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Very good point. I got into this thread by accident trying to go to mild cognitive deficit, but Factor V leapt out at me. Please know that for any kind of serious eye surgery patients on Xarelto or any of the other neo drugs she would need be off medication for ten days, not two days as is the standard. I learned this the hard way at 78. Had a small shunt for glaucoma inserted after being told to be off my 20 mg two days by two hematologists and staying off four just because I was nervous about it - had an eye wall collapse on the day I was going back for my big checkup. Got injections to inflate the eye again and a couple of other cleanup surgical procedures but the optic nerve was hopelessly damaged. It turns out Factor V makes an extremely hard clot. As far as I know, this still isn't written down anywhere and it happened to me 7 years ago. The retina specialist called in explained that a lot of older patients get prescribed these "new" meds which play havoc with the teeny weak blood vessels in the eye and in combination with Factor V it's especially serious. I hope it never applies to your wife.
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That Tennessee law is amazing. Who thought that up? If someone is terminal and getting Hospice, how is it beneficial to tell them they'll get better? Sounds cruel to me. I don't think it's right to lie to patients. If we think our doctors or caregivers are lying to us, how will we ever be able to trust them? It's so condescending. I don't tell my husband everything about his condition, though his neurologist has. We all know the prognosis. It's like answering little kids' questions: answer truthfully and briefly and at a level they can understand. Of course, if your wife really is doing better, by all means tell her so. Good luck to you both.