LauraA
Member
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2010
- Messages
- 15
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 10/2010
- Country
- US
- State
- Nevada
- City
- Henderson
My 81 year old dad is living with me and was diagnosed with ALS in October of 2010. He has been suffering with symptoms for over a year starting with limb onset in his legs and would not go to a doctor until I took him bc he could no longer use his left side and could barely walk. Now he has speech problems and is having a hard time swallowing. He has also started wheezing when he breathes.
He is 81 years old and is a very stubborn and proud man. This past weekend he just fell from a seated position and I think his abdominal muscles are going. He keeps saying that when he walks w/a walker he feels like he is falling backwards-- but REFUSES to get into a wheelchair. He has also stated he wants no aritificial means of providing food or breathing aparatus to prolong his life.
How do I help him with his denial? How do I transition him to the inevitable fact he will be bedbound/wheelchair bound soon?
What is the progression once he is in a wheelchair/bedbound?
This is such a horrible disease!
He is 81 years old and is a very stubborn and proud man. This past weekend he just fell from a seated position and I think his abdominal muscles are going. He keeps saying that when he walks w/a walker he feels like he is falling backwards-- but REFUSES to get into a wheelchair. He has also stated he wants no aritificial means of providing food or breathing aparatus to prolong his life.
How do I help him with his denial? How do I transition him to the inevitable fact he will be bedbound/wheelchair bound soon?
What is the progression once he is in a wheelchair/bedbound?
This is such a horrible disease!