Apple, Table, Penny posted this under the hospice house thread, but I have moved it, so everyone will see it. I have also moved the condolence messages to this thread.
My sincere condolences to you on the loss of your husband.
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apple,table,penny 1 hour ago edit delete My husband passed away at an in-patient hospice care center last week. He was hospitalized for a week with a brain hemorrhage (apparently the amyloid plaque of Alzheimer's had deposited in his arteries and was cracking them.) After a week in ICU I requested a hospice evaluation and he was transferred to a hospice house (now called care center) near our home where he died almost 6 days later. It was such a calm and peaceful location and the care was excellent. Hospice clearly grasped that a massive brain bleed in an Alzheimer's patient at about level 6b, 6c would not allow him to recover. (The ICU with its intensivists and hospitalists seemed concerned with a beating heart and functioning lungs rather than the quality of life that would be left.) As he was 68, Medicare will pay for his stay with Hospice.
myrtle 1 hour ago edit delete apple, table, penny, I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. Thank goodness that you were there to intervene with the ICU doctors and that hospice was there to give your husband the kind of care he needed.
elizabeth* 9/2/14 56 minutes ago edit delete My thoughts and prayers are with you, Apple, table, penny. So sorry for your loss. It sounds like you did a great job of helping organize his care in those final days.
Aunt B * 1/16/2015 31 minutes ago edit delete My condolences also apple....
mary75* 7 minutes ago edit delete Sincere condolences on your loss.