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Skriven 2014-09-15 20:47:44 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 16991 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Sugars
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> Have you heard yet...?

 RH> The basics, there's a lot that's not being said. Plans are set up for
 RH> when he does go home for someone to look after him (not specified if
 RH> live in, look in, or what but probably some housekeeping involved); a
 RH> will drawn up; financial arraingements (unspecified) set up and so on.
 RH> We aren't being told a lot at this point.

 NB> Most things are probably still in flux... can't be really settled
 NB> until things are further along... especially since you said his rehab
 NB> is
 NB> likely to take a while, due to all the issues...

That's basically what Don said. Bill was hit hard and will have a long
rehab.


 RH> Don't know--he had a blood sugar/insulin (not specified) episode the
 RH> other day. He said he got a dish of real ice cream out of it so I
 RH> suspect it was low blood sugar brought on by needing an adjustment to
 RH> his insulin dosage.

 NB> Things are still probably somewhat trial and error there... with
 NB> things so out of control when he went in, I'd expect it not to be all
 NB> that easy to figure out the final reasonable dosage... so low blood
 NB> sugar episodes are probably to be expected.... Getting real ice cream
 NB> out of it does
 NB> sound like low blood sugar, possibly from over-dosage of insulin...

I guess they're still trying to get the diabetes under control--it's
been 2 months now since the stroke, etc so some progress has been made.
I understand he has lost some weight but don't know how much. It sounds
like he is eating, like it or not, a better diet than what he was doing
on his own.

 NB>  NB>> If he's already been hiring help to
 NB>  NB>> do things it might not be as hard for him to accept getting help
 NB> in  NB>> the house as it was for your dad... that could be a sorta
 NB> back benefit  NB>> here, so to speak...

 RH> And from what I understand, it will be for the better.

 NB> Quite.  :)

From what has been put out, he's not ready to accept a live in aide like
Dad has--but it may be the only way he can go home, once he reaches the
point in rehab when they think he can.

 NB> that  NB>> sort of thing could be worked out... after all, people move
 NB> and have  NB>> to sell homes all the time...  ;)

 RH> He had a (very) small apartment up in Albany, was quite the recluse
 RH> there too so saved enough up to put a hefty down payment on the house
 RH> in FL. Don't know how much but he said at the time that the payments
 RH> were very reasonable. If he were smart, he'd have doubled (or more) up
 RH> on them to get it paid off faster.

 NB> You never know...  he might have been reasonably smart there... ;)

I'm not speculating one way or the other. I suspect tho, that before he
comes home, the fridge/freeze and pantry will be restocked with much
healthier foods than what's probably in them now.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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