Heartbreak With a Positive Attitude

It is very different providing for your father than it is providing for someone else's father.  As the wife of one of my former patients told me, "there is no going home after the shift is over; this is my life."  Watching my father deteriorate on a daily basis is difficult, challenging and even devastating, but it is also rewarding.  Being able to provide the loving support that he would not receive in a nursing home is the rewarding portion, what I focus on when the times are tough.   Cancer in the brain causes deterioration of motor skills, memory of more than people, and abilities to care for one's self as well as provide information about pain, discomfort, confusion and a variety of other problems.