done anything special, it was a great feeling to know that people are appreciative and that everything would be ok with her.

Thanks for reading today. -Andy