She Is Worried About Her Stepdad’s Diabetes And Believes He Is Not Taking His Health Seriously, So She Is Considering Just Buying Him Diabetes-Friendly Cookbooks For Christmas
This twenty-four-year-old woman has a fifty-year-old stepdad who is a diabetic. In fact, her stepdad entered her life when she was just a toddler, and she has known that he has type two diabetes since she was about eight or nine.
Over the past two years, though, her stepdad’s health has been on the decline. He has been in and out of the hospital pretty often– always for issues related to his diabetes.
And even though he is not just eating sugary foods all of the time, she realizes that her stepdad does not take his diet as seriously as he probably should.
For instance, he is sometimes caught eating things and doing things he should not be– such as drinking a beer or two or smoking a cigarette.
It’s not like her stepdad is oblivious to the impacts of his choices, though. According to her, he actually knows just how bad his health has gotten in recent years because he has already lost parts of his toes and fingers.
Despite that, on Thanksgiving, she watched as her stepdad ate nearly an entire plate of sweet desserts that her mom had prepared.
And when she asked whether or not the desserts were sugar-free, her mom just shrugged.
“She shrugged as if he is doing fine now that he is recovering from his most recent surgery to remove dead tissue from his hip,” she said.
Unlike her mom’s nonchalant behavior, though, she is honestly beyond worried about her stepdad’s health. Still, she cannot really control what he eats, and she claims that her mom has just been enabling his bad habits– allowing her stepdad to eat sweets.
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So, she has tried to have sit-down discussions with her mom about the issue in the past. According to her, though, her mom always claims to be encouraging her stepdad to eat better.
“And I have seen some change in the way my mom eats herself: cutting out salt, eating more leafy greens,” she admitted.
Regardless, though, something has got to give, and some real changes have to be made in her parent’s household. After all, she recognizes that her two younger half-siblings are still in high school, yet they constantly have to see their father going in and out of the hospital.
In turn, she has done some serious thinking about what to get her stepdad for Christmas. And this year, she is honestly considering just getting him some diabetes-friendly cookbooks– something she would never have thought of getting him in the past.
“I wouldn’t ever usually give him something like a cookbook. And I was going to get him some other things not related to that, but my stepdad doesn’t take it as seriously as I think he should, and my mom can enable him at times,” she explained.
On top of that, even though her mom is not a diabetic, it still runs on her mother’s side of the family, too. So, she believes that the cookbooks could be beneficial to both of her parents.
Still, she is not sure if Christmas is the right time to try and help her stepdad change his eating habits. So, she has been left wondering whether getting him cookbooks as a holiday gift would make her a jerk or not.
Do you think that her gift would be viewed as helpful or passive-aggressive? Do you believe that Christmas is the right time to make a statement about her stepdad’s health, or should the holiday be more lighthearted? If you were in her shoes, would you purchase the cookbooks?
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