SENSITIVE: Dads last week
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Dear Kim,
Thank You for sharing your personal last few days with your Dad. Yourself and your siblings did a wonderful job and cared for your Dad right up until the end as he requested.
Wishing you all strength as you journey through the weeks and months ahead.
With kind thoughts,
Katie
That is one thing I am constantly grateful for that my Dad passed away peacefully and painfree. He was in bed from Tuesday pm until he passed on Saturday morning. From the Thursday he was mainly asleep, the syringe driver was fitted 2 hours before he passed away, to ease his breathing that had become fast, has he had tried to get to the corner of the room a few hours before. We were one of the lucky ones as Dad never suffered physical pain but I suppose he did mentally.
I was really scared how we would cope but when the time came we got the strength and calmness from somewhere. It will be 4 months tomorrow since Dad passed and I can still remember every moment of his last week.
Like you I wanted to read about the end stage symptoms when my Dad was nearing the end but like Lainy said everyone with cc is different and all we can hope for is a peaceful end. God answered our prayers on that one.
Your dad went quick and for the most part peacefully and especially “his way”.
Cannot ask for more than that.
Everyone is different and I only wish Teddy could have gone like that.
For anyone interested, if you Google Hospice, they have a phamplet that you may be able to open on line and it gives you clues of what to look for and to prepare for starting about a month out from what may be the end of the journey. I found it to be very helpful and pretty much true to form. The best we can do is wish for a Peaceful ending.I always promised myself that i would do this as when Dad was nearing the end , i was looking for specific information on that end stage. How do you know when you are looking at the end stage? It all happened so quickly, but I believe Dad knew that he was nearing the end of his fight.
On the Tuesday night Dad was up cooking dinner for himself and my brother who had been staying with him for the past few weeks. He was still caring for himself, the ascites had settled and he hadn’t been into hospital for a month or so for a drain. His pain level had increased, but it seemed to be managed by increasing his fentanyl patches to 200
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