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Try and take care of yourself so you do not burnout. You are doing the right thing caring for your mother. I did it for 20 years. I had to sleep downstairs with my mother as well, for years. I never really slept and I still don't. She had heart disease and had unstable angina. Her heart disease was inoperable. The baby monitor was easier to use for my daughter, as when I tried to use it upstairs I was afraid to sleep in case my mother got sick and I missed it. I also had to help her go to the bathroom so that she would not fall.
Does she have any pain? Could she have had a small TIA or a uniary tract infection? I am not a doctor, but when my mother developed a dilirium she started to do strange things including being afraid of the dark. She moaned too, but there was usually some pain or fear associated with it. Maybe she is still missing your father and she is moaning instead of crying. Does she talk about things? I know how difficult what you are going through is. I wish I could be of more help other than trying to let you know it is the hardest thing to watch the decline of someone you love and not be able to do anything but continue to love them, unconditionally. I know it is difficult to do, but you have to try and get some rest so your health does not fail. The years of lack of sleep and stress take its toll, silently, and only surface when the stress is gone.
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