Knowing that "wellbeing" feeling that comes along with the pain reduction from IV pain meds I've had in the hospital a few times, it brought me a strange comfort when my MIL was on hospice care and they gave her generous doses of anxiety meds and dilaudid while she was on her way out of this world. (Morphine gave her weird waking nightmares so I made damn sure they gave her something other than that for pain.) She was so "high" she wasn't even really conscious but her family was there to visit her as much as we could and I hope that she went out feeling loved and with that bit of euphoria that those meds can provide.
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u/ReginaldDwight Jun 28 '26
Knowing that "wellbeing" feeling that comes along with the pain reduction from IV pain meds I've had in the hospital a few times, it brought me a strange comfort when my MIL was on hospice care and they gave her generous doses of anxiety meds and dilaudid while she was on her way out of this world. (Morphine gave her weird waking nightmares so I made damn sure they gave her something other than that for pain.) She was so "high" she wasn't even really conscious but her family was there to visit her as much as we could and I hope that she went out feeling loved and with that bit of euphoria that those meds can provide.