If you’re willing to share, I would be interested in hearing your reasoning for a DNR if it’s outside of the typical cases (terminal, elderly, etc.). I don’t know a ton about what all they do to resuscitate beyond CPR/AED (when necessary) and possibly general life support measures
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Apytele@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoum. yeah. they do that after regular surgery too. a shitton of sedatives will do that. ect is somewhat associated with temporary memory loss but it wears off just as quick as with a regular seizure.
PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Honestly it’s not even the CPR that particularly bothers me, it’s the intubation and the stuff after. I’ve worked with so many patients who don’t have a lot of working neural tissue left and their family just has them medically tortured for years because they want to see them blink occasionally. Next time I update my documents I think I’m going to add that if my family wants something to happen to me that I have to be held down for, they have to be in the room. If they can’t stand to watch / listen to me while it happens, they’ve no right signing off on it.
PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gotcha, that makes sense. It’s always baffling to me how we often treat animals with more dignity than people when it comes to end of life care.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 10 months ago
After being in an ICU for a busy night and being in the same room while another person didn’t make it, I am DNR on like everything. You shouldn’t need to do that to my body for me to be alive.