I Am Always Carrying Two Tubes of Glucose Tabs

I am outside with my class on the playground.  The weather is absolutely amazing for the end of January! Suddenly, I hear my name being called, and not by one of my students.

"Jessica!  Jessica!  Can you help her?"

I look over and on the other side of the fence stands a parent I know, with a woman I don't.  There is some urgency in the parent's voice, so I run over.

"Do you have any candy or anything?" the woman asks.  I know immediately what she needs, and start backing towards where I have set my meter bag.

"My husband has diabetes and is crashing," she continues.

"Yes!" I say as I run over to my bag.  I grab it and run back.  "I have diabetes too," I say, digging for the elusive tube of glucose tabs I know is rolling around in there somewhere.

Come on...where are you...

There is is!

"Here," I say, handing her the tube through the fence, "take it.  I have another tube in here."

"I can just take a few out," she says.

"No, please, just take it.  I don't mind."

"Thank you so much!" she says, and runs back to her car, which has been left parked in the road, door open.

By the time I get a chance to look over again, the car is gone.  And I stand there in shock.  Did that really just happen?  Seriously?

What are the odds?  That she would stop when I was outside.  That she would ask a parent who knows I have diabetes for help.  That that parent would think to call me over.  That I happened to have two tubes of glucose with me.

Whoa.

I am stopping at the store on my way home from work tonight, because from now on, I am always carrying two tubes of glucose tabs.

Just to clarify, YES, this really happened to me!  Yesterday!  Crazy, right?