Tau837
Footballguy
I was inspired by @Capella 's thread to post this.
I have posted periodically in this forum about my wife's health situation. We got married in 1992, and she has been disabled since 1998, suffering severe chronic pain and other health challenges that got progressively worse over time ever since.
She spent most of September in the hospital due to sepsis and later pneumonia. She was ultimately discharged on 9/30 in hospice care, which was something that was not on our radar when she entered the hospital. Coming home at that point, we didn't know what to expect. Frankly, I didn't really expect that she would live to Christmas.
Thankfully, she seems to be reasonably stable right now. She lives with severe pain at all times, but she has a pain pump giving her pain medication at a level that is probably 3x what she was getting as a severe chronic pain patient for 20+ years before this, thanks to the fact that she is in hospice care. I don't think she could ever come out of hospice care simply because she could not function without that level of pain medication, and she could not get close to that level of pain medication as a non-hospice patient.
I don't know what to expect, but I am thankful for every day we have together now. Needless to say, this is a very stressful situation. I am thankful that I can come here to this forum every day to take my mind off of it. Thanks to all of you for helping with that.
I welcome any advice any of you may have.
I have posted periodically in this forum about my wife's health situation. We got married in 1992, and she has been disabled since 1998, suffering severe chronic pain and other health challenges that got progressively worse over time ever since.
She spent most of September in the hospital due to sepsis and later pneumonia. She was ultimately discharged on 9/30 in hospice care, which was something that was not on our radar when she entered the hospital. Coming home at that point, we didn't know what to expect. Frankly, I didn't really expect that she would live to Christmas.
Thankfully, she seems to be reasonably stable right now. She lives with severe pain at all times, but she has a pain pump giving her pain medication at a level that is probably 3x what she was getting as a severe chronic pain patient for 20+ years before this, thanks to the fact that she is in hospice care. I don't think she could ever come out of hospice care simply because she could not function without that level of pain medication, and she could not get close to that level of pain medication as a non-hospice patient.
I don't know what to expect, but I am thankful for every day we have together now. Needless to say, this is a very stressful situation. I am thankful that I can come here to this forum every day to take my mind off of it. Thanks to all of you for helping with that.
I welcome any advice any of you may have.
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