wewillbeatthis
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Hello ALS Family,
Well can you believe that it has been more then a month that dad moved in. Seems like yesterday.
In any case most things have normalized. Dad is now comfortable and has his surroundings pretty much in place so he is doing well.
However, last night I had the scare of my life but remained pretty calm. I think I was mad more then anything. Dad had a really busy day yesterday and was unable to really drink or eay anything. This coming from someone that must always eat and drink. He took his rilutek at 6pm and he always feels the need to not only not eat for an hour but also not drink. This is no good and I tell him that he must drink more water or whatever. Some days he listens and others he does not. In any case we got into a fight sort of silly actually. I was having a bad day. I told him that his breath was yucky cause he was not drinking and he got mad gulped a big mouth full of the water while driving not realizing that this water had been in this spot for days. He swished it around his mouth and then got the taste and the warmth he was grossed out and spit it out. The scary thing was all this mess caused him to what I say no idea. He gasped for air a few times all while pulling over, spitting out water, he was actally trying to catch his breath. No caughing until he cought his breath. Then he was fine we went home and he ate a man sized meal and dessert with no problem.
I can't get the image out of my head and am not understaning why he was was gasping for air like that?
Has this happend to anyone and what have you done or what should we do. This happend only once and it was under very strange circumstances I know if I tasted what he tasted I would have spit it out. Gasp for air in that manner I would not have done and I am very scared and so was he.
Please HELP
Well can you believe that it has been more then a month that dad moved in. Seems like yesterday.
In any case most things have normalized. Dad is now comfortable and has his surroundings pretty much in place so he is doing well.
However, last night I had the scare of my life but remained pretty calm. I think I was mad more then anything. Dad had a really busy day yesterday and was unable to really drink or eay anything. This coming from someone that must always eat and drink. He took his rilutek at 6pm and he always feels the need to not only not eat for an hour but also not drink. This is no good and I tell him that he must drink more water or whatever. Some days he listens and others he does not. In any case we got into a fight sort of silly actually. I was having a bad day. I told him that his breath was yucky cause he was not drinking and he got mad gulped a big mouth full of the water while driving not realizing that this water had been in this spot for days. He swished it around his mouth and then got the taste and the warmth he was grossed out and spit it out. The scary thing was all this mess caused him to what I say no idea. He gasped for air a few times all while pulling over, spitting out water, he was actally trying to catch his breath. No caughing until he cought his breath. Then he was fine we went home and he ate a man sized meal and dessert with no problem.
I can't get the image out of my head and am not understaning why he was was gasping for air like that?
Has this happend to anyone and what have you done or what should we do. This happend only once and it was under very strange circumstances I know if I tasted what he tasted I would have spit it out. Gasp for air in that manner I would not have done and I am very scared and so was he.
Please HELP