I've posted before recently. My dad chose hospice after his last heart attack threw his body into a downward spiral. He's in congestive heart failure, kidney failure, has a partially collapsed lung and had pneumonia and sepsis while in the hospital. He was put on hospice September 19th and was placed in a facility. He has had no food for 6 weeks, only eats ice chips. He is ready, wants to die. He's upset it's taking so long. He is only given morphine 3 or 4 times a day. They won't do it more often because he has a fentanyl patch on and continual morphine will hasten the dying process which is what my dad wants. He even asked for a morphine drip and they won't comply because the dr doesn't participate in physician assisted death. I respect everyone has a belief but they insist on his body going naturally. He's so miserable emotionally and I feel so helpless. No one thought he would survive this long. 6 weeks no food! He wasn't obese to begin with and he's a skeleton now. How much longer can this go on?
To this day, I cannot understand why my brother, who was on his death bed had to swallow a PILL !!!!
A year after that, I was the one crushing morphine, forgot about the ativan..pills and swaving them around mom's cheecks... Yup it is a mixed up world...
When the time came near, the next nurse, she gave the final dosage, and I cannot remember the name of this, once that was administered (via bottom), it went pretty quickly...
We are here on this website to get to know the truth and understanding.
Hospice companies have different policies. Yours and mine for instance do not believe in IV... mine said it may cause death.. (really). and yours said physicians assisted death (really), but either way in these cases death = relief, non suffering,
My LO's roommate died peacefully... with IV.. it must have been the golden mix..
As I said, my prayers are with you.
It’s so interesting how hospice companies vary in beliefs. My brother did not want his oxygen mask any longer. He did have drugs. He lingered longer than they thought he would.
Some of it is a mystery, isn’t it? I believe my brother was holding on to see his children. They had to arrive from out of town.
He was very heavily drugged at the end.
They did put restraints on him and that frustrated him because he couldn’t turn to get comfortable. I asked them to remove them when family was there and they did.
Overall care was good.
He wasn’t in any pain at the end. Glad about that. I know that he was ready to go.
Simply get the morphine pills and crush them if this is what dad wants...
ativan will help his body to relax.
If there isn't an emergency box in refrigerator with his name on it, then kindly ask for a prescription. Tell him his body is hurting and needs to relax, ativan should help.
As you know, you are on this website, it is hard.. Some people want to go naturally. I want to go however without pain or discomfort, ideally...
The body is strong, and will go through a lot...
Hey, if he is on Hospice, there has to be an emergency pack, for patients in the refrigerator... ?????
So, Crush a morphine pill every hour, on the hour, smear it on the inside of LO's cheek... Don't forget the ATIVAN that is in that EMERGENCY PACK that should be in the refrigerator...
ATIVAN will help the body/brain to relax, because shutting down the body is NOT FUN.. (found out the hard way :( didn't think it would happen this way)
At least give him the ativan so his brain can relax...