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Some of you may have seen posts of mine at Facebook regarding my Dad, so I thought I'd post here to get everyone up to speed on what's going on.
My Dad suffered a massive heart attack several years ago and the damage was enough to cause complications that have plagued him since then. He's been in and out of the hospital countles times over the years and early in January, he entered the hospital one last time.
His condition deteriorated so much, that they removed him from life support and sent him home this last Thursday morning under the supervision of Hospice care and a nurse.
His organs have been shutting down and as they did, his consciousness declined until he slipped into a "sleep" state and is pretty much unresponsive at this point in time. My sister flew out to his home in Claremont (Southern California) from her home in Texas to be with him and is keeping me advised on his condition. The nurse says he's still aware of what's going on even as his body is shutting down and my sister candetect a reaction from him by his breathing when she talks to him.
She put me on speaker phone last night and held the phone to his ear so I could speak to him and she said there was a very noticable reaction from Dad when I did.
Guys, this is some real hard stuff for me and I know we've had some members go through this recently as well.
It's hard as hell not to be there with Dad right now, since I have some things to deal with at work before I can head down there...but when I was talking to Dad last night, it was a goodbye and that's some mighty hard sh!t to do, you know?
My Dad suffered a massive heart attack several years ago and the damage was enough to cause complications that have plagued him since then. He's been in and out of the hospital countles times over the years and early in January, he entered the hospital one last time.
His condition deteriorated so much, that they removed him from life support and sent him home this last Thursday morning under the supervision of Hospice care and a nurse.
His organs have been shutting down and as they did, his consciousness declined until he slipped into a "sleep" state and is pretty much unresponsive at this point in time. My sister flew out to his home in Claremont (Southern California) from her home in Texas to be with him and is keeping me advised on his condition. The nurse says he's still aware of what's going on even as his body is shutting down and my sister candetect a reaction from him by his breathing when she talks to him.
She put me on speaker phone last night and held the phone to his ear so I could speak to him and she said there was a very noticable reaction from Dad when I did.
Guys, this is some real hard stuff for me and I know we've had some members go through this recently as well.
It's hard as hell not to be there with Dad right now, since I have some things to deal with at work before I can head down there...but when I was talking to Dad last night, it was a goodbye and that's some mighty hard sh!t to do, you know?
