Room Service Rules, Low Blood Sugar Sucks
October 28th, 2007 by Rian | Filed under Miscellaneous.So, I am sitting here in my hotel in Terre Haute, IN, eating the meal I ordered from room service. Which is very healthy: A Cobb salad (I needed protein), a side of veggies, and a martini.
This road trip hasn’t been the best in recent memory. It rained throughout New York, to begin with. Last night I stayed in Erie, PA. The hotel I selected did not have room service so I had to eat stuff I grabbed from a nearby Walmart. (Don’t ask). The real trouble started when I went to bed. Now, I must say this: The Hampton Inn has THE most comfortable beds and linen EVER. I would buy and entire bed and sheet set if I could. However, I could not sleep a wink last night.
Not only could I not sleep, but my heart was doing its stupid stop/palpitation thing that it’s been doing lately. Only worse. Every time I drifted off, I would jerk awake in fear and anxiety. My heart raced.
I mean, come ON. What is wrong with me? I am fed up with this shit! I finally drifted off comfortably around 7am, only to wake up at 9am to get ready to leave.
So… today was fine at first. My car has been great - no lights coming on, no problems. I stopped for coffee at a Pilot in Ohio, which is my absolute favorite regular coffee of all time. There were a couple of cute guys there that checked me out, even.
When I got about 30 miles from my destination for the night - Terre Haute - I suddenly felt “weird”. It’s hard to describe, but I’ve been getting this a lot lately when I don’t eat enough protein during the day. It’s a sudden weakness, dizziness, and a feeling that I am going to pass out.
Yes, I was driving at about 82 mph, feeling like I was going to pass out. Not good. There were no exits to be seen anywhere, so I was forced to pull over.
You know that old saying “When you have your health, you have everything? But when you don’t, you have nothing”?
It’s true. What fun is living and traveling and exercising if you can’t sleep at night, and feel like you are going to pass out at any given moment?
Something is definitely wrong here. It’s time to see a doctor.
I really hope you are able to get yourself to a doctor soon. Reading your blog is starting to seriously stress me out!
Yeah, I agree. Get your butt to the Doc’s…let’s find out what’s going on. It may be something as simple as just an imbalance in your body chemistry (electrolytes or insulin) or it could be just anxiety. However, you can’t second guess your health, you really need to find out what’s going on, and make sure to line up several Doctors for several different opinions! One person doesn’t always hold the answers.