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"Convenience" makes it sound like they opted to use cake mix instead of cooking from scratch.
It's a matter of being ABLE to care for her themselves, and take her places, and not traumatize her with blood and pain and pelvic exams.
Good friends of mine are going through an awful trial. He's wheelchair bound and increasingly weak with MS. She keeps getting injured in caring for him and has had surgery on her arm. Do they subject a grown intelligent (up until recently independent) man to being cared for intimately by strangers? Does he end up in a home if she is hurt worse next time? It's not a matter of cake mix -- its a matter of awful decisions to be made as best they can.
