Just put an end my misery if...

laurelg2 · Apr 23, 2016

I get what you are saying but some of your examples may not be so cut and dry if you are ever placed in that position. As a nurse of 33 years and specializing in Trauma flight/emergency medicine/cath lab/CTPACU .......I, too, at one point thought that not being able to move would be a fate worse than death. Except I now find myself not able to walk but a couple of feet without a walker and only about 10 feet with a walker. I find the side effects of massive steroids daily disturbing as they have turned me into what some would qualify as a grotesque, fat, lazy monster........but my young teenages love me and they want me around. I find I am not so willing to throw in the towel yet and the loss of mobility and my okay figure is not a reason, however frustrating it is and angering it is, to check out of dailiy living.

I deserve to be treated fairly. I desreve to be around for my family. I deserve to contribute to life anyway I can.

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Yes Yes thank you. I just got off the phone with my sister who has been battling scleroderma for the last 16 years. She is an amazing woman who wants to live, she wants to see her husband, her daughter, her grandson, her mom, her sisters. At one point she was thinking of hospice and as a hospice nurse at the time I told her whatever she chose I would support. She then told me she didn't want it all to be over....I told her she was the captain of her ship, it was not anyone else's ship to sail, that I will always support what she chooses...it is her life. We as nurses see our patients (most of the time) when they are at their worst. I t is not up to us to judge the decisions they are making. Sorry this is just to personal to me.

Toremeup2 · Apr 23, 2016

So sorry. My back and neck are destroyed.