Hello all,
am about to go back to the UK till Tues to see my aunty...had phone call she's getting weaker now and has started having fits. Docs have prescribed some sort of sedative, so I've been reading up on previous threads on TP describing fits and seizures and, as always, have found some answers to my questions.
No idea if this will last, if it will get better, if it can be brought under control (it can to some extent, as some of you have experienced).
My uncle has been sounding very low and concerned for the past week or so, but his son and daugher-in-law are with him, and two of his sisters and my aunt's sister are there too.
I'm so far away and I feel so helpless and lost. And I wish I could say or do something clever to make things easier for my uncle and cousin. Not just because of Aunty Jean having fits but because of her condition now in general. It's so hard on them to see her like this. They are coping, and coping "well" under the circumstances, and they do have support from sisters and brothers-in-law. And they'll come out the other side whatever happens.
I'm not sure whether I really need to go at this stage, it might not be as serious as it sounds or as my uncle thinks (who knows with this disease, and aunty has proved us wrong before), but gut feeling tells me to go. So I'm going and hoping for the best. Whatever that may be....
Finding hard to be sensible and see the good side of things tonight. I know there must be some somewhere. Answers on a postcard, please.
Wine and chocolate anyone?
Hugs, Tina
am about to go back to the UK till Tues to see my aunty...had phone call she's getting weaker now and has started having fits. Docs have prescribed some sort of sedative, so I've been reading up on previous threads on TP describing fits and seizures and, as always, have found some answers to my questions.
No idea if this will last, if it will get better, if it can be brought under control (it can to some extent, as some of you have experienced).
My uncle has been sounding very low and concerned for the past week or so, but his son and daugher-in-law are with him, and two of his sisters and my aunt's sister are there too.
I'm so far away and I feel so helpless and lost. And I wish I could say or do something clever to make things easier for my uncle and cousin. Not just because of Aunty Jean having fits but because of her condition now in general. It's so hard on them to see her like this. They are coping, and coping "well" under the circumstances, and they do have support from sisters and brothers-in-law. And they'll come out the other side whatever happens.
I'm not sure whether I really need to go at this stage, it might not be as serious as it sounds or as my uncle thinks (who knows with this disease, and aunty has proved us wrong before), but gut feeling tells me to go. So I'm going and hoping for the best. Whatever that may be....
Finding hard to be sensible and see the good side of things tonight. I know there must be some somewhere. Answers on a postcard, please.
Wine and chocolate anyone?
Hugs, Tina