Yep. If the patient is still lucid and not on board with the hospice decision, nor is the person with medical power-of-attorney….it’s not going to happen.
I was hoping that GC and BETA would have made this decision months ago, but they kept holding out hope. GC had chosen this path and I was not about to argue with her.
I agree, hospice nurses are a special and needed breed.
Tedtam My comment @ 9:10 was in no way meant to make you feel any worse about this situation than you already do. I apologize if that is the case. I was really trying to demonstrate how important it is for family members to be on top of this when it happens because sadness and emotional distress won’t do it.… Read more »
mharper42
November 27, 2023 9:34 pm
Hoo Boy, everyone seems to be in a great mood today. I am sorry to hear everyone’s sad story. I had a very nice time on Thanksgiving with 80-y.o. and his relatives and a few of of our neighborhood friends. But I sorta collapsed after that and haven’t been anywhere since then, until today. I went to my pharmacy and… Read more »
27 Tedtam Morphine is one of the meds that is really bad for her. It doesn’t matter anymore. It just doesn’t matter. All that matters is she is not in pain. The doctors are idiots. When our aunt here was in home hospice care I was in charge of the morphine, not some stupid doctor. I administered it as sparingly… Read more »
Hospice care is being established, and there’s an issue with some of the pain meds and her reactions to them. Morphine is one of the meds that is really bad for her. The doctors are working out what’s going to work for her now. Her case worker screwed up some paperwork and from what I heard from BETA, is furiously… Read more »
On a brighter note, the nearly dead kitty has made slight but positive progress. It is tucked up next to our boiler and Hubby said it ate a little bit more. Still breathing, and has moved slightly. Hubby said it reacted when he pet it. For a man who was dead set on not having a kitty cat again, he… Read more »
One other thing – GC was able to call out that she needed help to get up. It broke my heart. BETA told her that she wasn’t going to be getting up. I told her about my experience with MIL – and her frustration that she “needed to get up but no one would help her”. The next time that… Read more »
I’m back from visiting Green Cousin and her mom, BETA. I was able to stop off and get purple beads so I could make her a new rosary. It was the one request I was given, that they wanted one for her to take with her on the road, so to speak. I got there and GC was wailing in… Read more »
As long as I am at it… I also had to go into the Cardiac Cath Lab at the hospital in August and have an arterial catheterization exam of my major arteries and heart cavities that took about 3 hours under general anesthetic. That was a lot of fun. There is not one square millimeter of my cardiovascular system… Read more »
Oh, but I will take the opportunity to mention the two pulmonology tests I had to have done. I can’t believe I left that frustrating experience out of my list.
Texpat, I understand your situation. Have had similar experience last spring into early summer with my cardiac fixing. Which fixing has been doing very well, Thank you, Lord.
Good Evening Hamsters, Tomorrow will be spent putting out Christmas decorations inside and maybe a few outside if I get that far. So many old ornaments haven’t been put out because of reducing the size of our trees over the years. We usually have a larger tree on a table in the family room and a smaller one in the… Read more »
18 mh42 The real question is where have you been. Personally, I had a long, very tightly scheduled day and I am exhausted. I had to go by my primary care doctor today just to have an annual physical, the only point of which was to make sure my PSA level was good and I don’t have to worry about… Read more »
I got 2 Sausage Egg McMuffins (best thing on the menu there) and a medium McCafé a couple weeks ago and paid over $10. Those have been on the McMenu constantly for years. It was almost McDouble what I was thinking it would be.
We took our dad to his general doctor for check up and discuss options for future care. Decided to act like good democrats and pulled him in for curbside early voting. “Here, push this button Dad.” 😀
Texpat Like they always say, Politics is show business for ugly people. True I am proud to say when it came to Crenshaw….. the couch gave him a good once over and then blasted him into cannon fodder, The guy that stands out as the candidate in waiting then flopped was Marco Rubio. Holy crap Serge’ and I went round… Read more »
DeSantis Collapses to Single Digits in Ohio, Behind Vivek. Former President Donald Trump is dominates the field in the Buckeye State, according to Ohio Northern University polling, on 64 percent. DeSantis — who has presented himself as Trump without the baggage, but campaigned as Jeb Bush without the name recognition — is now in third place behind Ramaswamy, a candidate… Read more »
Before I go. El Gordo strikes again. From Twitter X: DIVERSITY: Shortly after a Navy P-8A overshot the runway and landed in Kaneohe Bay (everyone survived) I pointed out that the crew was diverse. For that I got a scathing community note saying it wasn’t true. The Navy is very proud of the fact that it’s P-8 fleet features the… Read more »
Man, I’m booked today, one appointment after another.
