Sometimes the universe makes things intersect nicely.

While I was doing the grocery shopping, my blood sugar levels started to drop. My candy was in the truck, and I only had one more thing to grab, so I pushed on through and got done with the shopping. By the time I pushed my cart back out of the store, I was feeling awful and seriously looking forward to getting to the truck and opening the orange juice I had just bought. Screw the candy. Juice works so much better.

Anyway, I was sort of struggling along pushing the stupid cart with the stupid broken wheel and having a bit of a hard time with it when a very nice woman in scrubs walked up to me and said they were doing free health screenings, including blood sugar tests, in one of the Travis County mobile clinics. I told her I would love to have my blood sugar tested and blood pressure tested right now, but that I probably didn’t qualify financially for free services, and she said she didn’t care. She was even nice enough to help me get my things into my truck. I’m sure I looked like the walking dead at that point. I certainly felt like the walking dead.

I’ll spare you the details of the results. Suffice it to say they were disturbing. Not surprising to me, but disturbing. They gave me one of those fast-acting glucose (I think) tablets to take, and we talked about how I had been controlling it with diet (a good thing) and a few ideas about what to do when it gets out of hand (which it obviously does occasionally). Then they gave me a pack of the little tablets to keep with me and some paperwork to fill out to try to get a free glucose meter. I doubt I will qualify for it, but she insisted I fill it out and send it in anyway, just in case. Who knows, right? It would be nice to have one.

So for once, the very thing I needed, direct information about my blood sugar and pressure, was right where I needed it at the exact moment I needed it. Things rarely work out that well, but it sure is nice when it does.

And kudos to Travis County Health and Human Services … the ladies were so sweet!