Hypoglycemia

UberGeek submitted 606 days ago

I am a type 2 diabetic. This means that I do not take insulin shots, instead I take pills that assist with controlling my blood sugar.
I had been on 2 meds that we designed to increase my insulin production and to increase my insulin absorbtion.
One of the medications had a warning about possible hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) reactions.
Because of this side effect I was in the habit of checking my blood sugar quite often at work. Hypoglycemia is a condition that is often hidden from the sufferer. Usually by the time obvious symptoms show it is too late to prevent it. It is not unusual for the first obvious symptom to be a fainting spell.
On 2 occassions a o-worker had to alert me to the problem so that I could get some sugar intake to stop the decline in my blood sugar.
Hypoglycemia has been know to cause some VERY odd behaviour, including unprovoked burts of anger. The sharper the decline the worse these reactions can be.
On June 10 of this year I suffered from a 200 point drop in my blood sugar in a space of 90 minutes. To say the least this caused me to behave in a VERY strange fashion.
I was working in a tech support call center and apparently I reacyed to a co-worker in anger over something he said to me.
The co-worker who had previously alerted me to my blood sugar drop states he tried to get me to check my suagrs but I told him to F**K OFF. This comment was heard by a caller.

On my way home, driving (not a good idea), I nearly wrecked my van when I started shaking. My blood sugar was at 46. Anything below 50 is considered to be dangerous.

I returned to work the next day and alerted my supervisor as to the problem and was told to go see my Dr. I did exactly that and he changed my meds and wrote a letter to my emplyer confirming the situation.
I was fired for "creating a dangerous workpplace by not properly monitoring my health and failing to predict when my blood sugar would fall."
The really sick thing is that I was denied my unemployment based on this exact same argument, even the appeals judge stated that not being able to realize what was happening was just cause.