My Caregiving Friends, I’ve been putting off writing/posting this entry because it is a difficult message. The majority of my caregiving journey ended after a rapid and unexpected decline in my mother’s health over the last month. Her decline ended with her death on the morning of Monday, August 16th, and we laid her to [...]
My mother woke up, to some degree, from her Ativan-induced sleep. I think it will be several more days before she’ll be back to where she was. Sadly that seems to be less each time we have one of these setbacks. Hospice has indicated this will be consistent until the very end – have setback, [...]
As the hospice nurse said today…I have NO room for anything else.
I only have 2 more stops to get my note in here so it will be VERY quick – especially for me Things are dire in my household. Mom is squarely on hospice, as is my dad. Mom just woke up from a 5 day encephalopathic coma; we decided to treat at home this time [...]
Part of me is trying to panic, thinking, oh God – this is it – she is giving up and has checked out.
The more things change the more they stay the same… Hospice hasn’t changed anything yet. Granted, Mom is not officially on hospice yet – they are still evaluating how and what services can be provided without an interruption in the care Mom is now receiving. Gratefully, she has been ‘with it’ for the last couple [...]
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… it is comforting to realize that I am not completely alone on this dark road.
It’s been a week now since my Mom’s primary care physician broke the news to Mom that she’s at the end of her 15 year fight; the last 8 of which have been full-court-press. Being the skeptic that I am, I escalated the issue to her specialist at the transplant institute. I was able to [...]
Hello fellow caregivers. In case you’re not familiar with me, my name is Derek, one of the occasional family bloggers here on Caregiving.com. I work full time and take care of both of my parents: mom lives with me and dad is on hospice in a nursing home. I’ve not participated for several months because [...]
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