EDITOR – I write this email with a heavy heart because we are on stage 6 load-shedding.
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I’m a mom of a three-year-old diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic last April.
I, as a mother, plead with Eskom not to do four-hour stage 6 load-shedding during the night.
We’ve just entered our extreme heat for summer, but for a diabetic, that causes sugar to drop extremely low or high.
In my case, I sit awake when the power goes off between 22:00 and 02:00.
I have to constantly monitor my daughter’s sugar levels.
I don’t have the money for a generator or an inverter.
No matter what I do after taking her blood glucose, her sugar levels keep dropping.
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I don’t mind if we have load-shedding stage 6 during the day because my child is awake and eating to keep her sugar levels perfect.
When load-shedding happens at night, especially with this heat, if I fall asleep my child might fall into a coma and die.
I have insulin for my child that must be kept in the fridge. Every time the power goes off for more than two hours, the insulin goes off. That is money out of pocket every time that I don’t have as a single mom.
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This is unacceptable.
Lizette Combrinck
Kempton Park
EDITOR’S COMMENT – The letter was sent to Eskom for comment.
Comment was requested by February 6.
At the time of going to print, no comment was received.
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