We're counting visits for hubbies, too?
Geez.
Then add to my list:
three visits for Diabetic keto acidosis. The first, he insisted it was a stomach bug, but when I could smell the ketone 'acetone' smell from 3' away, I said "That's it, you're going in." We were in the ICU for 2 days.
Second time, he felt illish, and I took him in 'before it got worse'. He threw up 3 times in the car, 5 times in the parking garage and a few more in the room.
Last time, he begged me not to make him go to the ICU, and I told him if he threw up one more time, I'd take him in. He sat SO still for about an hour, then lost it. I told him he was going in, and we got into an argument over it. This was at the point where he could still breathe okay. Then he gagged again and his diaphragm seized. He couldn't breathe more than a little gasp, so I ended up calling 911.
That was the last incident of DKA for both of us. He learned to take at least slightly better care of himself, and I couldn't deal with it anymore.
Besides that, there was one bike-related incident where he was riding on the sidewalk against traffic on the way to work, and got creamed by a big SUV. Sprained ankle and wrist, scratched face and shin, broken helmet.
no such incidents for DGF.



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