An agency nurse who has worked in acute, community and palliative care, reveals some shocking truths about the NHS, its doctors and its current protocols.
My mother was put in hospice after having a stroke (long story short: covid shot led to congestive heart failure, led to several prescriptions, led to 26 months of home care by me, ending in a stroke, that led to ICU, trauma, and invasive testing, followed by hospice and death by morphine). My mother was not in any pain but I could tell she was ready to go. In my view, unless their is significant pain, the use of these drugs is not only unnecessary but interferes with the person's transition from "here to there". It also took away her ability to communicate to us as her Spirit slowly disentangled itself from her body. Ever since, I have wanted to talk to a hospice care professional and ask them if they always administer morphine regardless of the absence of pain? It seems clear it only served to speed up the process as if modern medicine wants to keep us ignorant and frightened of death itself; the truths we can learn from the dying are secreted away in the drug induced silence. Sitting bedside it was as if she was caught in a spider's web, wrapped tightly in invisible thread, and paralyzed by a venomous spider, mouth agape, while her respiration slowed with each passing hour.
Thanks for sharing this. I know how you feel as I watched my mum being slowly euthanised in 2009. I had no idea what was happening at the time. Would it be ok for me to share your comment on Twitter?
Hi Jacqui, I found you through Celia Farber's stack this morning :). Going through your articles now. Yes, you can repost on X/Twitter... why do you suppose the letter X is so prominent in Musk's enterprises? Just another curiosity that floats in my mind ;).
My mother was put in hospice after having a stroke (long story short: covid shot led to congestive heart failure, led to several prescriptions, led to 26 months of home care by me, ending in a stroke, that led to ICU, trauma, and invasive testing, followed by hospice and death by morphine). My mother was not in any pain but I could tell she was ready to go. In my view, unless their is significant pain, the use of these drugs is not only unnecessary but interferes with the person's transition from "here to there". It also took away her ability to communicate to us as her Spirit slowly disentangled itself from her body. Ever since, I have wanted to talk to a hospice care professional and ask them if they always administer morphine regardless of the absence of pain? It seems clear it only served to speed up the process as if modern medicine wants to keep us ignorant and frightened of death itself; the truths we can learn from the dying are secreted away in the drug induced silence. Sitting bedside it was as if she was caught in a spider's web, wrapped tightly in invisible thread, and paralyzed by a venomous spider, mouth agape, while her respiration slowed with each passing hour.
Thanks for sharing this. I know how you feel as I watched my mum being slowly euthanised in 2009. I had no idea what was happening at the time. Would it be ok for me to share your comment on Twitter?
Hi Jacqui, I found you through Celia Farber's stack this morning :). Going through your articles now. Yes, you can repost on X/Twitter... why do you suppose the letter X is so prominent in Musk's enterprises? Just another curiosity that floats in my mind ;).