The Mom Photo Essay Project On Instagram: Six (As mentioned in prev. post: #aging causes us to lose our sense of taste & smell). // This may not be the most glamorous photo ever taken (eggs only look good in pro photos), but it is metaphoric in its own way: it doesn't look every appealing even when your tastebuds are fully functional. // At 91, my mom has suddenly become concerned with the food she eats. In her late 80s, a doctor told her that at her age to just go ahead and enjoy anything and everything. This had the opposite effect. Suddenly mom was thinking & rethinking everything she ate. // It was around this time that she decided that she needed to stop eating bread crusts. As a diabetic, she needs to be conscious of her carbohydrate intake so she can take the proper amount of insulin for the carbs consumed. Bread crusts became bad – the place where most of the bread's carbs resided. So, she hasn't eaten a crust in years. Unless you count the crust on the French Toast – syrup is already being added, so why worry about carbs at that point? // Butter, however, has become its own food group. Loving butter is nothing new for mom – she could out butter Paula Deen. Best of all: a stick has 0.1g of carb, not enough to worry about. // It is impossible to see in this photo, but the crustless wheat bread is soggier more from the butter than the yolk, and there is additional butter in with the yolk. // For mom, food may not be as enjoyable as it once was, but half a stick of butter still brings a smile and a contented sigh. // The cut squares are also required – cut by me because her arthritis is so bad she cannot properly hold a knife or apply the required pressure to cut even a piece of buttery, yolky toast. Thankfully, I don't have to cut the toast into a required number of pieces. #aging #elderlyparent #caregiver #eating A post shared by John Francis Nooney (@john_francis_nooney) on Jul 7, 2015 at 1:49am PDT Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)MoreClick to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) w Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email.
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