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Does anyone have experience with Palliative Care?

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Jul 29 9:27am | Replies (154)

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@carlaz

I, too, encourage you to seek a Palliative Care Team. The comprehensive treatments and methods focus on your challenges, needs, and quality of life to accomplish your goals. Husbands or spouses journeying, caring, and supporting their spouse with cancer or life-threatening diseases would also find help to understand, and support for coping, as cancer and life-threatening diseases affect both patient and spouse. It is not a cure. For my late husband and me, Palliative Care gave us the gift of time, pain symptom management, and palliative chemotherapy to keep cancer at bay, and all the support to help him accomplish his spoken goals. Was it easy, not always. Joy collided with agony, but our time together was priceless. I hope this is an encouragement to you and others facing difficult health issues.

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So well said, @carlaz! This captures palliative care to a tee: "Palliative Care gave us the gift of time, pain symptom management, and palliative chemotherapy to keep cancer at bay, and all the support to help him accomplish his spoken goals. Was it easy, not always. Joy collided with agony, but our time together was priceless."

For many people, the phrase 'palliative care' is frightening. Your words help put the emphasis on "care". Thank you.