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Caregiver To Als Brother. He Had A Tantrum And Is Accusing Me Of Abuse. Adult Protective Services Has Been Called.

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I have been a caregiver to my brother for about 3 years now. I have sacrificed everything to care for him.

We have been in the hospital since Christmas Eve for pneumonia. He is on the mend. He gets bouts of anger and curses at me frequently these days. Well, yesterday it became very bad. The nurse and myself did trache care and when we put on his trache collar he wanted it loosened to the point of being medically unsafe. I refused and said I didn’t feel comfortable doing that because it would cause harm to him (trache would become displaced).

This angered him greatly and I said I think I should go home and sleep to give us some space away from each other. He said that he wanted a restraining order against me and wanted adult protective services involved. He said that he is going to report me for abuse.

Today I went to the hospital and he told the nurses he wants to cancel aps but they said they had to report it since he said he wanted it.

What do I do from here?

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