Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, S.C., and the world around her seemed to go dim.
She turned to her co-workers. “And I asked, I said, ‘Why y’all got it so dark in here? They said, ‘Delores, it’s not dark in here.’ I said, ‘Yes it is. It’s so dark in here.'”
She landed in the hospital. Her A1C level, which shows the average percentage of sugar in someone’s blood over the past few months, was 14.
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