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OK, here's the deal:
My grandma is dying, but she won't die. She's been hanging on the edge for over two weeks now.
This might be a good thing if she had any chance whatsoever of getting better, or could even communicate with us, but she doesn't, and she can't. She's 90 years old, has Alzheimer's pretty severely, hasn't eaten or had anything to drink (other than what my mom has forced on her -- more about that later) and has a sore on her foot that's basically rotting it away. She doesn't know us, she can't talk, she barely remembers how to swallow. It's time. She's had a long, full life.
My mom is a wreck. She can't let go, so she keeps trying to feed grandma, trying to get her to drink, waking her up, maintaining a near-constant vigil at her bedside (she's in one of those snazzy 'bout-to-croak apartment rooms at the nursing home). Unsurprisingly, it's wearing on her physically, emotionally and mentally.
I'm not getting this down the way I want to. It's just... How many times am I going to have to say goodbye? I am so tired of wishing my grandma would die.
My grandma is dying, but she won't die. She's been hanging on the edge for over two weeks now.
This might be a good thing if she had any chance whatsoever of getting better, or could even communicate with us, but she doesn't, and she can't. She's 90 years old, has Alzheimer's pretty severely, hasn't eaten or had anything to drink (other than what my mom has forced on her -- more about that later) and has a sore on her foot that's basically rotting it away. She doesn't know us, she can't talk, she barely remembers how to swallow. It's time. She's had a long, full life.
My mom is a wreck. She can't let go, so she keeps trying to feed grandma, trying to get her to drink, waking her up, maintaining a near-constant vigil at her bedside (she's in one of those snazzy 'bout-to-croak apartment rooms at the nursing home). Unsurprisingly, it's wearing on her physically, emotionally and mentally.
I'm not getting this down the way I want to. It's just... How many times am I going to have to say goodbye? I am so tired of wishing my grandma would die.