Being present can be challenging and often involves a feeling of powerlessness and worry. Some may experience a frustration that the sick person does not take their illness seriously. Or being completely excluded. Others may feel that they are getting closer to each other.
Suddenly, you prioritize what is important to you and focus less on irritations and conflicts you had in the past.
Are there any more relatives? When someone you care a lot about gets sick, you often want to support and be close. If you are more, you can get a lot of support from each other. It is also common for people to disagree with each other and for someone to feel left out.
Try to include each other and make sure everyone feels like they have a task and that they contribute as much as they want. It is easy to conflict when emotions are close and this makes the already heavy moment even heavier.
It is common to feel alone in contributing but also that you feel left out.
Talking to each other, often one paws to toe around the conversation about death. In palliative care, it is not uncommon to see that the first time relatives and the patient talk to each other about death is when they have a joint conversation with the doctor.
Many diseases have patient associations or other information, which is directed to both patients or relatives.
That information is preferable to searching freely for a diagnosis online.
In the tab forms of care you can read more about the care options available in Sweden.
Most people usually perceive it as a relief and that it was not as difficult as feared.
Here you can read a little about various suggestions on how to start such conversations.