I know my posts have been few over the past year. Mainly because I've been so caught up with Dad's cancer, Gran dying, handling school and work, other relatives who have cancer, etc
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it's no wonder you haven't posted much with all this going on.
I can't even imagine what it must've been like for you and your family. I for one have never lost a relative- my gran has had some troubles with her health lately and she's been to a hospital a few times (is there now, actually). My mom has already been preparing herself for the worst... Even the thought of losing my gran makes me tear up a little. So I cannot imagine and it feels so useless and stupid somehow to just be some random person on lj and say how sorry I am
but I am truly sorry. It terrifies me that things like this happen and there's nothing you can do about it, that it could happen to anyone. I know this is not something you can get over, of course not, but I sincerely hope that things will look up for you somehow ♥ have strength
then the medical profession failed him miserably as there is simply no excuse for that. It is why so many are eying what we do up here........ assisted suicide which I believe is wrong What the medical profession NEEDS to do, and are not doing, is provide end of life comfort. Mom's doctor wrote a script for morphine for her every six hours AND as needed. I had A LOT of trouble getting the staff to follow through. They kept telling me she might succumb to it, ie overdose. I said "So?? she is DYING" I finally had to call her physician who RXd it and he set them straight. WE need to realize they are TERMINAL, as in dying, so what is the problem????? None that I can see When I fell down a flight of stairs here and sustained multiple fractures, the ER gave me morphine drip. If they can do that for fractures, then why on earth can they not do that for someone who is terminal????
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I can't even imagine what it must've been like for you and your family. I for one have never lost a relative- my gran has had some troubles with her health lately and she's been to a hospital a few times (is there now, actually). My mom has already been preparing herself for the worst... Even the thought of losing my gran makes me tear up a little. So I cannot imagine and it feels so useless and stupid somehow to just be some random person on lj and say how sorry I am
but I am truly sorry. It terrifies me that things like this happen and there's nothing you can do about it, that it could happen to anyone. I know this is not something you can get over, of course not, but I sincerely hope that things will look up for you somehow ♥ have strength
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then the medical profession failed him miserably as there is simply no excuse for that.
It is why so many are eying what we do up here........
assisted suicide which I believe is wrong
What the medical profession NEEDS to do, and are not doing,
is provide end of life comfort.
Mom's doctor wrote a script for morphine for her every six hours AND as needed. I had A LOT of trouble getting the staff to follow through. They kept telling me she might succumb to it, ie overdose. I said "So?? she is DYING" I finally had to call her physician who RXd it and he set them straight.
WE need to realize they are TERMINAL, as in dying, so what is the problem?????
None that I can see
When I fell down a flight of stairs here and sustained multiple fractures, the ER gave me morphine drip.
If they can do that for fractures, then why on earth can they not do that for someone who is terminal????
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