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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hold on a second.  What is his A1c?  You need to find that out before you go into hysterics.  It could be that the medication he is on is controlling it well.  [/quote]

It's above 7. Which is waaaaaaay too high. It needs to be under 6, at a minimum, to be good control. Plus, the A1c, because it is an average, can conceal high spikes and low dips, which seems to be what he has from the way I observe his behavior when I am around him and the symptoms he reports. I actually got him to use my meter once while he was here, 2 hours after breakfast (where he ate some okay stuff and some stuff he shouldn't have), and he was at 158, which isn't as bad as it could be, but after 2 hours he really should be under 120. The evidence shows that anytime you go above 140, you are doing damage to your organs, and if he was at 158 at 2 hours, at 1 hour he was probably above 200. And that's *with* medication (he does take the meds faithfully because my mom reminds him).

Thanks for the responses, all. I know it is a lot like smoking in that if you don't want to change, you won't. And I have no doubt that he thinks that because he's been doing this for 30 years and hasn't suffered any consequences yet, that it won't happen to him. My best friend lost her mother at 60 (the mom was 60, my friend was 32) to lung cancer. My friend had been arguing with her mother about the cigarettes for 25 years and her mother had every excuse in the book and clung to her addiction and when they diagnosed her there was nothing to say. It was just unbelievably tragic that she preferred her cigarettes to ever seeing her grandchildren.  I compare the two because I think that my dad has an addiction just as strong as my friend's mom's, to a substance just as harmful to him as cigarettes were to her. At least he is here to see his grandchildren while they are young, but I don't know that he will be here to see them graduate from high school.  It is hard for me to accept that someone could have a chronic condition like this and not care that they are damaging their body.

Also, ITA with the PP who made the comment about baby boomers thinking that a pill will fix everything. Not all, of course, but I do see this attitude a lot and my parents definitely have it. It's somehow related to an out of control sense of entitlement to pleasure and enjoyment that that generation has.

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