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Advice Needed-caring for my mother Return to previous page 11/14/2017 4103 Views 11 Answers Last Activity: 2 years ago, Anonymous Tags: advice CAREGIVER Question: 0 GingerWheeler 4 years ago I Care Report Comment Unlike I Care Report Comment Add an Answer Answers: Edit Remove Accept Unaccept Unlike I Care Report Comment Add an Answer Save Cancel Advice Needed-caring for my mother GingerWheeler 4 years ago Add an Answer Answers Answer View More Save Cancel Tags: Subscribe: Subscribe: Your question has been submitted and is awaiting moderation. It is low-quality It is spam It does not belong here Other (enter below) Thank you for reporting this content, moderators have been notified of your submission. Close Anonymous Unfriend Friend Requested Friend Load More Close Destination Page Area Group Destination Content Title Title Article Type Copy comments Hi everyone. I’m a newbie to this site. My mom is 68 and has stage 3-4 COPD and she lives with me. She’s to the point to where she can’t even walk to the bathroom, or take a shower without wheezing or gasping for air. Anyway my husband is getting real frustrated saying she is lazy cause she doesn’t do anything around the house. She just sits in her room with her dog and the only time she comes out is to eat, make coffee or go to the bathroom. Before she came to live with me she was put in the hospital on a respirator on 2 separate occasions. I just don’t want to push her and cause another incident but I also don’t want to argue with my husband daily defending my mother. She doesn’t know that he feels this way cause I don’t want to hurt her feelings. I want her to be as happy and as comfortable as possible in the last years of her life. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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