A Little Down

[babybriz04]

My mom has been in the hospital for about a month and a half. She's diabetic and she's blind from it and well if she gets any type

of cut even a paper cut. Silly but if you get a papercut you curse and it stings for about 5 minutes depending on the deepness of the cut. But next day unless you get lemon, salt, soap, or alcohol on it, you won't even remember.

But my mother has no sensitivity on her feet and she got a blister and basically got infected real bad. I don't know what I will do without my mother being as healthy as a diabetic can be right now.

I need to learn all that I can about diabetes and try to keep my mom for many more years to come. I am looking for a place that's bigger so that I can take her with me. Since she's blind what if something happens to her and no one is around to check in on her. She

refuses to wear the medical alert bracelet, chain and even key chain that I have bought for her. Plus people are not very concerned nor

do they care if she's blind or not. They just push her out of the way and don't get up when she gets into a bus. People have not evolved all the way yet. Then they want to argue and complain about the blind, the sick and the even the deaf. But if it were happening to them then it would be a problem.

I really do not like that fact but a fact it is.

When a diabetic is having a glucose attack the way the symptoms happen it looks like the person is drunk. But they are not. I say this because my mother has fallen on the street and NO ONE stopped to help her out instead they accused her of being drunk. How do I

know well because I was meeting her somewhere once when that was starting to happen to her. I had it out with a bunch of ladies about her age talking shit. I damn near started fighting with them but my mom needed me more. Plus words will NEVER teach them anything specially in the heat of passion. Instead they need to be used in an educated way so they can LEARN and understand that

not everyone out there is drunk. I know it may not make sense to

you but it makes lots of sense to me. I know that I may sound a bit out of my mind and like I have no idea in which direction I am headed but I am just getting started in the education of Diabetes.

P.S.

If anyone has any advise or any site that might help me. Please point me in the right direction and help this tortured soul in her search for understanding why her mommy is dying on her ever so slowly.....

[happymommy82]

Apr. 2, 2008 at 9:39 PM

Oh hon, I'm sorry you're going through such a rough time. My father-in-law had diabetes and it's something you really have to stay on top of. I don't think moving her in with you would be a bad idea. I'd try to talk to her about wearing her bracelet because it really is a matter of life and death. She needs to be able to alert medical professionals as to her condition, without it they won't know what to treat her with, etc.

 

Are there any places around you that are like retirement homes , but for seeing impaired? Maybe you would be able to get into one of those with her. I'd check with the government listings of free aid.

 

I hope things work out and just remember, as long as your mother is taking care of herself or you're taking care of her, she'll be alright.

 

big hugs and if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here.

Ashley