Stages of death terminal illness
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It means a person's heart stopped, and doesn't say much of anything. If a physician is treating a person with a terminal illness this is a common statement, however without an autopsy it is impossible to provide even an educated guess.
The heart may stop for a number of reasons, and go into ventricular fibrillation (quivering like jelly and not pumping), due to cumulative damage, toxins, the ph of the blood, or a number of other reasons.
When the heart stops breathing eventually stops.
I now co-lead our hepatitis C support group at my transplant center and have been a core member of our liver transplant support group for the past 4 ½ years as well as a member of a cancer support group for those of us who have been diagnosed terminal. I also try to provide support and encouragement to hospitalized patients pre and post transplant at our liver transplant center and work with our transplant doctors, nurses and social workers involved with transplant.
And all the tests could have stressed her, and cost you a heck of a lot of money, maybe for you to discover she DID have the late stages of a terminal illness. It is possible -for example -that she had cancer of the Spleen or liver.
I am so sorry. It's a dreadful loss. Hold on to the good memories you had of her, I am sure there are hundreds.
In your mind you know the truth ie that there is no way you could have thought you had all those rare things and then finally cottoned onto the true illness ALS. I have been through similar periods of symptom/illness hopping that were kind of a precursor to a depressive period. I think they are part of the same thing ie anxiety/depression. If you find you are unable to cope with your job/studies/or your relationships are suffering then please see your doctor.
states -- Oregon, Washington and Montana. And in those states, patients who seek to end their lives are typically in the last stages of a terminal disease.
"We donate organs in patients that, say, are brain dead or have terminal events," she said. Most doctors "would have a problem" with what Phebus wants to do, because "at this point, he's fairly healthy.
greetings. i had 2 unprotected episodes, i know very careless of me, but and the women i was with was giving a orasure oral swab at 3 weeks since the 1st exposure and 4 weeks after the last, we both came back negative. then 13 weeks after the last exposure and 6 months since the 1st possible exposure we both was given the rapid oraquick antibody both test were negative. i wanted to ask u that the doctor pricked my finger for 1 drop of blood. was that enough?
, the doctors said that without doubt, this is a terminal disease with survival marked at 3-6 months). But I have been reading of survivors - some living beyond the magic five year milestone! What is the exact prognosis of this? He currently does not have any mets to the liver or lungs or any other part of his body, and his CEA is now point.4 (*very low, but doesn't mean to say that the mets haven't happened -- they're just not currently active).
No medicine and no health condition changes the reliabltility of HIV testing (with the possible exception of potent chemotherapy and terminal illnesses); certainly your tuberculosis skin test makes no difference.
So congratulations! You can go forward with 100% knowledge you didn't catch HIV during the encounter 12 weeks ago.
I hope this helps.
I'm living it right now and to be honest, I am aware of 5 to 7 steps or stages of the grief process, but they don't matter, because you survive one day at a time ....baby steps, and not time frame, since everyone heals at their own pace. It's been 2 years for me and I do feel better, but I am not yet completely healed...it takes a long time.
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