Apparently Mom came to get Dad to take him to dinner. The nurse was trying to take his blood sugars, and Mom tried to take him before the nurse was finished, saying they didn't have time. She said they were late for meeting someone. The nurse managed to finish with the blood sugar test and found out that Dad's sugars were very low. The nurse wanted to give him some food to bring them up. Mom insisted that they had to leave and didn't have time, and that she would feed him.
The nurse reported that Mom was driving dad's scooter down the hallway very erratically. The nurse was very concerned for Dad's safety and tried to get Mom not to remove him from the floor. In the end, the nurse couldn't physically restrain them from leaving and had to let them go. She reports that Mom was trying to feed Dad graham crackers as they went down the hallway.
When Mom brought Dad back, she said that she had tested his sugars and they were very high, so she gave him some insulin she had with her. She did report this to the nurse, which she does not always do. It was very fortunate that she did report it, because she gave him a kind of insulin that he no longer takes. If the nurses had given him his regularly scheduled insulin when he returned, he would have bottomed out. This could have been dangerous to him.
The House Supervisor wanted me to say that Dad couldn't leave the floor all weekend. I could not do this because I was no longer the POA. She said she would arrange a care meeting and impress upon Mom the importance of not taking Dad off the floor when he is in such a condition. I said that Lisa could probably attend this meeting.
Mom doesn't seem to understand that Dad is not always able to leave when she want's him to, that his health is quite fragile. She seems unable to judge when she should cancel or alter plans based on Dad's ability to participate, and the care that he needs at the time.
