I agree 100%.Hospice allows a family member t administer Morphine,and l disagree with that.
It certainly does slow heart rate down and kill the patient,plus,the patient cant talk,or tell u they are in pain.Its very sad t see it..
You are right. Founded out too late! My father died from terminal sedation; did not eat or drink as they sedated him to death! No Taylor Hospice Ridley Park PA
You are in my prayers. My grandmother recently died after being given .05 cc's and 2 cc's of morphine and lasix. She died within hours of this. She fought to live and the family nor she was prepared for the outcome of this act.
My father is 90yrs.old he just had surgery he had a blockage in his small intestine and colon the size of a softball. He's on morphine and has been on morphine for over a week and a half. Is that safe for someone who's 90??? I have to ask his doctor
I wish I could contact you but I don't think my reply is gonna go through.
Is there a coalition we can begin?This happened to my 94 year old Nana.I gave her water from the sponge after she was asleep for hours and she responded by biting down on the sponge and then coughing,with no avail from the hospice nurse to help her and told me not to do that again and that she wasn't responding that Nana was just reflexing before she died and I fell for it!I knew something was weird but I couldn't place it in my mind!!
Well,anybody who has any compassion would,that's not the issue here,the issue is that families are being lied to,maybe not you're but others feel they have been lied to.It seems like a problem,I'm happy for the way you feel but you don't know how your lived one really felt if this happened to them.
I am sitting here watching it happen to my father right in front of my face and I am absolutely FURIOUS. He was taken from my home one day ago, he is now a zombie, cant do anything cant even open his eyes, cant speak he looks like he is on deaths door. I just witnessed a nurse give him more medicine I woke up to it n was told he looked in pain WHAT he hasn't moved and he has been so stoned all day how could he possibly need more pain medication
Hospice RNs are LIARS.
Just went through this two months ago with my 86 yr old mother. Ovarian cancer which spread to Colon and her lungs. Said she had 1-2 months to live. Put in hospice at home where I took care of her. Lasted only a week in hospice. They gave me Morphine Sulfate and said it was for the pain. For the tenth time I told them she didn't have any pain at all. She would get out of breath if she talked for a while due to fluid build up in the lungs. They said the Morphine Sulfate would help relax her breathing. They wanted me to give her .25-.50 every 2 hours. I wanted to make sure she didn't have any side effects from it so I asked if I could give her less (.10). Yes. She slept well. 2 1/2 hours later I asked if I could up it to .15. Yes. Two hours later she was unresponsive and then died in the ER. Personally, I think the morphine lowered the blood pressure too much. In my opinion, it should only be taken as a last resort and I do mean Last resort. Ridiculous all the side effects from every drug. I remember a time in the 1970s when you could go to a doctor and get medicine that would actually help you without horrible side effects.
My father was taken from his home by new hospice referral, they put him in their inpatient hospice house, immediately began drugging him. He died 10 days later. He had cardiac disease. He never regained consciousness after the first night he was there. The RN said he was done, but it was the drugs that made him limp. I watched as my dad was euthanized powerless as they said he was dying. He was taking and aware the night before. I cannot imagine the pure horror he went through knowing he was being drugged to death against his will. No one deserves that! Do not go to inpatient hospice unless that is what you want. They lie to get you there. It is a very gray area and they are getting away with murder! Please protect your parents. It can happen to you. I wish I was warned. My dad would be sitting in his chair right now. I miss him and he was murdered!
My father was on morphine for one day and passed away a day later. Was not told he was on morphine. At least I know he did on suffer.
My grandfather was given morphine and Ativan to "calm" his rapid breathing after having been taken of his oxygen tube, which didn't result in anything catastrophic, he was breathing just fine. Then a nurse came with doctors orders to give him Morphine and Ativan, when he was not even in pain or anxious to need Ativan. The nurse walked in saying that she had never seen a patient breathe so fast and then injected both the Morphine and the Ativan into IV. My grandfather's systolic and diastolic levels dropped substantially and the oxygen from 100 to 69, then I complained and the nurse denied that the oxygen was at 100 and that she had ever said that she had never seen a patient breathing so quickly - she denied it all! Also, the other nurse told me that they were trying to make my grandfather feel better, and I said, "Feel better? That is your translation to putting him to death slowly." And in the process, the first nurse called a security guard. All of this happened because the doctor had influenced my grandma initially by saying that my grandfather was really ill when he really wasn't and my grandfather was feeling perfectly fine so much so that he opened his eyes the first day that I saw him which was 2 days ago, and I played worship music for him and I asked him if he liked it and if he wanted me to keep it on for him and he nodded. He is perfectly fine. In fact, my grandfather is doing so well, that I know he's going to be okay, but this additional medication is not going to help him. My grandmother gave the consent to the doctor and they had a meeting together where they decided how it was going to happen, without even asking me or my dad, my grandfather's son, to be involved on the meeting. Please someone help and show me what to do, because the doctor doesn't want to help me. He just wants to keep pushing his agenda. In fact, before all this happened, I had asked one of the nurses if they could increase his oxygen level on the tube to pump more air and they both said "no". And one said she couldn't do it. She was going to initially she said, to make me happy but she never followed through with it and then sbe said that I could talk to the doctor and ask him. The other nurse said it wouldn't make a difference. But he is not in such a bad situation for it not to make a difference, if he wouldv'e gotten the oxygen increased, his lungs would've gotten stronger because of more oxygen. Then I asked the doctor and he said no that there was no need for it. And I said yes, there is a need for it, a need to keep him alive and he fought me over the phone and raised his voice and I told him that he didn't have to raise his voice. What can I do? If my grandmother has power of attorney over my grandfather? Can we override that in any way as his family members, his granddaughter?
The FDA recently issued a warning of combining Ativan with Morphine because it is deadly. My husband died due to the effects of these drugs they cause respiratory arrest which is a medical emergency. Many have died the same way and the death is listed as the disease they had instead of the drug. I started a facebook group Murdered By Hospice, many stories of deaths by drugs. We the families were not informed of the risks of these medications and when our families started having breathing difficulties from them we are told it's because they are dying. Your grandmother needs to be informed that these drugs will kill your grandfather. Please contact Hospice Patients Alliance. One of the members has a facebook group Hidden Realities of Hospice and Our Healthcare System. Someone will be glad to talk to you and your grandmother.