‘I was knocking on death’s doorstep’: In a race against time, type 2 diabetic Don Noel fought to stay alive while stuck in the wilderness without insulin or medication
A Sault Ste. Marie man who went missing for 48 hours in the bush east of Searchmont — triggering a public alert from the OPP earlier this month — is speaking out about what he describes as a near-death experience.
“It just quit and stopped on me,” he says. “I was about 30 kilometres from my truck at that point with no cell service.” Noel believes the campsite belonged to a trapper since there were trapping trails in the area. He encountered a pair of small travel trailers when he made it to the site, but they were both locked.
By the time Noel made it on the trail, he discovered his jacket had been taken while the arrow remained untouched. “At this point, I’m thinking I’m doomed,” he says. “I might survive tonight, but I won’t survive tomorrow. I already had two diabetic attacks. A third one could cost me. It was a race against time.”
Noel found the main trail and began driving down Laughing Lake Road towards Ranger Lake. Roughly an hour and a half into the drive, he was rescued by the OPP — more than two days after his four-wheeler broke down. “I opened the door and walked in, and she’s standing there crying,” he recalls. “Of course, my little Chihuahua was jumping up on me like crazy and licking my face. I hugged them both tightly.”
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