I've had my Dad visiting me all week.
Finally go tto ride in the cuda together, loved it.
I wish his Wife would have sent him down with some instrutions because I have had to take a crash course in brittle diabetes 101, and learn all I could over the internet and develop a plan for treatment as his memory is bad and basically needs babysat constantly so his pills, med and monitoring is on schedule.
She sent him down here with ZERO instructions or information.
It has been a pretty rough, but fun week and had three nights where his sugar dropped severely and had to bring him back up to safe levels.
He wigged out at a restaurant with my Sister and choked while having a sugar attack, almost died.
His Wife left him here for three weeks and is back home selling all his stuff he collected over the years and putting the home up for sale to downsize.
I think she is planning on ditching him because he is so hard to take care of as she works all day.
In his condition, it is a miracle he is still alive being that he is home alone most of the time.
My family had no idea he was this bad off, and I am going to tear her a new *** when she comes down here to pick him up and take him back home.
I have a feeling I may have to take him in as I won't let him rot in a nursing home.
I have Daughter's and a Wife and he makes some pretty dusgusting, inapropriate remarks about women in front of them, which he always had as he blames his entire life as a result of his divorce to my Mother, although it all stemmed from his blood sugar and bipolar condition which was not diagnosed until a few years ago. Weird how things come together like that.
I just have to remind him there are ladies in the room when he goes off on one of his rants.
Been a very interesting week to say the least.
he's going to stay with my twin Sister for a week and his Wife is coming down friday which will give us a chance to get some things off our chest and get some answers from her.
I feel bad for dad as I did not know he was this bad off as he never calls, probably fogets so we call him.
For the most part we have had alot of fun together, but I had absolutely zero free time as I've had to basically do everything for him and remind him to do this and that so we made a chart for him to follow throughout the day to keep him straight, medicated and monitored which works well.
I can only imagine how taxing this has to be on his Wife who works 12 hour days but she seems to think he manages himself rather well at home which I highly doubt given what I've had to deal with in just a short time.
Dad tells me he does not have any of these problems at home when he's but himself.
I think he just does not remember when he having problems because he goes blank when his blood glucose levels drop and I have nio idea how he would deal with that being home alone.
Three nights I found him curled up in a ball on the floor in a cold sweat, smelled like ketones, and he was incoherent and he would screasm out of the blue until I got some oj in him and his levels back up.
Either that or he would be wondering aimlessly around the house.
