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Bereavement

Farmer-Rick

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4. Yup our family had to face this harrowing choice

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 20, 2019, 07:31 AM

Jul 2019

We chose to give her another year of life while staying on dialysis without hospice. Instead of 3 days of life off of dialysis with hospice. Who would NOT make that choice? 3 days of life or 1 year?

I have very good health insurance and we could have covered hospice costs without going through Medicare. But hospice would NOT allow it.

It was a hospice beuacratic rule not just a Medicare rule tied up with the price of life.

I hate the medical community. They are so tied up with prices and profit and what their bottom line is. They lose focus of the humans involved and end up frequently causing more pain and suffering.

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What a doctor wishes patients knew about the end [View all] left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 OP

My experience with "To the caregivers: Don't be afraid to leave the room" Siwsan Jul 2019 #1

Well, hospice insisted my spouse come off dialysis Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #2

"their silly little bureaucratic rules" left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 #3

Yup our family had to face this harrowing choice Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #4

when we decided to bring my mom home orleans Jul 2019 #5

I was my sister's POA and the only one who was near her 24/7 as she entered her final days. susanna Aug 2019 #6