First and foremost check your mom for pre-stroke condition and diabetes. Based on what yout saying this may be a possibility. Also you should know that there are reversing diabetes seminars that show anyone how to reverse diabetes in six months to a year in the meantime if she is tested psoitive for diabetes:


Increase her intake of flax seed (crushed up 2 tablespoons a day)
use a coffe grinder (walmart 15$)

Coloidal minerals - 1 cap full twice a day

No processed Sugar from any source

vegetables every day (steamed or fresh)

1/2 gallon of fresh water a day
2 cups of distilled water a day

Uva Ursi tea or pills (if tea 3 glasses every day)

Corn silk (follow directions on bottle)

Chromium Picolinate 200 mcg a day
Lithium Orotate 120 mg pills twice a day (never ltihium Carbonate)
Vanadium

at night 150 mg Coenzyme Q10 400 ui of Vitamin E (oil based) Ginko Biloba 120 mgs (take together in a glass of warm water)

Remember with diabetes her number one protection concern is her kidneys. Stress is also a major factor in diabetes because stress increase blood acid levels.