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.
Cherry... He needs it. We need it. He is indeed terminal and as it gets worse it will keep us all from needing to give up our careers to care for him.
But we are back to “government ownership” at this point. 15 years ago we finally talked this tough old man into living “inside” a single wide trailer. Until then he slept outside on a cot in the yard as he has done all his life.
He had a business supplying most of southern Ca and Az with wholesale truck tires. He personally loaded, stacked, and delivered about 400 tires a week living out of his delivery truck.
He finally stopped stacking truck tires in stacks 8 high in his truck at the age of 79 years old. His high school football back injury finally took it’s toll.
All the while he camped in his truck in a bed roll either in the back, underneath, or on top of his truck. Many many times in south central LA to pick up.
Yet now, city weak minds do not believed this ever happened. He and we are liars. So... At his point now we as care takers are guilty of abuse and neglect for the way he lives, wants to live, and we legally have no power to legally change. So a Sheriff’s investigation will be started right off the bat. Even though we have “I want to die at home”.
Not his choice, he has to die by THEIR RULES, not his own...
HE BELONGS TO THE CITY MIND AND LEGAL SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND. HE NOW BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND MEDICAL SYSTEM.
So we have him at my daughter’s house in the city on hospice. And if we take him home to die as he prefers WE will go to jail for abuse and neglect... Because in their minds we should have forced him to live where he DID NOT want to live.
City shit... I hate city crap. It is a culture being forced on us country folks. And THIS is how they do it... Take and disregard 112 years and 6 generations of pioneer tough ass rural country lifestyle they do not have the intestinal fortitude to even try to understand...
Our problems in this nation are City vs Country cultures...