Today is a thought-filled day for me. And in reading this I find I am oddly split. Let me explain.
I want each and every health-care provider to give me or my loved one the kind of respect and thoughtfulness that the writer of that article implies because I do not trust an industry of strangers I pay to have my best interests at heart and if they believe what that person wrote, I think that will work out well for the new me.
I want each and every loved one to understand and believe that whatever decisions they make, I want them to practice kindness and make sure I am comfortable, please, but after that, I'm not the me you loved, I'm a new me and while this me probably loves you and trusts you implicitly, you do not have to put up with this crap if you do not want to. Make sure I am safe and cared for and go be happy. I will be fine. This is going to suck so much and eventually my lymphatic system will let go but the time in-between...that's too hard. If we ever pass the right to die, I'm there, folks. I am SO there.
Too hard to explain the details today, but you know most of them, you were there along some of the path and you've heard me tell some of the stories of my grandmother.
So I agree with you. And, in a way, I am glad that person doesn't. But I absolutely agree, dementia isn't what they think. I don't care how many cases of it they have seen, they haven't felt it the same way. I expect Rachael Wonderlin to largely be like me trying to tell a pregnant woman in labor she will be fine and the pain will go away. I'm not wrong, exactly, but man oh man can I respect that I know NOTHING about what I'm saying.
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Too hard to explain the details today, but you know most of them, you were there along some of the path and you've heard me tell some of the stories of my grandmother.
So I agree with you. And, in a way, I am glad that person doesn't. But I absolutely agree, dementia isn't what they think. I don't care how many cases of it they have seen, they haven't felt it the same way. I expect Rachael Wonderlin to largely be like me trying to tell a pregnant woman in labor she will be fine and the pain will go away. I'm not wrong, exactly, but man oh man can I respect that I know NOTHING about what I'm saying.