The Paperwork

For John, BLUF:  We need to be looking out for each other, and we need to be in a position to do so.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Buckle Up, Buttercup

Here is the sub-headline:

Life's about to get rough with you

From Cedar’s Substack, by Ms Cedar Sanderson, 20 June 2023.

Here is the lede plus one:

Spoiler: we’re all alive.

This publishes mid-week, but on Sunday the fun started. My husband, best-beloved of my heart and First Reader, came to me in the kitchen and complained of indigestion. I was working on a yellow squash relish, and we’d had a heavy breakfast, so I asked him if he wanted me to find the tums. He said he’d have a glass of milk, and we went on with life. Not much later, he came back, sweating, and asked me to drive him to the doc-in-a-box. He was having chest pain radiating into his arm and hand, nausea, and a headache.

The author gives us some lessons learned:

• Be careful of a Do Not RESUSSITATE (DNR) order.  With such a document in place you shouldn't even do CPR on your spouse.
• What is needed is an advanced care directive (ACD).
• If you are in a relationship with no legal basis, get the medical PoA set up.

During my time in the Air Force I learned the aphorism, "The job isn't done until the paperwork is complete".

I would add,

• Everyone needs a Patient Advocate; someone to go to the desk and convey information, from the patient wants ice cream to the patient isn't acting normally.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff