My Mom was an alcoholic for 23 years. In May 2000, she had a binge,
and she never came back - that was the beginning of WKS for her. To
make things worse, in 1995, we discovered she was paranoid
schizophrenic, and has auditory and sometimes visual hallucinations.
The voices are horrible, mean, torturous, that constantly berate her
with threats of violence and death. So now, she is in this state,
trapped with the voices, and no mental faculty to understand what is
going on. She has gotten progressively worse since 2000. She has no
long or short term memory. She no longer recognizes me. She is in a
nursing home, and she walks the halls literally all of her waking
time. They cannot get her to eat because of the walking, and she has
begun losing weight. They called me today, and said I needed to
start thinking of the possibility of a feeding tube. After following
closely the case of Terri Schiavo in Florida, this pronouncement
really threw me for a loop. Then I did a google search, and learned
a dispraportion amount of nursing home patients are on feeding
tubes, because it is easier for the staff and they get paid better
by medicare for feeding tube patients. I also learned that the
feeding tube patients do no better on the feeding tube.

Does anyone else have experience with this? I am trying to figure
out my next step.
Thanks in advance,
Julie