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This one turned out to be a problem with her medications. My mother has been a non-insulin dependent diabetic for 20+ years. She has taken the same medication and dosage throughout that time. Since the infection and surgery in July 2006, she has lost about 60 pounds. In December or January, she had an incident where her blood sugars dropped down into the 40s. Her doctor cut her medication dosing from twice a day to once a day as a consequence of that. Before this past weekend's incident, we had already made an appointment with her endocrinologist who follows her for her hypothyroidism. I have been bugging her for years to also let him manage her NIDDM, but she was used to her old PCP doing this, and keeps forgetting that her current PCP is, in my estimation, a nice lady, but a gaping idiot as a doctor, or at least as a diagnostician. This was something that our old PCP was darn near magickal about, so pretty much everyone looks like a knucklehead when stacked up against him.
On Saturday, she ate more than adequately ... eggs and toast for breakfast, an Ensure in the afternoon for a snack, and roasted chicken for dinner. Everything points to the meds being the cause of this one.
Of course, now that we know she's not dying, she's milking it for all it's worth.
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