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Bring them home. Take care of them as much as you can. Spend time with them. I spent 6 months taking care of my dad while working from home. He was wheelchair b
by olyjohn 4y ago
Bring them home. Take care of them as much as you can. Spend time with them. I spent 6 months taking care of my dad while working from home. He was wheelchair bound and we had to have hospice care come in every few days to help out with things. There were no options to send him to a retirement home, unless it was something that Social Security could pay for. So I basically moved in with him, and lived with him until he passed away.
Doing it while working full time was the most stressful thing I have ever done. It was so difficult, dealing with doctors and nurses and care people calling every day. Keeping his doctors informed on what was going on. Keeping track of his prescriptions. Keeping his appointments up. And he had a lung disease, and it was during COVID, so it was super isolating, as I could not fuck around at all with exposing him. I could not leave him at home alone at all. It would take 30 minutes to load him into the car... I got maybe a couple of hours a week to leave the house. I also lost my partner of 10 years.
But would I do it all again? Most definitely. Despite how hard it was, it was a life-changing experience. I have never felt such love and support from my dad and all the people around me. I'm so glad that I got to spend so much time with him and be with him up to the end. He was so scared of going to a home, there was just no way I could let that happen, and I'm super glad that I didn't.