Today is day #2 of Mama being off one of her meds to manage her sugar level, but it looks like her body was becoming dependant on it. last night her sugar rose to 165.6, then 192.6 this morning. Just now, right before lunch, her sugar reached 203.4 -- this is all mg/dl, but the aim is to have 140 or below. 140-199 is a warning. Anything 200 or above is very concerning. Her blood pressure is in the normal range still (yay!). But she isn't really doing a lot of movement, so I guess it is expected.

We're waiting for the official feedback from Mama's doctor about the next step to help keep her sugar level down. She's not really eating much and the 3 of us try to get her to eat more veggies than anything else. She's currently on a soft diet of lugaw (rice porridge?) and very lightly salted food with minimal fat. The hospital keeps giving her fruits, which we know has natural sugars but we are trying to prevent her from eating that...so far, she's been listening.

Mama is practicing to move just a little more on her own. With the use of the rails on the hospital bed (and us keeping an eye on her movements), she's been trying to pull herself to sit up. While laying down, I see her practicing to move her fingers and hands and pump some blood into her hand vessels. She mentioned that it still feels numb, but she is trying to move a little. And she is sleeping a lot of the time because her right eye keeps trying to close, and sleeping seems to be the easiest and best thing to do.

One of the co-managing doctors that are doing rounds mentioned that she's got a nerve or two that have officially died. There's no function anymore. We don't know what this means, exactly, or what part of her body is going to be affected because it's gone... but, again, we'll find out more from her actual doctor.

We are still very hopeful she will be discharged from the hospital this week. We have been charging the medicine she's been taking to the room but she did run out of the test strips to check her blood sugar. (She is having her blood tested at least 3x a day), but we'll be going out to buy that on our own.

Mama did have several visitors drop by yesterday. The visits seemed to have helped her feel loved and appreciated. It pepped up her mood, which was nice. We'll do a different update on those once we are out of her.

From the family, thank you all again for the support you've shown. We all appreciate it. We hate to have to ask for the support, but it definitely has humbled us down and opened our eyes to see how much love is around us. May God (or the Universe, or whatever you believe) bless you all...