So is HOSPICE ( a $33.06 billion industry ) treating the side effects of the drugs they administered to the patent, which causes the patient's death, instead of the actual dying process?
HOSPICE MORPHINE OR OXYCODONE ---- HALOPERIDOL/HALDOL (sudden death, agitation, suboptimal dying process, difficulty swallowing)--- LORAZEPAM (trouble swallowing)/ ATIVAN DEATH COCKTAIL!
Serious side effects of Haloperidol or Haldol (black boxed)--CARDIAC ARREST, Sudden Death, Unwanted drug effects diminish the quality of life and may lead to a suboptimal dying process.HALDOL/ haloperidol....The most common side effects include extrapyramidal disorder, insomnia, AGITATION, difficulty with speaking or swallowing
Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis and treated with antipsychotic drugs such as Haldol are at an increased risk of death.
Here is a post about a gentleman on hospice for a YEAR who's being taken OFF the program because he's had a slight improvement.
So much for the b.s. about HOSPICE KILLING THEIR PATIENTS.
You listed tons of medications that may or may not cause a bad reaction. People treated with the drugs you listed are usually in a facility that would warrant an investigation unless they signed a consent.
Hospice is a whole nother ball game. Most facilities don't use hospice instead the patient is put on comfort care again with consent.
If your loved one is at home and the time is near hospice is called. They explain the process and what it is that they do. Most importantly what they don't do. They don't care for the patient as one would expect from a facility or hospital. There job is to allow the dieing process regardless of the unfortunate affects it may have on the person caring for that loved one. Can that be cold and unsympathetic absolutely. I remember when I was having my leg amputated my doctor said the hardest thing for him was that he could give me everything the law allowed to make me comfortable as best he could. He said what he can't do is treat the family standing at the foot of the bed.
I dont agree with hospice but I do understand the purpose. When a person is at the end of life our loved ones caring for this person sees the end and some will panic and want hospice to come and fix it. Unfortunately that is not their job. Could they hurry to your home and shoot them up with a drug that knocks them out so they for lack of a better word look like they are going to sleep and not waking up sure. Should that happen the only rest that is received is for the person standing at the foot of the bed.
I feel you are so angry at what ever took place for you and for that I truly am sorry for your loss. However it seems the hardest thing for you is to move forward and care for yourself. That is one thing your loved one would hope that you do. as your loved one regardless of your ranting is now at peace. Please do the same.
Or you could drink alcohol excessively for many years and die of cirrhosis. For alcoholics, that's apparently a happy happy way to go, as I know some who have done that (though they weren't too happy at the end, considering the pain they were in). Or you could overdose on a drug as many do. Snuffs them out, perhaps painlessly. Or as my friend's sister did, stop eating. Takes about a week to die.
Choices. They are so empowering. No hospice for you! Totally understandable.
I just heard that from a random source and i am NOT a believer that because it is on the internet it is true. So i thought I would ask you, as you seem to understand these heavy drugs.
This is OPs second duplicating post over 24 hours.
His post is yet another post attempting to bash Hospice.
Hospice is a matter of personal choice, not a requirement.
Please consider closing OPs post to further comment or removing duplicating posts.
Self-reporting my comment so as to call post to admin's attention for decision.
My brother, as you know, had probable early Lewy's Dementia which was diagnosed at 84 by his symptoms, after a bad car accident.
He so wanted to die, and we had many discussions. He didn't want to do any of the Final Exit stuff; but he hoped he would be able to die of something before his mind was taken from him.
As luck would have it my brother got sepsis from a small cut on his shin that he managed to keep hidden for some time. He got MRSA and sepsis. We fought to get him back to his beloved ALF on Hospice when it was recognized that he was resistant to treatment.
He was GLAD that he was dying before Lewy's could get him. I am myself so thankful. And yup, he was kept stoned out of his mind, in fact medicated below the level of dreaming. Whether sepsis took him or morphine, et al took him, I am eternally grateful that the Grim Reaper beat out the grim years of Lewy's ahead of him.
Perhaps out best answer to arrest and his repetitive posts is simply to tell our own stories of hospice, and to remind all that this is a choice we have, not a mandate.
Clearly and sadly arrest has had a loss that has "affected" him in a way that has made him take up a tilting at windmills. He/she deserves our sympathy, I guess.
