--- jessicapancoast <jessicapancoast@...> wrote:
> Hello, my mother has been admitted to a hospital icu in a diabetic
> coma. I would appreciate any sites anyone can recommend that will
> inform and educate me about her condition. The doctors have been
> very nice and answer all my questions but I want to know more. It
> seems she is in serious trouble and I think it may be more dangerous
> than they want to let on. Her blood sugar on admission was 1500 and
> has come down to fluctuate between 125-200. She has been heavily
> sedated and on a ventilator for three days. She is barely
> responsive from time to time. Thank you for any help you can give
> me with my search.
>
It is at serious as it can get!

http://www.endocrineweb.com/diabetes/
http://www.healingwell.com/diabetes/
http://www.joslin.harvard.edu/main.shtml
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/56/65902


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