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What is hospice care? Info and resources for end of life.
You may feel good for an extended period of time if you decide to stop treating the cancer. But eventually you may need help controlling pain or other symptoms and staying strong. Hospice care offers physical, emotional, and spiritual support at a center or in your own home. Hospice care is covered by most health insurance…
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Medication to diminish/remove distress
Hi, I am not searching the answer to my query which may be somewhere here - forgive me, my eyesight is not good for it. what is the most correct one to use -please note that my distress is coming from progressive loss of hearing ,limitations on movement, progressive loss of vision ,speech, eating, drinking, body not…
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Practical Advice About Home Hospice/Home Care
Started this thread because I found that the transition to hospice at home was more complex than I expected and there are many others here who had helpful tips. Many tips were not from those in hospice but from friends who figured out how to do things despite limited mobility. Looking at the past posts, the following was…
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Guidelines Provide Individualized Palliative Care for MBC
Guidelines Help Oncologists Provide Individualized Palliative Care for People Diagnosed With Metastatic Breast Cancer August 3, 2021 General oncologists have received new specific, practical recommendations on how to offer individualized palliative care to people diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Read more...
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No more Treatment? What if I let Nature take its course?
Hi to all of us, In 2012, Cindy Rose started this a thread like this, may she rest in peace (2013). The topic thread seems to have "faded away"... But I remain curious and interested. Do others have thoughts about "What if I quit treatment, and let Nature take it's course"? I would love to hear about others' courage to…
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No treatments for me.
I've already had chemo twice for bone cancer when I was much younger so when I was told that chemo would only possibly give me a little more time but most likely the SE would do more damage than the bc I declined to have any treatment at all. I'm on Hospice now and only treating the pain. I was diagnosed at stage four, but…