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[quote=Anonymous]What can you help her with that isn’t for him? Cooking. Cleaning. Shopping. Will she let you “babysit” while she rests or takes a shower. The way to avoid medication confusion is to chart everything on a yellow pad or something. Maybe she can “train” and “supervise” the nurses? Can you suggest a written down schedule that would leave her in charge but delegate some tasks in a systematic way. You might suggest that running herself ragged doing stuff that can be assigned to other people is preventing her from doing the one thing only she can — being his emotional and social support and the one person (other than family) who he can count on to not abandon him, as she has amply demonstrated. The problem is so often in the other direction. This is a tough situation. PP’s may be right about the chemo as palliative care. I have the sense she’s in panic mode and the frenetic activity is an outlet for that.[/quote]
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