He realized that he and his son, then four years old, had to leave quickly, and they started to gather up the boy’s toys and put them into the two boxes he’d brought to the beach. It was a routine task, but with his glucose level so low, Turner was flummoxed by his options: which toy in which box? He desperately settled on the first rule that occurred to him—each toy had to go in exactly the same box that it had arrived in—and wasted time obsessively rearranging the toys as his blood sugar kept falling. Then, when they finally left and headed toward the beachside facilities—a snack bar and a
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Decision paralysis
