Today our case manager called to let me know what happened when she took my brother to the eye doctor. He has a pretty bad cataract in one eye and has to have it removed. That raises all sorts of questions about how to keep him from rubbing his eyes when they are healing. I am concerned there will be complications because of his heart condition.
The doctor also thinks he has bronchitis, so we are taking him to the doctor tonight. Both my husband and I have colds, and of course, when I called last night to see if he had caught it from us, he said no. Any chest cold usually turns into pneumonia and often into a hospital stay, and then when he lies around in the hospital, he needs physical therapy and ends up temporarily in a nursing home. This whole system is so stupid, if the State would pay for a 24/7 supervised home that was appropriate for him, the State would save a lot of money.
I am really tired of all this and there is really no one else to do this. I am concerned that I am losing the best years of the life I have left. I know this sounds a bit dramatic, and very self-centered, but I'm pretty down. I am really glad I started this blog/diary. Just writing about it makes me feel better. At some point, I am going to reach the limit and put him in a nursing home permanently, because there is no where else to put him unless I quit my job and have him move into my house,which I definitely don't want to do. That's like giving him a death sentence, unless the family is there daily, there will take lousy care and he'll probably die of something that is preventable.
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