Elderly parents

sabres1
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:30:11 +0000

Sorry about your father. I went through almost the same thing a couple of years ago with my father. About six weeks before he died he started declining almost like your father. He refused food, fell a couple of times etc. He didn’t have any trouble sleeping though, could sleep all day if we let him. About two weeks before he died his doctor realized he wasn’t going to improve. My mother still wouldn’t give up trying to get him to eat until about two days before he died. I live 400 miles away and had made a few trips but was not there when he died, although I saw him a few days before and was able to say goodbye then.
It was hard but as I said to my mother it was just time for his body to go. His mind and body went at the same time, which in a way was fortunate.