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Bereavement

orleans

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5. when we decided to bring my mom home

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 29, 2019, 03:08 AM

Jul 2019

for hospice they told me it would be a little over a week before they would be able to have to medical bed delivered. (she never made it home--she died a day later or that day.) it's been nearly ten years and my memory isn't that good on things pertaining to what we went through at that time.

my point is--it was going to take well over three days to be able to bring my mom home. i agree that hospice rule you're talking about is totally fucked up

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Yup our family had to face this harrowing choice Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #4

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