[RhondaH]

I'm SOOO sorry to hear about your father. Your 2006 sounds like my 2005. Luckily for ME, the doctors MADE me put my father in a nursing home and in hindsight, I now know that while it was hard, this was the best and ONLY decision that could have been made. I put my father in a nursing home on a Sat in mid Jan (can't remember the exact date) 2005 and the following Mon is "the mammogram" that would change my life (looking at what I would be going through for the next year and a half AND my mother also becoming ill in this time, there is NO way I could have taken care of him, her AND me). I didn't tell my dad about my situation until just before starting chemo (all the mini strokes he was having was affecting his brain too to where he was in his own kind of world) and was told by my onc, that I would not be able to see him while going through chemo. The Sat before my 3rd chemo, his nurse called and said it would be any time and that I may want to make an exception and visit him which I did on Tues and he passed away on 4/6/05, the day before my 3rd chemo. This is never an easy situation, but keep reassuring him that you didn't WANT to do this, but had no choice. Take care and big HUGGS.

Rhonda