This weekend I awoke to find my DF kicking and flailing with his head moving back and forth very quickly. I thought he might be having a bad dream and tried turnig on the lights and talking to him loudly to wake him up. I asked him questions and he seemed to respond to some of them, but when he couldnt tell me his address and didn't seem to know me, I knew something was really wrong. I called 911
A moment later he laid comlpletely still, his head off to the side and a glazed look in his eyes. I can't tell you what it is like to think that someone you love has just died before your eyes. The paramedics, firefighters and police pored in a moment later.
It turned out that Mark was having a bad reaction to a new medication for his diabetes. His blood sugar had dropped to 21. They told me if he had been alone he wouldn't have survived.
I don't often get reminders of how fragile life is but his is one I know I will never forget.