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• ‘I expect my elderly parents to die – but to suffer alone?’: the truth about caring through Covid

  26-12-2020 07:00
  
  Toilet-roll paranoia, terminal shortness of breath: my nonagenarian parents and I were there before it went mainstream. How would we cope with the pandemic?Two hundred and twenty days into the pandemic and I am uncertain which is the bigger threat to my father – my impatience or Covid-19.Bad news about the new lockdown, I offer.When you can do nothing for yourself, everything is someone else’s problemWhile Dad's world reduces to a biscuit, my mother's is about a clean sink. If only s
  
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