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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 651451" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Actually, it's getting worse for me.</p><p>Yesterday at 7 a.m., cousin P fell and broke her hip. I met her at the ER a couple of hrs later. Spent the entire day and half of the night at the hospital. I was exhausted.</p><p>She did well with the surgery.</p><p>Or so I thought.</p><p>Today, I discovered that she had had no pain medications except Tylenol after the surgery, and not a single psychiatric medication.</p><p>She lost a lot of blood, and her blood pressure was extremely low.</p><p>I handed them a DNR, by coincidence (I was holding off because it's old, and our puppy ate half of it and it's embarrassing) but by coincidence, it happened to be today that I brought it to the nurses' station. The nurse changed her tune and said that she could call the dr and give cousin P pain medications, just a liquid form of Tylenol by IV that is very strong, because of the DNR.</p><p>WTH? Torture an 86-yr-old right after hip surgery when she wants to die anyway?</p><p>I told her that the pain medications could kill her and she said she didn't care. I know. She has told me that a million times before.</p><p>She is now wearing a purple DNR bracelet. Her blood pressure came up a bit. They gave her two units of blood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 651451, member: 3419"] Actually, it's getting worse for me. Yesterday at 7 a.m., cousin P fell and broke her hip. I met her at the ER a couple of hrs later. Spent the entire day and half of the night at the hospital. I was exhausted. She did well with the surgery. Or so I thought. Today, I discovered that she had had no pain medications except Tylenol after the surgery, and not a single psychiatric medication. She lost a lot of blood, and her blood pressure was extremely low. I handed them a DNR, by coincidence (I was holding off because it's old, and our puppy ate half of it and it's embarrassing) but by coincidence, it happened to be today that I brought it to the nurses' station. The nurse changed her tune and said that she could call the dr and give cousin P pain medications, just a liquid form of Tylenol by IV that is very strong, because of the DNR. WTH? Torture an 86-yr-old right after hip surgery when she wants to die anyway? I told her that the pain medications could kill her and she said she didn't care. I know. She has told me that a million times before. She is now wearing a purple DNR bracelet. Her blood pressure came up a bit. They gave her two units of blood. [/QUOTE]
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