Diabetes-The Bitter Sweet 24*7 Saga of My Life — Part 1

Christopher Reeve had once said and I quote “ A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles”. Here I would like to replace the word “hero” with the word “Warrior” little more bulkier isn’t it haha… anyway this is what is usually used for a person who is normally dealing with a monster like Diabetes every single day of his or her life without a holiday, all the 365 days of the year with no means to get rid of it or shut it out. In order to give an insight about my life as a diabetic I will have to build the plot from the time before my ultimate diagnosis, although its a little exhausting but yes it wont be boring like one of your AP classes, so Let’s begin. It all started back in the days when I was in senior high, that means in India its 12th Standard, I still don’t understand why these terminologies keep mixing up, anyway… and I had gone to school to finish one of the worst impending tasks that was to give a practice paper of Physics- most hated subject of mine personally as a science student. It so happened that right before the exam everything seemed to be quite normal like ones own body temperature, but after sitting for an hour in the exam I started to perspire heavily, breathe heavily as if some soul ripper had actually come down to earth to take away my soul at the wrong time and wrong place and I seriously didn’t want to die along with my incomplete physics paper, jokes apart. I immediately rushed outside the class after requesting the teacher in-charge and took support of a wall, though it didn’t make me feel any better and a group of my classmates was standing there having some conversation when one of them noticed me gasping for breath and took me to the first-aid room (P.S. the only room where students could chat freely with the concerned doctor and escape the harsh reality of marks and assignments). My friend Priya, sorry forgot to mention my helper’s name earlier informed maam about the incident and then maam asked me to lie down on one of the beds to observe the problem more closely and look for probable solutions. By that time my class teacher too came after Priya went and spoke about the incident she like always told the first-aid doctor that she might be having panic attacks and many children actually do after seeing the paper, well of course if I had got the open chance to burn the paper I would have done it, what shit are we really dealing with man! Coming back to the story, the doctor told her “Do you really think that your student would lie like this and just want to escape by acting it out”, pin-drop silence was seen from my teacher’s side from the next half hour. Then maam said okay let me call her parents they will come here and take her home immediately. After waiting for approximately for two hours, my father came at last and initially he too felt doubtful about this whole situation but then I said there is no time to waste, since the situation was worsening now it wasn’t just my heavy breathing but I felt excruciating pain in both of my legs, my hands, in fact my entire body felt like a bloody bulldozer. My father rushed us both home as soon as possible and there as soon as I entered my house, I saw my mother standing with folded arms and she started to angrily utter some Hindi dialogues “Sach main dard ho raha hai, ya paper ka dar tha isliye ghar wapas aagayi”. I said I seriously felt very ill and want to lie down but to my dismay I dropped on the floor and started screaming due to the pain and the shallow breathing that I was experiencing. Then I saw the look on my parents face, for the very first time they felt that something inauspicious is about to happen, so without wasting any further time they rushed me to a nearby family doctor. The doctor said after examining me thoroughly ”Aap loag sab chodh ke fauran admit kariye hospital, halat bighad chuki hai kaafi abh”. My parents made me sit in between on the scooter and fighting with the time in hand every second took me to the nearest multi-speciality hospital-The Holy Family Hospital. At that point I slowly started to lose my consciousness and thoughts like “Will I make it out alive”, “What the hell is happening to me” etc., etc., started to pop into my head. I was taken as an emergency case and immediately admitted in the ward downstairs of the hospital. My parents called their relatives out of which only a few out of concern showed up in the hospital to be give emotional and psychological support. There none of them what was about to follow next…. Initially before attaching the glucose drip when the nurse had checked my Blood sugar it was 120, but after a moment of 2 hours the monitor started to beep loudly all the nurses some doctors rushed in on the spot. One of the nurses checked for my ECG, which was normal, but as soon as she checked my Blood sugar she was dumbstruck , an all time soaring high 520!!! My mom went in a shock, my grandparents shaken badly, my father still confused as to what happened suddenly and me I felt that my perfectly normal life started to crumble down right in front of my eyes and there was nothing I could do. It felt like I was slipping into darkness slowly, inching every step closer towards death and that I will never get any scolding for not scoring well or sleeping on time or the love of my parents again…. My eyes started to close, my oxygen began to drop and then after a moment of few seconds I completely closed them. I had slipped into a Diabetic Coma for almost an hour. I was admitted in the ICU for a couple of days where, in order to revive me the doctors sprung into action one doctor held my neck to insert the central line to administer the given dosage of the insulin 24*7 then one of the nurses, poked my legs to drive the acid (ketoacidosis)which according to them after the diagnosis was one of the probable reasons that I was experiencing intense muscle pain. Life doesn’t stop surprising you isn’t and the story doesn’t end here at all, a big NO! NO!. The ride after this rather unpleasant circumstance was going to be one hell of a bumpy one.. I will let the suspend build till the time people read this out…