Mom’s Status: 2009-12-28
Pending Appointments And Issues
- Look for more diabetic test strips to arrive here during the next couple days. RECEIVED TODAY.
- Friday, 2010-01-15 @ 1:30 PM: Appointment with her PCP.
- Thursday, 2010-02-04 @ 11:30 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.
Log
09:15 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds.
09:20 AM: Blood sugar: 199. Covered with 14 units of log insulin.
11:40 AM: Mom just fell in the kitchen. She called me for help, as she was unable to, without some pillows, lift herself back into the wheel chair. I got her the pillows from the couch in the sitting room. But by the time I returned to the kitchen with them, she had crawled into the living room, saying that she’d be better able to get up there, since that room is carpeted. Once there, she had me bring the wheel chair in, and then she used a pillow from the love seat to kneel upon while getting to her feet. After a minute or two, she was back in her wheel chair. No injuries were apparent.
01:05 PM: Dispensed Mom’s lunch-time meds. She says however, that she’ll take them later because at present, her stomach is unsettled.
01:30 PM: Received the 200 diabetic test strips we’ve been waiting for. That should be enough for the next 50 days.
02:40 PM: Blood sugar: 158. Covered this and her lunch with 14 units of log insulin.
05:00 PM: Dispensed Mom’s evening meds.
09:10 PM: Dispensed Mom’s bedtime meds.
10:45 PM: Blood sugar: 231. Covered with 15 units of log insulin.
10:50 PM: For the next few days, I’m going to raise Mom’s long-acting insulin doses from 24 to 30 units, and see if we can’t get better readings; too many of them are above 150 currently. This change would make her daily intake of the N type of insulin 60 units, which is up from the current value of 48 units.