u/raveyroo

OK, so I’m sure most of you are familiar with home care and the practices that often take place, for this specific client will call him (Sam) so Sam is on dialysis, can hardly bear any weight on legs due to neuropathy, is also experiencing short-term memory loss leading to agitation and stubbornness! My main concern for his safety and health is that he has bad ulcer sores on his bottom area, of course, in a really bad spot where feces is located, I explained to him and his wife that all it takes is a bit of feces to enter the open wound and cause sepsis, it’s a horribly fast route that you don’t want to go down!! I’ve seen it so many times I recommended to the family that throughout the night they alternate him on each side so that the bed sores don’t continue to worsen and can begin to heal with the proper medication and routine, his response was that his current routine works perfectly fine and he doesn’t need to alternate his body throughout the night, my question at this point is do I stop trying to convince him and his wife that it’s good for them do I just leave it alone and possibly allow him to decline very fast and cause his own death???