今が生死

施設から87歳男性が肺炎で入院してきた。認知症で鼻管栄養をしていた。身寄りがな
いとのことで後見人がついてきた。話を聞いたら実際には娘さんも奥さんも県外に住
んでいるとのことだったが50年以上音信不通とのことだった。この患者さんは娘さん
が小さい頃愛人とどこかに行ってしまい帰ってこなかったとのことである。後見人が
危篤になった場合について娘さんに連絡したところ、関係ない人だからそちらでいい
ようにしてくださいとのことだった。血のつながりはこのような場合には全く意味の
ないものだと思った。

A 87 year old male from the nursing home has been hospitalized with
pneumonia. He had nasal nutrition with dementia. The guardian came with him
as having no relatives. When I heard the story, in fact both his daughter
and his wife lived outside the prefecture, and they have been estranged from
him over about 50 years. The patient had gone somewhere with his lover when
his daughter was small, and he did not return long times.
When the guardian contacted his daughter about the case that the patient
became end stage, she answered that she was not concerned about him, he was
only a stranger.
The blood connection was no use in this case.