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 Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:18 am
has anyone in this guild ever been in hospice or know someone that has been?
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:19 am
sorry about the poll. have to go right now, so i'll fix it later. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:15 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:54 am
Our guild captain was in hospice the last week of her life. I think I would go into hospice. I'd not want to burden my family with that kind of care, and there's nothing more the hospital can do.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:14 pm
pd2care Our guild captain was in hospice the last week of her life. I think I would go into hospice. I'd not want to burden my family with that kind of care, and there's nothing more the hospital can do. i hope it was great for her smile . right now my dad is in a hospice home over where we live. so far he feels uncomfortable, but the nurses are doing whatever they can.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:52 pm
crispy emem pd2care Our guild captain was in hospice the last week of her life. I think I would go into hospice. I'd not want to burden my family with that kind of care, and there's nothing more the hospital can do. i hope it was great for her smile . right now my dad is in a hospice home over where we live. so far he feels uncomfortable, but the nurses are doing whatever they can.
According to her family, she was comfortable before she passed.
Is there any different/more meds that they can give him for comfort, or is that he's just not in his own bed type uncomfortable?
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:38 am
when he first got into one of his homes, they gave him a new medication to help him sleep, since before he went there, he had been up for about 4 days, even though he couldn't eat or drink anything at all. he had been mostly immune to the morphine, haldol, and lorazepam that they have been giving him when my mom, sister, and i were taking care of him at the house, so when they kept telling us to give him more doses, that made it worse; i guess giving him more of it would help cause him halucinations, and since he was a vietnam vet, it was worse.
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:55 pm
oooh. Ouch. They have different meds to give him?
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:03 pm
now they do. the nurses over at this hospice are way better than the others. plus, they seem to know what they are doing.
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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:07 pm
crispy emem now they do. the nurses over at this hospice are way better than the others. plus, they seem to know what they are doing.
that's cool. I don't know if I'd want to be in hospice. i think I'd want to be at home, so I could OD on my pain meds, if I chose to. can't do that if there's nurses all around. I wouldn't want to live like that, personally. but I also know that I'm the only one in my family who feels that way.
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:48 pm
I think I would want whatever would be the most comfortable for me or my family. I just know if I had to go I'd want it to be in whatever way would least upset those I love.
My great grandma passed away 2 yrs ago, she was over 90 years old and she just came home from a church thing, laid down to take a nap, and then never woke up. Its always hard to lose someone but it helped a little to know she wasnt in pain or suffering unduely
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:32 am
Saber Alli I think I would want whatever would be the most comfortable for me or my family. I just know if I had to go I'd want it to be in whatever way would least upset those I love.
My great grandma passed away 2 yrs ago, she was over 90 years old and she just came home from a church thing, laid down to take a nap, and then never woke up. Its always hard to lose someone but it helped a little to know she wasnt in pain or suffering unduely
That's how my grandfather died. He was in the hospital, recovering from a minor heart palpitation, sent Gramm home to take a nap, since he was going to take one, and he passed.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:10 pm
Saber Alli I think I would want whatever would be the most comfortable for me or my family. I just know if I had to go I'd want it to be in whatever way would least upset those I love.
My great grandma passed away 2 yrs ago, she was over 90 years old and she just came home from a church thing, laid down to take a nap, and then never woke up. Its always hard to lose someone but it helped a little to know she wasnt in pain or suffering unduely i wish my great grandmother would have passed on like that. a few years ago she fell out of her bed and broke her neck, and the hospital was not able to give her any food, and she passed away a week later. she died at the age of 97.
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:55 pm
I'm so sorry emem, that had to be really hard!
I was on my way to Disney World when my great grandmother passed and I had to find the airport in Florida,(i live in texas, she lived in michigan), then they couldnt fly me to Midland, so I flew to Detroit and rented a car to drive there. I also had to find a mall since all I had was shorts and flip flops. It was pretty hetic, but worth it to be there.
Though honestly the worst thing was that at the funeral the Pastor said the wrong name twice! I wish the other one hadn't retired, because she went to that church her entire life and he had been the pastor during a majority of that time.
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:47 pm
(sorry about not being able to be on here for a while. where i live there is no internet crying .) just to let the ones that answered the hospice thread, thank you very much for answering. my dad passed away on the first of october from his cancer, and now he is in a better place. thanks you guys smile .
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