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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your loved one wants to go home, please take them home to die with hospice. We are talking days, maybe weeks, not months.[/quote] My aunt went over a month, hospice only planned to show up 1x per week (nurse) and 2X per week (aide). I was expected to do 24/7 care on my own. She ended up going inpatient, and I’m left wracked with guilt and terrible PTSD as a result of the whole experience. Mind you this was AFTER 1.5 months of my being there already. When the paramedics came one night, they took one look at me and two of the guys pulled me aside and told me the truth - that this was unsustainable and would result in horror for me. They’ve seen it way too much. Unless OP has a tremendous amount of help, OP should NOT take their loved one home to die. It’s amazing how many people refuse to be there in the end and leave it to one or maybe two people[/quote]
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