General Chat

I do wonder sometimes if it would be kinder to let nature take it's course, I had to fight to get a do not resuscitate for Mum, what would have been the point of prolonging an already barely existing life?

When my brother in law died at home suddenly and oh so peacefully, my sister rang 999 and I had to take the phone to refuse to try and start his heart again as he was riddled with cancer. His last words were 'If I'm going to die I will die in my own bed"

We took him there, he laid down, smiled and sighed the deepest sigh I've ever heard and slipped away.

The ambulance people came and we spent a horrendous 20 minutes listening to the machine as they tried and failed to bring him back....................something my sister has never got over.

Mother Nature sometimes knows best.

Do you remember my posting of a thread about a little girl with multiple problems who was fighting yet another infection?

With the aid of a great many doses of very strong antibiotics, she has again recovered to continue her existence.

The family love her dearly and are devoting all their time to her welfare and stimulation. Her mother still as the two horses she has had for years and she needs them.

Research on their part reveals that they may have her for another twenty or even thirty years. Much as they adore the little one, they are scared of the prospect of caring for a huge baby for so long and her very life precludes the possibility of future healthy children.

Everybody prepares themselves each time she is ill but medical staff are duty bound to intervene with nature just as when my mother was in a diabetic coma and the doctor was obliged to bring her back to suffer another ten days of bowel cancer before she died and the operator insisted I should throw Fred on the ground and pump is chest after he had slipped so peacefully away. I said I had but I was lying!.