Later, alligator.
mharper42
November 27, 2023 10:35 am
Morning, chickadees! Chilly outside when I took Billy Cat’s breakfast out for him. I usually sit out there in a lawn chair on the patio while he eats, but it was just too cold for me today.
Next up, Disney and the invisible hand of the free market: Believe it or not, the Hill ran an op-ed by conservative pundit Jonathan Turley this weekend, headlined “Happy birthday, Adam Smith: The invisible hand just slapped Disney.” In an amusing aside, Jonathan Turley has somehow offended Chat GPT. If you don’t know who Turley is, you aren’t going to… Read more »
More from C&C: Over the weekend I started writing a new piece about the CDC, and I needed its annual budget figures. Guess what? It’s damned difficult to locate that particular information. AI chatbot Chat GPT politely apologized but promptly gave up. At first I thought it was slacking until I tried researching it for myself. My research dead-ended with… Read more »
Next up, Childers dusts off his lawyer’s shingle, as he promised. He reviewed the Paxton v. Pfizer lawsuit: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s 40-page lawsuit, filed November 8th, was unsealed yesterday. The gist — and you’ll probably find this hard to believe — is an allegation that Pfizer and its contract manufacturer faked clinical trials for Pfizer’s ADHD drug Quillivant, to get the… Read more »
PRICEY PATTY ☙ Monday, November 27, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! We’re headed into the final week of November, 2023, and before you know it, it will be election year. Again. So how about we take our time and enjoy these last few weeks of relative sanity? Your roundup includes: White House in full-on panic mode… Read more »
I never understood the whole multiculturism thing: “Our diversity is strength.” Bullcrap. We can learn from other cultures, but learning from other cultures doesn’t mean we become a fractured society. A pot with cracks in it will fail, as will societies. Assimilating doesn’t mean totally giving up heritage. I enjoy the Italian side of my family; never really got into… Read more »
Or what string to use to hang their political opponents. On a sad note, Hubby called me outside this morning. A little kitty – one of the several that the despicable neighbors next door had dumped there – was again near his truck. The last time, it was near the engine, this time it was huddled underneath the cab on… Read more »
Suella Braverman, British Home Secretary and the bravest, gutsiest woman in the UK.
Speaking in Washington, DC, in September, British home secretary Suella Braverman declared that multiculturalism has ‘failed in Europe’. To illustrate her point, she highlighted the numerous violent clashes, involving distinct ethnic groups, that have erupted ‘on the streets’ of Malmo, Paris, Brussels and Leicester. Had Braverman delivered the speech a few weeks later, she would no doubt have also drawn attention to the Islamist-dominated anti-Israel protests that have taken over European capitals on a weekly basis, following Hamas’s pogrom in southern Israel on 7 October.
She argued that multicultural policies have fuelled this fracturing of society into sometimes antagonistic identity groups. ‘Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate’, she said. ‘It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it.’ She added that, in some extreme cases, certain groups of people can ‘pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of society’.
To our cultural and political elites, criticising multiculturalism is now tantamount to heresy. Predictably, Braverman was swiftly denounced as a racist and her speech presented as a threat to migrant communities. One commentator went so far as to claim that ‘Braverman’s dangerous rhetoric puts pupils [from migrant backgrounds] at risk’ in British schools.
and,
Two catastrophic world wars, imperial decline and the collapse of laissez-faire liberal capitalism had left the postwar elites bereft of any real sense of purpose. But it was the emergence of the so-called counterculture in the 1950s and especially the 1960s that proved pivotal. This challenged mainstream norms and values and, by politicising certain identities, began to give rise to what we now know as identity politics. And in doing so, the counterculture exposed European elites’ loss of belief, their depletion of moral and political capital. They effectively found themselves unable to respond to the challenge posed by the counterculture and provide a persuasive account of their nations’ way of life. The question of what it is to be British, German or Dutch had become very difficult for them to answer.
In many ways, however, the Cold War postponed a reckoning with this profound crisis of legitimacy. Western elites may not have been able to say with any confidence what their societies were for, or identify their unifying, national values. But they were able to say what they were against. In that sense, opposing Communism at least provided a semblance of national purpose and coherence in the West.
