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Hospice patient. Real Time. Real World. UPDATE: Noslot Gained His Wings Last Night. pg 11
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[quote:Noslot:MV80MTEzNDc5Xzc0NzIzNDc4X0VDMTY3NDY4] Meet Ralph …my jealous, arrogant and prideful intellect and he’s not going to go quietly into that good night. Ralph believes that somehow, if given enough knowledge and he manages well, he might be able to alter the outcome. Because…well…he’s a brilliant fellow! Unsurprisingly Ralph has caused me problems throughout my life. When told it was time to explore hospice Ralphs best efforts couldn’t alter the outcome and for what its worth now I'm a reasonably informed dying man and probably a real bore at parties. When I tried to introduce Ralph I discovered everyone was already painfully aware of him. They told me how they would listen to me [play with my brain] and think how frightened I must be. I wasn’t fooling anyone. While my bodies job is to fight disease the irony is that eventually it will end up feeding it. I think somewhere in this is when I decided to befriend it. Confront my mortality and get honest with myself. What was I afraid of? Perhaps I was afraid to learn that I lived hiding in plain sight to prevent the discovery that I was squandering my life. The only thing thats important is right now. This moment. This moment is all I have. Tomorrow is not yet here and yesterday is gone forever. Why do we wait? [/quote]
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I am a in-home hospice patient and this is an experiment. I’m seeking a conversation with someone currently admitted into any kind of hospice program as we live out this journey.
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The only thing I’m an expert about is my experience and frankly the same goes for everyone else.
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I will use whatever power I have in my role as the benevolent dictator of this thread. There will be no arguments about God, medical politics, ethics or anything else that annoys me. This is the part of being a benevolent dictator that is appealing!
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This thread isn’t about your Aunt Mary’s or Gramps experiences or to vent your opinions about hospice, death, dying, politics of dying, medical monsters or anything else. Its about your personal experience as a real time, real world, real person hospice patient. Having said this others are welcome to ask appropriate questions, but any answer I may provide is just my personal opinion based upon my experience. This is GLP and I know a certain chaos must prevail to keep the energy here alive.
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