I guess the IP doctors were right about my grandma when they said she has roughly 6 months left to live. That was back in April.
It pained me to go to hospice today to go see her. She was visibly upset. Shaking, sad face, teary, etc.. She does get morphine for pain, though, so it could be just her back pain that's getting to her.
She won't eat, even when we try to give her food. When we ask if she wants food, she says yes, so we go feed it to her and she won't open her mouth. We keep telling her to open her mouth in order to eat, but she won't do it. Then we ask if she's not hungry anymore and she says, "no, I'm hungry." But we can't put food in her mouth if she won't open it.
The hospice nurses have been having the same issue with her. She just won't open her mouth to eat, even when starving (literally). She won't talk to anybody either, except on a rare occasion, so we know she is capable of moving her jaw. But then again, I don't think she remembers who anyone is, so maybe that's why she doesn't want to talk so much. I'm just afraid she's going to starve to death from not eating.
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