Mum has settled down a bit. She is now eating and drinking and taking her supplement of Calogen. She’s had abdominal pain and we’ve given her what the doctor prescribed – gas medicine (luftal) and anti-spasm medicine. This helped and the pain passed.
She is very thin, her bones seem to stick up through her skin [...]
Mum got out of the hospital on Friday the 5th. The doctor who was taking care of her wanted to put in a feeding tube either through the nose or into the stomach. I didn’t let him because I thought it was really weird putting in a tube and sending her home. What was I [...]
Well, once again my mother spent 5 days in the hospital. This time it was due to severe abdominal pain. When she is in hospital, all she does is sleep. She won’t eat at all. So she comes out quite debilitated. The doctors really wanted to tube feed her – either through the nose or [...]
Mum is in the hospital again! Yesterday at around 4 a.m. she started to vomit a black liquid. The caregiver Dona Vilma rushed her to the emergency where she was medicated to stop the vomiting. There was a certain amount of difficulty finding a hospital to put her in as they were all full. (There [...]
Just adding a post to show how there are always decisions to be made. Mum broke one of her canines in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. (It amazes me how things always happen during that week! One year we had to rush mum to get a blood transfusion during that week!)
We finally were [...]
(Editor’s Note: Today, we welcome a new family caregiver to our family. Dilys shares her days with as she cares for her mother (“Mum”).)
A typical weekend morning: I woke up at 8 a.m. I felt like sleeping more but I always feel like I have to get up and justify my existence. So I got [...]
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