Dear Sheila,
My heart goes out to you and your family through this difficult time. Could
your Dad have sustained a concussion from his fall which may account for
the difficult weekend? His last tests were not too bad so don't give up
hope yet and try not to let him give up either. My thoughts and prayers
will be with you.
Christine
At 09:48 PM 05/07/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>This has not been a very good weekend for us. We were going to take my
dad to
>the bank on Friday. Before he made it to the car, he stumbled and fell.
He hit
>head first and gashed open his forehead and nose. He would not let us
take him
>to the hospital or to the E.R. clinic, so I called hospice, and they came and
>looked at it. I guess the good news on that part is that they think it
was just
>superficial, and nothing to worry about. He has had two really bad days
since
>then. We cannot seem to get his pain under control, and today we ran out
of his
>breakthrough pain medicine. I crushed one of his long acting ones and
gave that
>to him, it still didn't seem to be doing anything, so I crushed another
one. He
>seemed to be doing better, asked for some ice cream and talked a little.
Then
>about an hour later, I couldn't wake him to give him his steriod, and I
>couldn't. We thought he had gone into a coma. His eyes were only half open,
>but he wouldn't respond to anything at all. We sort of prepared
ourselves for
>him not waking up, told my daughter, and of course she started crying. We
are
>all in his room, holding his hands, telling him we love him and everything.
>After about 1-2 hours of him not responding, I called hospice. Fifteen
minutes
>before the nurse gets here, he just wakes up, and cannot figure out what is
>wrong with us. He woke up in much pain, and after taking some of the short
>acting pain pills that had finally arrived, he told me that he hoped he could
>take the pills, go to sleep and not wake up. He told me that he was ready to
>die. I don't want him to die, but I do not want to see him suffer anymore
>either. I really do not think it will be much longer, before he passes. Pls
>put us in your prayers.
>
>Love you guys,
>Sheila
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