My mother........

A few years ago my mother (now 85 yrs old) was diagnosed as a type 2. At the time she was drinking a 330ml bottle of lemon flavour Lucozade every day.

They classified her as diet control only so she cut out the Lucozade and modified her diet. Sometime later she finds herself in a nursing home where they took the view that at her age a few cakes and biscuits was beneficial to her overall happiness and outweighed any potential benefits from a sugar free diet.

Now she eats what she wants, when she wants (but not Lucozade) and her BG's are always around 5 to 7.

Is she really diabetic? Or did she just get this label as a result of the Lucozade habit?

NoCrbs4Me said:

Don't they do standard blood tests on her? The results would show if she is or not.

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I don't actually know. I'll try to check this next time at the hospital (that's where she is right now - after having had a fall). I just cannot get over the fact that she stuffs her face with all manner of cakes, biscuits and chocolate and her BG figures seem to be normal.

She keeps asking me for things and I'm always wondering if I should really be supplying so much 'bad' food.

FergusCrawford said:

The supply of residents outstrips supply of places as long as you don't kill them off TOO fast, besides D is ALWAYS progressive, isn't it?

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You're right, she is in hopital right now and Social Services are trying to find her a residential place because she doesn't really need full on nursing care any more. I'm told that there are no residential care places available in Worthing at the moment.

Robinredbreast said:

Good luck with your mum. It must be so hard trying to get the right balance for a parent, it can be a bit of ' between a rock and a hard place' sometimes.
I'm a carer for my elderly dad and I have managed to keep him in his bungalow. He also has carers in every a day, to give meds, dinner at lunch time, make tea, and check he is okay. He's 91 now and he is getting frailer, but I will try my best to keep him there as long as possible, he loves to potter about, make cup's of tea or help himself to a snack. or two, tbh It doesn't matter to me what he eats as long as he eats, but luckily my dad isn't diabetic and has no big medical conditions.

Take care and all the best RRB

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My mother was put into a nursing home after a mild stroke and a diagnosis of vascular dementia. The docs didn't expect her to get better but something stopped me from selling her bungalow. After 18 months she recovered sufficiently to try a spell at home with carers 4 times a day and hot lunches delivered.
She started off OK but her health seemed to deteriorate quite quickly. The stroke left her weak on the left side so she kept having falls with the ambulance guys being summoned up to 4 times in 1 day. I was getting calls at all hours, and making calls because the b****Y carers hadn't turned up when they were supposed to. This just happened to coincide with a particularly busy period at work and some friends have suggested that if I was on the way to being diabetic, then the stress might have just pushed me over the edge as far actually becoming a T1 is concerned.
She had the latest fall a couple of weeks ago and cut her arm, plus X-rays showed a fractured collar bone. When I saw her in the hopital she told me that her shoulder didn't hurt and she didn't understand why she was wearing a sling - I thought she was just confused but yesterday evening when I go there the sling is gone!
When I ask her what's happened, she tells me that she's had more X-rays and the quacks have decided that her collar bone isn't broken after all. Do you think I could find anyone who could tell me why they're keeping her in there? You can't make this stuff up I tell you.