Meet my 103-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Mary Louise McNeal. Everybody calls her Mommee. She was diagnosed with diabetes over 50 years ago and has managed her diabetes with diet and exercise. She was recently diagnosed with hypertension and is on HCTZ 12.5 mg daily.
This picture is the most recent in 2019 as a keynote speaker at our church in New Orleans in August 2019.
Work Life and Retirement
Mommee retired from Charity Hospital in 1977 after working 27 years in the level 3 nursery taking care of newly born infants. In 2004, she lost her home in Katrina and relocated to Alabama. She returned to Louisiana in late 2005.
We are blessed and honored to spend New Year’s Eve with her at our church celebration on December 31, 2018.
Diabetes for Over 50 years
Mommee has had controlled blood pressures and blood sugars for over 50 years. Blood sugar medication was prescribed for her initially, which kept her blood sugar controlled despite her regular diet. Then, she decided to do what her daddy had done when he was diagnosed with diabetes. Her daddy, Mr. Charles Foster from Franklin, Louisiana, controlled his diabetes with diet and exercise for many years.
Mommee changed her diet. She removed sugar and table salt from her diet, ate brown rice, and limited her portion sizes. Mommee is doing well and still walks for 20-30 minutes unassisted in the mornings several times a week. She made 103 years old on Feb 3, 2021.
First Podcast Guess
I will eventually get her to tell her secrets to living a long healthy life on Hypertension Resistant To Treatment Podcast. Listen Up!
Here is my Mommee and my mom at our celebration of July 4, 2019!
This was 2010 in Alabama at my youngest daughter’s graduation.
