Current Events > Fucking finally: my father is on the way to the ER!

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hes the one who sits in his own shit correct?

Glad to hear he is getting help. Been lurking in your topics about it

Without context this topic seemed bad lol

hope he's okay, TC. good on you for taking him and helping him through it

Glad to hear he is getting help. Been lurking in your topics about it

The tech and nurse when they were cleaning him where talking about what kind of cleaning the room needed when he left... and they said it will probably need a Terminal clean... Im kinda hoping that means just the cleaning after someone dies in a room and not they expect hes terminal. Lawls.

Im so hungry and tired. I want to go home but Im waiting for some form of an update.

Yeah this, hope everything turns out well tc

I'm glad he's finally the help he needs. Hopefully they can convince him that he needs more help than he thought and can it set up to make your life easier. That whole situation sounded like hell for everyone involved.

Terminal clean means the cleaning tech(s) have to suit up in full protective gear and clean the room top to bottom as if everythings contaminated with a highly infectious disease. Theyre done for covid, c diff, measles, and tuberculosis type diseases.

Its done after a patient marked with contact/droplet/airborne/enhanced airborne precautions is discharged from that room.

Edit: Discharged meaning theyre moved from that room to somewhere else.

That's good news, congrats TC. Hope your father gets the help he needs and you finally get the respite you need.

Read the rest of the topic: I'm sorry to hear that. I doubt there was anything you could have done.

Watching someone circle the drain is one of the least pleasant things you can experience. I'm very sorry, and I hope you're doing OK.

Sorry that it seems that he's nearing the end, but at least he can be made comfortable and have dignity when the time comes.

Man, I'm sorry TC. Usually when they start talking like that it's basically a less than subtle way of telling you "Your loved one is done for", Source, I've gone through this 3 times in my life, my grandfather, my mother, my grandmother, through it wasn't cancer that took them but kidney failure and they tried so hard...actually scratch that, my grandfather and my grandmother did nothing despite their kids pleading with them, my mother however tried her best and it still wasn't enough. Just know, by the time they become unresponsive and their hands start feeling cold, that's when you'll likely be approached with the question of turning off the life support, god I really fucking hope you never have to hear or see the code blue. That sound, the sight of them running into the room, the fear that creeps into you, I hope you never experience it ever,.

The son that I know is no contact, dad said his final words to dad were I want nothing from your in life or death. So yeah.

Kind of off on a tangent but yeah, when my dad goes, he wont have to deal with the pain, and I probably wont mourn anyway. I didnt with my mother and its been 5 years.

Cant you tell them they cant?

It's a shitty situation all around TC, but you're doing everything you can and handling things better than most. I don't even want to think about what I'll do when my Dad gets older.

Hope for the best prepare for the worst. If he ends up not making it, it's really going to hurt that moment it becomes real to you. At the very least I hope he goes peacefully and you and your family get closure.