They would survive for awhile after diagnosis on a starvation diet, maybe weeks, and slipping in and out of a coma but it was a death sentence. There’s stories from the 1920’s when whole wards of kids were hit with a first dose that removed the symptoms in minutes. I can’t imagine being in that room when all that despair and anguish turned into hope and relief.
Wouldn’t anyone needing insulin already be dead? Or is there a middle ground where a diabetic can go in and out of shock, yet survive without?
They would survive for awhile after diagnosis on a starvation diet, maybe weeks, and slipping in and out of a coma but it was a death sentence. There’s stories from the 1920’s when whole wards of kids were hit with a first dose that removed the symptoms in minutes. I can’t imagine being in that room when all that despair and anguish turned into hope and relief.