Hello there,
My mom is currently in hospital with severe COPD and is nearing end of life. She is currently wearing a diaper because she can no longer get up to go to the bathroom. The problem is, whenever we try to move her to change her diaper and to clean her, she ends up completely out of breath and it takes her a good 20 minutes to recover. It’s getting so bad that she’s now suffering fear/anxiety and is holding her urine/stool so she doesn’t have to endure the breathing episodes. Has anyone else dealt with this? Can anyone offer any tips on how we might change her diaper without causing her to become out of breath? Currently we roll her to one side... someone cleans her and quickly replaces the diaper