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Elder-caregivers

ginnyinWI

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3. The medical system just keeps chugging along.

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 10:43 AM

Aug 2016

It is all about making people better, which is fine, until it is just more pain and trouble for the patient than the good it does. The trouble is that hindsight is 20-20 and it's hard to know what's going on when you are in the midst of it. Hard to know when to say, "when".

I could not have taken care of her in my home for those last few months, but that is what she would have most loved to do. Well, she is at peace now.

Yeah this hospice isn't set up for people to be there longer than 30 days. Any longer and they try to get the person moved to another situation.

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Too late for me, but I have a few thoughts. [View all] ginnyinWI Aug 2016 OP

Thank you so much for writing this up. Staph Aug 2016 #1

Best wishes to you, thank you for writing this up. uppityperson Aug 2016 #2

The medical system just keeps chugging along. ginnyinWI Aug 2016 #3