When you don't have any insulin, your body goes into a state of diabetic keto-acidosis (DKA). While in this state, sugar builds up in your blood, but does not enter your cells. Your liver dumps glucose into the bloodstream which causes dehydration, as the kidneys work overtime to clean the blood. The body eventually uses an alternate metabolic pathway to produce energy which dumps byproducts into the blood which cause it to turn acidic among other things.
Speaking from experience, severe DKA is extremely uncomfortable. The problem is in your blood, so you feel a constant and extreme discomfort everywhere in the body, there's no body part that you can focus on where it isn't happening. You become extremely tired and lethargic and also irritable. You get angry and panicked and cognition slows down so you don't feel like yourself. You are very hungry and very thirsty but nothing you eat or drink alleviates the sensation. You also feel as though you cannot breathe enough to sate your body, so your breathing becomes faster and shallower.
It's difficult for me to imagine anything worse than dying of DKA. Maybe being lit on fire? That's short though, a death by DKA happens over hours or days. The cruelty here is spectacular.
Insulin is on the WHO essential medication list. The type of insulin that could alleviate these symptoms is cheap and widely available. There is absolutely no excuse here. Every doctor and nurse knows how to treat this and stop this kind of suffering.
Even setting aside the very real risk of life-ending ketoacidosis, high enough blood sugar is pure suffering in itself.
Many aspects to it. The nuances are horrific; For instance. the amygdala is wired with blood glucose sensing capability and processes blood sugar alterations as foundational threat markers. Directly.
It is known that elevated blood sugar nukes sensory nerves and capillaries.
This is torture. Literal. physical torture.
(Source: A loved one just barely escaped death due to a badly missed T1D diagnosis. It's torture.)
This is a good question. It's worth noting that the US forces did not in fact uniformly liberate every concentration camps prisoner: they left those incarcerated for being homosexual. So even back then the lines were blurrier than commonly taught.
It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty... But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map.[...]I am determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must go to camp.
These poor people marginalized by politics trying to find a better life. I just don't understand how people can be so far removed from this problem and not feel a profound sense discontent with the world that we enabled this to happen. What's worse is the children affected by this too. It's hard to believe the world can have billionaires and yet also people dying from lack of food, medicine and shelter. There is enough to go around we simply don't want to change. Worser still those that work for these systems are often protected, heralded and celebrated even.
How can we be better documenting the perpetrators involved here for our own Nuremberg trials? Narrative articles are obviously necessary for highlighting the moment, but seem too impermanent to actually prosecute these crimes against humanity.
When you don't have any insulin, your body goes into a state of diabetic keto-acidosis (DKA). While in this state, sugar builds up in your blood, but does not enter your cells. Your liver dumps glucose into the bloodstream which causes dehydration, as the kidneys work overtime to clean the blood. The body eventually uses an alternate metabolic pathway to produce energy which dumps byproducts into the blood which cause it to turn acidic among other things.
Speaking from experience, severe DKA is extremely uncomfortable. The problem is in your blood, so you feel a constant and extreme discomfort everywhere in the body, there's no body part that you can focus on where it isn't happening. You become extremely tired and lethargic and also irritable. You get angry and panicked and cognition slows down so you don't feel like yourself. You are very hungry and very thirsty but nothing you eat or drink alleviates the sensation. You also feel as though you cannot breathe enough to sate your body, so your breathing becomes faster and shallower.
It's difficult for me to imagine anything worse than dying of DKA. Maybe being lit on fire? That's short though, a death by DKA happens over hours or days. The cruelty here is spectacular.
Insulin is on the WHO essential medication list. The type of insulin that could alleviate these symptoms is cheap and widely available. There is absolutely no excuse here. Every doctor and nurse knows how to treat this and stop this kind of suffering.
Deprival of insulin is torture.
Even setting aside the very real risk of life-ending ketoacidosis, high enough blood sugar is pure suffering in itself.
Many aspects to it. The nuances are horrific; For instance. the amygdala is wired with blood glucose sensing capability and processes blood sugar alterations as foundational threat markers. Directly.
It is known that elevated blood sugar nukes sensory nerves and capillaries.
This is torture. Literal. physical torture.
(Source: A loved one just barely escaped death due to a badly missed T1D diagnosis. It's torture.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty... But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map.[...]I am determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must go to camp.