My husband died on Dec. 29, 2011. We didn t know that he was sick but when he went to the doctor, he was told that his blood sugar count was over 500 and that his intestines were beginning to shut down. I thought that we would be going straight to the hospital but the doctor said for us to wait until we got back home and have our family physician begin treatments for him. We were spending the Christmas holidays with our children at the time. My husband was rushed to the hospital that night at 11:30. They checked his blood and the count was 838. His heart was beating too fast so they put him to sleep so that his heart would slow down. He was in the hospital for 8 days and never woke up. Why wouldn t the doctor have sent him to the hospital???? I don t understand how this happened. We had no idea.