Hello all-I found out yesterday I’d have to be on oxygen 24/7 from now on and need to start a long and expensive treatment program including expensive meds and a lot of riding back and forth to doctors and what not all the time-unfortunately I have no insurance, no money to speak of, am divorced and live alone-doc says need to apply to Medicare-I’m a 50ym wm living in ky-worked 50-60 hours a week my whole life at different jobs until just a few years ago when I left my job to work for myself-so I have paid into the system but getting to that takes a long time and money which I don’t have and even if I did it’s not the quality of life I want. It’s copd and in my case one of the lungs not expelling co2-so short of a lung transplant not much hope.
But I have made that decision already-what I wanted to ask for insite is I am not sure if it would be better to let some or all family or no one know I won’t be trying to fix it so am a short timer-like my mother lives in fl and would fly up if I needed her-I would almost like to let her know so she can come up for a last visit-but how hard that would-better just to not say anything and just be gone one day-I’m not sure. I have told my brother and mother my final wishes in the event of-so the after is all in place-it the before I’m not sure about-any experience, strength or hope u could share would be greatly appreciated-thanks-
tom
But I have made that decision already-what I wanted to ask for insite is I am not sure if it would be better to let some or all family or no one know I won’t be trying to fix it so am a short timer-like my mother lives in fl and would fly up if I needed her-I would almost like to let her know so she can come up for a last visit-but how hard that would-better just to not say anything and just be gone one day-I’m not sure. I have told my brother and mother my final wishes in the event of-so the after is all in place-it the before I’m not sure about-any experience, strength or hope u could share would be greatly appreciated-thanks-
tom