The Incident: A Not-So-Model Diabetes Patient (or “Grandma Got Run Over by a Wheelchair”)
It all started innocently enough. The hospital nurses gave me a model car to put together, probably to keep me in my bed rather than romping through the hospital hallways with the other kids on the children’s floor. This was back in 1971, and hospitals were not yet in the practice of moving patients out as soon as possible. I had…