Mom’s Status: 2009-10-29
07:15 AM: Blood sugar: 257. She ate a ham sandwich, made with a hamburger bun earlier. Covered with 14 units insulin.
11:30 AM: Blood sugar: 77. She had more of the Chinese food for lunch. Covered with 12 units insulin.
05:00 PM: Mom ate a ham barbecue sandwich but forgot to take her blood sugar reading. So, guessing, we’re covering with 12 units insulin.
05:30 PM: Mom’s left foot hurts and sister Mary Ann is checking out a large lump on the upper part of Mom’s left foot, just below the ankle. The heal hurts as well.
06:30 PM: We’re calling 911 to take Mom to the hospital; she cannot put weight on either foot now because it’s possible that she has charcot syndrome in the left foot as well. So we wish not to risk damaging the bones in that foot by having her walk on it.
07:30 PM: I rode in the ambulance with Mom to Altoona hospital and am here in the ER with her now. She’s calmer but still worried.
07:45 PM: X-rays taken but nothing definitively wrong is showing. So the doctor recommends a CT scan.
10:30 PM: CT scan taken and the doctor is sharing preliminary results. She says that something out of place is showing but since her specialty is not orthopedics, she wants to admit Mom and then have a specialist look over the scans and x-rays tomorrow. So, we’re waiting for Mom to be placed in a room.
11:30 PM: Still not admitted yet. We’re still here in the ER. We are getting quite tired however so we’ll have to leave in a half hour or so if Mom has not yet been admitted. Mom is sleeping on and off and rather groggy over all; probably because she ate a snack an hour or so ago but we have no insulin to give her. The nurses aren’t available to do this because some sort of trauma situation arose around 9:00 PM that’s kept most of the staff busy for the past couple hours.
12:00 AM: Heading home with sister Mary Ann. She’s spending the night at Mom’s house. Mom is still in the ER, and the hospitalist has not yet arrived to talk to us. So, we left instructions with the ER doctor about Mom’s meds and insulin. Hopefully, they’ll dispense everything correctly overnight. I’ll check back with them in the morning.
12:30 AM: Mom had an x-ray and a CT scan. Nothing definite shown. So they admitted her to the hospital so that she can be seen later today by the orthopedics doctors.
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