An update on my dad

[Iris]

I recently posted in energy requests about my dad, who has multiple sclerosis. We have just heard that he will be taken into a 'stopgap' care home tomorrow morning while he awaits assessment of his needs.

He has fallen several times in the last few days, and his bladder and bowel control have gone out of the window. His legs are completely useless. I am struggling to understand, when he has had this illness for 11 years, how he can be suddenly going downhill so rapidly. Prior to this he had some trouble walking, sure...but I've never seen anything like this. I don't understand why it's all happening so fast now.

The disease has been progressive for quite a few years, but it seems to have switched from steady decline to a rapid plummet straight downwards.

I have only slept a couple of hours in the past few days due to being on 5am-start shifts, and I feel like a zombie already. I don't feel like it is sinking in. My mum says that if they take him into care, he will not come back out. Which means he will lose his house...he will be in a care home the rest of his life. And it is the last thing he would have wanted...

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my brain
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[Childof_theMorrigan]

:hugz:

i dont really know what to say at the moment but you can have all the :hugz: you can handle

[DreamSpell333]

:hugz: Im so very sorry this is happening. Is there any way you all can save the house even if he goes into a home?
Lots of :hugz: to you and your family!

[yarrow_elfglow]

:hugz::hugz:

[Against The Tide]

*Hugs* Sorry to hear about your father's rapid decline - I hope that he either recovers or if he is to pass away that it happens while he still has his dignity and your respect (you might love them the same, but it's very hard to respect someone you've watched debilitate for a while, a shadow of their former self) and before he spends too much time in a home against what he would want.

Sending love and energy to you and your father babe. I hope everything will be ok.

[TheListener]

Sorry to hear about your Dads news. With your permission I would like to mention him to other members of the site I belong to.

[Clair de la Lune]

Oh, Iris! I feel so bad that he has to go through this and that you and your family have to watch this happen to him. What an awful time to go through! I really feel for all of you!!

I hope there is some way that this can somehow work out that he does not have to lose his house, and that he can be comfortable and hopefully they can find a way to stop or reverse his decline if that is the outcome the god(s) have chosen for him. If he is to pass away, I hope he is to do it with dignity in tact, and peacefully.

Many :hugz: to you and your family. I will keep all of you in my prayers and thoughts, and I am sending you and yours some peaceful energy.

Good luck to you all,
Blessings,
Clair