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appleannie1943

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5. My father, my mother and my father in law all died in my home.
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 04:41 PM
Jun 2018

I cared for my father when prostate cancer went to his spine paralyzing him. My father in law had a massive stroke and we put a hospital bed in the dining room. When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, we put a second hospital bed in the dining room. I had months with two of them and years with my father in law that we would not have had if we had chosen a nursing home. None of them had so much as a bed sore and all 3 got complete baths and 3 cooked meals with the family every day. The one week I had to put my F I L in a nursing home to prepare for my daughter's wedding, he was dehydrated to the point I had to take him from the nursing home to the hospital when I went to pick him up. Never again.

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