The Wonders of Life

I am amazed at how things can be going so right and then all of a sudden life just takes one of those turns. About a month ago, Brett injured his back moving some furniture into the house. Okay a little concerned but we will get through it. Then he started to have this neverending thirst and started to go to the bathroom much more then he used to (gets up in the middle of the night to go - never did that before). So yesterday before we left Cleveland he decided to check his sugar levels (since he is a nurse he had already self-diagnosed himself with diabetes). Testing himself was not the best thing to do because the glucose in his urine was over 1000 and his blood sugar was at 507. From what I was told this is very bad.

In a normal situation we would just deal with this. However, he is in the Army. This is a automatic discharge. I have never seen him so upset. He was actually crying in the car on the way back to Virginia. This of course got me all upset because I always cry when I see a grown man cry. Though he talks about getting out of the military I know he really loves it and is not ready to get out.

So today he is supposed to be getting everything checked out. Hopefully it is just something throwing off his levels due to the back injury. Worse case scenario I will have to console a 32 year old man who just learned he is diabetic and has just ended a 15 year military career.