sugar babies
This has been stewing in my poor little brain since the previously mentioned family visits and just needs to be vented.
Of my two parents and two parents-in-law, three of them are diabetic. My mom is adult onset type 1 (presumably virally induced) while both in-laws are completely stereotypical type 2.
My mother-in-law is quite concerned for my father-in-law's lack of glycemic control and the effects this is resulting in - and rightly so. What little I see of his eating habits, given that they live in a different province, are seriously disturbing. And he is pointedly experiencing swings in his sugar levels. Yet, for all that, her control appears little better (though she is more congisant of her meds) and she practically forces on him the very foods that he should not be eating. My sympathy waned a little when, at a nearby breakfast joint one morning, french toast is ordered after commenting how completely inappropriate it would be and then left-overs are placed in front of the control-deprived diabetic spouse. That goes beyond enabling.
To top it off, my mother-in-law's own father is now seeing the effects of his own diabetes in a battle with a very prolonged infection. The connection is undeniable, though talk meanders around his poor circulation, inactivity due to weight and other issues that, ultimately, are directly related to his diabetes. It's all so chicken and egg, but the fact that there may or may not be a nest involved is apparently capable of obscuring the obvious.
Now, my perspective may be a little bent as my diabetic mother is excessively well controlled. She is aware of the smallest degree of change in her own blood sugar and is, perhaps, a little too obsessive about maintaining exceptional glucose levels. But it keeps her healthy. And makes the in-laws indiscretions that much more painful and frustrating to watch.
It may not be my place to comment, but I'll damn well keep up the pointed looks, raised eyebrows and "I-was-going-to-say-something-but-thought-better-of-it" breaths. I think, for now, that's all I can do.
Of my two parents and two parents-in-law, three of them are diabetic. My mom is adult onset type 1 (presumably virally induced) while both in-laws are completely stereotypical type 2.
My mother-in-law is quite concerned for my father-in-law's lack of glycemic control and the effects this is resulting in - and rightly so. What little I see of his eating habits, given that they live in a different province, are seriously disturbing. And he is pointedly experiencing swings in his sugar levels. Yet, for all that, her control appears little better (though she is more congisant of her meds) and she practically forces on him the very foods that he should not be eating. My sympathy waned a little when, at a nearby breakfast joint one morning, french toast is ordered after commenting how completely inappropriate it would be and then left-overs are placed in front of the control-deprived diabetic spouse. That goes beyond enabling.
To top it off, my mother-in-law's own father is now seeing the effects of his own diabetes in a battle with a very prolonged infection. The connection is undeniable, though talk meanders around his poor circulation, inactivity due to weight and other issues that, ultimately, are directly related to his diabetes. It's all so chicken and egg, but the fact that there may or may not be a nest involved is apparently capable of obscuring the obvious.
Now, my perspective may be a little bent as my diabetic mother is excessively well controlled. She is aware of the smallest degree of change in her own blood sugar and is, perhaps, a little too obsessive about maintaining exceptional glucose levels. But it keeps her healthy. And makes the in-laws indiscretions that much more painful and frustrating to watch.
It may not be my place to comment, but I'll damn well keep up the pointed looks, raised eyebrows and "I-was-going-to-say-something-but-thought-better-of-it" breaths. I think, for now, that's all I can do.
posted by Jenn at
10:11 p.m.
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