Question by getnabargain: Any Hospice horror stories?
Here’s mine.Nurse comes to house acting odd,doesn’t make a lot of sense, Falls asleep.Gives patient inferior meds,approved by hospice.Patient deteriorates at rapid rate.Caregiver recognizes patient has problem immediately after starting new meds,{zoloft}Nurse refuses to stop zoloft, explaining that the patient is simply getting worse on his own.After all he is dying,that is why he is in Hospice.Finally after several weeks,patient stops zoloft on his own,begins to gain weight,feels better.I complain to the local hospice.They now send out a “grief counselor” who is not at all sympathetic,citing the familiar theme,”he’s dying anyway,patient is tossed from program for complaining. By now someone has reported the nurse,who fails a reasonable suspicion drug test for marijuana &?. She is put on a drug abuse program and sent back to work after about 30 days.Grief counselor also fails drug test. Hospice national HQ says no patient entitled to program.Thank you Hospice of Lake &Sumter Florida!
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It is hard enough to take care of a loved one who is dying without having to deal with all that you did. I am sorry for you. My husband was on hospice before he died in 2001. I had to put him in a nursing home as he needed around the clock care and I had to work. Hospice was helpful to me but not overly helpful. Neither was the nursing home. I had to do all the care he received except I made the aide brush his teeth for me. I wonder now why he was not offered to go into the hospice hospital in Winter Haven Florida as we lived in Davenport at the time. I could not leave him alone when I was a work though as he would get up and fall and not be able to get back up. He only lived 2 weeks after going into the nursing home and I was told that he would probably die with a couple of days when he was admitted. It was a blessing for him and me when he died as he was in so much constant pain. He refused to eat and I was told not to force him. Cancer of the pancreas is a painful way to go.§
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