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One of the people Vicki is acting as "medical advocate" for is diabetic. He is our neighbor's 41 yer old son and comes over to help clean the house now and then. We first realized something was wrong when one day we noticed his feet and ankles were purple. We asked him what was up and he was so confused it was alarming. "I think I need to eat. No, I think I need a shot." The guy is living with diabetes and he doesn't know what the symptoms mean?
Anyway, he has not taken care of himself properly for a long time. Until Vic kicked his ass he hadn't seen a diabetes doc in a couple of years.
She got him an appointment and took him to a new doctor. Now he has this thing stuck in his arm that sends a signal to his smart phone. The signal also comes to Vic's smart phone and it has an alarm that goes off when A's glucose gets too high or low.
The alarm goes off 3 or 4 times a day. Is that normal? Is damage done by diabetes reversable? I'm afraid the guy is never going to stop declining.

On another note, A has been having seizures for a long time. He assumed it was epilepsy and has done nothing about it. Vic dragged him to a neurologist - got MRIs and MRAs and it turns out he has had multiple strokes and the seizures are most likely caused by a different brain anomaly - not epilepsy. The tests are ongoing, but it doesn't look good. One of the possibilities has a life expectancy of 7 years.

Sometimes I wonder if suicide by self neglect is a thing.