Re: Re: UTI Pneumonia & the end

December 15, 2011

I have no answer, , but I thank you for making an excellent point.

One that makes me feel a little better about how we have handled Mom up

until now (not yet in hospice).

Part of me has been leaning toward having Mom " come home " to live with me

during hospice. But your concern is well taken. Two of Mom's

grandchildren have babies right now and I am sure there are more to come.

One of those babies had heart surgery 4 days after birth. The last thing

Mom would want is for her granddaughter or grandson to bring something so

potentially dangerous home, thereby exposing their children.

Any illness can spread so easily through an SNF. There would be no reason

to think, I think, that home hospice would be different.

Kathy

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>

> OK

> when your LBD loved one is in home Hospice care, when comfort is the only

> goal and to allow them to pass on - so medical things are stopped - except

> for Morphine drip and they have not eaten or drank for 6 days and they are

> 87 years old. This is at home.

>

> When they are having seizures, trouble breathing and sounds like could be

> pnemonia - and Aides, family members and the hospice R.N. comes in

>

> Is there any chance that you can catch the pneumonia when someone is dying

> ever so slowly of it and you are right there with them every day for 6

> weeks ?

>

> Thanks

>

> P.S. As anyone ever tried this and then opted to have them go to a Long

> Term care wing of nursing home or Hospice at a building - not in the home ?

> If so how long after the coma has started ? Dad has been in coma for about

> one week, I think. He was in a kind of coma before, but he would sort of

> wake when we fed him.

>

> Thanks

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