#terminally ill patients

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Legislation for Assisted Dying in England and Wales Introduced

Proposed Legislation for Assisted Dying in England and Wales A significant proposal aimed at legalizing assisted dying for terminally ill patients was introduced this week in the House of Commons in Britain. This pivotal bill is poised to ignite a passionate public debate, reflecting the deep emotions surrounding the issue. The formal debate in Parliament is scheduled for November 29, followed by…

[koreandragon]

woo dohwan was like okay i'll do a romance but i'm not gonna be normal about it

[season-two]

"you're as god made you" is everyone hearing this did everyone watch this. am i going crazy

[kirby-the-gorb]

I just bought myself a manga about the artist going through severe illness and I found it comforting to read someone else's experience, so I thought maybe I would share a little about my experience with MCAS again. so here's all the pills I take!

cromolyn. 2 ampules mixed with water 4x/day (although I'm often out of bed for 12 hours or less and have trouble keeping track of time, so often it's 3x instead). mast cell stabilizer.

multivitamin. I only took this for a week so far and stopped to gather data. (my paranoia was getting bad, which often means I'm reacting to a med. this is a cheap one with many fillers.) meant to make up for difficulty accessing food and possible malabsorption.

fludrocortisone. 2 pills a day. for POTS.

atenolol. 1 per day. also for POTS.

montelukast. 1 per day. technically for asthma, but works by blocking one of the signals the mast cells send.

loratadine (aka claritin). 1 pill 2x/day, which we had to fight the insurance about after a while. antihistamine, meant to prevent anaphylaxis by blocking a different mast cell signal.

aspirin. 2 pills 2x/day. to reduce inflammation and control chronic pain.

whichever oral hormonal birth control my insurance will give me (it varies). 1 per day. menstruation makes my MCAS flare and I still have incomplete cessation even after an ablation, so I keep taking it even when not putting myself at risk of pregnancy.

dye-free diphenhydramine (aka benadryl). another antihistamine, taken when my MCAS flares to reduce or completely end the symptoms. (the pink dye in the regular formulation is actually a very common trigger.)

low-dose prednisone. steroid kept on hand for unavoidably high-demand occasions (like moving across the country) or unshakable prolonged flares (like, a week).

that's 8 pills in the morning, 3-4 at night, 8 ampules in the day, and 2 different emergency meds. plus I try to drink a gatorlyte every day (also good for POTS and certain mineral shortages) and try to avoid triggers (including heat, stress, and overexertion -n- )

3 and 4 were the first meds that ever made me feel any better, before we'd figured out it was MCAS. (likely with secondary POTS/EDS.) 6 and 7 are the first line treatment for MCAS, they're the first medications I actually took *for* it. they are often used in combination with famotidine (aka pepcid) but that made my paranoia super bad so I stopped taking that one.

this was my regimen established before I got covid last july, which made my MCAS much worse, which also made it impossible to get a new doc post-move since I can't physically get to an appt. so this is likely to change once I have medical care again. being sick is a lot of work!

[yurayuray]

It's been like 7 years since I first listened to this song and i'm still not over these lyrics mind you

[rokry]

Plaguehost Pulmone, the Pale elf.

Pulmone belongs to Myself and @vondieerde.

[easykorean]

Easy to Learn Korean 1757 - End of life care (part one).

Continue reading Easy to Learn Korean 1757 – End of life care (part one).

[truecorvid]

the problem with having been active on the internet for over a decade and active on social media for just about as long is that sometimes i really realllly want to like. engage in healthy/casual debate about topics that i see being talked about but. i know it won't go that way. i know that if i engage in the way that i would like to (not just directly agreeing with what's being said) i'm going to immediately telegraph myself as some sort of chud trying to pick fights online over pedantic shit which in turn will immediately put people on the defensive. i've seen this play out. i know how this will end.

[jojotier]

admittedly going into this sci-fi fairytale utopian concept about a select few allowed immortality so long as they teach the descendants of earth about what the planet was like before their ancestors left for the stars I was not expecting it to turn out to actually be about cancer

[videoworm]

That love-poem Herbert performs for Dan -you know the one when he presents all the body parts in Bride

actually let me just make a video file real quick..

like there is NO WAY Herbert didn't sit down and wrote this whole poem and then practiced it only so he could perform it for Dan.

