Morning everyone
I’m reaching out on here because I’m feeling a little bit more anxious than normal. My situation is this. My elderly mum has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She wants to die at home and not alone. We have the care package in place, district nurses, community palliative nursing team in place who visit weekly.
My anxiety is around will I have the nursing skills towards the end stage? Have other people on here managed to have professional nurses, palliative care staff in to care for loved ones right until the end? With all the cuts in services and limitations in the system, would I reach the point where, say a pain relieving injection might be overdue or breathing problems escalate very suddenly in between visits and mum suffers while waiting for the appropriate professional arrives?
I am wanting to grant my mum’s wishes but don’t know if I can do it 24/7 until the very end. I don’t know how bad things get in the end, in terms of physical deterioration or if it is possible to manage symptoms smoothly as we go along. From personal experience, has anyone on here successfully cared for a loved one until the end and the loved one not suffered as a result of not being on a ward?
