cueball1950
01-30-2008, 12:37 AM
everybody;
I am a little late posting this on here. I did post it on another forum hoping that someone that posts on both would post it here for me....A week ago yesterday (monday), my wife Barbara was again transferred by ambulance back to Albany Medical Hospital for not being responsive. I gave her her medications at 10PM like always and about 10:45 i heard her gasping, choking. When i went in to check on her she was drooling from the side of her mouth & could not open her eyes and could not talk. I called 911 right away and had an ambulance come get her and take her back to the hospital. She was in a comatose state. (that is the only way i can describe it, since she was not acknowledging anybody and not responding to anything) It all apparently all started because she had not moved her bowels only once in 10 days and her medications backed up on her causing this problem. Please believe me when i say that this was totally unintentional. She was in the hospital for 5 days and the Doctors there have since changed and or canceled a lot of her meds.
We, the children and myself, have decided that this in all likely hood will be her last hospital stay since the Doctors she has have flat out told us that there is nothing further that they can do except to treat her symptomatically. (ie; pain killers for pain etc) Her wish is to pass here at home in her own bed. And we all feel that we must honor her last wishes. i have her health care proxy and her power of attorney and will. So just about everything is in order when her time does eventually come I want to thank all of you in advance for your prayers and to apologize for not being a more active participant on this board. But i do lurk just about everyday for a couple of seconds......mike
I am a little late posting this on here. I did post it on another forum hoping that someone that posts on both would post it here for me....A week ago yesterday (monday), my wife Barbara was again transferred by ambulance back to Albany Medical Hospital for not being responsive. I gave her her medications at 10PM like always and about 10:45 i heard her gasping, choking. When i went in to check on her she was drooling from the side of her mouth & could not open her eyes and could not talk. I called 911 right away and had an ambulance come get her and take her back to the hospital. She was in a comatose state. (that is the only way i can describe it, since she was not acknowledging anybody and not responding to anything) It all apparently all started because she had not moved her bowels only once in 10 days and her medications backed up on her causing this problem. Please believe me when i say that this was totally unintentional. She was in the hospital for 5 days and the Doctors there have since changed and or canceled a lot of her meds.
We, the children and myself, have decided that this in all likely hood will be her last hospital stay since the Doctors she has have flat out told us that there is nothing further that they can do except to treat her symptomatically. (ie; pain killers for pain etc) Her wish is to pass here at home in her own bed. And we all feel that we must honor her last wishes. i have her health care proxy and her power of attorney and will. So just about everything is in order when her time does eventually come I want to thank all of you in advance for your prayers and to apologize for not being a more active participant on this board. But i do lurk just about everyday for a couple of seconds......mike