Caregivers and Stress

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by TruTexan

Kelt, I honestly feel for you, your family and everything you are having to go through. Can your father communicate through writing at all since he cannot talk? What about a computer pushing the letters with an aid of some sort so he can type what he needs to say? I'm so sorry he's going through this and that your mom is as well and that you are all alone doing this yourself. If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know. I can lend an ear to listen if you wanna talk one on one. Just trying to offer you a friend if you need one to talk to.
I admire your strength, determination and endurance Kelt. It isn't easy doing what you are doing for your parents and being so far away. It isn't any easier being there with them either, can be more difficult dealing with all this close up first hand too. Keep on keeping on Kelt and hang in there .

It's a good idea, and I did try it. He reads and comprehends well so I took over a large printed alphabet and a pointing device. It turns out to be a one way street, he can get letters in but not out. I think he's short circuited. He can point a drawings that speech therapy gave him of "wheelchair", "bed", "lay down" in picture form. He indicated he wanted my pen and paper once and I gave them to him: it was total frustration for him and I'm not trained in how to do these things. I think over time he could re-learn some, but the cancer would get him before then.

Thanks for the ideas though.