Re: Re: Worst ER Experience...hugs back

August 12, 2008

Don't you wonder sometimes what these people are thinking? When my

aunt was only days away from dying of liver failure - she was in her

mid-90s, weighed only 52 lbs at the time, and had said enough! - her

doctor kept her comfortable with morphine. When he went away for the

weekend, the young doc who covered for him refused to give her the

morphine, say enough to help might kill her! She was in so much pain,

my sister who was sitting with her that weekend, said she understood

euthanasia for the first time, she wanted so badly to just take my

aunt's pillow and end her suffering. When her doc came back, he was

very angry and gave her the morphine. She died peacefully two days

later. What happen to that part of the Hippocratic oath, do no harm?

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:48 PM, nana2livi <s.p5315@...> wrote:

> Dodge,

> OMG! What a horrible experience! What is going on with that nurse?

> If the doctor really believed your BP dropped like that why is he

> not wondering why? I know that you and Rod know exactly how many

> times your BP was taken.

> Have they seen too many druggies to not respond to other medical

> emergencies? My father died from carcinogenic meningitis and was not

> diagnosed until the day before he died, so that was when he got

> something stronger than his 2 percoset every 3 hrs. I kept telling

> them he was suffering and a nurse made the mistake of telling me

> that he was overly sedated from those 2 little pills, so she tied

> him to the bed. This was only 4 days before he died. His kidneys had

> already shut down! I made sure that she never darkened his door

> again.

> Thank God you have Rod. What do people do without someone to

> advocate for them??????

> Please, please get better real soon and let us know how you are

> doing. Hang in one more time, we need you! You have my prayers Honey.

> Shirley

>

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