I am a type 1 diabetic and have been so for almost 30 years without complications.
Unfortunately I had to go to a hospital with severe gastrointestinal distress. I thought it was food poisoning. Isn't that what we all think these days? When I got to the hospital, it was full of patients who had come in with an intestinal virus. When I told the emergency doctor that I now thought that I had the virus, he replied that he was accepting my self diagnosis of food poisoning and sending me to a...