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<blockquote data-quote="IronLioness" data-source="post: 2107806" data-attributes="member: 492004"><p>Thanks Brunneria, really appreciate the link and information. I've been talking about this with them over the past few days, and it's been complete shutdown on me. They both (my Mum has T2, too) refuse outright to acknowledge that it's a potential problem. When I said they both need to help each other, the response from my Mum, whilst my Dad was out and we could have a serious chat, was that she's concerned for him because she feels that he's 'not right', but when I suggest doing something about it, even something simple like looking at their own diet and trying to make it better, she just shuts me down and said it's "too difficult" to change. I take that as her actually saying "I don't want to", because she won't change her diet, she doesn't seem to want to help him as refuses outright to go see the Doctor with him, and then she just shuts down the conversation, yeesh.... In the meantime, she's not looking after her own T2, she has no idea what her BG is, she doesn't know what Metformin she takes, she just leaves it up to my Dad to give her the right amount of tablets. And then she (and he) continue to eat whatever they want, really. It's honestly soul destroying to see this happen. I've tried to ask my sister to have a word with her, but again, it falls on deaf ears. My sister says that she thinks it's because they're both older and therefore they'll eat what they want, because they're older in life and just want to enjoy it. None of that makes sense to me when a simple shift in diet could help them live longer, even if just a bit. Not really sure what else I can do, they've both literally shut me down on this in the past few days, and seem to be going down the 'ignorance is bliss' mindset....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IronLioness, post: 2107806, member: 492004"] Thanks Brunneria, really appreciate the link and information. I've been talking about this with them over the past few days, and it's been complete shutdown on me. They both (my Mum has T2, too) refuse outright to acknowledge that it's a potential problem. When I said they both need to help each other, the response from my Mum, whilst my Dad was out and we could have a serious chat, was that she's concerned for him because she feels that he's 'not right', but when I suggest doing something about it, even something simple like looking at their own diet and trying to make it better, she just shuts me down and said it's "too difficult" to change. I take that as her actually saying "I don't want to", because she won't change her diet, she doesn't seem to want to help him as refuses outright to go see the Doctor with him, and then she just shuts down the conversation, yeesh.... In the meantime, she's not looking after her own T2, she has no idea what her BG is, she doesn't know what Metformin she takes, she just leaves it up to my Dad to give her the right amount of tablets. And then she (and he) continue to eat whatever they want, really. It's honestly soul destroying to see this happen. I've tried to ask my sister to have a word with her, but again, it falls on deaf ears. My sister says that she thinks it's because they're both older and therefore they'll eat what they want, because they're older in life and just want to enjoy it. None of that makes sense to me when a simple shift in diet could help them live longer, even if just a bit. Not really sure what else I can do, they've both literally shut me down on this in the past few days, and seem to be going down the 'ignorance is bliss' mindset.... [/QUOTE]
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