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Thank you, Dorisena,. for your words of wisdom. As most people in these situations know, they give rise to a lot of guilt.
My late husband's grandmother lived in filth and poor eating habits and neither my mother or I could get him to put her in a facility because he knew he was getting everything she had left. and has already received title to her property. My sister died in squalor too terrible to repeat here, but I never saw it and knew I couldn't get involved, so I stayed out of it. For that my sister-in-law and her daughter criticized me repeatedly for not "helping" the situation and I knew that couldn't happen. She was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and had a number of chronic illnesses. There were mice in the refrigerator, I was told. Her husband was her caregiver and the county got involved because the mice came through the ceiling, which needed to be ripped out and repaired. The daughters live out of state. They are alcoholics and the entire family has OCD problems of some kind. I do not know how the surviving husband lives. I am living with sadness but not guilt. Dorisena