Posted on 03/31/2015 10:12:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is in intensive care for treatment of diabetes and is “not doing well,” his family said Tuesday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Abu-Jamal, 60, was taken from the Pennsylvania state Correctional Institution in Mahanoy to Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville Monday after passing out, his wife Wadiya Jamal said outside the hospital. She says prison officials told her he is in diabetic shock.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer:
His blood sugar level was very high – 779 – when he arrived at the hospital and remains at more than 300, she said. (Anything above 186 is considered dangerously high.)
A hospital spokesman said he could not confirm that Abu-Jamal is a patient at the hospital or release information about his condition. Family members said they have not met with a doctor, but have pieced together information from conversations with nurses and Abu-Jamal.
The former death-row inmate is shackled to a chair and receiving an insulin drip treatment in intensive care, his family said.
Abu-Jamal’s family tells Philadelphia’s ABC 6 that prison officials have failed to provide proper medical treatment.
Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther serving life in prison for the 1981 murder of white Philadelphia Officer Daniel Faulkner. His conviction was upheld through years of appeals, but he has gained international support for his claim that he’s the victim of a racist justice system.
We’ll keep you updated with the latest.
You are right, I went on the pump last year, and gained about 20 pounds. The idea was to get off the 7 injections a day (lantus, victoza, and novolog, plus metformin pills). But since the weight gain, he put me back on victoza once a day (in addition to the pump) to help control weight gain. That was last month, I am not sure if it’s really working that well, I lost 3 pounds in a month, but that could be from anything.
The continual basal flow of Novolog just puts on the pounds, but I am happy to say my A1C is now around 7.5 on average, where before I was 10-11 with the 7 injections. Type 2 btw.
As a side note, I would recommend the Medtronic Insulin pump to anyone who has more than a few daily injections. Painless insertions, I can look to see what my BG level is at any time, and it has warnings of high and low BG levels. You just put in the carbs you eat and it automatically sends the right amount of insulin. It’s been a life saver for me.
He’s already lived 34 years longer than he ever deserved, and live far better than he deserved.
I am glad you made it through. That sounds terrible. God Bless you.
good,
Die and go to hell where you belong and take the poser with ya.
Me too!!!!!
Neither is the policeman he shot. Bye bye Mumia.
I didn't know that. My uncle died because of diabetes. He was thin as a rail all of his life. He was very-very careful about his insulin shots and eating. He died at age 97 from loosing his balance and falling while he was filling his syringe. He broke some ribs, and got pneumonia.
Thank you kindly.
All I can say is that night the Lord said it was not my time to go. Out of control diabetes is a truly fearsome thing.
Fortunately I have that condition under control, and I have not experienced that again.
he might have a whole range of painful exp. to live thru before death.....so there's that...
blacks and diabetes are not a good fit.....
he died from diabetes at age 97???....
If he hadn't had diabetes, he wouldn't have broken his ribs filling his insulin syringe, so Yes.
To pick a nit, Obama cannot pardon Mumia, who is serving a Pennsylvania state sentence, not a federal one.
I was under the impression that the POTUS could pardon anyone.
He’ll just do another Executive Order.
Yay! Hope he suffers!
I’m curious about that weight gain due to insulin comment also. My spouse is diabetic, currently well under control and not taking any meds, but for years took lantus. Thin as a rail before, and thin as a rail after years of lantus. Probably it’s genetically based rather than lifestyle diabetes.
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