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Originally Posted by *Beth*
That's rough. Seems to me they could give her a small dose of an AD. It's cruel that she has to live with depression - definitely a common cause for elderly people to give up sooner.
When my grandmother was 100 years old she was in a lot of pain from arthritis. My cousin suggested that the doctor prescribe an opiate. He refused because "she could become addicted." My not-to-be-screwed-with cousin's reply to him was, "Oh, well, I'm sure she'll do all she can to score more painkillers...you know, like sell her body on street corners."
I guess that hit his reality button, because he prescribed the opiate. My grandmother lived another 6 months after that and never once (to our knowledge) did she turn to prostitution to get her drug fix.
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Yeah that, line is used on terminal patients too. They might become addicted. They are dying! Let them be pain free! When I was at the U I worked as a CNA and had a lady so crippled with arthritis it was so painful for her yet they wouldn’t give her anything because she was mostly mute. We knew she was in pain, she cried when we had to move her. If the stupid doctor had ever done more than just look at her chart he could have seen her pain. Gah 😩 that was so frustrating. .