Hospice is wonderful...I love dad's nurse, nures aid, and his social worker. They have been so good to dad and I love them for that. He has run other people off, but he even looks forward to them coming. Dad is supposed to get a hospital bed today...he isn't very excited but his nurses aid convinced him to at least try it. He has promised he would give it a month and if he doesn't like it, he can have his old bed back. But I think it is going to help him so much. He has to "turtle" on his back now to get up on his bed and I think he will be able to get in and out of bed so much easier. They are also being a lift to help with dad. That right side is getting more useless each day.
On Saturday we prepared his room, cleaned it up and took some of his old clothes to goodwill. He had a hard time for that, he said it was like "packing up for a vacation that you know you aren't coming back from." I told him that his closet had more clothes in it than I had taken to goodwill...we had been hanging his jogging pants, pj pants, and t-shirts in the laundry room so we really needed to make room in his closet for them. But I know this is hard for him...he knows he is dying and I hate that. I wish he would have never had to suffer or go through this...but for someone going through it...he has an AMAZING attitude...he is my HERO!
Billy gave me a FlipCam for christmas and I have been using it with dad to record different things. He is so silly...when he is done talking, he just grins. As I get more videos, I'll share some with everyone.
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