(I think he describes all the different body parts in the way Dan would -or how he thinks Dan would describe them. The "soft warm skin" part is definetly just copied form Dans conversation with Francesca.

Like Herbert would not give a shit if this is a virgin torso or if the head is pretty, he's making a girlfriend for Dan, and he put so much thought and consideration into it ( although i don't think Dan would care about a virgin torso, but i think Herbert has picked up that people care about virginity so Dan probably does))

Big headcanon brainworm elaboration here:

Well simultaneously as Herb being all "I am my work so please Dan love my work uwuuwuw" He's also being poetic to please his little god complex. A new life, his creation, out of all these different parts from different backgrounds. The specific histories of these body parts don't matter as much as the fact that they are all here, all together to create something new. It's art really.

[puddleslimewrites]

Diagnosis

CW: discussion of a terminal illness diagnosis (it's nonspecific and not in detail, but I thought it best to make a warning)

"...Tell me about the first time you diagnosed someone with a terminal illness."

Doctor looked at them with sad eyes.

"Tell me about the first time you had to look at someone and tell them they were going to die. Tell me how you did it. What you said, what you did. Before, and after." Patient kept their eyes down, shoulders slumped, elbows resting on their thighs. They appeared to stare at the floor, but their mind was elsewhere.

Doctor took a breath. They'd never been asked to recount it. And though they'd tried to forget, the memory came back to them with ease.

"It was a woman in her 30s," they began softly.

Patient listened without looking up.

~

Silence filled the office. Patient was the first to break it.

"Did you cry for her?"

"Afterward, yes. I couldn't with her in the room. I had to be..."

"Strong?"

"Impartial," Doctor corrected.

"Showing sympathy for your patients doesn't make you weak," Patient whispered.

"I know. But it does make my job harder to do."

Patient hummed in acknowledgment. Without their voices, the space was quiet save for the ticking of a clock on the wall. Doctor began to look through some of the files on their desk.

"Do you still cry?" Patient finally asked.

"Sometimes."

A beat passed, then two. Doctor paused on the page that held the history of their current visitor. They glanced over it and decided to make a note in the margin.

"Would you cry for me?"

Doctor stopped writing, eyes trained on the page. For a moment, it didn't seem like they were going to answer.

"...Yes."

Patient hummed again, satisfied. They stood from their chair. "I'll see you next week, doc."

Doctor looked up, alarmed at the abrupt announcement. "Next week? You're not planning to break something again, are you?"

"I don't know what you mean," Patient scoffed. They shot Doctor an innocent grin as they slipped through the door. "I've told you, it's always an accident."

[bloodhailmp3]

i have never met a woman of my mums generation who doesnt have an unhealthy relationship w food and fixation on their weight and its heartbreaking

[nirnruwut]

prepping to take my test to become a lvl 2 pharm tech AUGH

[batemanofficial]

i hate having extremely specific, one-sided beef with organizations that are, on the whole, ostensibly good bc the poor sap behind the register at dominos asks me if i wanna round up my total to donate to st. jude and i get to be the humbug that tells him no

[nikkoliferous]

this shit pissed me right off, so here is a friendly reminder that bpd has up to a 75% attempted and 10% completed suicide rate, the highest of any psychiatric disorder. you can neither credibly nor compassionately state that a person is not going to die of it. they might not; might is not a guarantee. not every person with cancer dies from it either.

to the op, i'm so sorry that you're just trying to express your own anguish only to have some asshole jump on you over semantics and outright dismiss the legitimacy of the fact that your brain is literally trying to kill you every day. you don't deserve that. nobody does.

remembering the fact bpd is considered a terminal illness and my own brain is trying to constantly kill me. im never going to be okay.

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

Euthanasia: A Compassionate Path or a Dangerous Precedent?

A New Debate on Assisted Dying in England and Wales As a retired healthcare professional, I’ve faced some of the most challenging moral questions our field can encounter. One of the hardest topics, emotionally and ethically, is euthanasia or assisted dying.  For many, it’s a deeply personal issue tied to values around life, suffering, and dignity. Although difficult, I believe it’s essential to…