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My father passed away; leaving diabetic mother home alone?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 1897932" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>Hi [USER=492386]@Brooke96[/USER], much sympathy winging its way to you following your father’s death, and hugs.</p><p>I can understand, I think, how you’ve been brought face to face with mortality and it’s quite natural to be concerned about your mother.</p><p>How long has she been T1?</p><p>Does she manage the condition herself or did she rely on your father for help?</p><p>Do her blood sugars fluctuate a lot?</p><p>Is she under the care of a good group of medics?</p><p>You could help by leaving a stash of jelly babies to hand in every room of the house and making sure she has some in her handbag so she’s got a hypo treatment with her when she goes out.</p><p>If she has a mobile phone you could text her regularly; she could like the frequent contact anyway following her husband’s death.</p><p>If you have neighbours you could, with your mother’s permission, ask them to pop in occasionally.</p><p>Many of us have lived with T1 for decades and we’re still here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairygodmother, post: 1897932, member: 68789"] Hi [USER=492386]@Brooke96[/USER], much sympathy winging its way to you following your father’s death, and hugs. I can understand, I think, how you’ve been brought face to face with mortality and it’s quite natural to be concerned about your mother. How long has she been T1? Does she manage the condition herself or did she rely on your father for help? Do her blood sugars fluctuate a lot? Is she under the care of a good group of medics? You could help by leaving a stash of jelly babies to hand in every room of the house and making sure she has some in her handbag so she’s got a hypo treatment with her when she goes out. If she has a mobile phone you could text her regularly; she could like the frequent contact anyway following her husband’s death. If you have neighbours you could, with your mother’s permission, ask them to pop in occasionally. Many of us have lived with T1 for decades and we’re still here. [/QUOTE]
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