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What a mess. That's one thing I'm thankful for. I was able to look after my mom so that she could remain in her own home rather than shelved and forgotten in an old age warehouse, waiting to die.:(
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Some families can't take care of their parents due to being overwhelmed by their requirements. My late father had "bad" dementia as well as diabetes, Parkinson's, and several complications of diabetes while my late mother had cancer and Picks disease (another form of dementia.) Luckily for everyone, mom's dementia was the "good" dementia (mentally, she was more like a toddler than someone who could explain both the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal systems of categorizing print and other media [she set off the smoke detectors three times by putting empty pans on the stove, turning on said stove, then walking away].) To top all of that off, my older sister and her family (husband and four kids) moved in (she had two more and her oldest daughter had her first child while living in our parents' house... :rolleyes: )

We had to put dad into a nursing home after he started exhibiting signs of violent behavior (he thought that he was back in the Army during WWII towards the end) plus he thought that we were trying to poison him when we tried to give him his medications (especially his insulin!) My older brother couldn't deal with everything going on with dad during his delusions and his uncontrolled sugars, so when the VA suggested that dad go into a home, DB jumped at the offer.

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Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine said:
Some families can't take care of their parents due to being overwhelmed by their requirements.
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Very true. Mentally, my mom stayed lucid and sharp until her dying day. Physically however, mostly due to diabetes and arthritis, there came a time she could no longer do for herself. I'm the youngest of 7, 5 living at the time, but none of my siblings would lift a finger to help with my mom's care, so I was left holding the bag. It would have been easy to wash my hands of it too and put her in nursing care, but I elected to put my own needs and wants aside and tend to hers. I won't lie, it was damn hard at times and I often felt deep resentment. The last 7 years of her life were the hardest. Having to watch a once strong and proud woman decline as she did. I stuck it out though, because for me, it was just the right thing to do and I thank God I was able.

Every situation is different of course. I just think all too often in this country the aged among us are just cast aside when they become the least bit burdensome. While in other cultures the elderly are revered.
 
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Very true. Mentally, my mom stayed lucid and sharp until her dying day. Physically however, mostly due to diabetes and arthritis, there came a time she could no longer do for herself. I'm the youngest of 7, 5 living at the time, but none of my siblings would lift a finger to help with my mom's care, so I was left holding the bag. It would have been easy to wash my hands of it too and put her in nursing care, but I elected to put my own needs and wants aside and tend to hers. I won't lie, it was damn hard at times and I often felt deep resentment. The last 7 years of her life were the hardest. Having to watch a once strong and proud woman decline as she did. I stuck it out though, because for me, it was just the right thing to do and I thank God I was able.

Every situation is different of course. I just think all too often in this country the aged among us are just cast aside when they become the least bit burdensome. While in other cultures the elderly are revered.
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My parents spent their last weeks in a coma (dad had to have one of his legs amputated due to a bone infection before he was transported back to Milwaukee, and he was already going, while mom's cancer metastasized to her liver [Stage 4 or 5].)

You were lucky with your mother.

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My parents spent their last weeks in a coma (dad had to have one of his legs amputated due to a bone infection before he was transported back to Milwaukee, and he was already going, while mom's cancer metastasized to her liver [Stage 4 or 5].)

You were lucky with your mother.

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In some ways yes. However, she spent the last month of her life in hospital with a massive inoperable and cancerous tumor wrapped around her spine. The pain was so great, not even a constant morphine drip offered any relief. Meanwhile, the bean counters at the hospital kept harassing me to move her to a hospice facility on the other side of town since she was no longer responding to treatment. I wanted to take her home to pass instead, but the doctor said she'd never survive the trip. Luckily, he was able to stall the hospital administrators long enough for nature to take it's course. They actually called me the morning before she died threatening to get a court order to have her removed!

In life, my mom was a large woman. 5'9" at nearly 200lbs. When she died, she weighed less than 100lbs. As tough as that was to watch, my biggest regret is, I wasn't actually there when she passed. I had left for the evening just hours before.
 
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