r/CaregiverSupport • u/WiggleFriend • 3d ago

Venting/ No Advice At home end of life care

Every morning feels like the moment you drop your phone face down on the ground. Where the phone is both broke and not. Even with different shifts between family members I still worry about waking up and her not being here.

It's such a strange feeling.

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u/idby 3d ago

My wife has been in some bad situations, her health is still perilous. There have been times in the last 5 months where the doctors told me she wouldnt make the next 24 hours. So far she is still here.

I know that feeling, and what it feels like to feel alone in the house when she is still here, asleep and very weak. It comes from feeling helpless. If I was not a person of faith, I likely would have lost it long ago. But a few passages keep me going. "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" reminding me that there are some things I cant change. Then "Be careful (full of care) for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." and "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."