CancerCompass message board discussion started by Catherine D. on 8/26/2007 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,15629,0.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Hi,I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the Visiting Nurse Service Hospice.  My mother is looking into this hospice program and I am trying to find out some information about them before she joins.Thank you for your help. Catherine D. Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT HI I am not sure if you got your info but just to let you know they are wonderful and caring and compationate and it is so much better then having to spend the most chronic part of your disease in a hospital with out the one on one personal care you receive from hospice.  Go to a hospice organization and read testimonials it is a very peaceful approach you will find and good luck. blondraider Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT Hospice is NOT giving up. It's "living up".  I know that first hand.  My husband was tortured with radiation, sutent, torisel, I nearly lost him 3 times by poison in his system.  We have really good insurance and I'm sure they would subject him to anything covered by it. I got tired of watching him waste away. Losing weight, 0 energy, no lust for life.  Traveling for treatment. I had the Hospice nurse come over and explain what they offer. (I always thought it was the last days of your life). They told me they were trying to help with quality of life.  They switched his medications. In 3 days he popped up out of the recliner (which he had laid in for 6 days, eating nothing).  He has not stopped moving and living since.  He floored our back room, put a new engine in my sons jeep, mows the lawn, (which he LOVES to do), and he just drove us 800 miles to see my son in florida.  He is a new man.  I would rather live one month like he is, than 5 years in that recliner!!!  I love HOSPICE!!! I'm telling everyone.  Don't feel like your giving up!  I think his body is more able to heal itself now, than with all the poisons.A loving wife and mother of 4 birdie4 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT