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Subject: Re: [OT] The cancer war
Author: "Helio Wakasugui"
Posted: 2006/03/31 13:22:25
 
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I'm very sorry to hear about your loss.

My condolences to your family.

Helio


On 3/30/06, Bill Arnold <bill /at/ wjarnold DO.T com> wrote:
>
>
> Terri's war is over. She died peacefully last Friday night.
>
> Death is a tough subject to talk about, but a lesson I learned worthy of
> mention is that the pain of cancer can be controlled. Using a variety of
> drugs, but mostly morphine, her pain was managed to the end. This
> surprised me because I previously thought that cancer (especially when
> multiple organs are involved, as was her case) was the most painful way
> to go, so I was expecting things to be much more difficult then actually
> happened.
>
> Can't speak highly enough about the hospice folks, who were just
> 'angels' throughout. I am speaking about the at-home care, not the
> in-hospital variant. At one point, she was hospitalized on the hospice
> floor, and that was a bad experience, so the family kept her at home
> afterwards and that turned out to be the best way to handle the
> situation.
>
>
> Bill
>
>


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