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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maryland resident in a poor county.  Many in this area get their loved ones in hospice for the free depends and the free hospital beds.

My experience is that seniors are very, very vulnerable when enrolled in hospice.

My sister had Mom enrolled in hospice. Mom was walking a mile a day. Mom had a bad reaction to bactrim. Sister called the out of state off hours call center and the remote RN who knew nothing of MOm told sister to start giving morphine.

When I left town Mom was walking a mile a day and walking around the house. When I returned I could not find MOm in the house. I finally found her. She was unkempt and sitting in a wheel chair. She had never sat in a wheel chair in her life.  She had been on morphine for 3 days.  If I had not returned from my trip Mom would have been dead in several more days. Got her off of the morphine. She suffered severe pain for about a week from morphine induced constipation. I threw hospice out of the house.

Mom is still with us 6 years later.

I forgot to mention the RN when Mom was enrolled said morphine would not hasten death.  It clearly knocked out a lady who was walking a mile a day and would have hastened death.

I had to go to a lot of professional counseling sessions after this incident.[/quote]

Horrifying. I bet you did! I was completely traumatized by hospice too. I helped as long as I could with my aunt, but had to go home (cross country) after she was admitted inpatient. Despite a DNR, doc at hospice revived her and then they started calling me daily and screaming at me to come back so she could go home. They wanted her out of the hospice center. I finally told them I was going to report them to the board if they called one more time. Your situation is even more disturbing and I'm glad you made it home in time.[/quote]

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