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Horrible. In the ER every 1-2 weeks for about six months. Stabilized and returned to the nursing home. Rinse, repeat.

Last ER visit turned into cardiac arrest, then ICU with aspiration pneumonia, seepage bleeding from new and old wounds, and finally the DNR and cardiac arrest from choking to death.

Just horrible and protracted.
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and this is why even if hospice meds speed up death (and I do not know one way or another, but I dont think they do), its preferable. Once my mother was clearly never going to recover in a meaningful way (advanced dementia) it made hospice the only choice after she fell and broke bones. But it would be harder decision for someone who was fairly with it before whatever illness/fall, and who could potentially recover, but in the end just decompensates.  MIL had a couple major falls and surgeries, and came back from them--though more frail, still with it and generally capable of enjoying life, though mostly from a wheelchair. However, in the end, she had UTI/sepsis, and just never recovered strength and died in rehab, probably from choking/fluid in lungs from not being able to sit up. [/quote]

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