If all goes well I'll be able to post some pictures. If it doesn't go well I'll call ruthie. It's 11:30 her time and she will be too sleepy in the morning to wake me up like she did this morning--twice, an hour apart.
Ann's brother died and she can't work for at least a week, and we need someone to work more hours on TTSS when Hospice doesn't come. Mom made two phone calls and hired the lady that had been caring for Bill Clinton's step-father, who was planted over the weekend. She starts at 8 in the morning. More of God's care on us.
Dad is in light stage of coma. He responds to pain but not voice. He can't swallow enough sustenence to keep himself going and attempts at force feeking are irritating at best and probably dangerous for aspiration and pneumonia. We will not use IV fluids/antibiotics or NG tube feeding because he has a rapidly terminal process and those measures offer no real benefit and some discomfort. If he takes liquids they will be given, but not forced. We are still able to get down dilantin to control seizures.
It doesn't look like he will make it long, but in never does in these situations and we get surprized all the time. BB
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