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Near death experience. My choice my body. [1]
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Date: 2023-05-16
Been gone a few days due to a scary experience
If you follow me at all you know I suffer from multiple health conditions. The last 6 months or so I have gone to sleep and without aid of a ventilator I am not sure what would happen. This has impacted my DNR (dnr do not resuscitate) decisions
After the last time I was out of it for several days, forced a tube in me, and paid the price of future attacks, etc. that I will have to go for. There is no hope of finding a cure unless I get more than the 244/7 I wear Oxygen already.
I am on oxygen 24/7 an I am on a bipab. Unless I have both on in a 24 hour period my co2 levels build up and oxygen levels tank
Thus I go out of it and only my own self or the use of a ventilator pull me thru.
The last time I did my legal documents I decided to not allow myself to be reserectured via the ventilator. I am tired of the whole process, going thru the same thing once a month or so
The nursing home is not very hands on about making sure I get the oxygen I am supposed to.
This was the first experience I had when I was totally out of it. I knew I was heading down the slope when Friday nigh I was cloudy and confused and had no idea wht was going on where I was, etc. Lucky for me my sister picked that moment to callad was worried n how i sounded, She contacted the nursing hoe who rushed me via EMS to the hospital
Long story short, I managed to recover yesterday at 6 PM when slowly I woke up. Seeing my docs who know me well today they said I never was so much out of it before they were very sure what was happenened and if I would manage to pull thru. I found out I was in a fix I saidd no to ventilator and apar from me saving myself the venteleator was the ony hope. I found out there was a lot of discussion that went on about over-riding my DNR or not, whch they did not.The doctors were prepared for the worst
So I pulled thru on my own. My mind is still set. No tube if this happens again. It might not be the best choice for all but it was mine. My sister and I got into it earlier about it saying, I did ot realize how close to death I came, etc. She does not get it why someone in a hopeless repetative cycle might get tired and decide to give up.
What do you have for your DNR rules? Have them set up? Written down and given to te hospital, etc
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