We took Sadie out on a long tough hike yesterday. When she got home she was very tired. We thought that was just the exercise. Turns out that her blood sugar was dangerously low. By 4AM she was in a hypoglycemic episode. She couldn't get up, had urinated where she was and when she did get up she staggered badly and ran into walls.
Luckily we are staying with two pediatricians. Tom understood what was happening right away so we gave her some corn syrup which helped her out very quickly. Within about an hour she was back to being about 80%. So she and I went upstairs and back to bed. Unfortunately about two hours later she had another attack so we had to repeat the process.
Very scary, but I think she is alright for the moment. We had seen the effects of hyperglycemia, where she has too much sugar, but never this scary hypoglycemic side.
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