I had a very curious and unexpected conversation at work recently. An amusing person that I work with, who I'll refer to as "The Random Talker", will pour out mouthfuls of directionless information at the drop of a hat. I'm talking about a totally un-sequestered menagerie of anomalous comments. This time, however, something struck home with me and we had a more meaningful, if not still awkward conversation.

Random: "Sometimes I get really angry and confused when I don't eat enough"

Me: "Oh really, I know the feeling,"

Random: "I become hypoglycemic, but I bet you don't know what that is, do you?"

Me- (Sounding like a know it all): "Ya, your blood sugar drops, and you can get sweaty, hungry, nervous, jittery, not a good feeling"

Random-(Now stunned): "That's right, but when I get hypoglycemic, I mainly get angry and want to yell at people"

Me: "Do you have diabetes?"

Random: "No, I just get hypoglycemic sometimes"

Me: "I have type-1 diabetes so I know that feeling all too well, and of high blood sugars too"

Random: "Oh ya?"....

At this point the conversation turned to the pressing matter of current reality-TV drama and to the successor of a fight between Marvel and DC Comic characters. My mind faded to gray,.

I was intrigued by this conversation though. Were there really people who experienced serious low-blood sugars without being diabetic? Is it afflictive enough to impact daily life, like my co-worker? Do they carry glucometers and monitor blood sugar readings the same way people with diabetes do? I need to know more. I need to know if I have a bigger connection to Random than I realized.

Maybe I do, maybe I don't, but did you know that it's physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky? Curious.