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Author Re: Rosie lean
Anthony Shipley

2005-01-27, 8:29 am

LesaMichelley@webtv.net (Jerry's Daughter) [WA] wrote:

>My father is in a nursing home. I tried to take care of him here for 2
>yrs, but I couldn't do it any longer. The guilt I feel will never go
>away. But I just couldn't do it.


You're doing yourself an injustice!

A.D. strikes primarily at the caregiver. Were your father in a position to
decide, I'm quite sure that he would prefer to be in a nursing home than knowing
the burdon his sickness is placing on his loved ones.

I am in that position, and I certainly don't want my wife to become a slave to
this disease. There is no need for there to be 2 victims. The personal cost of
my wife caring for me at home is not worth the difference it's going to make to
me.

h.t.h.


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