hospice care

Wow your dad was young when he passed. That had to be terribly hard at that age.

Yes, he went through hell! He had suffered the last 5 years of his life with complications from Type-2 Diabetes. He was legally blind, was on kidney dialysis (3 days a week) and had 7 amputations of his right leg (a couple of toes to start, then about half of his foot, etc... all the wat up to the hip). He decided he had had enough pain and suffering and refused any more dialysis treatments. The official cause of death was congestive heart failure (CHF).

I should clarify, in that he was my stepfather. He came into our lives when I was 8 and left us when I was 27.