Denial by the person with a life threating illness, denial by the caregiver, and I’ll even add denial by some attending physicians. Denial is often the reaction to diseases that have reached the point of not being fixable.

It can’t be me. It can’t be my special person. The doctors are wrong. If we do everything the physician recommends, we’ll be fine. If we do all the “right things” (eating, exercising, not smoking, not drinking alcohol, praying) everything will be okay. AND if the doctors are right in saying the disease isn’t fixable, then there will be a miracle and death will not come. Other people die, not me or even anyone close to me.

Click here to read the full story : Denial of a Life Limiting Illness

Veterans and their spouses are invited to join us on November 11th from 12pm – 2pm for a delicious complimentary lunch at Belle Reve provided by Quinlan Care Concepts/Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice. Each Veteran will also receive a commemorative certificate and pin.

RSVP by November 7th to Heather at (570)-221-6014 or email HMarrocco@bellerevesl.com

Belle Reve – 404 East Harford Street, Milford PA 18337

Hospice takes care of people the doctors are having a difficult time fixing; people the doctors probably can’t fix. What does hospice do?  Hospice helps people live with the greatest possible comfort during the limited time they have left.

It is interesting that a person who can’t be fixed, who is approaching death through disease, looks very sick and often frail in the months before their death BUT they don’t look like they are dying or at least match our idea of what a person looks like. They have probably entered the dying process in those prior months but they don’t look like they are going to die. It is only in the one to three weeks before death, that a person who is dying from a disease actually looks like they are dying. 

People are generally referred to hospice in the last weeks of their life, which is way too late to help the patient and is often just crisis solving with the family.

Click here to read more : https://bkbooks.com/blogs/something-to-think-about/when-treatment-stops-working-what-hospice-really-offers