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Post by Epi on Nov 3, 2006 18:15:02 GMT 9.5
What are some of the hardest decisions you have ever made?
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Post by meinuk on Nov 4, 2006 9:50:34 GMT 9.5
Wether we should have my sons eyes stitched shut.
Wether we should withhold medical treatment from him...i.e. no resuscitation.
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Post by Epi on Nov 4, 2006 18:17:21 GMT 9.5
They were biggies Sharon.
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Post by meinuk on Nov 4, 2006 18:20:54 GMT 9.5
I spose
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Post by Willow on Nov 5, 2006 15:09:39 GMT 9.5
Phew, I've never had to make a decision that hard.................I'm not sure but maybe moving to Qld for a while was a pretty big - we really needed to chnage some things in our life and getting away from everyone seemed to be the only way to do it - worked out too!
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Post by zonked on Nov 6, 2006 9:19:41 GMT 9.5
I had the same think with my mum. She was sick and needed an operation and she told my sister, the Doctor and myself that if her kidneys failed she didn't want treatment, which her kidneys did and we told the doctor that we would honor her wish. So We buried her next to my dad one week before we closed on my house so I could be close to her and help her!!!!
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Post by tiger on Nov 6, 2006 12:07:57 GMT 9.5
i'd say mine would have been when our family had to decide weather to turn off life support on my uncle he was the centre of our family and was only 29 when he died it was probably for the best but i was one that didnt want to, my mind just kept thinking he would wake up and be ok i was even dreaming it.
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Post by mckenzygirl on Nov 7, 2006 14:17:47 GMT 9.5
Wow y'all I've never had to make big really big decisions like that so far in my life I feel for you who have had to. (hugs) ( I thank God)
Right now my husband and I are at the point that he would like to do travel nursing. He's been checking into this for about 2 years now. He found that in Alaska, they are paying $ 45.00 an hour+ if you live 65 miles away from hospital, you get $7000.00 a month extra...... tax free! We are really thinking should we go for it or shouldn't we. I bet we ask each other that question everyday for the last two months.
I keep thinking about our oldest daughter, granddaughter..my mum (she's 83 yrs.old) I don't know if I could leave them. When you do travel nursing a you take a job for 13 weeks. Ken says I can fly home if anything would happens to my Mum or if I miss my kids and grandkids too much. My son and his family would be living in Alaska. My youngest daughter says she would move with us. And the big question is ... is the money all that worth it to go up there? I know it could pay some debt off..that's a good thing..I think!
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Post by Epi on Nov 8, 2006 5:41:46 GMT 9.5
As I get older I try to look at the positives first and then the negatives.
Moving away from any family member is a really hard decision to make. I'd concentrate on - is it something I want/need to do, and if I decide not to do it, would I regret that decision in later life.
Then I'd consider the financial aspects and how quick and easy it would be to return to loved ones if the need arose.
I know, easier said than done!
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Post by tiger on Nov 8, 2006 11:30:52 GMT 9.5
I moved to Queensland around 11 years ago we were a young family and we were away from all our family . But we gave it a shot and didnt like it up there and we came home.
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Nov 8, 2006 22:48:51 GMT 9.5
Ge I have no idea where to start, a few times we have had to decide weather Nick should have surgery, or to wait and see if things improve. or weather to try a new medication or stick to the old (there is a risk with every new medication, they don't always work out and can even make things worse) I really have lost track of these type of decisions that basically I have had to make over the last 11 years. Luckily I have had good doctors and specialists who have always steered us on the right direction. As for the hardest, I guess that would be the decisionto donate a kidney to Nick, then again that was probably one of the easier ones to be honest. I was going to do it no matter what, once Nicks biological mother made it plain she wouldn't do it.
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Post by Willow on Nov 20, 2006 20:16:10 GMT 9.5
I moved to Queensland around 11 years ago we were a young family and we were away from all our family . But we gave it a shot and didnt like it up there and we came home. we must've both been there at nearly the same time! We lived at Nundah on the "north side" where were you?
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Post by tiger on Nov 22, 2006 19:14:29 GMT 9.5
we lived in Kallanger which is the north side also
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Nov 23, 2006 9:49:43 GMT 9.5
I moved to Queensland around 11 years ago we were a young family and we were away from all our family . But we gave it a shot and didnt like it up there and we came home. that was probably not long after I moved back to SA from Queensland. Which was about six months before Nick was born.
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Post by Willow on Nov 24, 2006 17:44:22 GMT 9.5
Small world hey?
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