What's next?

I often wonder "what's next" as I have never lived with a diabetic and most people who are at this stage in the progression of the disease simply don't write about it! So today's post is going to be about the daily trials of living with this disease.....when you are the healthy one!Yesterday, he fixed SIX eggs for breakfast!!! Then he went to Burger King for lunch. THEN....he order Chinese takeout for dinner! I was gone most of the day and asked him what he'd eaten when I got home last night. In my mind, a normal person doesn't eat that much food in a day! He said he was hungry.So what causes hunger at this point? I know he has told me that he can't taste or smell anything. And he doesn't eat like that every day....but he does eat a ton of food.....that he supposedly can't taste or smell.He is up most nights sick to his stomach or with diarrhea. The gastroenterologist has refused to see him until he stops eating/smoking marijuana for 3 months. But I am assuming that the nerve endings in his stomach have stopped working, food doesn't get digested, and when it sits too long, it has to come up and get out one way or the other.And I cannot talk to him about anything after 6 pm because that's when he starts eating his mj edibles and smoking his vaporizer. He is in a mj fog from that point on - but he says that it eases his pain and it's the only way he can get to sleep.Sleep - that ever eluding issue. Most of acknowledge ...
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