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Jimmy Carter has spent over a year in hospice care. How has he defied the odds?
news.northeastern ^ | 03/12/2024 | Tanner Stening

Posted on 03/13/2024 7:56:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Pirate Ragnar

Lester Maddox said Carter was the most dishonest man he ever met; Goldwater said the same of Nixon.


101 posted on 03/13/2024 9:45:48 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hierarchy of Healthcare in the federal gubmint IMHO:

1) Presidential
2) Supreme Court
3) US Senate
4) US House of Representatives
5) Federal Employees
6) US Military
7) VA


102 posted on 03/13/2024 9:46:06 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

He lost MD, GA, WV, HI, and MN.


103 posted on 03/13/2024 9:47:55 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Theodore R.

My mistake, in 84 Reagan took all but Minnesota and DC. In 1980 Carter took 6 states plus DC.

Has anyone else noticed a trend with DC?


104 posted on 03/13/2024 9:53:10 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The hospice doctors apparently can refrain from jabbing their morphine needles into a former president. Who knew?


105 posted on 03/13/2024 9:54:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Lou L

Carter couldn’t get elected as a Dem these days.


106 posted on 03/13/2024 9:54:22 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who the crap wants to “defy the odds” in hospice? Yeah, lets rot away in hospice care for a dozen years “defying the odds”. That is not good or something to celebrate.

Dying sucks. Once you are actually dying, you want to die as fast as possible, not as slowly as possible.


107 posted on 03/13/2024 9:56:55 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

Has anyone else noticed a trend with DC?

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The 23rd Amendment needs to be repealed.


108 posted on 03/13/2024 9:58:25 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: anton

“But no one was pissed enough to vote for the Peanut Man.”

I was. I was eighteen and a Reagan Democrat. No way I was voting for Ford. Got the Gipper four years later.


109 posted on 03/13/2024 9:59:30 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mom’s been in home hospice care for 14 months.


110 posted on 03/13/2024 10:00:39 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Name three things he did that benefited the US and, or western civilization during or after his innocent and loving gutting of our intelligence.

1. Greatly loosened restrictions on home brewing.
2. Improved regulations on interstate trucking (remember when trucks had to have dozens of license plates?)
3. Signed the airline deregulation act
111 posted on 03/13/2024 10:06:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana

He also brought Harold Brown in from Cal Tech to run the Defense Department. Brown was the father of smart weaponry, and he permitted the US to get in on the ground floor.


112 posted on 03/13/2024 10:07:22 AM PDT by Publius
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To: 1Old Pro

Hanging on so he can vote against Trump in November.


113 posted on 03/13/2024 10:08:56 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: Dr. Sivana
So he is responsible for people being drunk, planes falling out of the sky and trucks being way to heavy for the roads.

My question still stands.

114 posted on 03/13/2024 10:12:38 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; anton
anton ~ He just got the VIP nursing home experience with unlimited drugs and round the clock nursing for free.

Responsibility2nd ~ You just described hospice to a T.

Pretty close.

Hospice is not allowed to treat the condition that put one into hospice in the first place. Anything else, yes. Pain and comfort medication, yes. Injuries, yes. Pneumonia, yes. UTIs, yes. Bedsores and infections, yes. Unless it was the injuries, pneumonia, UTIs, bedsores, and/or infections that put them into hospice...

115 posted on 03/13/2024 10:15:18 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
So he is responsible for people being drunk,
planes falling out of the sky and
trucks being way too heavy for the roads.
My question still stands.


1. People were getting drunk during prohibition.
2. Planes fell from the sky with the same frequency before deregulation. Pilgrim Air PM203 in 1970 was a big deal in 1970 in my neck of the woods. Cause: Fuel exhaustion resulting from inadequate flight preparation and erroneous in-flight decisions by the pilot-in-command.
3. The heavier trucks actually came under Reagan, who approved the double and triple trailers. The "Motor Carrier Act of 1980" had nothing to do with truck weights, but with price controls and the cost of market entry.

My answer still stands.
116 posted on 03/13/2024 10:25:48 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Leep
Most people don’t live in hospice care long..morphine

Yeah. You shoulda seen how glum the hospice RN was when she dropped off the "comfort pack" - morphine and lorazapam.

She brightened right up after two weeks.

Still haven't gotten up the nerve to ask her how many of her patients 'passed away peacefully in their sleep' very shortly after their ever lovin' families got the comfort pack...

117 posted on 03/13/2024 10:28:15 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: Vigilanteman

I had to sign the papers to put my young sister in hospice. She had suffered three strokes…two the week before the major one. She was intubated and given sedatives to control her trying to pull the tube out of her mouth. To this day, I feel incredibly bad to have put her in hospice. But the neurologist told me it was the best thing to do for her. But I’m wondering if she still could’ve made it through. Anyways, all these what IFs go through your head constantly. I miss her so much! 🥲 there are days I feel very very regretful. Her hospice stay was short.


118 posted on 03/13/2024 10:37:05 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: wardaddy

“I bet half this forum supported him in 76”

I considered voting for Carter but I believe in the end I voted for Ford. I am not positive as I went back and forth. Carter was a young peanut farmer from the South and I liked his smile. :-) But I was glad to see him go in 1980.

Anyway that’s ancient history. I wish him well now and hope he makes it to 100.


119 posted on 03/13/2024 10:59:34 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: wardaddy

I supported him in 76 ... last ‘rat I ever voted for ...


120 posted on 03/13/2024 11:05:11 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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