How dare you say that hospice gives opiates to EUTHANIZE??????
You people who feel that way must have been the people who did surgeries on helpless babies without anesthetics because people that young were not supposed to feel pain??????
Sorry, my dad died this year and this makes me a bit ragey. This is what occurs when you die. When you are elderly (and in dads case advanced Alzheimers to where everything is shutting down) and can no longer take food or even water, it is dying time. We love our precious elders so much, we know they are leaving, and we want them to leave in comfort rather than agony.
AS THE ORGANS BECOME DEPRIVED OF WATER, THE PAIN IS IMMENSE. Two days before my dad died he was unable to eat or drink for the first time. He was clearly dying, which was the right time for him to go, he had lost all normal functioning. So you don’t incubate for for food or IV for water. You don’t prolong his suffering. So of course these people become dehydrated. For the first time in 7 years of Alzheimer’s, my dad cried out in pain from his organs dehydrating. SO THEY GAVE HIM THE MORPHINE. I am glad they did. When he passed the next day he was peaceful.
You purists would rather have seen him go out groaning in agony. Please do not accuse hospice of euthenasia. They knew my dad was shutting down and dying, which he was. Morphine is wonderful when you are in agony. It doesn’t remove you from this earth. The last time I was given morphine, I watched all the morning chat shows on it and STILL thought they were insipid. It calms a still living body’s pain. It can help someone dying of pneumonia to breathe less scarily, to choke a little less on their way to the next world.
Freepers are so incredibly reactionary about drugs period
They like things simple and easy to condemn
Because they don’t educate themselves a lot and often are ignorant about specifics
Drug concern trolls
But and this always tickles me
They love love love booze
How many threads are interspersed at night with “I think I’ll go have another drink or if they are older it’s a cocktail “
Threads with pics of drinks or bars all celebrated
Totally oblivious they are celebrating Americas real number one drug problem
Those of us who have dealt with drunks close to us get it
The accepted turd in the punch bowl
I have acute cervical arthritis with spurs like a fighting rooster
Moderate opiate use simply lubricates it enough I can function although I prefer steroids you simply can’t take them all the time
If you are disciplined you can take opiates forever with no ill effect if as I said disciplined which I am
The Tylenol they adulterate Percocet with stupidly with in my view will harm you much quicker
My alternative is surgery with ambiguous results predicted
After two open hearts and a pacemaker etc I prefer medication over somebody cutting open my throat to get to my neck
Sorry if that offends the Cotton Mathers here on opiates
And you are so right
Hospice
I’ve cared for in the past 20 years four folks dying and two were at home
All had opiate hospice relief
The notion that is opiate abuse is preposterous and bloodcurdling idiocy
Ask any soldier wounded in battle if that dose on the chopper being medivaced was helpful?
You just can’t believe folks sometimes
Several years ago my Dad passed away from Alzheimers and it happened the same way as with your dad. Morphine for about two days after he stopped eating and he passed. Once he stopped eating it was quick.