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Saturday/August/2008 10:49 PM Barrie`s
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As today is my last day
here of this trip, I had hoped the visits would go
well.
Dad, medically, remained stable, with continuing good blood pressure and a spell off the dialysis machine again.
During the first visit though Dad was clearly in a lot of discomfort and distress and it tooksome time to work out what was wrong as Dad had been given a little sedative and was not really following the techniques we'd used during the week to communicate. This made it extremely difficult to find out the problem as I was getting very limited, if any, sponse or feedback to my questions.
Tonight, sadly,was much the same but with a new problem which took about an hour to work out. Dad was getting increasingly angry and frustrated that he couldn't talk or make himself understood. Although I asked him if he wanted me to stop asking him questions to establish the nature of the problem, he continued to try to tell me what was bothering him!
I gues he plus side is that he definitely hasn't lost that fighting spirit of his!!!
Dad, medically, remained stable, with continuing good blood pressure and a spell off the dialysis machine again.
During the first visit though Dad was clearly in a lot of discomfort and distress and it tooksome time to work out what was wrong as Dad had been given a little sedative and was not really following the techniques we'd used during the week to communicate. This made it extremely difficult to find out the problem as I was getting very limited, if any, sponse or feedback to my questions.
Tonight, sadly,was much the same but with a new problem which took about an hour to work out. Dad was getting increasingly angry and frustrated that he couldn't talk or make himself understood. Although I asked him if he wanted me to stop asking him questions to establish the nature of the problem, he continued to try to tell me what was bothering him!
I gues he plus side is that he definitely hasn't lost that fighting spirit of his!!!