Apologies for no updates for several weeks. Friends' visits have dropped off since Barbara suffers from intense fatigue and is less communicative. She
is not responding to rehabilitation therapy, and Ed has many difficult
decisions ahead, as to whether, where and how to move her.
I am posting this blog more because of Ed himself. He has been by Barbara's side up to 12 hours a day, and he is not doing too well himself. He too needs to see a doctor, but he has been reluctant to leave Barbara.
You can call him on his cell phone or her room - numbers are above under `contacts' - and offer to sit by Barbara's side after he has scheduled his doctor appointment and can give you the time he will be away. That might get him to actually go see a doctor.
This maybe of general interest for anyone needing home care:
Paid caregivers may lack the skills to take on health-related tasks in senior’s homes.
Predrag
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