KevinMD June 19, 2024
“I broke our only promise,” swelling with guilt, Sarah wept as she stumbled out of the front door. Two years ago, her father asked her to never leave him in a nursing home. They pinky promised.
But how could anyone have predicted what would follow in the upcoming years? His dementia progressively worsened, complicated by falls every three months. Despite balancing his growing needs while also providing for her family, there was not much she could do when he woke up slurring his words and could not move the entire right side of his body. She ran out of options.
Sarah and her father’s broken promise is not alone. It joins a growing graveyard of wishes focused on avoiding a...
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