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Originally Posted by stu8910  i always used to laugh at movies that made a big deal of diabetics going like 1 day without insulin, and how they would die etc. most notably con air!
i dont think i've ever missed a single shot in the 2 years i have been diagnosed so i was not going on experience i just suppose i got my head wrapped around the idea that controlling BS would enable me to survive on bananas and fish! |
Nah it's not silly to think of things like this. We've had a few threads along the same idea as this started for kicks and people popped in and answered
. As for the movies go I believe a good deal of people don't really understand the whole thing behind diabetics and they sometimes have to play those situations off without much detail. But if my memory serves me right the movie Con Air they were in the air for a day or at least two before the fella started feeling ill over the lack of no insulin, couple that with the fact that I believe he was due for his shot almost as soon as they boarded so if it was his long acting (12 hours or more) then he had been without it for that much longer too. So I guess it wouldn't be uncommon for that to be set in "realistic" down hill time for an actual diabetic going without insulin and getting sick etc. But as far as other movies go yea I know what you're trying to say lol didn't mean to deboggle your example of movie choice there.
