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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually they seem to be accurate. But my MIL lasted 3 weeks (which is crazy) after she went nonresponsive and hospice ceased food and water. THREE WEEKS. was torture for everyone. [/quote]

Ditto my aunt.  A month. Hospice doc took heroic efforts despite a DNR which resulted in a bit of a rebound - long enough for my aunt to wake up and hate on everyone because she could not go home. She needed 24/7 care, could not even lift her hand to eat, but would not accept that. It was everyone else’s fault. In the meantime, I had gone home (cross country) knowing she was in a good place and had family to visit, but had to endure hospice social worker calling me and berating me for going home instead of taking my aunt home and doing 24/7 care by myself. By the third time, I told her not to call me again or I was reporting her. Aunt was in magical thinking mode that she was going to recover (from end stage pancreatic cancer). Not her fault, but it was hell on everyone.
Took me six full months to mentally recover.[/quote]

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