My dad was diagnosed with primary liver cancer at the end of last year and in April had found it had spread to his bones. He has been in hospital twice since then very unwell and ths second time has been told he has a severe chest infection. He has been in for nearly 2 week and is on an oxygen mask that he wouldn't be able to breathe without, and a coktail of drugs. The doctors have said he is not getting worse but not getting better and is unlikely to return home because of the amount of oxygen he needs. 

In between sleeping, he is confused, anxious and paranoid, and  he's got angry a few times saying he wants to go home and also thinks his wife has been arrested. It's been really difficult to watch this all unfold and to see him deteriorating slowly both physically and mentally, but worse is that he is not accepting his prognosis. I dont really know how to comfort him and worry that i stress him out when i am there because i tell him he has to stay in hospital. We haven't had a close relationship through our lives and sometimes - it feels mean saying this - it feels that this is all a bit too much and disproportionate to the relationship we have had, but i still feel a lot of guilt when i'm not with him at the hospital and I have been and want to continue doing what I can to help. Has anyone else experienced this lack of acceptance from a loved one and how have you dealt with it?