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Old Feb 25, 2016, 01:02 AM
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I was thinking the same thing as Wanderlust. This may not be the best time for you to make yourself a DNR., wiretwister. It's a very serious act and it needs to be well thought out. at a time when you're having little or no psychic distress.

I personally made myself a DNR back in my early years of nursing, long before I was ever diagnosed bipolar, because I've seen (and done) CPR and it's brutal. Ribs break and sometimes puncture lungs, and unlike they show on TV, it seldom works. Survival rates are dismal even with advanced interventions. (Besides, if you're doing CPR on someone...they're already dead.)

If you're not in a good place right now, please defer any decisions about your code status (DNR) until you feel better. You may change your mind, and you might not, but either way it's best to make that decision fully informed and aware of what you're directing health care providers to do if you are found pulseless and not breathing. JMHO.
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