So on Sunday I went away for a few days with my husband while my brother looked after dad. Dad was okay when we left but was experiencing a little discomfort after eating but nothing too bad.
We came home yesterday to find that dad had suffered worsening pain and the hospice are now involved. I am staying with dad again now and he has had morphine delivered this morning and the hospice team are going to deliver a comode this afternoon for him and he is going to be assessed for CHC tomorrow and probably will have 4 carers a day.
He was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer almost 2 years ago but he has done amazingly well. He has had 3 stents fitted so I knew this would be coming but it all seems too sudden. Four days ago he was relatively well and now everything seems out of control.
He is still happy in himself but not eating and he is making no effort to get out of bed to go to the toilet. I feel like it is snowballing and I can't get my head around it. I think it is the loss of control that is making me feel like this as up to now I have taken care of everything.
I feel like it has come out of nowhere and I am shocked to put it mildly. It's like, how the hell did this just happen. Dad is of course oblivious to it all. I don't know how I feel at the moment other than shocked.
We came home yesterday to find that dad had suffered worsening pain and the hospice are now involved. I am staying with dad again now and he has had morphine delivered this morning and the hospice team are going to deliver a comode this afternoon for him and he is going to be assessed for CHC tomorrow and probably will have 4 carers a day.
He was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer almost 2 years ago but he has done amazingly well. He has had 3 stents fitted so I knew this would be coming but it all seems too sudden. Four days ago he was relatively well and now everything seems out of control.
He is still happy in himself but not eating and he is making no effort to get out of bed to go to the toilet. I feel like it is snowballing and I can't get my head around it. I think it is the loss of control that is making me feel like this as up to now I have taken care of everything.
I feel like it has come out of nowhere and I am shocked to put it mildly. It's like, how the hell did this just happen. Dad is of course oblivious to it all. I don't know how I feel at the moment other than shocked.