Posted by ClearSkies on May 14, 2006, at 17:24:56
In reply to You need to sit down Daddy, posted by Joan797 on May 14, 2006, at 16:52:05
Your Daddy needs some full-time, all around the clock care. We are as strong as we possibly can be for our families. There comes the time when we must pass the responsibility for our family's care to someone else. To a professional health care provider - home health aide, adult-sitter, someone to relieve your responsibility.
Dementia is such a difficult illness, even as part of another, chronic disease. We see our family member suffering; they say things that we recognize as their words; but they are beyond our reach and they are beyond their comfort zones. Nowhere feels familiar, and nobody feels safe. It's a frightening time to be a child of a parent whose grip has slipped and can't be regained.
But I fear that your endless stores of strength are being depleted beyond your wellbeing and ability to recuperate. You have to put your own health before your Dad's - otherwise, how can you support him?
Can you apply for some day-time or night-time relief until such time that your Dad has to be checked in for chronic care, like into a nursing home?
love
ClearSkies
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