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Watching a parent struggle with a serious illness can force people into some incredibly difficult decisions.<\/p>\n
This adult child found themselves in that position while trying to help his mother, who has cancer and currently lives in a nursing home.<\/p>\n
Since her condition made eating difficult, he gave her access to a food delivery account<\/a> so she could order whatever sounded appealing at the moment.<\/p>\n For a while, the arrangement worked well.<\/p>\n However, as her health declined, the orders became more frequent and the food stopped making it to her.<\/p>\n Read on to see what he offered his mother instead.<\/p>\n My mom has cancer and she has been in a nursing home.<\/p>\n Due to the cancer, she either cannot eat or wants to eat one specific thing and the nursing home doesn\u2019t have it. So I hooked her up with my DoorDash account and she could get the food she thought she could eat when she wanted it.<\/p>\n It worked well at first. She would order the food and eat most of it. Sometimes she would get it and realized she couldn\u2019t eat it and that was fine. But her condition has progressed to where she can\u2019t really use a phone well and she sleeps all the time.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, DoorDash has her card on file.<\/p>\n So she will try to order a pizza but click the wrong buttons and get friend chicken or something. She doesn\u2019t have good hand control now and she also doesn\u2019t really know what she is looking at so she just randomly taps and checks out. Then she gets food and doesn\u2019t eat it.<\/p>\n For the last few weeks, she has been sleeping most of the day. She will wake up, order something on DoorDash, and then go right back to sleep. She won\u2019t pick it up herself and she won\u2019t ask any of the staff to get it for her because she just goes right to sleep.<\/p>\n The issue is that my card is connected to the DoorDash. So I am spending a lot of money on food that she does not actually want and she also never receives.<\/p>\n Frustrated, she came up with a new solution.<\/p>\n On one of my visits, I told her I need to take my card info off her DoorDash. And I told her that she can either ask me to bring her food or ask me to place an order for delivery for her and I\u2019ll contact the staff to try to make sure it at least gets to her. If she eats it or not, at least it\u2019s there. She said ok.<\/p>\n Well, she has been texting family members that I cut her off from DoorDash, and she is so hungry.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve had some family members call me out on this. I\u2019ve told them that I am doing the best I can to get her food she will eat but the food she has been ordering has never made it to her or it\u2019s something she doesn\u2019t want or can\u2019t eat.<\/p>\n But multiple family members keep saying that as her child, I need to provide for her when she is sick, and I\u2019ve been really doing my best. I am pushed beyond my limits. I just can\u2019t afford it if she won\u2019t or can\u2019t eat it.<\/p>\n AITA?<\/p>\n Yikes! Maybe her mother misunderstood what she was saying.<\/p>\n If you enjoyed this story, check out this post<\/a> about a woman who doesn\u2019t want to go to the amusement park with her friend anymore, because the friend can no longer ride most of the attractions.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s check out how the readers over at Reddit feel about what she did here.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s some advice for him.<\/p>\n Never Miss a Story<\/p>\n Sign up to get our BEST stories of the week straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n That would be a good thing to accept.<\/p>\n According to this comment, the complaining family members can pay.<\/p>\n This is nicely worded.<\/p>\n This son is doing everything he can for his mother during an incredibly difficult time.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s not forget that he didn\u2019t take away her access to food. Instead, he came up with a different system because the one they had stopped working.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, it\u2019s very easy for family members to sit back and talk about what they would do differently.<\/p>\n However, if they aren\u2019t the ones paying for the orders, managing the deliveries, and dealing with this situation day after day, then they probably need to take a step back and let him handle it the way he believes is best.<\/p>\n If you enjoyed this story, check out this post<\/a> about a bus driver who is sick and tired of covering everyone else\u2019s weekend shifts.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t
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