You for or against it. Got a family member who's dying of cancer. She's not eating and is just skin and bones. My other family members of course are upset but afraid to take her to doctor for fear of they won't admit her. I don't know how I feel about hospice. What are yall thoughts?
I think it's an individual's choice... one that really should be made before the person is too out of it to be able to decide.
Personally, I'm all for it. I worked in a ICU where our patients would die on a ventilator, with all of these medications going through them to help keep the blood flowing to their heart (vasopressors), basically stealing it from other body parts (black fingers and toes that eventually fall off), we would do CPR on some of these people once a week, take them for procedures, put lines in them every few days, wake them up every hour or so to get labs or clean them up, poke them, prod them, lights on, lights off, here comes the attending with the residents to look at you and talk about you in front of you but not with you. Sad.
With hospice, you get the care you need, but it's more focused on comfort than life sustaining treatment. So, you can technically have surgery while you are on hospice, if it will improve the quality of your life, whatever time you may have left... if that's what you want. Hospice isn't there to "kill you off", but to give you the most out of what life you have left.
