Molly King spent six days in a diabetic coma in intensive care after she stopped taking insulin she could no longer afford.
Two nights before going to the hospital, King went to a concert and thought that she was coming down with the flu. She felt so unwell that she went to her parents’ house instead of going home. She vomited for an hour, then blacked out. In the emergency room, a nurse told her that she smelled like “Fruity Pebbles”—a classic sign of dangerously high blood sugar. Hers climbed to 1,800.