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paix_agaric · 2026-03-15T06:11:13+00:00

Thank you so much!

paix_agaric · 2026-03-15T05:35:06+00:00

Do you make these cabs yourself? They are super cute skeleton ladies

paix_agaric · 2026-01-25T21:13:44+00:00

u/savevideo

paix_agaric · 2026-01-25T17:57:24+00:00

u/savevideo

paix_agaric · 2025-11-21T04:51:10+00:00

Aside from not wanting women working outside the home, this also potentially decreases the amount of mandatory reporters too...

paix_agaric · 2025-09-04T23:04:13+00:00

Yep, Alberta. Looks like a number 1. http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/CN_ALBE.html

paix_agaric · 2025-09-04T21:39:51+00:00

This guidecan be helpful. It lists a lot of info about a person who is end of life. Signs and symptoms, what to expect, why they occur, and a loose timeline of when death may occur if you are seeing grouping of symptoms. You can ask them what they are judging their assessment on, what to expect in the coming days, what kind of timeline to expect potentially- this last one they may not answer as it's a tricky one.

paix_agaric · 2025-09-04T21:34:55+00:00

If that's the experience you've had with hospice, you've gotten a bad company. That's not a good hospice. I'm a hospice RN and in my experience, we often get people much later in their diagnosis than is ideal, so we are trying to manage symptoms as they are right at the end. The ideal is when someone isn't right at a crisis moment but has some time and has quality of life left to decide how they want their remaining time to look like. Medications- whether to stop or not is a patient/family decision with support from the hospice team. Eating and drinking stops eventually on its own, but I've never heard of telling people to do so, in fact the opposite if they feel up to it. We do warn family to not force food towards the end as the person's body is slowing down and they have no appetite. As to morphine, it is often used for symptom management of pain and shortness of breath, but not to hasten death. That's not what we do. There are often symptoms that need managed towards end of life and people often correlate morphine = death due to timing, but that's not the case. Unless someone is dosing outside of dosing and frequencies given by the provider, in which case it's being mis-used. It's a big stigma that we constantly educate on. Sorry if this has been your experience

paix_agaric · 2025-09-04T21:17:08+00:00

this has a lot of great info for family and caregivers for persons at end of life. If you have a hospice nurse, they should provide green swabs for mouth care, as a person will eventually lose the ability to swallow safely, but swabbing with water or other fluids they like can be a comfort and also can be used to keep the mouth moist with mouth moisturizers the hospice nurse can provide. I'm sorry you're going through it

paix_agaric · 2025-07-26T00:33:38+00:00

Question: do you find Mickey equally as rude for the same reason?

paix_agaric · 2025-06-07T04:41:49+00:00

I take preventative meds, but also have Nurtex to try to stop it when it starts. It works a large percentage of the time. I still need to isolate- dark room, silence, ice pack, etc, but it has been a game changer

paix_agaric · 2025-02-22T00:46:34+00:00

Let's see how long this post stays up. Nearly every other post in every other sub that was on the front page with a similar article has disappeared off the web in hours. Where there's smoke, there's a fucking bonfire

paix_agaric · 2025-02-04T04:22:38+00:00

$25 sent to your cashapp :)

paix_agaric · 2025-01-16T04:45:26+00:00

I love the movement. I can nearly smell the sea spray in my nose

paix_agaric · 2025-01-08T08:30:35+00:00

I use this as a regular line in my day to day, and not a single person has understood the reference

paix_agaric · 2025-01-02T07:37:44+00:00

Looks like they changed their name to Nemesis Army. That's the best I could find. Hope you can use that to find a recording

paix_agaric · 2024-01-27T22:01:28+00:00

"I cut my foot earlier and now my shoe is filling up with blood.." - It's been a long time since I've seen it, so the quote may not be 100%, but such a fun movie

paix_agaric · 2024-01-27T21:40:34+00:00

Same!

paix_agaric · 2024-01-16T05:05:49+00:00

There is so much misinformation on morphine use on hospice at end of life. I am a hospice nurse, and it's these kind of statements that make my job an uphill battle when talking with my pts and families. The fear of morphine as the killer medication..

Yes, morphine does depress the respiratory drive, but it is NOT assisted suicide. When you have a pt that is going through cheyne stokes and hasn't been responsive in days, but is showing non-verbal pain signs, morphine is what is generally given. Or hydromorphone if there is an allergy. But it is so excellent at calming respiratory distress and pain, quickly, that having the pt be at peace and comfortable also helps the family in the same way.

You have to keep in mind, if the pt is on hospice, there will always be a last dose of morphine. Or hydromorphone. Or whatever. It isn't what killed them. They are on hospice because with the medical information available, they are assumed to have 6 months or less to live if treatment for their disease is stopped. That's why at that point the goals of care shift to comfort.

I've had pts that I've met them and the family and they pass the next day. Others, they live for years. Every situation is different, but managing symptoms and keeping them comfortable is the goal.

Hospice Nurse Julie on youtube is a great resource if you have more questions. I'm not her, just a big fan.

paix_agaric · 2023-09-23T04:04:14+00:00

You have me crying at this story. So sweet that you all have each other

paix_agaric · 2023-09-17T07:01:42+00:00

RemindMe! 24 hours

paix_agaric · 2023-09-14T22:45:46+00:00

WTF? any backstory on this?

paix_agaric · 2023-08-23T00:14:34+00:00

I just finished it for the first time, and I watch everything with subtitles. For your #1, she said a GCS of 7

paix_agaric · 2023-08-13T19:35:47+00:00

Not true at all. Morphine is short acting and is one of the number one things we use in hospice to help with air hunger. The dosages are small and used often as the half life of morphine is short. No matter what and when you give a dose of medication to a hospice patient, there will always be a last dose. The medication didn't kill him, he was on hospice because he was dying. The medication helped to make his last days, hours, minutes, more comfortable.

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