Pills by the Spoonful

Lately mom's sugar has been a bit low because she's in the sleepy season and isn't eating as much. Interestingly, if you put a teaspoon or two of corn starch in apple sauce (or our favorite, peach mango sauce, or even fruit slices) it helps to keep the blood sugar up for a longer period of time. I guess it's slow to break down in the system. So... since she's been too drowsy to really eat much these past few days, I've been giving her the applesauce and corn starch as part of her meal.

We clean and save the used applesauce containers, as they are individual sized servings, and use them for her pills. We put them in the little cup and set it on her dinner tray so that she will eat them with or following her meal and, hopefully, avoid upsetting her stomach.

The past few days Mom has eaten her applesauce, then picked up her pill cup, which looks just like her applesauce cup, and used her spoon to scoop out the pills. Fortunately, the spoon has been still covered with some apple sauce so the pills have actually stuck to the spoon pretty well.

Mom has never eaten her pills with a spoon before, so this is new behavior. In the mornings she has not had applesauce with her meal, so she picks the pills out of the cup with her fingers as she has always done. I find it interesting that her brain is connecting the cups together and so leading her to use a spoon in the second cup as she has just done with the first cup. The brain is a curious thing.