Posted on: Sunday, December 5, 2004
One day at a time: caring for dad
Photos by Bruce Asato
Advertiser Staff Photographer
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| Bernadette Ishikawa keeps an eye on her 77-year-old father, Gilbert Carlos, even preparing his lunch. He's using his walker as part of his physical therapy. | Later, Ishikawa dons surgical gloves as she prepares to clear Carlos' tracheotomy tube, which helps him to breathe. | |
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| Ishikawa uses a suction catheter to clear the tube. Because of his ailments, Carlos must stay on the bottom floor of their condo. | ||
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| Ishikawa bathes her father. "I've cared for him all this time," she says. "I don't want to stop now, just because it is difficult." | Ishikawa pushes him in a wheelchair into the garage where she will wash him, since there is no bath on the ground floor. | |
