DF has end stage COPD, CHF and Alzheimer’s. The last few years have been a constant to and fro between hospital and care home. Today the care home rang to say he’d been admitted, followed by a doctor from the hospital. The doctor left a voicemail saying “I’ll call back as your father is in hospital and unwell”. Is ‘unwell’ doctor speak for really serious/end of life? I got the feeling from his tone that that’s the case. I’m away on holiday with DH and two small children so I’m trying to decide whether to get them home first or travel to the hospital with them, although obviously I wouldn’t let them see DF.