MT TRUCKING IS A DISGRACE TO THE TRUCKING BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a guy at the concrete plant that drove for quite awhile on dialysis.

The dialysis only removes so much of the toxins though. And what happens is you just nod out at anytime.

He eventually lost his card. He also received a transplant later, but I don't know if he ever drove again.

Dad had end stage, and it came on like a sledgehammer.

I don't know the different levels.

 

OR NOT!!!!!

 

that's what happened to dad...hospice.

he had COPD, and stage 4 kidney failure, then he was coughing and coughing all day/night long. i wanted to take him to the doctor, he said no, all they do is give you pills. he ended up in the hospital, (he had pneumonia) where he was given......pills...and IV's......then it was hospice, he would never survive at home, he lived nearly 2 weeks.

 

i think it is 5 levels, with 5 being the end....

 

He's lucky in a way. Our hospitals do not provide pills, shots or IV's where at all possible. ESPECIALLY when they learn you are with a Pain Clinic. OR have a history of drug seeking and worse behaviors.

One of our grand parents had a form of leukemia a blood cancer of sorts. Before it hit her she was really good in her last year of life after burying her filthy degenerate husband who was married for 60 some years roughly. Anyway. Docs were all happy during the process of chemo until one week her blood labs showed a absolute and final irrevocable collapse in the panel the body essentially quit producing the necessary stuff needed for life probably systemwide.

So in 3 days flat they went from telling her to get a exercise bike or something to enjoy life to telling her to go to hospice. The IV Person was standing there with powerful drugs in big bags ready to put her out the moment all the goodbyes were said to everyone. (That took about two days) She was gone in 10. No suffering to be sure but when you cut off fluids and food etc and do things with those drugs that is final and so on Hospice is really good at that. I caught certain tidbits from the family as she degraded in that bed really rapidly. It was a closed casket funeral for that reason. Even though everyone there has had been with her in person 10 days before.

 

here in hospice, they shoot you up with morphine. you're ok for a while, you eat, drink, then you just stop eating and drinking, and they give you more morphine to kill your pains.

you go quietly. literally, in your sleep.

he actually died in my arms, April Fool's Day, 2016, at 5:35 PM...sis and i just got there like 25 minutes earlier. we were called to get there ASAP, mom was already there.

nurse was really sweet too. dad would make all of them laugh. this one nurse that took his pulse/heart beat told us he is gone, and then said, "that's your dad, getting in the last joke"...

we/they knew dad, and that was not taken in any way offensive.

 

Morphine for most people given in a certain amount per hour or daily totals far exceeding between 30 to 120 MME (Pain patients in Arkansas limited to 80 mme without challenge for evidence to 120 max daily.. example of 120 Mme Max is 4 Oxycodone x 10 mg/daily with 325 apap)

There are higher level pain medicine in IV form including Fentanyal. I cannot use it in patch form but they have given me about 5 minutes worth via IV a few weeks ago and it knocked me down enough for the crew to work really fast with needles and sonic tools. Took me two days to come back up.

Im not here to try and be difficult. Hospice is something I consider very good to people who have need of it. My spouse was a caregiver and there were times she came home saying that a Alzheimer patient has degenerated enough in the brain to the point of losing automatic regulation of various body functions when become painful and terminal. Those get sent to Hospice. Others who are not in pain but beyond knowledge, literally like a baby are kept comfortable with food and water until the heart or lungs fail when the brain stem corrodes enough or something else kills them like fluid in lungs.

My mother had surgery liver transplant. Then she ended up on life support for infections. They finally pulled the plug after about 6 weeks and 255,000 dollars in billing racked up. It turned out the liver was not what killing her but actually it's response to a preexisting infectious group of cells or bacteria that was between her lungs at the trachea in the chest wall. That was dumping waste into the blood and the liver could not deal with it. And finally there was no point as it spread. She did not suffer because we suspect she was already brain dead 4 days prior. (There is a definitive test for that to be sure...)

What really gets me is pets. You would think pets are of value and have love etc. There is no price or money you can buy a good pet. But when I have to take one to the vet to be put down, that's very difficult. I usually go back to my horse farm days when I do some butcher work after losing a prized colt or filly to whatever it was that killed them before they get a chance to live. So that helps a little bit.

The one thing this Nation needs in my opinion is a Swiss Duplicate of Laws that allow people who have suffered enough but otherwise all the lights on mentally and enduring it year after year should have the option to flip a switch and pass on shortly after. This Nation does not have very good support for those. They insist on prolonging everything beyond reason. But I see that in some areas that's changing. However it's a fight for many.

I think that's enough about my thoughts here. I leave with one more thought.

BE very careful that youre not told to go to Hospice for nothing. There is a increasing number of what is called Hospice survivors who have been through the 6 months of it allowed at a cost of between 600 to 1500 or more daily billed to the Government. (To the People) and sometimes a examination post hospice has revealed it was not necessary at that point in life. So be very careful with that particular situation.

 

we had Dr. Kevorkian...some saw him as a saint, others as the devil himself.

 

Oh ya. I heard of the name. But I don't recall the controversy. I might do some reading today to catch up. Man Im slow and old sometimes.

 

Jack Kevorkian - Wikipedia

i think, though cannot swear to it, hospice came about after him, cuz i know, i never heard of hospice.........