My dad was diabetic and didn’t look after himself. When he started having regular hypoglycaemic episodes, we would discourage him from driving anywhere and made him upgrade to a smaller vehicle with better safety systems.

He was an entitled baby boomer who didn’t respond well to his Silent Generation Wife and Gen X and Gen Y kids telling him what to do, but he was able to do much less damage to himself and others in a TS Astra than in a big HiLux CrewCab, especially if we hid the keys on him.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

as replied elsewhere, yeah I agree that's insanely irresponsible, but we didn't know that until now.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Irresponsible? Yes. Avoidable? Maybe not.

Dad never wanted to have a hypo. It was just because he was out there doing something and got distracted from monitoring his bloody sugar. It sneaks up on you so you don’t notice until it hits you all at once.

This is why (in his later years) my mum was forced to be a part-time, on-call carer. Dad would have it under control, until he didn’t.

Having a blood sugar reaction is analogous to the guy that goes to the pub to drink one beer and drive home an hour later, but his mate buys him a beer, his other mate buys him a beer and the next thing he knows, he should be getting a taxi. The problem is that the diabetic can’t keep track of how many empty beer glasses there are.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/11/man-charged-over-daylesford-hotel-beer-garden-crash-that-left-five-people-dead

just saw this as a follow up, thought you might be curious. i feel bad for everyone honestly. dude has to be an idiot but god, what a consequence to live with.