Reply #118: My Experience was Bad, But It was 12 Years Ago. Still Fear Hospice.

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My father died of bone cancer of the spinal column. Bone cancer is supposed to be the worst kind of pain, and it being in the spinal column is said to make it even worse. My father had had enough of needles, so he was on patches and pills. When his life was literally measured in weeks, his hospice workers limited his oral morphine because they feared he would be addicted. Yes, that would have TERRIBLE if the last three weeks on his life he was addicted to morphine and not in agonizing pain. I hope the thinking has changed since then (too late for my father), but that experience made me fear hospice. A lot.

At night, an ancient nun came and tried to convert my Jewish father. That, at least, amused him.