starente15
Senior member
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2014
- Messages
- 809
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 10/2017
- Country
- US
- State
- NJ
- City
- Northern
Hi everyone. Things are gong down hill at a rapid pace. Today hospice had the SW come in for the "talk". My father's bowels appear to not be working and he is constantly constipated. Nothing they have done has resolved the issue and they won't do anything more "aggressive" than an enema, suppositories and manual 'excavation' because his breathing gets out of control.
By making the choice to not go off hospice and pursue something more aggressive, including diagnostic tests that he can't handle, we are at the end as far as things that can be done. They said that he could actually pass from this issue before respiratory failure.
Has anyone else ever experienced this problem at the end stage? I am still in shock.
By making the choice to not go off hospice and pursue something more aggressive, including diagnostic tests that he can't handle, we are at the end as far as things that can be done. They said that he could actually pass from this issue before respiratory failure.
Has anyone else ever experienced this problem at the end stage? I am still in shock.