Dear Judy,
My ex-wife is dying and delirious. Our 2 kids (19 and 26) are with her a lot, and it totally creeps them out to see her this way.
What can I say? Do? She is under hospice care.
Joe
Dear Joe,
For answer to your question I turned to “Living at the End of Life,” a very instructive [...]
Dear Judy,
I have to comment on the drugs/no drugs issue.
I hear these disputes all the time from lay people as well as medical folks. Here’s my take on the matter:
Treat the symptoms that appear – pain, shortness of breath — with the smallest amount of medication that will do the job! No more, no less.
Dying is [...]
Dear Judy,
One of my oldest friends was recently told he had melanoma which has metastasized. He told me about it, and we discussed certain options (chemo, hospice care, palliative drugs, an early end).
That was 6 weeks ago. Now none of my calls are returned. When I stopped by his house last Saturday, before Thanksgiving, his [...]
Dear Judy
I don’t know what you can do about this: our sister is in hospice care. She is really religious (Roman Catholic) which we aren’t — by which I mean my brother and me.
Recently she had to go to the in-patient unit where they tried to stabilize her pain, which is bad. She kept getting [...]
Dear Judy
I am at wits end. My father, who is 57, is dying of pancreatic cancer. He is at a local hospice with maybe 2 weeks to live. In the last few years, when he seemed in good health, he and my mom quarreled a lot. I thought then that maybe he had someone on [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009