Fun Trivia: Ms. Braverman is named after Sue Ellen Ewing. Her Hindu Indian-British mother was a big fan of the show Dallas and Linda Gray.
I keep telling you people Facebook is nothing more than a criminal enterprise, but nobody believes me !! Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry. Russian state agency Tass and independent news outlet Mediazona first reported that… Read more »
Yep. If the patient is still lucid and not on board with the hospice decision, nor is the person with medical power-of-attorney….it’s not going to happen.
I was hoping that GC and BETA would have made this decision months ago, but they kept holding out hope. GC had chosen this path and I was not about to argue with her.
I agree, hospice nurses are a special and needed breed.
Tedtam My comment @ 9:10 was in no way meant to make you feel any worse about this situation than you already do. I apologize if that is the case. I was really trying to demonstrate how important it is for family members to be on top of this when it happens because sadness and emotional distress won’t do it.… Read more »
Hoo Boy, everyone seems to be in a great mood today. I am sorry to hear everyone’s sad story. I had a very nice time on Thanksgiving with 80-y.o. and his relatives and a few of of our neighborhood friends. But I sorta collapsed after that and haven’t been anywhere since then, until today. I went to my pharmacy and… Read more »
Morphine doesn’t ease her pain, it drives her crazy. Does weird things to her head and makes her body uncomfortable.
That’s why they can’t use it.
Tedtam
There’s always at least one in every family, but sometimes stories of your family interactions remind me to count my many blessings.
🙂
27 Tedtam Morphine is one of the meds that is really bad for her. It doesn’t matter anymore. It just doesn’t matter. All that matters is she is not in pain. The doctors are idiots. When our aunt here was in home hospice care I was in charge of the morphine, not some stupid doctor. I administered it as sparingly… Read more »
Hospice care is being established, and there’s an issue with some of the pain meds and her reactions to them. Morphine is one of the meds that is really bad for her. The doctors are working out what’s going to work for her now. Her case worker screwed up some paperwork and from what I heard from BETA, is furiously… Read more »
Tedtam
I only have one question:
Why is your cousin not under official hospice care and sedated with morphine and/or Demarol ?
It is cruel if she is not.
On a brighter note, the nearly dead kitty has made slight but positive progress. It is tucked up next to our boiler and Hubby said it ate a little bit more. Still breathing, and has moved slightly. Hubby said it reacted when he pet it. For a man who was dead set on not having a kitty cat again, he… Read more »
One other thing – GC was able to call out that she needed help to get up. It broke my heart. BETA told her that she wasn’t going to be getting up. I told her about my experience with MIL – and her frustration that she “needed to get up but no one would help her”. The next time that… Read more »
I’m back from visiting Green Cousin and her mom, BETA. I was able to stop off and get purple beads so I could make her a new rosary. It was the one request I was given, that they wanted one for her to take with her on the road, so to speak. I got there and GC was wailing in… Read more »
As long as I am at it… I also had to go into the Cardiac Cath Lab at the hospital in August and have an arterial catheterization exam of my major arteries and heart cavities that took about 3 hours under general anesthetic. That was a lot of fun. There is not one square millimeter of my cardiovascular system… Read more »
Now that’s funny.
22 Adee
Glad to hear you are doing well.
Oh, but I will take the opportunity to mention the two pulmonology tests I had to have done. I can’t believe I left that frustrating experience out of my list.
Texpat, I understand your situation. Have had similar experience last spring into early summer with my cardiac fixing. Which fixing has been doing very well, Thank you, Lord.
Good Evening Hamsters, Tomorrow will be spent putting out Christmas decorations inside and maybe a few outside if I get that far. So many old ornaments haven’t been put out because of reducing the size of our trees over the years. We usually have a larger tree on a table in the family room and a smaller one in the… Read more »
You gonna catch up with SQK if you don’t watch out. 🙂
18 mh42 The real question is where have you been. Personally, I had a long, very tightly scheduled day and I am exhausted. I had to go by my primary care doctor today just to have an annual physical, the only point of which was to make sure my PSA level was good and I don’t have to worry about… Read more »
Here!!
Where y’all been? Where you all IS NOW?
Note to self:
Bring machete if planning on eating barrel cactus in an emergency.
