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Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22494 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
My mother has stopped eating, so I made a Facebook post and tagged her to tell her friends and family that their time to visit with her is very limited.
I get a lot of love and prayers and whatnot, but what I want is for people to go sit with her or call my dad or visit with my dad. I even posted the address of her nursing home.
Do I comment and try to steer her friends and family that way, or do I just leave it and let people respond however they want to respond?
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So sorry to hear about your mom, B. If there are particular close friends or family members who you want to "instruct", I'd reach out to them privately. Otherwise, your FB post is probably enough.
Don't assume inaction is not caring. Everyone grieves in different ways. What does your dad need to feel supported?
Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22494 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Monkey_Driven wrote:
So sorry to hear about your mom, B. If there are particular close friends or family members who you want to "instruct", I'd reach out to them privately. Otherwise, your FB post is probably enough.
Don't assume inaction is not caring. Everyone grieves in different ways. What does your dad need to feel supported?
Yeah, since I've lived in another state for 20 years, I don't REALLY want to instruct anyone. I was hoping a post my spur some of my parents' friends or church congregation into action.
My dad would probably benefit from calls, which I assume will happen, but he'd be "happy" to find out people visited mom in her last days.
We'll probably see everyone at the funeral. I get a lot of "I just don't want to see her like that." (She's been mostly non-responsive for the past 6 months.) I get that, but dad's there every day feeding her, and it means so much when someone else visits.
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