My dad is 88 and was at death's door about 5 years ago with pneumonia. We all remember how the Consultant spoke to him and said that at his age the patient very rarely survived but when they saw how firmly he was holding on to his iphone they realised there was plenty of life left in him.
At some point after the event we discussed the whole episode and he explained that he had came to terms with the fact that he was going to die and as someone with a strong religious belief, he had taken some strength from his beliefs.
Now thhe reality of the situation is that we need to be prepared for the fact that if he catches this virus, realistically speaking he will most likely not be given any ventilator etc. He will just become another statistic "with underlying health issues". That is absolutely brutal to hear and understand and dad iis confused about the whole scenario now. And I can see in him that he is thinking that it is inevitable. Which is hard to take.
He lives on his own and he is kept up to date with the numerous family whatsapp chats but undertandably they are currently purely about Corona virus and over course of last 2 days, 3 of his grandkids have basically been told they are losing their jobs.
I am going up to visit him tomorrow as I do every Tues evening. Ironically I feel that this may be safer than it normally is as we will both be absolutely OCD about the whole hygiene rules etc.
Really tough times ahead.
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