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MiniMe

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27. My mother died from Colon cancer at the beginning of the month.

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 11:27 PM

Nov 2013

She didn't have much pain until the last few days. She was under hospice care, and when I called and told them I couldn't control her pain with the drugs that I had for her, they moved her to the hospice facility. I can't say enough positive things about hospice. They sent a nurse to see her every day, and they gave her subcutaneous dilaudid when she got to the facility. Everything happened very quickly towards the end. She went from being fine and able to drive herself around, to the hospital and it was about 3 weeks when she died. It was a recurrance of the cancer, but she had a lot of metasticies (not sure I spelled that right). I was glad for her that she didn't have to suffer too long.

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I found it so endearing that the pharmacist at Walgreens decided that I had been on a certain Maraya1969 Nov 2013 #1

Time to find another place to get your prescriptions filled. RC Nov 2013 #2

Pow!... TeeYiYi Nov 2013 #21

Oxycontin is gateway to heroin addiction in the US ErikJ Nov 2013 #3

Aleviating pain of endstage cancer is more important to me than worrying about a dying man's Ed Suspicious Nov 2013 #4

Hopefully he's not dying. He's trying to be optimistic as possible. ErikJ Nov 2013 #6

Pancreatic cancer PasadenaTrudy Nov 2013 #20

Exactly. nt RiffRandell Nov 2013 #9

Right, the threat that someone might get an unauthorized buzz is more important than Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #14

I really hope your friend was just humoring you kcr Nov 2013 #18

I dont think so. I was surprised too. ErikJ Nov 2013 #24

Well, that's good he's not in much pain kcr Nov 2013 #25

I find your posts in this thread about your "friend" cali Nov 2013 #35

Ha. Give me an example of how I disparaged him. ErikJ Nov 2013 #38

....... cali Nov 2013 #41

No insult. Just a fact. ErikJ Nov 2013 #42

And my friend's 94 year old mother is being refused opiate drugs by her Maraya1969 Nov 2013 #22

At 94? progressoid Nov 2013 #39

We havea teen friend in recovery who battled osteosarcoma elehhhhna Nov 2013 #28

This is the documentary I watched: OXY HELL (Oxycontin... the gateway to heroin) ErikJ Nov 2013 #29

the addict kids around Houston aren't doing oxy much elehhhhna Nov 2013 #30

This is largely a consequence of the war on drugs. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #5

The problem is... KrazyinKS Nov 2013 #7

My brother Pinkie died sorefeet Nov 2013 #8

Amen ! RagAss Nov 2013 #13

Hugs. I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for helping your brother to get painkillers anyway. idwiyo Nov 2013 #40

That is horrible! I am so sorry that you and your brother had to go through that. lonestarnot Dec 2013 #47

Honestly I don't get it, especially for pallative care, if someone is dying, then give them the... Humanist_Activist Nov 2013 #10

What you say is oh so true. I was thinking, lets give the people who are in terrible pain, Pliers. BlueJazz Nov 2013 #11

Instead we have doctors terrified of the DEA, and people dying in screaming agony. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #15

My grandfather recently passed from cancer. CFLDem Nov 2013 #16

My DOG got more pain relief than my mother in law Holly_Hobby Nov 2013 #12

That is absolutely insane. RiffRandell Dec 2013 #44

Effin A Finally! MoreGOPoop Nov 2013 #17

Cancer used to be the most dreaded disease not because of its death sentence, but the pain Hekate Nov 2013 #19

This is just terrible OwnedByCats Nov 2013 #23

A FDA blast from the recent past Trillo Nov 2013 #26

My mother died from Colon cancer at the beginning of the month. MiniMe Nov 2013 #27

hospice is the place for paincontrol elehhhhna Nov 2013 #31

In the book, "Three Felonies a Day," this is one of the groups targeted by the Feds. Th1onein Nov 2013 #32

k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #33

My husband had oral cancer and his drs were very generous RiffRandell Nov 2013 #34

Drug Seekers Suck jsr Nov 2013 #36

I would have tiltled that article "shitty ER doctor makes excuses for his terrible judgment" CrawlingChaos Nov 2013 #43

the doctors have gone crazy on this. Sheri Nov 2013 #37

It's not the doctors, it's the DEA. They record every prescription, especially those for pain, Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #45

didn't know that. thanks. nt Sheri Dec 2013 #46