Recently I posted about my Mum, 90; even though she has been in a CH for more than four years and had Alzheimer's for a good few years before this, her recent sudden decline somehow came as a bit of an unexpected shock.
In the last 10 days she has also started struggling to chew her food, has been diagnosed with a mild respiratory virus and developed a pressure sore on both hips. She is immobile, doubly incontinent, struggling with her swallowing, lost most of her coherent speech and relies on others to feed, bathe her etc. On the Gold Standard Framework she has gone from green to amber, which when I looked it up is in the 'weeks only'. A couple of weeks ago her doctor told me it was likely 'a matter of months', so this suggests a decline also.
My problem is she has plateaued for so long always bouncing back after any problems, that I can't quite believe she might actually be at the end of life stage. Even though it all sounds like she is declining, I seem to have gone into autopilot and not really taking it in.
I'm feeling a bit in limbo about it and would welcome any thoughts from anyone who recognises where I am or where my mum is, if that makes sense.
Thank you xx
In the last 10 days she has also started struggling to chew her food, has been diagnosed with a mild respiratory virus and developed a pressure sore on both hips. She is immobile, doubly incontinent, struggling with her swallowing, lost most of her coherent speech and relies on others to feed, bathe her etc. On the Gold Standard Framework she has gone from green to amber, which when I looked it up is in the 'weeks only'. A couple of weeks ago her doctor told me it was likely 'a matter of months', so this suggests a decline also.
My problem is she has plateaued for so long always bouncing back after any problems, that I can't quite believe she might actually be at the end of life stage. Even though it all sounds like she is declining, I seem to have gone into autopilot and not really taking it in.
I'm feeling a bit in limbo about it and would welcome any thoughts from anyone who recognises where I am or where my mum is, if that makes sense.
Thank you xx