End of full timing may be soon
Had planned to full time until I died but didn't plan on my cancer returning so soon so we may be near the end of our adventures. I plan, as soon as they get my medications stabilized and warm weather...
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noplace2 wrote:
I type as a retired Hospice RN and a fulltime RV'er for 13 years who plans to die out here, somewhere on the road. (Hopefully not ACTUALLY on the road) Until you are absolutely forced to stop living the way you wish, don't. The most frequent regret that I heard expressed by hundreds of dying patients was that they gave up too soon. Finding a sedentary "place", curling up in a barcolounger and watching mind-numbing TV while eating huge quantities of largely ineffective drugs is an accelerated death sentence if there ever was one.
There are so many mitigating factors at play and everyone's circumstance is different. Bottom line for me is that, when life as I want to experience it becomes too painful, problematical or simply not fun anymore, I'm checking out, by my own hand, with my dearest wife and friend's blessing. Should my final event leave me incapacitated, she knows what (not) to do.
I hear you man, I feel the same way and that is one reason I have taken the steps I have up until now. My doctor basically has told me that if I attempt further surgery after having Radiation that I have a 50% chance of things going very wrong and me ending up just that, on a bed or couch with tubes attached or dead and I am not ready for either one. So I am going the drugs route and hoping for the best. I tried to convince my wife that if it got bad enough I would end it too but she flat out refused to allow it. I told her we were humane to animals in pain and suffering with no hope of recovery so why not me. That didn't work either.
