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<blockquote data-quote="timer lady" data-source="post: 230994" data-attributes="member: 393"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>Your support kept me going through this meeting (one I never want to attend ever in my life time). I was emotional yet firm with husband's final wishes. The DNR remains in place & the DNI has been added according to husband's wishes. As the antibiotic was non-invasive the medical team has refused to remove that therapy. At this point, the same with the feeding tube. If husband takes a downard spiral those 2 issues may come on the table again - non invasive or not.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>In the meantime, CAT scans & EEGs were being ordered to determine husband's brain activity/function, etc.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>(It was extremely intimindating to have 16 people sitting around the table listening to you explain this very somber & serious issue. I kept reminding the ethics group that there is an entire family behind husband that is being affected as well.)</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>I believe I finally have a firm handle on husband's medical condition ~ it seemed like pulling teeth though to get all the information from the medical team. Too many doctors dealing with just one body part. Just so you know, today end stage generally means terminal. It's a cleaner less emotional term for the MDs & families as a whole apparently. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>Now it is up to husband's body to decide ~ he may be moved to an acute rehab unit by the end of the week. Depends on the pnemonia. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>You are all one strong group of ladies & I could feel your presence in the room as I was speaking. Thank you. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timer lady, post: 230994, member: 393"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B]Your support kept me going through this meeting (one I never want to attend ever in my life time). I was emotional yet firm with husband's final wishes. The DNR remains in place & the DNI has been added according to husband's wishes. As the antibiotic was non-invasive the medical team has refused to remove that therapy. At this point, the same with the feeding tube. If husband takes a downard spiral those 2 issues may come on the table again - non invasive or not. In the meantime, CAT scans & EEGs were being ordered to determine husband's brain activity/function, etc. (It was extremely intimindating to have 16 people sitting around the table listening to you explain this very somber & serious issue. I kept reminding the ethics group that there is an entire family behind husband that is being affected as well.) I believe I finally have a firm handle on husband's medical condition ~ it seemed like pulling teeth though to get all the information from the medical team. Too many doctors dealing with just one body part. Just so you know, today end stage generally means terminal. It's a cleaner less emotional term for the MDs & families as a whole apparently. Now it is up to husband's body to decide ~ he may be moved to an acute rehab unit by the end of the week. Depends on the pnemonia. You are all one strong group of ladies & I could feel your presence in the room as I was speaking. Thank you. [/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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