DKA

Is it possible to get diabetic changes from drinking bucketloads of hot chocolate and whipped cream? Every year during December and what seem to be the coldest days of the entire year, med students stand out in the cold wearing red ponchos and large posters of a kid with cancer all around Ann Arbor to raise money for Mott Hospital, and other organizations/clinics that serve the children of Washtenaw County. Galens Tag Days is pretty fun - our attendings and professors drive around in Happy Vans filled with food and drink (+ some extra "happiness") to keep us going... but I must say I have never had more hot chocolate in 4 hours as I have had today. It was awesome that all of the hot chocolate I consumed was free, but seriously there is a such thing as too much. Let's see... 1 tall hot chocolate + 1 large biggby's marshmallow cocoa + 1 cup of peppermint schnopps + another tall hot chocolate... whoa. that sounds like a lot more now that it's all typed out. so about 5000 calories in 4 hours... blahhhhhh. at least it was all for the kids, all for the kids...