Sometimes that isn't even an option. My bosses wife died of gall bladder cancer a few years ago. He describes her end as horrific and agonizing. I don't remember the details but he told me that hospice would not give her the pain medication that she needed, for fear that it would kill her. I seem to also recall that he said that it was very difficult to deliver the pain meds due to the damage that the chemo had done and her inability to swallow. I think that they were giving her methadone via suppositories.
That's something cause hospice dumps the morphine on you out here to stop pain.
I don't recall the details and your experience with hospice is similar to mine.
But, and I don't recall the details, I remember him saying that she wasn't on morphine and they couldn't give her enough methadone without killing her.
He's a pretty pragmatic guy and was arguing that it didn't matter at that point. But they wouldn't do it. One thing different from her case vs. my family's experience was that she wasn't at home, but in a nursing home type facility.
