Parents with dementia, how dealing with that has gone.

[ArlyA]

Month-in-law is not doing well. The hospitalist was by and thought the cancer was messing with he immune system.

 

[kenmbz]

Month-in-law is not doing well. The hospitalist was by and thought the cancer was messing with he immune system.

Sorry to hear Arly, Cancer sucks, wife just lost her cousin to cancer yesterday.

 

[tradosaurus]

Month-in-law is not doing well. The hospitalist was by and thought the cancer was messing with he immune system.

I would think the “treatments” are messing with the immune system.
My dad went through cancer treatment at 77 and said he would never do it again. Got cancer again within two years and lived the remaining years without it.

 

[ultrarunner]

Dad went through it all and literally was on deaths door not expected to last 24 hours with life support… he came back and had nearly a year of remission and then it came back hard and was gone in 5 weeks with the last 10 days in the hospital.

He never gave up but having almost a year free from chemo, dialysis and radiation and over all feeling good was anything but expected…

 

[ArlyA]

I never mentioned any cancer treatments. She is in hospice care.

 

[ArlyA]

With the help of some folks in Ely MN, where they're located. They will try to get the car out of his paws today. My spouse has been up there for the week but needs to get away. Dementia is tough. Now we have serious lake snow predicted on the south shore.

 

[ultrarunner]

I never mentioned any cancer treatments. She is in hospice care.

Very good friends and mom with home hospice...

Nothing bad to say about the nurses and aids taking on this work knowing the end is near for their patients.

My friend lasted a few days and my neighbor lasted over a year...

Neighbor was 106 having out lived all her family and it was just her and her boyfriend 16 years her junior.

Several times Hospice was to be discontinued but another neighbor became advocate and would get it extended and this was all during Covid... she survived 2 worldwide pandemics...

 

[ArlyA]

With the help of assisted living staff and friends, seems the car was finally snagged out of her dad's hands. Her mom doesn't know or recall she broke her hip. They think she'll last 2 to 5 weeks.

 

[kenmbz]

With the help of assisted living staff and friends, seems the car was finally snagged out of her dad's hands. Her mom doesn't know or recall she broke her hip. They think she'll last 2 to 5 weeks.

this forgetting thing is awful.
My dad thinks he can walk fine and has been in bed for a week.
He hasn't walked and has been in bed for almost 6 months.

 

[ArlyA]

Month-in-law has passed as predicted by the healthcare professionals. We are moving her dad into a different type of care building within the campus taking him out of the memory care.