Posted by Dinah on May 6, 2005, at 23:37:23
In reply to My father is starving himself..., posted by Colleen D. on May 5, 2005, at 18:17:21
Colleen, in my father's last month I ended up having to tell the people at hospice about the conditions he was living in. It was probably the hardest thing I've ever done. But they could do what I just couldn't do - insist that he get proper care.
I remember sitting there crying because I just couldn't get my parents to do what needed to be done, and I was constantly fighting with my mother. And the social worker told me that I could leave it in her hands. That they would fight with my mother for me, and I could leave that burden behind and concentrate on the family.
I won't say things got perfect after that, because they didn't. But they got better.
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