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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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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

@Former-Member
Sitting with you.

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Thanks @Former-Member 💜💕 Mum's having blood count checked today. My son snapped at me yesterday and told me to "stop talking about visiting and just do it!" Guess he has a point. Trying to psych myself up I guess, reality is I don't really like their company, the noise and constant drama. Am I suppose to shutup?

Ate you OK? And your hubby? Nice to see you 🌼🌻🌼

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

@Former-Member
How do you feel about your dad?

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I like my dad's company (what's left of him now with dementia taking him from us), he is placid these days (though mum and bro complain the opposite which I never saw the 3wks there last visit). Mum accused me of being "pro dad" last week, which is a disturbing distortion of facts. I don't take sides. Don't see what the competition is. I worry for dad there - he is more vulnerable (mind capacity & mobility), though mum is slipping fast. Losing control tortures mum. I wish she wasn't controlled so much by the anxiety, for her sake as well, so much destructive wasted energy. But there I go presuming its a choice when MI isn't really. She can't help it, and too old to change now.

I can't believe nobody's taken dad to visit his sister since I was down 9/12 ago (she's in a nursing home now after the stroke), am I from the same family? Op, just remembered my spiritual DNA is different (values) lol

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

@Former-Member
Perhaps you could view your visit as a gift to your dad ...
Darcy

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

I know @Former-Member, mum does get jealous, ans looks for rejection or favouratism, so i nwed to be non partial. I will go.

Do Need to put my son first and go see him first. He lives 3hrs away and been through a rough time. Now my bronchitis is more better'ish.

I care about them all, including the two brothers with Sz and the siblings who won't talk to me.

Spoke to mum tonight, seems she's getting her own community nurse now (not just dad), thank goodness, and she needs it, especially to help her navigate services. I'm so pleased this has finally happened. Turns out its the same RN i talked with at length Wednesday (mum doesnt know that). Mum actually let her in the door for a home visit today, so that's progress 🙂


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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Hey @Former-Member
Will be thinking of you, safe travel
Darcy

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Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

You're very short with me @Former-Member, have I wronged you in recent days? Don't mean to...

In response to: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

Re: Mum Severe Anxiety / Depression +++

@Former-Member

Not at all, you have a situation where things are very different from my own situation and have I been known to suffer from foot in mouth.

I think deeply about things and understand there are different ways of doing things and I see that other forum members have a lot more wisdom than I do.

Short answers from me mean that I am thinking of you.

Darcy

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That's good then @Former-Member, just had to check 💜🐦💜🐦💜
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