rndmr2
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 3, 2009
I am so sorry to hear about your Aunt, I will definitely keep her and the rest of your family in my prayers.
I can't say I blame her for deciding not to undergo treatment at this point, it's one thing if it was actually treatable but since they say it won't offer her much, like you said, why spend what time she has left in the hospital and doctor's office?
I am a Home Health/Hospice nurse, I think I have told you that before, and I have seen a lot of what Cancer does to people and a few that decided not to do treatment with that kind of prognosis and let me tell you the quality of life in the last few weeks or months for these people is so much better! They can spend their last times here on earth on their own terms.
I have been on the Dis minimally in the past few days as well, my MIL is in the hospital since Wed night with a GI Bleed/Bleeding stomach ulcer and the blood loss actually caused a mild heart attack, so we are dealing with some stress. Actually this is only one of a list of things recently, she broke her shoulder in January (this Ulcer is actually from all the anti inflamatories they have had her since then...) and we moved in to help her, then when she was just about ready for us to leave I fell and broke a bone in my right hand so I was out of commission for a while (I actually go back to work Monday) then 2 weeks ago right when we thought we could make another attempt to go home my Hubby hurt himself at work and broke his ankle! So we are still with her because she has a one floor house and now the cycle starts again, our family has said we have a black cloud over the house and I tend to agree! LOL
I love your purple castle pics, although I am partial to the color purple! The Sword in the Stone pics turned out good too! Looks like you had fun with that, too bad the Magic didn't happen for you... maybe next time, which I guess is coming up pretty soon.
I can't say I blame her for deciding not to undergo treatment at this point, it's one thing if it was actually treatable but since they say it won't offer her much, like you said, why spend what time she has left in the hospital and doctor's office?
I am a Home Health/Hospice nurse, I think I have told you that before, and I have seen a lot of what Cancer does to people and a few that decided not to do treatment with that kind of prognosis and let me tell you the quality of life in the last few weeks or months for these people is so much better! They can spend their last times here on earth on their own terms.
I have been on the Dis minimally in the past few days as well, my MIL is in the hospital since Wed night with a GI Bleed/Bleeding stomach ulcer and the blood loss actually caused a mild heart attack, so we are dealing with some stress. Actually this is only one of a list of things recently, she broke her shoulder in January (this Ulcer is actually from all the anti inflamatories they have had her since then...) and we moved in to help her, then when she was just about ready for us to leave I fell and broke a bone in my right hand so I was out of commission for a while (I actually go back to work Monday) then 2 weeks ago right when we thought we could make another attempt to go home my Hubby hurt himself at work and broke his ankle! So we are still with her because she has a one floor house and now the cycle starts again, our family has said we have a black cloud over the house and I tend to agree! LOL
I love your purple castle pics, although I am partial to the color purple! The Sword in the Stone pics turned out good too! Looks like you had fun with that, too bad the Magic didn't happen for you... maybe next time, which I guess is coming up pretty soon.