Coping as a carer

  • Final Destination

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    My dear hubby has ended his journey, peacefully and free from pain thanks to the wonderful District Nurses who despite the horrid weather managed to get to us each day to help.

    Our love lives on forever in my heart, nothing prepares you for this final day, it comes and it happens and its just as sad knowing it would as it is not knowing.

    RIP Graham xx

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  • I think I am prepared, but I know I am not

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hubby is now fading fast, now bedridden for the last day or so, Nurses, GP's, Macmillan everyone has been in to see him, he is breathing heavily, pain relief is now being fed through a driver machine. 

    This time last year there was absolutely nothing wrong with him and we were planning our February holiday, this year I am planning the worst day of my life.  Because I have known now for 3 months that there was no hope…

  • Coping as a Carer

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I feel gulty about saying that it has been hard coping as a carer I feel bad because it is worse going through the illness obviosuly, but having to watch someone you love deteriorate in front of your eyes is something I never thought I would be doing.

    My hubbie has the normal headaches in February 2009 and took the normal off-the-shelf painkillers.  The headaches did not stop, he started slurring his speech and not making…