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Now I know where the difficult child strain in my family came from
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 594829" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Whatever it is that she likes, no matter if you hate it or not, let her eat it. WHen my gma was very ill at the end, and was quite bad with senile dementia/cancer in her brain, she ate White Castle burgers when she would eat NOTHING else. Skyline chili (Cincinnati style chili, VERY different from chili in most of the world) was about the only thing other than danish from the locally owned bakery that she would eat. When my aunt and the home care nurse said she couldn't share iwth her cats from her plate, she totally stopped eating. I do mean TOTALLY, to the point she had cramping and pain when she ate again because her digestive tract was very unhappy. Finally the doctor learned why she stopped eating and told them that NOTHING she could catch from her well cared for and pampered cats would hurt her as much as not eating or drinking, esp not drinking. The cats were allowed back into the room when she was eating and she again would eat those very few things.</p><p></p><p>She wanted to die though. The pain was horrible and in her lucid moment she did NOT want to live like that. In one lucid moment she asked my dad for his father's gun and some bullets. Tore my dad up to have to refuse, but he just could not let her do that. Esp as it would be tough to prove that she was lucid when seh asked, though the whole family knew she was. It was heartbreaking, esp to see my dad in tears because he had to refuse her. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, feed her what seh wants to eat. I would avoid MSG simply because it causes migraines and people get more sensitive to it as they age. Or so I have been told. Of course you can only do what you can do. </p><p></p><p>I am sorry she is in bad shape and I hoep and pray she can handle the rest of her life on her terms. I think tha tis all we can ask for at her age. I know my great gma wanted to die by age 90 when many of her children were already dead of old age related things. She said ti was a curse to live that long. She died less than 48 hrs after they made her leave her own home and go to a nursing home. For ten years she had told ALL of us that she would be dead less than 48 hrs after she was forced otu of her home. Nothing was wrong with her except being 98 according to her docs. in my opinion she decided to die and did, but she was probably the strongest willed person I ever met. I think that is part fo where I got it from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 594829, member: 1233"] Whatever it is that she likes, no matter if you hate it or not, let her eat it. WHen my gma was very ill at the end, and was quite bad with senile dementia/cancer in her brain, she ate White Castle burgers when she would eat NOTHING else. Skyline chili (Cincinnati style chili, VERY different from chili in most of the world) was about the only thing other than danish from the locally owned bakery that she would eat. When my aunt and the home care nurse said she couldn't share iwth her cats from her plate, she totally stopped eating. I do mean TOTALLY, to the point she had cramping and pain when she ate again because her digestive tract was very unhappy. Finally the doctor learned why she stopped eating and told them that NOTHING she could catch from her well cared for and pampered cats would hurt her as much as not eating or drinking, esp not drinking. The cats were allowed back into the room when she was eating and she again would eat those very few things. She wanted to die though. The pain was horrible and in her lucid moment she did NOT want to live like that. In one lucid moment she asked my dad for his father's gun and some bullets. Tore my dad up to have to refuse, but he just could not let her do that. Esp as it would be tough to prove that she was lucid when seh asked, though the whole family knew she was. It was heartbreaking, esp to see my dad in tears because he had to refuse her. Anyway, feed her what seh wants to eat. I would avoid MSG simply because it causes migraines and people get more sensitive to it as they age. Or so I have been told. Of course you can only do what you can do. I am sorry she is in bad shape and I hoep and pray she can handle the rest of her life on her terms. I think tha tis all we can ask for at her age. I know my great gma wanted to die by age 90 when many of her children were already dead of old age related things. She said ti was a curse to live that long. She died less than 48 hrs after they made her leave her own home and go to a nursing home. For ten years she had told ALL of us that she would be dead less than 48 hrs after she was forced otu of her home. Nothing was wrong with her except being 98 according to her docs. in my opinion she decided to die and did, but she was probably the strongest willed person I ever met. I think that is part fo where I got it from. [/QUOTE]
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