This is the one where I go to the hospital.

Posted May 6th, 2009 by Mike Lawson

Maybe you were thinking, “Man, Mike has been quite for a while.”  Or maybe you didn’t notice.  Or maybe this is the first time you’ve read this blog.  Or maybe you don’t care.

Anyway, last Thursday night I started feeling really sick.  I thought I was getting the flu.  I called-in “sick” to my 2 jobs on Friday, and hung out in bed, ocassionally running to the toilet to throw up.  Saturday wasn’t any better.  And then on Sunday morning I started hypervenelating and vomitting…so Daniel took me to the hospital.  And it turns out that I had Diabetic Ketoacidosis – or near complete deficency of insulin.

It’s a long, embarassing story about how I got to that point…one that I’d like to pin on greedy insurance companies.  But the short story is this: I went a month without insulin.  And almost died.

Things are better now.  I”m home, recovering.  And diabetic-related materials are now covered by my insurance.  And I plan on being as healthy as possible.