I can relate. I’m a teacher on our high school campus and I was doing some work by myself in the junior high library one time and didn’t realize I had a faulty infusion set and wasn’t getting insulin for a couple of hours. I started vomiting in the trash can and they sent for their school nurse (embarrassment #1). Because I’m young-looking and not from their campus, they thought I was a high school kid (embarrassment #2). The poor school nurse kept trying to give me juice. My BG was like 400. It was obvious that there was only one kind of insulin reaction she knew how to treat. But I was able to take an insulin injection and started to come down. They had to call for my supervisor (embarrassment #3) to come over and check on me. It was mortifying to bring all these other people - colleagues! - into my diabetes care and to be treated like a child in my workplace.
But in the end, I am so thankful that there was someone nearby who thought to make sure I had medical attention and that my supervisor was so quick to come to my side and watch me for a good half hour until I was feeling up to taking care of myself. I am so glad, too, that you were able to find the help you needed. The kindness of strangers, eh?