PawPaw:
Well, I'm in Batesburg-Leesville helping out with Pawpaw. In case you didn't catch the update, he got a spot on his back and when they found out it was an infection, they had to stop the chemo and give him anti-biotics. Afterward, he started saying a lot of weird things in the hospital when they removed the spot. They did a head scan and they came to find out that he has brain atrophy...so he's basically losing his brain cells. He stated before that if he wouldn't have any quality of life then he wanted them to stop the chemo. So they took him into Hospice but then he decided that he wanted to come home...
So here we are, at home with a hospice bed. We have a nurse that comes 5 days a week and cleans him up, gets him out of bed and gets him dressed and then a nurse tech that comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays for everything else.
I was just walking to the bathroom and Pawpaw was apparently "awake" and called me in and asked me if I wanted to make a long distance phone call to my phone so I'd have a call. ??? I asked him why I'd do that. He said, "You can you use my phone and make a long distance call and call your phone so you have a missed call from me. If you want...it doesn't matter to me."
Earlier, he said, "It's about time for me to start getting better." and continued to say that when he came with Melissa (my aunt) he told her he was coming home to die...and that if she wanted to say anything to him that she better say it now. And then he started to cry...I can't bare this...it's so hard. I love him so much. He had a really good day today...but I can't imagine being in my parents shoes. I hope to God it doesn't get like this with them...
So here we are, at home with a hospice bed. We have a nurse that comes 5 days a week and cleans him up, gets him out of bed and gets him dressed and then a nurse tech that comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays for everything else.
I was just walking to the bathroom and Pawpaw was apparently "awake" and called me in and asked me if I wanted to make a long distance phone call to my phone so I'd have a call. ??? I asked him why I'd do that. He said, "You can you use my phone and make a long distance call and call your phone so you have a missed call from me. If you want...it doesn't matter to me."
Earlier, he said, "It's about time for me to start getting better." and continued to say that when he came with Melissa (my aunt) he told her he was coming home to die...and that if she wanted to say anything to him that she better say it now. And then he started to cry...I can't bare this...it's so hard. I love him so much. He had a really good day today...but I can't imagine being in my parents shoes. I hope to God it doesn't get like this with them...