Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,671 | Wanda - Christine just gave you some very good and explicit how-to suggestions to get your Dad some help. So what would you rather do?
1) Having him get mad at you? And saving his life? Or - 2) Watching his suffering worsen, and possibly die without the comfort available to him?
If he gets mad at you, there is not much he can do to you in his weakened condition and if he starts feeling better, I'm sure he would be grateful to you or to anyone that could lessen the pain he is going through now.
During the worse of my son's Tx, when he was refusing to eat, he was very, very weak. I had to tell him I was calling my daughter who is a police officer (with a gun and handcuffs) and that together we would push him into the car and get him to the hospital to have a feeding tube installed. That did it. He started eating.
Sometimes you have to be firm with someone too ill to make rational decisions for themselves. If it takes a little bit of trickery to get him some help, it's ok.
Just DO it!
Anne-Marie CG to son, Paul (age 33, non-smoker) SCC Stage 2, Surgery 9/21/06, 1/6 tongue Rt.side removed, +48 lymph nodes neck. IMRTx28 completed 12/19/06. CT scan 7/8/10 Cancer-free! ("spot" on lung from scar tissue related to Pneumonia.)
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