Tuesday, May 19

The last three days Larry´s blood sugar has been up and down again (mostly down!). They are able to bring it up quickly to normal levels with shots of glucose when it goes really low, but it doesn´t stay up for long and after a few hours it begins to go down again. He is on a 24 hour tube feeding which should be helping but hasn´t been doing the job yet and they continue to try to find out why. Juice through the feeding tube also helps a little, but not enough. Hopefully they can find out what the problem is real soon. Larry has had a little hypoglycemia in the past but never anything that a small snack and drink wouldn´t remedy so this is much more acute. We´ll just have to see what they find. Low blood sugar makes a person very weak (of course) so rehab continues to be a challenge. The thing I didn´t realize is that it can also cause personality changes and Larry has had some difficult issues like paranoia, combativeness (is that a word?!) and anxiety. Cant wait for those things to diminish!!! Never a dull moment!