Life With my dad in recent years, who has been seriously ill, it hasn't been very easy.

This isn't the first time I've shared my dad's health problem with everyone.

Besides, with so many times that we have been hospitalized, it is now known that his condition is difficult.

Life with a mentally ill person is very difficult & painful.

Let's start from the beginning:

My dad was a Cardiologist, Associate University Professor at the Hippocrates Hospital of Athens.

He was & is world-famous for his thousands of research studies, his fatigue test & his awards were countless.

Besides, it was no coincidence that he was the first Greek doctor to be awarded by New England.

My dad was one of those doctors who wanted his patients to do well & constantly conducted research in his specialty to find new ways & solutions to heart issues.

It had some weaknesses:

1. His work & research was above all & everyone
2. He was a fanatic APOEL fan - APOEL is the best Cypriot team -
3. He adored his daughter -that is, me-
4. He loved sweets very much.
5. He loved his students.

His weakness for sweets cost him a lot, as 8 years ago we discovered from an ischemic stroke that he suffered that he was diabetic. I remember very well, that day was Tuesday, he had a class with students, and all he cared about was getting up and going to work.

If a doctor took care of others and never himself.

For a few years we were fine, he had retired, he was taking care of himself as best he could & I finally had the time to make him happy.

3 years ago he got a urinary tract infection, took antibiotics & from then on our Golgotha began.

We had visited all the hospitals, because we wanted to settle on one, one that would give us a reasonable opinion & not simply turn him into a guinea pig by giving him medication without the necessary tests having been done.

From the many medications he also developed Parkinson's and bedsores because in a hospital he had become a plant from the cocktail of drugs he had been given.

Eventually, we settled in a hospital, because they not only respected him as a colleague, but they respected him as a person.

They respected us, supported us & continue to support us.

The 2 neurologists we have stopped his medications because they felt that in my dad's case, since he has many illnesses, they were not doing him any good.

Life with my dad is difficult & very expensive.

In a future article, I will analyze the whole adventure & what you need to do to help both the patient and you!