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Though he had no pain requiring morphine, had no psychological issues requiring Haldol, and was allergic to Ativan, the hospice nurse had already visited and left Haldol, Ativan, Morphine and Phenergan, all of which the hospital physician had ordered...
https://lifeissues.net/writers/pan/pan_89sondiedinhospice.html
In St. Stephen, Minn., Leo Fuerstenberg, 63, a retired Veterans Affairs counselor, died panicked and gasping for air on Feb. 22, 2016, with no pain medication, according to his wife. Laure Fuerstenberg, 58, said a shipment sent from Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice included an oxygen tank, a box of eye drops and nose drops, but no painkillers.
Leo Fuerstenberg of St. Stephen, Minn., shown here in 2013, died in home hospice care in February 2016 at age 63. His wife, Laure, said hospice staff failed to respond to her calls for help as he struggled to breathe.
COURTESY OF LAURE FUERSTENBERG
Leo Fuerstenberg of St. Stephen, Minn., shown here in 2013, died in home hospice care in February 2016 at age 63. His wife, Laure, said hospice staff failed to respond to her calls for help as he struggled to breathe.
“They were prescription drugs, but it didn’t say what they were or how to give them,” she recalled. “I just panicked. I called the hospice, and I said, ‘We’re in trouble. I need help right away.’ I waited and waited. They never called back.”
For more than two hours, she tried desperately to comfort her husband, who had an aggressive form of amyloidosis, a rare disease that affects the organs. But he died in her arms in bed, trapping her under the weight of his body until she managed to call neighbors for help.
“That last part of it was really horrible,” she said. “The one thing I promised him is that he wouldn’t be in pain, he wouldn’t suffer.”
Later, state investigators determined that Heartland’s on-duty hospice nurse had muted her cellphone, missing 16 calls for help. Hospice officials did not respond to repeated interview requests.
“They never followed their protocol, and I’ve never had anybody from there say ‘We failed, we were wrong,’” said Fuerstenberg, a school counselor who said she relives her husband’s death daily. “If that had been me on my job, I’d be fired.”
Her account was among more than 1,000 citizen complaints that led investigators to uncover wrongdoing from January 2012 to February 2017, federal records show. But experts who study hospice say many more families may be too traumatized to take further action.
In Minnesota, Fuerstenberg’s pleas for help went unanswered on a Sunday evening; her husband died just after midnight on Monday. She was appalled when she received a bill for care the agency said occurred on that day.
“When they got paid for nothing, it was like a slap in the face,” said Fuerstenberg, who filed a complaint with Minnesota health officials last year. She heard nothing about the case from hospice officials and didn’t learn it had been investigated until she was contacted by Kaiser Health News.
At the time of her admittance to Coastal Hospice, the woman was described as alert, calm, cooperative, and oriented. She underwent no additional evaluation or assessment, and the healthcare providers at Coastal did not consult with her to develop an appropriate pain management and treatment plan.
At Coastal Hospice the woman was treated with a medication schedule including Methadone, Ativan, Haldol, Roxanol, and Lorazepam. Soon thereafter, she became minimally responsive and her doctor decreased the quantities of her medication.
The next day, her doses of Ativan and Methadone were discontinued entirely after her family raised concerns, but she was later restarted on Methadone and Ativan and started on Phenobarbital when she became "agitated."
Nine days after her admittance to Coastal Hospice, the woman passed away.
https://malpracticecases.millerandzois.com/hospice-medication-error-lawsuit.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hospice-overdosed-patients-to-hasten-their-deaths-former-health-care-executive-alleges_n_5aff1d4ae4b0a046186b6954
https://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/hospice-inc/top-offending-hospices-rarely-punished
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-one-is-coming-hospice-patients-abandoned-at-deaths_b_59f3495de4b05f0ade1b5699
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Serious side effects of Haloperidol or Haldol
Haloperidol / Haldol---cardiac arrest-Unwanted drug effects diminish the quality of life and may lead to a suboptimal dying process. HALDOL/ haloperidol....The most common side effects include extrapyramidal disorder, insomnia, AGITATION, difficulty with swallowing
inability to move the eyes
loss of balance control
mask-like face
muscle spasms, especially of the neck and back
restlessness or need to keep moving (severe)
shuffling walk
stiffness of the arms and legs
trembling and shaking of the fingers and hands
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