I really didn’t want to tell anyone about this but needed to let it out. This is nothing like what Aural went through but it all has to do with the parents getting older and the kids having to deal with the emotional baggage that goes along with these kinds of things.

My dad was told that he had diabetes about six months ago. About a month ago he got a thorn prick from a rose bush on his foot. Not knowing that this could cause problems he tried to do it alone, so to speak. Took him to the doctor and they sent us to the E.R. where he went into an operation on his foot to remove the bad stuff.

I hate giving out personal information like this but need to let it out and writing seems to help.

So I’m using three different music boards to clear my head for just a few moments but I’m such a mess at the moment. Now only Obner knows the truth as I wouldn’t want any other place with a bunch of strangers knowing these details.

Going trough the process of watching your parents get older and needing more care is tough. Hope your Dad is ok and gets better.

my parents are well into their 50s. i've got this sort of thing coming, and i dread it.

My best wishes and respect to all who are helping their parents through the (mostly) inevitables. My daughter has worked in hospice placement (liason btw docs/nurses/patients & families) for some years now, and has told me many fall-thru-the-cracks horror stories. She HAS developed a sense of humor about it: she tells me she's gonna put me in the cheapest convalescent hospital in someplace like Compton, CA, and have a big, fat, no-nonsense black lady look after me. Actually, after all the situations I have seen, I tell her I want to "transition" quickly, early, and easily...NONE of these "machine" situations with low quality of life. She has told me she knows just the right medications to make the passing easy. Don't know what's REALLY going to happen though. Good luck to all who care and ease suffering.

Chin up. We all go through rough times. You and your family is in my thoughts and prayers.

type II diabetes is quite managable,
sadly, many people don't associate any deleterious effects with the disease until they lose a limb/eyesight.
education is key. hopefully this was a wake up call for your father.
limb wounds in a diabetic take months or even years to heal;
and that's if the wound is kept clean and dressed. keep on his case if he doesn't take it seriously. it is.

My brother's father-in-law deteriorated from this and ultimately died blind and missing limbs. He was a great, great guy.

His damned wife was already dating someone else six months before he died and married the prick four months after the death.

Said "he would have wanted me to be happy."

I should have had her killed.

My mom was recently diagnosed with Hyperthyroid disease or Hyperthyroidism. She had to take a radiation pill yesterday, which will either completely destroy her thyroid or with luck just cause it to stop releasing excess hormones. It was causing her to lose weight, fatigue and anemia. Some people who have it get paranoid.
It was a better diagnosis then they originally thought, they were affraid she might have a blockage in her carotid artery.

My brother is the one we worry about the most, he has Cystic Fibrosis.