Thank you!
I am going through this “We own your father” BS right now. I am learning what “Hospice” truly means. It does not mean preventing the 20 other non terminal maladies which cause pain and suffering also as compounded like bladder and kidney infections from a Foley. It only means they will ignore everything that comes up and compounds the initial cause of terminal death and only provide Morphine as a cure for it all as a total.
It is designed to promote a faster more painful end. Excepting the Morphine that takes their mind and body from you anyhow. Once on the Morphine, they may as well be dead anyhow...
I am very sorry that your father, you and his loved ones are having to go through this at this difficult time. I am praying for peace and comfort for each of you.
We went through a similar situation with my father-in-law.
once on hospice there are certain things that you will not get...
the object is to let you die with pain meds but you must agree that certain things will not be done...
they do not expect you to run to the hospital for medical care at all...they expect you to call them and see if they can come up with a solution...
remember hospice is a GOVT PAID program that they inserted into Medicare and there will be restrictions on what treatment you will get, period...
good news...YOU CAN OPT OUT OF HOSPICE AT ANY TIME.....and in an instant you are back on regular Medicare.
You go to a hospice when you are terminally ill. You are there to die. That is their mentality.