Caregivers and Stress

[TruTexan]

Kelt,
My father also decided to do hospice and stop all care for his heart, have his pacemaker shut off because his kidneys were failing, he was diabetic, had had more than 2 heart attacks after having had 3 recent foot removal operations, and he just couldn't do it anymore. He was ready to die, had made peace with it, decided on his own that he wanted to do hospice in a nursing home setting in his own room. I stayed with my father overnights, switching out evenings with my half sister his other daughter and my half brother his son, in evenings after his work. My father made peace with everyone he felt he needed to including my mother and I. I was with my father overnight the evening he passed away, my brother had just left to go home when I had to call him on his cell to have him come back. My father passed a week after being put into hospice, on July 20th,2014. I understand what you're about to go through and I hope your father's decision gives him peace within as it did mine, and I wish you and your mother peace during your time of need.