alowing wife to die in hospital due to serious medica;problems

 

 I have been married 34 yr. My wife is from Taiwan. I met her in New Mexico. 5 to 7 yrs ago she had to have dialysis. In the past year or 2 she has has had problems. One time she had a cardiac arrest. In the past month she went back in the hosp with heart problms. The hosp put in a pace maker and new heart valves.Since all this was done she had blood pressure problems which became more severe and breathing problems the breathing improved but then went bad. She developed some sort of circulation problems in her toes and fingers(causing them to turn black) she developed some stomach infections. The toes the hosp told me were going to have to be amputated. The doctors said she would be like this with no improvement. The decision was I could terminate her life(right to life option) because I knew she would be miserable (permanet breathing tube,amputate toes fingers)operation on stomach.She never developed these probles before coming in.However Iam certain without some kind of intervention she would end uip dying. The hospital terminated her life with my permission. My stepson was there with his wife me we  watched her die .A horrible experience only I was destined to observe .

 

Its terrible and I feel guilty did I make the right decsion.Should I have prolonged her life She being confined to a wheel chair.So within three or 4 weeks of entering the hosp I ended up terminating her life .A wonderful woman at times who loved me who also had a intense temper.Never the less I weathered the storm.She made some terrible financial decions but I stuck by her .Needless to say I now have to suffer the prolonged guilt and grief over doing this

 

Dave

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Comment by Lori on June 2, 2012 at 9:27pm

Dave, I'm sure that was a difficult decision. I'm glad your stepson was there as well. I think it is natural for all of us to feel guilty about something, but I think you gave her a gift. A gift that said it's okay you can go. I know my husband passed away 6 hours after I gave him "permission"..I told him I loved him, that I would be okay and that I would keep leaving notes on the coffee pot. Try not to beat yourself up, I know easier said then done.

Comment by anna l. on May 27, 2012 at 8:33pm

Hi Dave.  What a horrible ordeal you have been through.  It is so very hard to watch someone we love suffer so.  Many many many of us struggle with the decisions that had to be made.  Some of us feel guilting for those decisions.  It is a pretty normal part of the grief journey.  The way I deal with my questions of what could I have done differently is to ask myself what my child or husband would have done.  The answers are always the same, they wouldnt have done anything differently.  What is done is done.  Please be gentle with yourself. 

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