Debbie53
Active member
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2008
- Messages
- 86
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 08/2008
- Country
- US
- State
- CO
- City
- Greeley
Hi everyone,
This is a problem I haven't seen here - my dad is supposed to go to Denver this Tuesday for an EMG to figure out what he has (the dr. thinks it's PMA). We live in Greeley, about an hour and a half from this hospital....there's nothing closer, no dr. or clinic that could test him....which in this day and age seems ridiculous to me! I don't mind the trip; the problem is that he is so weak he doesn't know if he can hold up in the car that long, esp. because he never knows when he's going to need a bathroom. I have fibromyalgia, and I couldn't help him in the bathroom or getting to one, or even in and out of the car (I can't lift a half gallon of milk without wrecking my body). There's no other family members to help, no vans from his assisted living center. If he can't get there, and doesn't have an official diagnosis, does that mean he can't get Hospice help? I think he's going to need it soon. He's 87 and has gotten so much weaker just since my mom died in June, it's awful.
Thanks and if anyone has any ideas, I NEED THEM!
Debbie
This is a problem I haven't seen here - my dad is supposed to go to Denver this Tuesday for an EMG to figure out what he has (the dr. thinks it's PMA). We live in Greeley, about an hour and a half from this hospital....there's nothing closer, no dr. or clinic that could test him....which in this day and age seems ridiculous to me! I don't mind the trip; the problem is that he is so weak he doesn't know if he can hold up in the car that long, esp. because he never knows when he's going to need a bathroom. I have fibromyalgia, and I couldn't help him in the bathroom or getting to one, or even in and out of the car (I can't lift a half gallon of milk without wrecking my body). There's no other family members to help, no vans from his assisted living center. If he can't get there, and doesn't have an official diagnosis, does that mean he can't get Hospice help? I think he's going to need it soon. He's 87 and has gotten so much weaker just since my mom died in June, it's awful.
Thanks and if anyone has any ideas, I NEED THEM!
Debbie