Unfortunately my Mom has been in the hospital this week, she spent several days admitted due to a gallbladder flare combined with a diverticulitis flare. She needed some antibiotics and fluids but is home now and doing much better. She is seeing a specialist next week to see what they recommend.
What's the most sad about it is the food they were feeding her while she was in the hospital. She was on a liquid diet for a couple days, and they knew she was previously a Type 2 diabetic and needed to be careful with her sugar. Despite all that they literally just have her sugar filled items to drink. They gave her a small cup of broth with each meal but then everything else they gave her was full sugar sodas, apple juice, puddings, ice cream etc. It was crazy!! Even after requesting that she has things with no sugar they still gave her the same foods but just switched to a 0 sugar soda. 🤬🤬
The hospital called her to check yesterday after she was home and asked what her sugar levels were. When she told them it was normal blood sugar the nurse was shocked. She said "normally people have high blood sugar when they leave the hospital!" 🤦🏼♀️ Yeah because of what you feed them! 🤬 It's maddening. They just wanted to pump her full of sugar and then give her insulin to bring it back down again, when she was in the hospital they even told her she NEEDED the sugar drinks to keep her sugar from going too low.
This is the type of thing that just makes me so angry, and breaks my heart. No matter how much we change our own diets, it's still people who are in the most serious situations that are still being given these terrible diets!! Have you ever experienced this at a hospital or seen this with a loved one?
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
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Happy Sunday, we got our inside decorations up yesterday, they convinced me to go to hobby lobby to grab a few things, which was obviously chaotic on a Saturday afternoon. We had a lot of fun but it was a long day. Today we are attending church and volunteering at a second service, after that we plan to just play games and watch a movie. Are you relaxing today or have a packed agenda?
Livestream tomorrow (Monday) for supporters here in Locals at 7pm EST. Excited to catch up with everyone!
Happy Sunday!
The sun is shining but it's cold here. Deer rifle season started yesterday. It was warm/hot both Friday and Saturday.
The 3 younger grands were out yesterday while big brother had a basketball tournament. Pappo Farmer babysat in the morning and insisted I go to a craft fair with my Bestie. Bless that man! He knew I needed her.
I found a local dealer for tallow lotion and lip balm. I bought some for gifts. There was another dealer there with smoked salt but it wasn't as clean as I would have liked.
I took over the grand-watching in the afternoon and we had fun doing a craft, playing with the neighbor's dogs and playing outside.
I got my flower pots dumped and put away. I tweaked my back that was sore from all the stress, so I'm hobbling a bit today. Chiro this week.
Update: I told my current boss I was leaving. He was not 100% surprised. He said he knew I was stressed. I didn't cry and we left on good terms. We are like family to each other so I could give him a big hug and promises to keep ...
A question for @Lauraespath and others who have used a weighted blanket. I'd like to give one as a gift but don't know which to choose. Any tips for me? I see there are different weights to choose from as well as glass or plastic beads. Any info or a brand of blanket that you like would be appreciated. I'm looking for one that is the size of a throw vs an actual blanket. Thanks!
