Monday, May 31, 2010

We need your prayers...

As most of you already know, my dad had a stroke a couple months ago and had to go into a nursing home.  In that time frame, this nursing home has gotten his meds and diet so messed up, that he has become too violent now for them to handle.
They have kept him heavily sedated this weekend and in the morning they are sending him back to the VA hospital with the recommendation that they transfer him onto a St Louis mental VA hospital.
We are hoping that once he is back in the VA hospital, that his doctors that he has had for 30 years now will know what to do and get his meds and diet lined out again.
In the time he has been in the nursing home, there have only been 3 times that his sugar levels ever tested good.  He is diabetic and his sugar levels hang around 500 there.  That's high enough for a diabetic coma.
My step mother is so worried and its almost more than she can deal with.  She works full time, goes straight from work to see dad, and then home to bed.  Day in and day out.  She is so heart broken, something has to change.
If they end up sending him onto St Louis, its a 2 1/2 hour drive one way for her.  Dad would be all alone and would not understand why.
There are so many things that have happened to him in there, its just too scary to even think about.  He needs to be out of there for good.  I just want him to go to where ever they can help him the best.
She needs the strength to deal with all of this and peace to cope.

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