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my husband has congestive heart falier,deabeates excuse the spelling...... and other things. He has also had a stroke and is a very sick man. He is in a home not a nursing home but well taken care of..I am there almost every day. recently he filed with fluid which he has done many times and he is getting of this. But his doctor insests on taking him down to dry weight. He is dieing little by little he can't walk andy more he is loosing short term memory He has had may heart attacks. and has a defibulator we don"t how he has lived this long 5 yeaars but he knows his time is short. Getting him down dry weigh t to me is crule at this point. he gets so thin he looks terrible. Doesn,t dry weight also mean it depletes him of a lot of other things????? He gets conspiated among other things ...Is thlis necessary or is his dr. just beilng a god......He knows I am ready for this and I think my husband is too. At what. point do yoiu stop trying.how do get his dr. to do this. He wants me to put him in a nursing home..Because he thinks he could be taken caare of better... What is he saving him for. He wouldrather die where he is at. Can you give me some advise. The DR. keeps telling me he is Hospis ready. But not for the section where you go to die. Which means he would still give him an IV to get rid of fluids.Then at the same time he says to me If we want we could have his defibulator shut off..But my husband has to agree to this. I don<t think ists even working any more we haven't had the battery checked for a while. I feel like I am oin a see-saw my health is going to go down the tube. My husband and I are only 70 but he looks like he is 90...

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we have done everything possible he is on 165 mg lasics now and Spirelotone and others

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First and formost, your husband doesn't have to take anything he doesn't want to take. The doctor should be making sure that he is giving his consent for continued treatment. If he enrolls in hospice, the staff there will be able to help you with these decisions and help you talk to the doctor about them. I'm taking from your note that you want him to be comfortable first and foremost. Hospice staff will help you with that as well. If you have any relatives you can call on to help you with this, I would do that too.

Kerry

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Reply to Kerry's Post: this is an old question from July. I guess I never paid for the answer. My husband died ing May of this. My question now was about my uterus. Its a whole new subject. I also mentioned about a d ans c to my doctor but from what she said they don,t put you out all the way.. I found the biopsys very painful and I had a colonosposy last year and I also felt that. So I don, t want any part of a dandc if they don put you all the way out. Please answer this question.

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