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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If patient wants to eat, you might be the one who has to feed it.  Plus, they might jack up so much pain meds they are too zonked out to eat.  And no IV nutrition or water will be given I assume[/quote]

“They” have no business “jacking up” pain medicine beyond that required to treat pain at any given moment. Pain management is an art and requires individualized planning and reassessment. People do not always have to be “snowed” to be comfortable. Some medical personnel are morphine happy with a one size fits all sledgehammer approach. Dying people deserve better. [/quote]

Thank you for saying this. I’ve carried the pain of knowing a nurse overdosed my parent. This nearly did me in and no one understood. [/quote]

I don’t know your circumstances, but sometimes a person is in such terrible pain that they need pain medicine even if it might kill them, as by repressing their breathing. What matters in such cases is the intention, not the result. Perhaps the nurse had the right intention. One can hope so. Perhaps the nurse did not, and if so what they did was wrong. But it was not your doing and it was not your fault. Please try to stop taking this all on yourself. [/quote]

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