I have a great grandmother in a nursing home...she was sent there after her second stroke, a severe one, and she can barely talk and barely seems conscious. I went to visit her once with my mother, despite her warning me that she was in really bad shape, because I felt obligated to go and visit. But it was very depressing, because she really could not talk at all, she would stare off in space, she kept repeating "please, please" and we could not figure out what she wanted and she started getting angry.
I feel like I don't know what to do...I feel guilty because I know she is in there alone, but I feel like it is so hard to go there because I don't know what to do, I can't even talk to her because she can't talk back, and she always asks for things that nobody can understand what she wants.
What would you do in this situation?
2007-07-08
11:08:42
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