Roommate "found someone better" and moved out. What can we do?

zoosermom
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:34:45 +0000

I’ve posted about this before in the past, but it is a relevant situation. When my D1 was two weeks into freshman year (actually less than 2 full weeks) she became deathly ill suddenly and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Not alcohol or drug related. Her roommate, whom she hadn’t previously known, called the RA, 911 and me. She kept me on the phone for the whole ride to the hospital, which was something she had no obligation to do and I will always bless her name. I think the reason she acted as she did was because the situation was so completely unambiguous. She didn’t have to assess “is it diabetes or drunk” “is it diabetes or too many late nights.” I would think that any decent person would act in an unambiguous situation (although maybe not as attentively as my D’s friend), but with diabetes judgment does come into play, so other people outisde of family and close friends can’t be counted on to keep the diabetic safe.