My MIL is a very sick lady, her kidney function is in single figures, she's on dialysis 3 times a week. She's shrunk over past 2 years from a good size 16 to somewhere between a 6/8. She can't eat because she's always nauseous and is existing on fortesip drinks and cheese/crackers. She has blockages in her leg arteries, her feet are inflamed and swollen and she has infected toes. Hospital can't get a proper fistula in so she's being dialysed through a chest line. She's had multiple infections requiring intravenous antibiotics and now requires help to get to bathroom/personal care. She's been in/out of hospital virtually weekly for past few months with one problem or another the most recent being collapsing after dialysis as her bp drops so low. Last week they used cpr to resuscitate her after a collapse as they couldn't find a pulse and she ended up in CCU overnight as they weren't sure if she'd arrested (she hadn't). She's now on morphine for pain at cpr site. She's bruised from top to bottom....great big black and blue horrific looking bruises. They had to get doc in from neonatal ICU to get cannula in her hand for her antibiotics as her veins are collapsing all over the place. She takes more medication in a day than she does food. My FIL still thinks she'll get home with support but medics are saying that treatment is not sustainable. She doesn't have a DNR in place...staff are starting to gently mention that perhaps she has to look at making some decisions but she won't hear of it. Family are in turmoil-what do we do? What can we do?
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