Mom is only 68, but has terminal lung cancer. Extremely argumentative and keeps thinking she will return to her home in another city. She requires Hospice care, but won't even hear the word. She says she wants people around, but she really only wants me around to wait on her and compliment her. She really needs the Hospice services and is in a nursing facility. Just dealing with her as long as I do can make me crazy.
1. What if she's changed her mind now that she knows something is wrong, but she doesn't know what it is?
2. What if this is interfering with and perhaps undermining her treatment? The symptoms of CHF can mostly be quite well controlled, but she'd have to know what to report and what to ask about. I can't see how she can do it if she's not aware of her own condition - but perhaps you didn't mean that she's literally in denial?
Thank you.
I am sorry, my mom is correct. I do not like her.