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celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 2 May

A 32 year old Boise woman was sentenced recently to a five year suspended sentence with probation, and 60 days in jail. This was the sentence the judge gave for stealing $30,000 worth of jewelry from her Hospice patients. She was...

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Brothers and bread

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Feb 25

The photo is of another pretty outfit that was once worn by my nieces. We went to see Vince’s eldest brother today. He is in hospice while the next eldest is in hospital. Both are terminally ill. They share a birthday. The...

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Death

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 5 May 24

I have been feeling weird lately. I have been obsessed with death for about the past year or so. Morbid I know but it's there in my mind. I can't get rid of it. But, over the last year or so I have been worried about dying. I am...

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Support Phone Call From A Friend

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 4 Aug 21

I have talked about my friend in another state, Dustin's godparents. Her husband has bone cancer. He has been on hospice care a few weeks now, at home. He seems to be doing as well as he can. He eats and can sit up for short...

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Words for a Special Friend

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 9 Jul 21

My friend's husband has bone cancer. I have talked about this earlier. They were Dustin's Godparents. He is now home on hospice. Cannot tolerate the chemo treatments. Nothing left to do. His wife is very thankful to have him...

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Discharged Home on Hospice

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 1 Jul 21

I have talked lately about Dustin's godfather and his bone cancer. He has been discharged from the hospital and is home and on hospice care. Nothing else can be done. Trying to keep him comfortable. He is glad to be home. I had...

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My Cousin Chose Hospice

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 19 Jan 21

I have been writing about my cousin with COVID for weeks now. Got the news last night there is nothing more the doctors can do for her. Her options were a ventilator or Hospice. She chose Hospice. She has the right to choose. I...

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A Mixed Bag Weekend

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 4 Sep 19

This weekend, I watched in horror as people were caught in the catastrophic floods in the Bahama as a result of Hurricane Dorian. These people had nowhere to go and now whole families are missing. It could have been us here in...

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My Heart is Breaking

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 8 Aug 18

It is hard to concentrate on myLot today. Reality has set in. My friend messaged me around three years ago. She had trouble walking. She was eventually diagnosed with ALS, a loathsome disease. She had a familial type. Her dad...

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MAYBE back on hospice

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 24 Jun 18

I have a couple of weeks left here at the rehab center and then I will have to be placed somewhere that has a bariatric bed like I had before when on hospice. If they can't place me, my family said they would bring me home and...

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Sorry I can't get here often

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 4 Jun 18

I'm so sorry I can't get here often, but as most know I'm very sick. It's chronic, so I will have to deal with it until God takes me home. One of my good friends died. She was 6 years my junior. Her illness was the same as...

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Bad day turns better

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 4 Jun 18

I feel bad because I've been sick for 3 days. Yesterday I had diarrhea twice and today I didn't make it to the toilet. I started spilling out of my Pull up onto the floor. I did my best to clean up and clean the bathroom...

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My Last 2 Years

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (135745) • Marion, Ohio 22 Mar 18

My last 2 years were almost the worst of my life, but also almost the best of my life. Nothing will ever be worse I dont think than the day I lost my oldest son in a car wreck and I know nothing will ever beat the birth of my...

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My hospice supplies

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 31 Jan 18

I just took a picture of all of my hospice skin, bathing and hair supplies. I was studying it last night and I figured it's at least 150 dollars I don't have to pay for. All my meds are free also. I have other things that...

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Mom passed away around 12:20 pm PST today...

Stacey @xstitcher (39033) • Petaluma, California 27 Nov 17

My brother and I were in the other room talking, and the caregiver said, "She's gone." My brother and I went in, and sure enough, she was gone. The social worker showed up not long after and made arrangements for someone to...

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Haven't been on in a while...

Stacey @xstitcher (39033) • Petaluma, California 26 Nov 17

The last couple of days have been crazy and busy and tiring. Mom recently stopped eating, and her speech isn't very coherent -- though the latter has been true for a while. Hospice took over Mom's care, and there have been...

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Good Night, myLot !

Stacey @xstitcher (39033) • Petaluma, California 20 Nov 17

Mom is not doing so well tonight. A friend of my Mom's was saying my brother and I should get Hospice to come. It is eighteen minutes after ten here, and I should be getting to bed, as soon as I can get...

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My Mother Died Today

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40846) • Laguna Woods, California 17 Aug 17

As I have mentioned before, my mother has been very sick with dementia and congestive heart failure. Last Saturday, she went on hospice care. Yesterday, they moved up the intensity of the care so there was someone with her 24...

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My Mother and Me

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40846) • Laguna Woods, California 11 Jul 17

My husband and I just returned from visiting my family in Missouri and I will write a few posts about that trip. The primary purpose of taking the trip at this time was to see my mother, who is now receiving hospice care in the...

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Had my AM CARE

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 25 May 17

I had my bath. I was sound asleep when my hospice aide came. She was patient while I sat on the side of the bed to rest my back. She is cleaning up the bathroom and my bedroom, and changing the sheets. I'm out of bed now and...

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