Hospice

I was there to have them do better and to follow the rules so that they could keep their business.

I loved hospice.

Hospice is the journey that people take from this earth to wherever they go, wherever that energy goes after they pass.

We're scientifically built with positive and negative ions in our cells, in our structure.

That energy stays when a person leaves.

Right, OK.

So let's just say your artworks are available where? The Hospice and the Brunch in Ramsey, is that right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We had the local GP coming in a few times.

We had Hospice nurses and a hospital bed installed to make things easier for him.

We only needed the hospital bed for two weeks.

That was it.

This is very new.

This is episode five, but we're going to talk about hospice because a lot of people have asked me to talk about hospice, end of life, palliative care, comfort care, all of those subjects.

I want to start off with the questions I get a lot as an oncology nurse.

I used to work on a unit that had all the hospice patients in the hospital.

So I'm very familiar with this subject.

Some common questions are if we choose hospice, are we giving up? That's a huge one.

Am I giving up on life? Am I giving up on my family member's life? Will somebody stop giving my loved one their medications if I choose hospice? What happens if that loved one stops eating? What happens if they stop drinking? What is going to happen when someone dies? What is that going to look like? How long is it going to take? Now we can't answer these questions definitely, but there is information that would be helpful to the person going on hospice or the family involved.

And these are serious questions that should never be answered with like, don't worry about it, or it'll come when the time comes.

At one point, when my mom was maybe a week away from dying, people, when they get close to the end, they kind of are coming in and out.

she wanted us to take her to like an island off the coast of georgia and it's just like on one side you've got like a request of a dying person on the other side it's like i don't know if this is even i don't think we can do that mom like i don't see how that works what happens if you die on the boat or what ha what what if like all this how do we get the oxygen over there but it was you know uh Hospice, you know, they come in and they've seen versions of this over and over and over and over again.

And they're angels and they come in with.

this love energy is the only way to describe it.

And if the person dies at home, what happens depends very much on the circumstances.

If your mother has been receiving hospice care and everybody knows she is nearing the end of life, Hospice will generally already have told the family who to call and what to expect.

A funeral home or cremation provider will then be contacted to take custody of the body.

And if the death is sudden or unexplained, that's a different situation entirely.

Beautiful venue

... for Thames Hospice, uh, for the Trunks Across the Thames auction.

Not all of the 80, 90 elephants came to auction.

Uh, 27, um, elephants and two works of art came to auction.

in a nice, respectful way, obviously.

Obviously.

Um, I did see the CEO of the Thames Hospice from my vantage point on the rostrum tense slightly as to what was going to happen.

A little bit panicked, and it w- it...

So it's really interesting to see what some folks come up with.

Hospice offered it to us.

It was something I had never heard of before.

And these two gentlemen came in and they literally kind of recorded a documentary about And questioned my mother.