Well this weekend my one son who doesn't live with me had a medical crisis. he has bad asthma and has had a URI for the last ten days. He was on oral prednisone because of his asthma. He called me this weekend after having seen his doctor the day before, who did a chest xray and a urinalysis because of his complaints of frequent urination, but apparently did nothing when it showed he was spilling a large amount of sugar in his urine. Son refused to take metformin that I prescribed to him over the weekend, I ended sending youngest son up to him with a glucometer and his glucose level was 300 (very high but not quite diabetic ketoacidosis going-into-a-coma levels). He saw his doctor on Monday who said he wouldn't prescribe metformin unless his HgbA1C was 7 (what does he THINK it's going to be with a glucose of 300, blurry vision and frequent urination???). So of course yesterday his glucose level was high again and he ended up taking a Lyft to the emergency room. His hgbA1C was 8.6!
So now he has steroid-induced diabetes on top of all his other health problems. This is a big issue because, while he could probably reverse it with diet, he's already struggling pretty badly with his anorexia and this will be very difficult to manage with that going on. And I can't bring him down to my house for a few days because he's still coughing and I can't afford to get sick right now or give it to CMM.
Pretty sure my ex knows nothing about this, not that he would be any help anyway. I love my kids and am glad to be there for them, but it's the one thing I really cannot forgive my ex for - he has basically dumped all the hard parenting onto my shoulders since the divorce.GRRRRRR.
