morphine

Hello, I hope you can help me, and I apologize for asking such a difficult question, but I feel very overwhelmed right now. My mother was diagnosed in July with extremely progressive ALS. When she was diagnosed her lung capacity was at 30% and has diminished considerably since then (while...

Hi all. Doing well, just one more question. Dad is using his trilogy vent mask with oxygen attached and alternating with his cough machine. He does this all day long. We give him anxiety medicine and he sleeps a little then goes right back to it. It is very tiring for Dad and me. I tried giving...

Mom is now on morphine every 2 hours and oxygen 24/7 as prescribed by our hospice nurse. They think she has less than a week now - more like a few days.. but her body is young (she's 56) and her will to live is strong. She's trying to fight it. She is sleeping most of the day now and opens her...

Well after a big family wedding that was a lot of fun I am now at home trying to rest up. My body is like a big shovel of really good earth that was placed in a creek of moving water and just slowly little by little it crumbles away almost unnoticeable at first then more and more so as the water...

My pals has gone to be with god tonight. And I didn't understand or listen very well to the calls who've lost their pals. And I feel sick. I am only 33, he was fine a midnight and I went to bed was supposed to be up at 1am for morphine dose but something woke me straight up at 1240am and I flew...

I am going out of my mind, he is basically sleeping coma-tose since Sunday, I don't know what to do. I can't leave him alone, hospice will come everyday now. He is 24hour care now. I don't know what to do. He opens his eyes sometimes only to close them. Has morphine when needed, and uses bipap...

Last pulmonary testing I had the nurse tech allowed me to recline in my pwc to do test. Then after the test were done she gave me a breathing treatment w/ Albuterol in a nebulizer. Then did some of the test again to see if there was a change. When we left my cals noticed I was breathing better...

I have started taking 2.5cc of liquid morphine before I go to bed. We are putting it in juice along with two other medications and then putting it in my feeding tube. Is it alright to feed it directly into the stomach or should it be placed under the tongue? Bill

Today has been a rough day, the last 2 days he has only been able to want 1.5 cans of milk. That's only 12 oz all day. He refuses any more. He has been coughing a lot today, refuses couch assist. He has mostly slept all day to the point where I would stare at him making sure he is breathing. He...

Since last Thursday, a week ago, my pals has started a new process. Sleeping way more, can only tolerate 3 cans of formula via g-tube only. Been using morphine in the day now as well and not just at night. He has stayed in bed all day 2 times this week, and other days only got in his PWC for a...