ctollar
Distinguished member
- Joined
- May 17, 2017
- Messages
- 100
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 03/2017
- Country
- US
- State
- FL
- City
- North Port
I'm afraid we are getting closer to the end. Since Hurricane Irma, my dad has just gone downhill extremely quickly. He can no longer hold his head up. We have him in hospice and he is on the "cocktail." These past 2 weeks he has begun sleeping constantly, waking up for brief moments. (This started before the morphine.) He absolutely refuses to use his bipap machine as the drooling in constant and gets in the way. Yes we have tried all the different avenues (nose pads, kiss breaths, etc...) but he refuses all. He legs and right arm are tremendously swollen and he will not lie back in a recliner or his bed. So they remain swollen. He also has had some episodes where his oxygen levels have dipped down into the 70's. BP ranges from normal to high side (don't have exact numbers). This is just happening sooo fast... He was only diagnosed in Feb...