Thursday, October 08, 2009

Hospitals

Any conversation which includes the phrases 'long term acute care' and 'advanced directive' is not a particularly pleasant one.

3 comments:

Tabor said...

The goal is to make it through life and not ever hear those words...fat chance though.

Cerulean Bill said...

Yeah. Things aren't desperate, but they're not rosy, either. Thing is, they're trying to get her back to a relatively 'normal' state, but her 'normal' was degraded before this started.

I was startled to find that if I say DNR or something similar, a doctor must approve it. I don't agree with that.

Tabor said...

The doctor must only approve if you do not have a directive. When my MIL moved in with us we took her to a lawyer and had her will revised for our state and also talked to her about a DNR directive which she agreed to. She was in pretty good health at this time and I am so thankful we did that.