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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 2692129" data-attributes="member: 68789">I’m not surprised you’re worried [USER=565699]@ConcernedRelative[/USER].It sounds as though your father’s not had to grasp the complexities of dosing for carbohydrate content if your mother looked after him.I wonder if he’d agree to contact his surgery and ask for an appointment with a DSN, and for you to accompany him.Is there anyone who could help him with the task of looking after your mother?I also wonder if you could ask that you can get his Libre readings transmitted to your phone? I’m not sure if it’s possible to do this as well as transmitting them to his surgery.If his surgery, the GP and DSN, could see and download his readings then action may be faster.His high and low glucose readings are probably contributing to his irratability; I wish you luck, and sympathy.I know that in the U.K. the medical profession can’t discuss a patient’s medical issues without that patient’s permission, but I also wonder if it’s reached the stage when you should ask him to set up a Power of Attorney for both your parents. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney</a>. The ways the two powers are described are pretty brutal so I fear, from what you say of him, that he’d find it difficult to accept.I hope some other people look at your thread too as I’m just one voice and I’m not an expert.As far as his food is concerned, do the ready meals have labels that tell him the carbohydrate content? Does he know how much insulin to inject for the quantity of carbohydrate?</blockquote>

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