Regarding your post 374, regarding feeding tubes....when my dad was dying of cancer, he was not eating well at the end...my aunt caught a nurse trying to force feed my dad, physically trying to jam food down his throat...that dame could have killed him...my aunt called me up, telling me what happened, and I rushed to the hospital with my Alzheimers mother in tow...boy, did I chew that nurse out...she got all huffy, and said that my dad was not eating enough...Duh...we all knew that..he was days away from dying...then she contacted a doctor to try to force me to have a feeding tube put into my dad...I had to remind both the nurse and the doc , that putting in a feeding tube against my fathers wishes was called 'assault', and I would surely call the police on them if they came near my dad again...poor dad, having to go through that...weak as he was, trying physically to stop the nurse from feeding him, and then shouting out to the doctor to not come near him with a feeding tube...dad was sick, but not delirious...he knew what he wanted...he wanted to be with his family, pain free, and left to die as he chose...
All it took was a pushy nurse, and a pushy doc, on some sort of a misguided effort to try to prolong my dads pain for as long as they could and the did not even care that they were upsetting my dad in his last days...they were both shocked, that I, normally quite meek, could get so angry....thankfully, my dad died as he wished, and both the nurse and the doc had complaints filed against them...
May God bless your dad. You are a good daughter. I hope the memories of him warm your heart.