Reply #30: Please know that your support is invaluable to this person

[truedelphi]

As someone who has done hospice work for a long time, can I say it is so important for the patient with cancer to have friends who support and ADVOCATE for their point of view?

Also do help this person look into the availablility of hospice in their area. A well-run County should have a hospice agency that will assist in sending in qualified nurses' aides for daily assistance once the patient is too weak to cope on their own. There can be daily or every other day visits from a nurse, and tremendous assistance with pain meds, including opiates, so that the final days do not have to be spent in nerve wracking pain.