Yes, I have a Directive to Physicians and a Power of Attorney to my wife. It is all clearly spelled out. Some DNR's just don't specify exact circumstances. Best to have both and a Power of Attorney to someone you trust. Make sure ALL documents are notarized.
Thank you for your service. I did as you have. All 4 Specialist and Primary as well as the hospital we normally use have copies.
What I fear are Falls, this anti Opioid craze has gone to far, at 70, with severe Spinal degeneration, Stenosis, and OP, breaking bones is easy to do. Getting a Pain shot is a criminal act. I’ve been lucky so far, but if you don’t treat the Uncontrolled sudden sustained Pain you can send me into a Heart attack, blow either the Mitral valve leak or the Enlarged heart. As a Gastro patient BP meds are not going to happen, they’d cause a bleeding ulcer. Only Pain spikes the BP. 1 mg Dilaudid won’t bring it down. Last trip I was offered 2 Blacklisted pain meds, and told Dilaudid was illegal. That is how stupid ER nurses and PA’s are. NO doctor. Rules are not Law. 1 shot is not going to make you a Junkie. Nor do I want that Steroid injection so I can get a Physio order. Don’t want the 3 day Migraine, or more bone destruction, and the carp doesn’t work, never has never will. Medicare/Tricare Insist. So do most ins.