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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you can afford it, get in-home care. You might have to contact an agency like Visiting Angels, but they can do all the coordination. Your mom can tell you who she likes and doesn't like, and you coordinate with the agency so that you can get a core group of workers who work well with your mom.

Next, you are doing more than most, plus, while it is overwhelming, as a PP said, this is finite. Which I understand is a good news/bad news thing. But when it is time, the best you can do is the best you can do. That's it.

Since you aren't there, and I know your mother doesn't want this, but if her death goes on longer than expected and she becomes incapacitated, then she might need to go into a nursing home. Start doing the research beforehand JUST IN CASE, so that if an emergency arises you aren't in panic mode to find something.

The guilt is the worse, and I am there daily. But as someone is dying it is just sad and the only way to truly make them happy is to cure them. And that isn't an option. I remind myself sometimes daily, sometimes I get a break and it's weekly, that it is a phase that just isn't easy. Hugs.[/quote]

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