Justice Sotomayor resumes her schedule after paramedics are called to her home on Friday
Updated: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomoyor showed up at work on Friday after paramedics were called to her home to treat low blood sugar.
Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Sotomayor had resumed her regular schedule and was doing fine after treatment Friday morning by D.C. Emergency Medical Services, report Politico, Reuters and CNN.
Sotomayor, 63, was diagnosed with diabetes as a child. She told Diabetes Forecast magazine in 2013 that she is “super vigilant” in court, and immediately checks her blood sugar when she starts “feeling any sort of lightness coming on.”
She has also told her law clerks about the symptoms of a sugar low and how to treat it.
Sotomayor said in her memoir that, for most of her childhood, she believed she would die young because of the diabetes. The thought gave her “drive to pack as much as I could in my life as fast as I could,” she wrote.
Story updated to remove paragraph of Sotomayor’s absence from court on Monday.
