All the usual stuff. I notice that he's not discussing wiping the shit from your elderly, Alzheimer's patient father or what to do when he, virtually crippled with joint pain AND hampered with a catheter and loose Foley bag, wakes up disoriented and climbs out of his hospital bed in the middle of the night when the rest of the family is desperate for some sleep. Trips, falls, rips his scalp open and it's off to the hospital again.
This is the dark side of modern medical care: keeping medically fragile people alive when back in ye good olde days, those people would have died much earlier. My father would NOT have survived with his type-2 diabetes AND his nonfunctioning bladder AND his osteoporosis AND his underlying kidney disease AND his Alzheimer's.
All the usual stuff. I notice that he's not discussing wiping the shit from your elderly, Alzheimer's patient father or what to do when he, virtually crippled with joint pain AND hampered with a catheter and loose Foley bag, wakes up disoriented and climbs out of his hospital bed in the middle of the night when the rest of the family is desperate for some sleep. Trips, falls, rips his scalp open and it's off to the hospital again.
This is the dark side of modern medical care: keeping medically fragile people alive when back in ye good olde days, those people would have died much earlier. My father would NOT have survived with his type-2 diabetes AND his nonfunctioning bladder AND his osteoporosis AND his underlying kidney disease AND his Alzheimer's.
I wouldn't put my animals through this hell.
I’m truly sorry to hear about your father, Teresa. And I am sorry for the pain that you went through caring for him.