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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Well, yesterday was a doozy. Mom had her appt with the pulmonologist, and they are going to do a needle biopsy of the nodule in her lung, which apparently isn't just scar tissue as I had hoped. Dr did say it was unlikely to be cancer. I will take FMLA for that procedure to take her.

I was at work (brother took her to dr) and early afternoon Mom called me and send a video-my Dad was mumbling incoherently and having like arm shakes (involuntary movements I guess). I told her to get the nurse and dr and I left work in tears to drive there. In the time it took me to get there (long commute) they assessed him and determined he wasn't having a stroke or seizures which is what I thought might be happening. The rehab staff is in agreement that this is the final stages...when I got there they had got him sitting up which helped some but he no longer speaks words and doesn't seem to know who we are. He also is hallucinating. He is still drinking from a straw but didn't seem interested in eating, we've been feeding him and he would open his mouth but yesterday he only took like two spoonfulls (the food is good, I did check it). He did however take his pills the nurse brought, so we will continue to give them as long as he can (nurse basically tossed them in his mouth, it worked).

So, we did the DNR stuff and the focus now will be hospice-care meeting is next week so we'll set stuff in motion then I guess. The decline was so fast and so scary yesterday, but he's stable for the moment. The facility dr will see him with my mom present today and hopefully she will give us more insight...I'm no expert but I think we are closer to the end than I realized, particularly because he's ceasing eating. We will not be doing a gastro tube or iv. Mom seems to have accepted things and says she really just wants him comfortable, and at home, and if that is possible I will do my best to facilitate that.[/quote]

Just wondering...could it be a medication issue?  Seems very coincidental with the move to rehab.  Could they have forgotten a dose or gotten one wrong?  [/quote]

Mom has monitored the meds and feels they're doing it correctly. But we will go over it again with the Dr today.[/quote]

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