Mom’s Status: 2009-12-11
Pending Appointments And Issues
- Sometime this month (December), we must take Mom’s 2008 property tax paperwork to a lawyer in Tipton for examination. She may be eligible for a significant tax rebate.
- Order another batch of Accu-Chek Aviva test strips.
- 2009-12-11 @ 3:45 PM: Appointment with podiatrist. Sister Jojo is driving us to this.
- 2010-02-04 @ 11:30 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.
05:25 AM: Blood sugar: 176. Covered with 10-plus units of log insulin, she says. She doesn’t remember the exact amount.
10:25 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds.
10:30 AM: Blood sugar: 277. Covered with 20 units of log insulin.
10:40 AM: Mom grumbled at my request to order more test strips today. She says that she’s used up all her insurance this year, and so, wants to wait until the first of 2010 to buy more. At that time, she’ll again have coverage funds available, and will thus have to pay little if any, out-of-pocket costs for them. If she buys some now however, she claims, she’ll have to pay full price for them, out-of-pocket, which is approximately $1 per strip. My problem with this is that we only have enough strips to last until sometime in the second week of the new year. So if we wait til January 1st to to place the order, we’d only have just under two weeks of strips left, and this gives us little margin for error. The last time we ordered these, this past October, it took over a month to finally receive them, and in the meantime, we had to purchase 50 of them with cash from a local pharmacy, in order to get us by until the ones through her insurance company finally arrived. Plus, there were some days in there where we had no strips and so couldn’t read her blood sugar. So I don’t care for getting behind the 8-ball on this stuff, and prefer ordering way ahead to avoid the stress of wondering if the new test strips will arrive before the old ones run out.
01:30 PM: I just woke Mom up to alert her to begin getting ready to head out for her appointment. She assured me that she’d be dressed and able to head right out the door as soon as sister Jojo gets here at 3:15 PM.
01:40 PM: Dispensed Mom’s lunch-time meds, and discovered that she did not take the ones I gave her this morning. Hmmm. She’s starting to fall back into her old patterns of non compliance. Sisters: you all need to talk to her again about this.
02:15 PM: Blood sugar: 137. Covered with 6 units of log insulin.
03:15 PM: Sister Jojo arrived, right on time, to pick Mom up, and yes, Mom was all bundled up and ready to go. Nice. However, I decided to stay behind this time to get caught up on my blog work here.
05:30: Mom just got home, with an excellent report from the podiatrist. He says that both her feet appear to be healing nicely from the charcot foot syndrome, and that he found no new wounds. He also said that she can now stand for brief periods — modest weight-bearing. Nice.
05:35 PM: Now, she’s serving her very delicious ham pot pie to Jojo and some of her family. I couldn’t wait until they got home. So I helped myself to a few servings a half-hour ago. 
06:20 PM: Covered Mom’s ham pot pie meal with 20 units of log insulin.
07:10 PM: Dispensed Mom’s evening meds.
11:30 PM: Blood sugar: 135. Covered with 5 units of log insulin.
11:35 PM: Dispensed Mom’s bedtime meds.