Claayer Forum Posts (15,888)

RE: "I quit"

RE: Euthanasia

Sad truth of the frickin NHS

RE: Euthanasia

Thats it! me too

RE: Euthanasia

No offence to any nurses.. But we often do a lot more of the hands on work.

Sadly in the UK the Community/District nurses are usually pushed for time.. have a heavy round.. and have to get on with whatever they came to do .. then get to their next patient.

I know that's not always the case.. but I see it a lot. (I work with the nurses too sometimes)..

A lot of the nurses I work with say that they would rather work more hands on again .. and it has all become so clinical and 'Time kept' .. that the reason they became a nurse is not something they are getting to do any more.

RE: Euthanasia

Helloo Val

RE: Euthanasia

I have been doing this every day for the almost eight years now..

It doesn't effect me like it did at the beginning..

I used to get soooooo attached.. and be be so upset when they died.

But over time I learned to give 99% of myself ..

and keep that 1% back.

and for me it works.. The 99% lets them and the family think I am giving them my all..

but the 1% keeps me back .. and helps me disassociate myself... as mean as that sounds.

But if I didn't do that ..

then I would be crap at my job because I would be spending too much time crying.

RE: Euthanasia

Ooo do you work in Health care too?

RE: Euthanasia

Noooo.. that stage doesn't takes years.. that the final days stuff.. (which CAN go on for 10 days or so)

Before that stage.. is the writhing and crying and begging.. (until they crank up the Morphine to ease the pain.. and suffering.

Somewhere in those stages is where I think Euthanasia should be allowed.


FYI: Morpheus was the Greek God of Dreams.. (morphine makes you very dreamy) ... his father .. Hypnos.. was the God of sleep. (apparently)

RE: Euthanasia

Me too..

And I totally agree with the rest of what you said too.

RE: Euthanasia

Pleeeease maybe don't read this if you are tender about the dying..


When I look after someone on 'Final days care' .. They are unable to do anything even lift a limb even a fraction.

Just being carefully moved and repositioned to try to keep them comfortable.. and to prevent any (more?) bed sores)..

Someone adjusting/changing their catheters.. Someone still trying to turn them gently from side to side.. Trying to move a completely floppy unmoving body.. out of the wet/dirty sleepwear/sheets and into something clean..


Someone STILL trying to prise open their legs to clean them and stop them getting possibly any more sore.

AND.. having to have those things done to them a few times (or more) per day.



The bloom from their eyes vanishes.. their faces sink.. become hollow and sunken.. and they really DO look like a shadow.. a ghost of their former selves.

They can no longer take any food.. and are usually hooked up on a Morphine drive (drip) to help with the pain.

They don't seem aware or respond to anything at all by that stage.. (although we still talk to them just the same)..

They lay there.. mouths open.. making gurgley rattling sounds from their throats .. Having someone swab the inside of their mouths with a little sponge on a stick to moisten their BONE dry cracked mouths..

And I can assure you.. by that stage.. every family/partner I have ever worked with WANTS that person to go. ..

to be away from all of that.

To be let free.

I have seen many people long before they get that far.. begging to go.. be taken.. die.. pass over..

And it's one of the most cruel things.



Too frickin RIGHT I believe in Euthanasia

RE: Euthanasia

Good thread Cris.. this should get the voices talking.

RE: Euthanasia

I work in care.. I do the personal care for some of the terminally ill..

and I totally agree with you

RE: Moon's Enlightenment opening for business

hahaha

RE: Moon's Enlightenment opening for business

smb?

I'm dating no one..

RE: Moon's Enlightenment opening for business

haha Thankyoooooo

and.. HOW do you type soooo fast??

RE: Moon's Enlightenment opening for business

Patricia!

RE: Moon's Enlightenment opening for business

Susan.

RE: Moon's Enlightenment opening for business

Me Me Me

RE: persuing someone on the internet.

RE: Do you have one?

Oo Alison.. that's a lovely song!

RE: create your OWN..

You can pick your friends...

and you can pick your nose..

But you can't pick your friends nose.

RE: "Those who love walk not in darkness."So I wonder how many of you out there see truth in that?

::chucks Paul a candle:::

RE: "Those who love walk not in darkness."So I wonder how many of you out there see truth in that?

Helloo child of CS Wanton Goddess

RE: I Want ________ !!! and ______________!

Don't hold back JLC

What would make your day?.. what would be the BEST thing to hear right now.

hahah!! YAHOOO!! Let's do that!

We can crash out on the sand in the hazey sun..

I can sip cocktails (and tell you how nice they taste) While you show me your latest new fab-u-lous bikini..

Whilst chattering about life.. the world and the universe..

and MEN.

RE: Whats in your collection?

::gets down on one knee::


Ohhh Solll Ahh Meeee-Ohhhhhhhh


::paddles gondola:::


(and you got mail! lol)

RE: The LONELY Melon of CS Backyard..

Shouldn't that be The LONELY JOLLY Melon BOY of CS Backyard.. ?



Welcome back

RE: Girls ..if you can be a male just for a one day..

Yeaaahhh that ^

RE: Girls ..if you can be a male just for a one day..

For YOU maybe




Oh I misread that.. hahah!.. I thought you said.. I think it's nearly a foot

RE: Say Something.... No Need for Names!!

.. SOMEhow.. I just managed to send myself a flower by mistake. hahaha