My Dad is 94, and is living with a large untreatable skin cancer that takes up the space between his right eye and his right ear. It's horrible & horrifying.
He has dementia, AF, & prostate cancer too. It bleeds. Nurses come to dress it every other day, which he just pulls off after 10 minutes. He's anaemic now because of blood loss, (and possibly because of a side affect of a long term prophylactic antibiotic).
Because of dementia behaviours, he truly believes he can just pull it off. He tries to do this and it's like walking in on a blood bath. He tries to pull it off whenever I leave the room. I do need the toilet! It is literally a living nightmare, and no way to be living at an old age. 4 months ago he left it alone and it didn't grow or bleed. 4 months ago I took him on holiday to the Canary Islands, which he absolutely loved and behaved perfectly. I'm not giving up for any improvements, as he did have another similar tumour which gradually reduced and disappeared.
I just him to be comfortable. It's untreatable because he's too old for a general anesthesia, he can't tolerate a local injection. Besides, he has AF, and anaemia
Surgeons have decided and agreed to leave it alone after the last biopsy. Is there anyone here who knows any miraculous way of making him more comfortable, and stopping him from pulling it off and poking at it everyday.
He is very stubborn and awkward in his ways, although he is good general health. He is 6ft and 14 stone at 94. He always lies on the side of the wound, and refuses to turn over. He sleeps very well, and so that means almost 12 hours sleep lying on the tumour, every night. The tumour bleeds at night, and whenever he touches it during the day.
