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Caregiving: I’m frustrated and exhausted.
Caregivers | Last Active: Mar 27, 2022 | Replies (223)Comment receiving replies
Hope you can keep your promise to never put her in a home. Lots of people have regretted making that promise and feel such guilt if they can't keep it. You really need to take care of yourself just as much as her or you won't be any help to either her or your aunt eventually. Bless you for all you do.
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well shes still pretty sharp and still takes care of herself so im pretty sure she will stay at home till god takes her home. i will be right by her side all the way. she would have to become pretty ill or crazy or aggressive or something for me to put her in a home. being a cop for so many years and also working the a maximum security prison i can take pretty much anything. i will do everything i can to keep her home. somehow i feel she will just pass in her sleep one night. i don't know why i feel that but something deep inside me feels that.
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Wise words @leeandpat We never know what may be coming down the pike when it comes to illness, infirmity, etc. Nothing makes me more upset than the advertisements now on our TV where the announcer says 'and we promised Dad, Mom would always stay at home.' Sometimes it is impossible. My DILs father became combative and was twice the size of his wife and home care was simply not possible.
I hope your day is a solid one today!