[unclebilly]

I appreciate the ideas and thoughts.

There are a handful of things at play here…

1. He doesn’t think his diabetes is ‘that bad’. His words.
2. He refuses to take control of the situation and take his meds on his own or check his sugars or take the insulin without us urging him to. It’s a fight every time.
3. He has a sugar addiction and when we don’t let him have a sugar fix (donut, chocolate bar, icercream), he gets upset and abusive.
4. The dementia is adding to the issue - he thinks he’s been away for months (it’s been a week). He thinks the cruise was several weeks long, (it was a week). He forgets that he was home for 3 days between the cruise and coming to Calgary.

I think he’s terrified that we are going to toss him into a nursing home and throw away the key. I think this, combined with the sugar addiction, is what’s motivating him to be uncooperative now. We have decided to stay the course and get the mental cognitive testing done and based on the outcome and the doc’s recommendations, we will either take him home and set up care (for the 3rd time) or get him into a facility close to where my brother and I live.