Sitting on hold for….35 mins so far….trying to enroll in a new Part D plan.
I got 2 Sausage Egg McMuffins (best thing on the menu there) and a medium McCafé a couple weeks ago and paid over $10. Those have been on the McMenu constantly for years. It was almost McDouble what I was thinking it would be.
I know y’all have been wondering this: “How does a desert bighorn sheep eat a barrel cactus?”
Like this.
We took our dad to his general doctor for check up and discuss options for future care. Decided to act like good democrats and pulled him in for curbside early voting. “Here, push this button Dad.” 😀
Tedtam – prayers for comfort and for peace, for all…
Tedtam says she may be out of pocket for a while. Her cousin has taken a turn for the worse.
Prayers up for all of them.
Texpat Like they always say, Politics is show business for ugly people. True I am proud to say when it came to Crenshaw….. the couch gave him a good once over and then blasted him into cannon fodder, The guy that stands out as the candidate in waiting then flopped was Marco Rubio. Holy crap Serge’ and I went round… Read more »
Like they always say, Politics is show business for ugly people.
DeSantis Collapses to Single Digits in Ohio, Behind Vivek. Former President Donald Trump is dominates the field in the Buckeye State, according to Ohio Northern University polling, on 64 percent. DeSantis — who has presented himself as Trump without the baggage, but campaigned as Jeb Bush without the name recognition — is now in third place behind Ramaswamy, a candidate… Read more »
Before I go. El Gordo strikes again. From Twitter X: DIVERSITY: Shortly after a Navy P-8A overshot the runway and landed in Kaneohe Bay (everyone survived) I pointed out that the crew was diverse. For that I got a scathing community note saying it wasn’t true. The Navy is very proud of the fact that it’s P-8 fleet features the… Read more »
Man, I’m booked today, one appointment after another.
Later, alligator.
Morning, chickadees! Chilly outside when I took Billy Cat’s breakfast out for him. I usually sit out there in a lawn chair on the patio while he eats, but it was just too cold for me today.
Next up, Disney and the invisible hand of the free market: Believe it or not, the Hill ran an op-ed by conservative pundit Jonathan Turley this weekend, headlined “Happy birthday, Adam Smith: The invisible hand just slapped Disney.” In an amusing aside, Jonathan Turley has somehow offended Chat GPT. If you don’t know who Turley is, you aren’t going to… Read more »
More from C&C: Over the weekend I started writing a new piece about the CDC, and I needed its annual budget figures. Guess what? It’s damned difficult to locate that particular information. AI chatbot Chat GPT politely apologized but promptly gave up. At first I thought it was slacking until I tried researching it for myself. My research dead-ended with… Read more »
Next up, Childers dusts off his lawyer’s shingle, as he promised. He reviewed the Paxton v. Pfizer lawsuit: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s 40-page lawsuit, filed November 8th, was unsealed yesterday. The gist — and you’ll probably find this hard to believe — is an allegation that Pfizer and its contract manufacturer faked clinical trials for Pfizer’s ADHD drug Quillivant, to get the… Read more »
PRICEY PATTY ☙ Monday, November 27, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! We’re headed into the final week of November, 2023, and before you know it, it will be election year. Again. So how about we take our time and enjoy these last few weeks of relative sanity? Your roundup includes: White House in full-on panic mode… Read more »
I never understood the whole multiculturism thing: “Our diversity is strength.” Bullcrap. We can learn from other cultures, but learning from other cultures doesn’t mean we become a fractured society. A pot with cracks in it will fail, as will societies. Assimilating doesn’t mean totally giving up heritage. I enjoy the Italian side of my family; never really got into… Read more »
Or what string to use to hang their political opponents. On a sad note, Hubby called me outside this morning. A little kitty – one of the several that the despicable neighbors next door had dumped there – was again near his truck. The last time, it was near the engine, this time it was huddled underneath the cab on… Read more »
Suella Braverman, British Home Secretary and the bravest, gutsiest woman in the UK.
and,
Fun Trivia: Ms. Braverman is named after Sue Ellen Ewing. Her Hindu Indian-British mother was a big fan of the show Dallas and Linda Gray.
from last night:
The only string theory those three morons could discuss are those on shoes.
I keep telling you people Facebook is nothing more than a criminal enterprise, but nobody believes me !! Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry. Russian state agency Tass and independent news outlet Mediazona first reported that… Read more »