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Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Things are coming to a head with my family. My mum has always suffered Anxiety / Depression / Severe Mood Swings (?Sz/Bipolar - secretive). Now what she fears has come upon her - terminal cancer on top. Shws not coping, and also dads carer (mobility issues and dementia stage 2). Mum has passed her 2yr medical prognosis date with terminal cancer and fought hard to hold independence.

Her MI is sooooooo difficult to work with. Sooo ambivolent about everything, anxious, can't make decisions, argumentative, suspicious, shuts down, cries, abuses, withdraws... Sucks trying to help. Dads care is failing too, she resents all the in home help I've activated with him this last few years I'm seen as the enemy for doing that, even though she can't. Last week dad actually asked me to come help "looks like mums having to go into hospital"

They never ask

Then I get this tx from mum this morning. "Feel crook k#####(me) hows your flu today if you can come down what form of travel you choose and how can you look after the birds they are a concern dont feel good today at all but the day is young yet might pick up"

I have respected mums fierce need for privacy but today I rang palliative care to see what's happening for her? They got her mix d up with another 'same name' patient. Then turns out mum has never beenbreferred to Community Palliative Care (which is why they didn't know her), but had her last Admission Notes referring her to Palliative Care Dr, she's been doing those visits but talks about dad not herself. Next visit ?12th.

Mum has lost 25% body weight, is weak. After talking with her and x3 nurses today (like hours), clarifying wrong contact details and complex family matters, I feel shell shot!

Honestly thought these things were in hand.

I'm gonna have to go down, but OK his time begrudgingly. I live 12hrs away, I have a sister & 3 bothers within 5 - 1hr away. They can't handle mums MI - she has legal rights++ but don't know what she's doing now dad can't take charge.

The palliative care cimmunity nurse can't act without that referral from the hospital Dr, so shell look at that and then ring mum... All maybies of cause. My heads swimming with it all, any wonder mum just throws her hands in the air saying "they don't care, I'm too old, they just want me to die"... "And you lot are selfish and just want to put me inva nursing home and forget about me, and you all care about dad more than me..." Then she crack a joke about something totally related, say "don't wanna talk anymore..."

OMG!!! my cPTSD & cGrief trigger alerts are all firing. Feel resentful. Want to go to bed 'till it goes away.

My son even said to me this morning "mum you know people have totally cut off parents for doing far less than they have done to you!" Suggesting I abandon them. How can I do that and stand before God (and myself) in peace? This is so hard!

Help!

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Good to hear you found a helpful article @Former-Member that is helping you cope.

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Sending gentle thoughts your way @Former-Member

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Me too @Former-Member ...... look after yourself too ,...,

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Up all night with mum vomiting bl##d and not wanting to be alone... waiting for the Dr to come, 11am - BP 80/40 so general consensus was this environment was not as suitable as Palliative Care and as much as mum would like to die at home, it will be more comfortable in care. Today, after fighting for weeks, she complied. Now Im here with dad (needing 24hr supervision) but feel guilty mums there kinda on her own. She gets scared facing this whole dying business.

Oh sheesh, so tired I'm having waking dreams and nearly not able to distinguish between them an reality. Someones talking to nw, no nobosys thete... Hmm, think I need to go sleep. Thanks



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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Holding you in the light @Former-Member .......

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@Former-Member
Hoping some rest is possible for you.

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Sending gentle thoughts @Former-Member

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Hi @Former-Member ..... 💜

I have been thinking of you too.

I have been away visiting my Dad, and returned today, so it was a travel day.

Hoping you’re as okay as you can be under these circumstances .....

Continuing to hold you in the light.

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

How are you doing @Former-Member ?

Can we have a check-in Hon ?

Concerned about you.

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Thanks @Faith-and-Hope, I haven't known what to say much really, swamped by practical demands.

It hit me yesterday that mum may not be here as soon as next week 😩

I'm still preparing things in the house for her to come home - but in the back of my mind are those words the DR said to her "you're in your last days" (not weeks but days), I'm thinking... "any day" It's hard to imagine.

Maybe its the fact that our parents have always been a part of our world. Good , for most...

Its hard to imagine mum not being t
there / here. Even with her high anxiety, bottomless pit of need, combative, controlling, interfering manipulative ways, often spiteful & abusive... Even so, its hard to imagine.

its hard to imagine my world without mum.

Yep, the finality of the pending moment hit me yesterday and for a minute I felt scared. Not sure why, maybe a rehash of of loosing my girl & the catastrophic prolonged impact that had on me... I don't know, this time we have warning, and there is an "order to things" when they're in their 80s. Just change.

Yesterday I trimmed & cleaned mums nails and found a little bowl to soak her fingers, and I think she liked it. They were pretty bad. She would never let me do something like that before... Think she's glad. The nurses don't do nails, weird. I gave mum a soft fluffy bigish white teddy to cuddle. Yesterday I took in a little branch off mum's frangipani in flower & plopped it in a pot with dirt & white petals, looks like a perfect bouquet - and its a piece of home for mum.

Nodding off here...
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