My grandfather right now is in his mid 60's. Im not sure when he was diagnosed with p.c.but he was put into the hospital three weeks ago. My family and I came down 9 days ago. At first everything seemed ok, he was talking and hugging, he had to have a oxygen mask and the big weight loss and that seemed to be the least of his problems. He wanted to live, but the doctors couldnt do anything about the cancer yet because he had double pneumonia and three blood clots in which needed to be taken care of. He had been taking breathing treatments for his pneumonia so that it could break it up and cough up the liquid. Over the next few days, all he wanted to do was sleep, but had too much pain to sleep. He became accustomed to my mom taking care of him hand and foot, and always wanted more pain medicine. After a while, his sentences became shorter, and he got upset at all the visitors who visited (he got at least 1o a day). Once he was able to sleep, he seemed to rarely wake up from it, just to wake up and moan and yelling "no" to the pain he was receiving. You could feel the rattle in his lungs, which still has the fluids in it from the pneumonia , which he is too weak to cough up. He now cant even talk, and when he does "wake up" or have his eyes open, it looks like he is staring into the distance, rather than at the people who are surrounding him with love. The only movement we can get from him his the flinging of his arms when he is agitated or uncomfortable. He has been like this for 3 to 4 days. The doctors gave him 24 hours three days ago, but he still gasps for breaths (8 breaths a minute). We talk to him all the time, I play the ukelele until he falls asleep(he was a bassist). I'm not sure if he can hear you, but the fact that the moment i thought he was asleep and stopped playing, he woke up and started to fling his arms around. I started again and he calmed down and slowly fell asleep. His mother who is 92 years old thinks he will wake up and become well, in which we all hope will happen. But he has been in a delusional state consciousness or just sleep and I just want to ask, the longest some one with the last stages of p.c last?
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My grandfather right now is in his mid 60's. Im not sure when he was diagnosed with p.c.but he was put into the hospital three weeks ago. My family and I came down 9 days ago. At first everything seemed ok, he was talking and hugging, he had to have a oxygen mask and the big weight loss and that seemed to be the least of his problems. He wanted to live, but the doctors couldnt do anything about the cancer yet because he had double pneumonia and three blood clots in which needed to be taken care of. He had been taking breathing treatments for his pneumonia so that it could break it up and cough up the liquid. Over the next few days, all he wanted to do was sleep, but had too much pain to sleep. He became accustomed to my mom taking care of him hand and foot, and always wanted more pain medicine. After a while, his sentences became shorter, and he got upset at all the visitors who visited (he got at least 1o a day). Once he was able to sleep, he seemed to rarely wake up from it, just to wake up and moan and yelling "no" to the pain he was receiving. You could feel the rattle in his lungs, which still has the fluids in it from the pneumonia , which he is too weak to cough up. He now cant even talk, and when he does "wake up" or have his eyes open, it looks like he is staring into the distance, rather than at the people who are surrounding him with love. The only movement we can get from him his the flinging of his arms when he is agitated or uncomfortable. He has been like this for 3 to 4 days. The doctors gave him 24 hours three days ago, but he still gasps for breaths (8 breaths a minute). We talk to him all the time, I play the ukelele until he falls asleep(he was a bassist). I'm not sure if he can hear you, but the fact that the moment i thought he was asleep and stopped playing, he woke up and started to fling his arms around. I started again and he calmed down and slowly fell asleep. His mother who is 92 years old thinks he will wake up and become well, in which we all hope will happen. But he has been in a delusional state consciousness or just sleep and I just want to ask, the longest some one with the last stages of p.c last?
April 22, 2012 - 9:27amThis Comment
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