Hi, firstly id like to apologise for not visiting for so long, unfortunately redundancy has taken over my life at the mo, with no money i havent been able to get online.
And secondly i have a problem and i dont know what to do. i think most people on the site know my situation, my mother is 44 and she has alzheimers disease. but now unfortunately i think her time will be coming to an end soon. She has stopped eating, and has forgotten how to swallow, so she needs to have a tube down her throat, however she pulls it out and wont keep it in, so we cant feed her like that. another option would have been to put a tube directly in her stomach, but the doctors are refusing to do it, as she is very weak and they are worried that she would die on the operating table. so we all have to resign ourselves to the fact that my mom will die from starvation. my nan, who is her carer, wants her back home for her final weeks, but i dont know whether i want to go and see her in the last weeks of her life. what do i do?
any answers would be a help.
many thanks
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And secondly i have a problem and i dont know what to do. i think most people on the site know my situation, my mother is 44 and she has alzheimers disease. but now unfortunately i think her time will be coming to an end soon. She has stopped eating, and has forgotten how to swallow, so she needs to have a tube down her throat, however she pulls it out and wont keep it in, so we cant feed her like that. another option would have been to put a tube directly in her stomach, but the doctors are refusing to do it, as she is very weak and they are worried that she would die on the operating table. so we all have to resign ourselves to the fact that my mom will die from starvation. my nan, who is her carer, wants her back home for her final weeks, but i dont know whether i want to go and see her in the last weeks of her life. what do i do?
any answers would be a help.
many thanks
xxxxx