Crim dies while doing a break & enter
I read in todays Adelaide Advertiser,
that a bloke broke into a house thru the roof, while inside he took some of the home owners diabetes meds, thru up on himself,
so strips off and has a shower but collapses & dies soon after but while still starkers.
Home owner comes home after being away for a couple of days to find dead naked body in his house.
I wonder why the home owner would be a bit freaked out.
the crim was know to the police. (read drug addict/crim)
serves him right I reckon
What do you think?
Ian
IMO this is not a subject to joke about.
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Originally Posted by Groggy
Clever leaving the medication in plain sight, wasn't it?
(in an ironical sense that is)
As my wife is an insulin dependant diabetic we, like most people suffering from that awful illnes, leave the current lot of insulin pens out on the kitchen table as well as her other stuff that she needs. Often quick access to her meds is the difference between staying well and passing out.
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Originally Posted by goat
makes you wonder why a diabetic would go away for a few days with out his life saving medication ? BS i think
Every diabetic that properly manages their condition has more than one lot of meds. My wife has one set at home, another set (including spare meter etc) in her handbag for when she goes out and a third set in my car just in case.
No BS but normal common sense.:mad:
What happened is quite possible as injecting yourself with insulin when not needed will cause a diabetic coma and can kill you. He probably thought that he found a new supply for his junk habit not realising it was insulin that he was injecting.
IMO this is not a subject to joke about, the life of a diabetic is extremely difficult. Managing the insulin needs of your body, which is never the same day to day notwithstanding that you may eat the same and do the same activities, with injecting it rather than have your body do it naturally is not funny.
Especially with the consequence that if it goes wrong you either become hyper (tired and listless which can go to a coma) or go into a diabetic coma. A number of times we have had to administer an injection for her to get out of a coma or take her to hospital for emergency treatment. Not a joking matter.:mad:
Peter.
Why I am so touchy about this subject.
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Originally Posted by Groggy
Peter, my comment was relating to the irony of the medication serving more than it's intended purpose. Dark humored perhaps but certainly not intended as a comment on the owners or their illness.
But as someone who has suffered the loss of a relative through drug crime, I really don't have much sympathy for the deceased.
Groggy, I know it is not personal and more out of ignorance of how diabetes affects people but I failed to appreciate the dark humour or the irony. Maybe because I have lived for nearly 30 years with the effects of that dammed illness and as such I am rather touchy about the subject.
Like you I have no sympathy for the deceased, he got his just deserts, but there appeared to be implied criticism of the real victim in this story namely the diabetic householder who found the body in his house.
He, and his family, is already suffering a lifetime sentence of diabetes. It is indeed a life sentence as once you become an insulin diabetic you have it for life. There is no cure yet, only a way of managing the condition.
This management involves, in my wife's case, DAILY INSULIN INJECTIONS AT LEAST SEVEN TIMES and AT LEAST FIFTEEN TIMES A FINGER PRICK to obtain a drop of blood to test her blood sugar levels.
A normal day begins before breakfast with a blood sugar test, then calculate the carbo hydrates in her breakfast and factor in her current BSL and proposed activity and calculate the first insulin injection. If this is done correctly she lives like a non sufferer for about 2 hours when at morning tea time that is repeated. And again at lunch time, afternoon tea, dinner, supper and before bedtime.
If she miscalculates she will either get hyper, which has long term disastrous effects, or a hypo where she may pass out. This goes on day in day out with no let up for feastdays or holidays.
The family has to live with her dietary needs and the regulated lifestyle her treatment demands and learn how to step in when needed. My children from prep stage had to learn what to do if my wife became ill and there have been occasions when they had to administer a glucodin injection when they came home from school.
And then there are the times when she had to go to hospital for emergency treatment, the last was a week before Dougs and Jules Meet and Greet when suddenly that event looked like being thrown into turmoil, or the long terms effects of the desease. Like 2 years ago four eye operations ( 3 in one eye and 1 in the other ) to restore her eyesight with the possibility that if it went wrong she would permanent lose sight.
That is the reality of diabetes and there is no cure in sight, just the management which is painful to see on a daily basis. Most don't realise this as when you see a diabetic they are normal when they are managing their condition. The sad thing is that the decease is on the increase.
So I can fully relate to the householder when he found the criminal dead in his house, he now in addition to his diabetic life sentence has to cope with that as well. Definitely not a subject to joke about.
As we do the same, leave her meds including insulin pens (syringes fully loaded with insulin) on the kitchen table as she uses spare ones when she goes out, the same could happen to us if some junkie broke into our house. Not a joking matter.
Peter.
