Comments on: Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/ethics-disease/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 14:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: cheryl smith http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/ethics-disease/#comment-147637 cheryl smith Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:38:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1992#comment-147637 I BEG OF YOU: to provide my family that can help my father die with dignity and educate those that love him of what lies ahead. He has been diagnosed with lung cancer that they say is contained in the lower right lung and some of the lung lymph nodes. He is 83 yrs old. In procurring the lung biopsy, with only 1% lidocane, 4 nurses holding him down, while the physician inserted the needle multiple times while my father was screaming at the top of his lungs. He left the test unconscious and was sent back to recovery, where a headache began and got worse while we were there. I called the nurses attention to this and she gave him a percocet, did I mention that my father has had an active hermangioma of the brain stem for the past 5 years and all of this is in his records. RESULTS: Brain bleed in multiple parts of the brain, due to the screaming, then a stroke, then 2 days of seizures and a month in the hospital. Then they tell us he has lung cancer and has only 2 months to live. Now we have no doctor to guide us as I am being very vocal regarding his care. Please help us understand the progression of the disease and resources available to both my dad and our family so the short time left in my father's life is respectful. Thanks in advance. I BEG OF YOU: to provide my family that can help my father die with dignity and educate those that love him of what lies ahead. He has been diagnosed with lung cancer that they say is contained in the lower right lung and some of the lung lymph nodes. He is 83 yrs old. In procurring the lung biopsy, with only 1% lidocane, 4 nurses holding him down, while the physician inserted the needle multiple times while my father was screaming at the top of his lungs. He left the test unconscious and was sent back to recovery, where a headache began and got worse while we were there. I called the nurses attention to this and she gave him a percocet, did I mention that my father has had an active hermangioma of the brain stem for the past 5 years and all of this is in his records. RESULTS: Brain bleed in multiple parts of the brain, due to the screaming, then a stroke, then 2 days of seizures and a month in the hospital.
Then they tell us he has lung cancer and has only 2 months to live. Now we have no doctor to guide us as I am being very vocal regarding his care.

Please help us understand the progression of the disease and resources available to both my dad and our family so the short time left in my father’s life is respectful. Thanks in advance.

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