“I got so I could detect hypoglycemia by observation and taking my kid’s pulse.”
I’m curious how you did this? Did the low blood sugar cause your kid’s pulse to go up or down? It’d be great to be able to detect when my sugar is low without having to test for it. Sometimes I can tell by symptoms, but not always.
Well, of course it was context. But her pulse would be elevated, and the first time I took it the words from the old First Aid textbooks came to mind: thin and thready. It was like a shocky pulse.