Re: Relatives Living in Denial

Michelle wrote:
> Gee Karen, if that didn't convince her I have no idea what would. I
know you hate to see her harming herself through the denial, but it
appears you've done all that you can. You may just need to let it go.


Yeah, I thought, for sure, seeing her mother-in-law have to have her leg removed and then wind up dying from diabetes and heart problems would have done it too. Evidently, it didn't get her attention.

I called her idiot husband yesterday and told him that we've been testing my sister for a few weeks, and she has diabetes and needs to get treatment. He argued that she didn't, that she'd gone to visit her cancer doctor for a check-up (she's been cancer free since a year after her surgery in 1998) and that he had given her a blood test and said she didn't have diabetes. I told him that was wrong, that the cancer doc didn't/wouldn't test her for diabetes and that she had to have a fasting glucose test. I told him she didn't fast for at least eight hours for the test she took at the cancer doc's office that day, and that's what she needed to do to get an accurate diagnosis. (Don't know that he bought that one, though.)

Then I told him that if she doesn't go get it checked, I was just going to have to go to her place of employment and talk to her boss about it. (Not that I would--and not that the boss would/could do anything about it--but I figured it was worth a shot to bluff. One thing that does concern her is getting fired, so I figured why not try that angle.)

Well, interestingly enough, my sister called today to inform me that she has an appointment at the clinic to get checked on May 9th. Whether she gets there or not will be another story, but at least she made the appointment.

'Course, compliance will be a bigger issue, but I reckon we have to get her to that bridge before she can think about crossing it.

Karen C.
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