My DGM suffered a big stroke on Friday, she’s 96 years old.
Currently fully aware and lucid but is fully disabled down one side of her body (no movement) her face is paralysed on one side and their not sure whether she can swallow ( she failed to be able to swallow some water).
Shes been without food since Thursday evening as the SALT team don’t work weekends and she was found Friday afternoon unwell. She’s so hungry but can’t have anything.
Shes on a drip, catheterised but apart from that nothing at all. It must be awful for her.
Weve all been able to visit her on the acute stroke ward but can’t really get any answers as to what the next steps are. I think they are able to do nothing until the SALT team sees her tomorrow.
Does anyone have experience of this? What happens if she can’t swallow? Wil they just leave her to starve away? She’s fully aware so the thought of this breaks me heart.
If anyone has had this experience I’d be grateful to hear about it, even if it didn’t end well. She’s 96 and had a wonderful life, I’m so sad to think of her last days like this.