Its Own Morbidity
Apr. 18th, 2012 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloEric's doctor summoned the family to a meeting yesterday afternoon. We were anticipating something upsetting, but all he wanted to do was consult us about taking him off warfarin- an anticoagulant that protects against heart attacks and strokes but increases the danger of internal bleeding. It's a big choice, yet hardly a choice at all. As the doctor said in his doctory way, "Old age creates its own morbidity."
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Date: 2012-04-18 12:10 pm (UTC)stick to your guns
it makes people crazier than they need to be.
quality of crossing is more important
than keeping them sicker longer.
sorry I hat that stuff they seem to think its the first thing
when it should be the last resort drug.
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Date: 2012-04-18 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-18 04:43 pm (UTC)I am very glad its not you!
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Date: 2012-04-18 05:38 pm (UTC)