The end of life actively dying phase

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[lindalaskowski]

Thank you for all of your videos! My son, Jason passed six years ago. He wanted to pass in his home, so I took care of him with the help of our hospice nurse. He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer just 18 months before he passed. When I watch one of your videos, I usually understand what you’re talking about. Also, Jason signaled right before he was ready to pass. He knew I wanted to be with him when he took his last breath, since I was with him when he was born into this earth. There were also signs that there were others with him to take him to his home in Heaven!
Please continue to take care of these people in this stage of life, and continue to teach their stories!❤

[lineprestkvrn]

I was lucky enough to experience this from a volonteer night watch when I was a nursing student. I was called in until the family could join. I saw rapid decline, and went to talk to the Nurse in Charge. I then went back to the room and talked to the man and updated him that I had asked the Nurse to inform his family that they should come to see him. He had marbled legs and cold extremities. I went back to my Anatomy book while holding his hand. Nurse came back into the patients room and told me very audibly that they would not come. Then she left. My jaw on the floor…. Patient starting to jiggle about in anxiety. I just grabbed on to his hands and talked about all the snow downpour and that they would come once the snow plough had gone by. He calmed down, and I kept talking about the weather until I went back to the book while still holding his hand. Then came Cheyne Stokes breathing, and I knew we were getting closer. I put away my book and just talked to him and made sure he knew I was there with him. When it was over, I pressed the call-button. I informed the Nurse of time of death, packed my books and left. Nobody should have to die alone if it can be helped.

[lindareese]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful and beautiful information with me and us ❤❤❤❤

[cathyhaynes]

I just lost my dad today.
He was in the hospital for just over a week, came home yesterday on hospice. Passed at 9am this morning. He breathed that way until about 4 this morning. The last 4 or 5 hours his breathing was very shallow.
It's been a tough week.
He was my hero.

[elizabethmusso]

When my mom was in hospice a month ago, the nurses who came told us what to expect with her breathing. We were giving her meds for any discomfort, congestion, and anxiety. We were all there those last days. My youngest sister noticed this last stage of breathing and called us into the room so we could be with her one last time. We were honored to be with her in those last moments—the woman who gave birth to us, who was there in our own first moments. 💔

[TheMegolas]

My mom started actively dying when her husband was in the room with me. I was letting him have alone time with her, and was elsewhere in the house - he called out to me and when I heard my my mom’s breathing, I knew what was happening so I yelled for her best friend and we gathered around mom. We were able to be there when she passed. Thanks for these videos. I hope it helps other people in their death journey’s with their loved ones.

[michellehixson]

Saw this with my momma who died on Christmas Day … she had suffered so much and probably didn’t weigh even 75 pounds … I am so grateful she isn’t hurting anymore

[MissMarinaCapri]

To Julie, the hospice nurse, thank you for your educational and informative videos. They really help me help my mom. I guess I don’t need them anymore she’s gone and now I’m alone. I am emotionally devastated.

[lr]

Seeing my mother taking her last breaths like this was devastating for me.

[a.w.]

Thank you for speaking so openly about dying. The public needs to hear this.

[blowinbubbles]

I remember this vividly when my husband was passing. He had this type of breathing, and i knew he would pass soon.I wish I had not listened to the hospice nurse when she said she didn't think he was going to pass immediately, she was patting his arm and yelling "Mr McGuire Mr McGuire" to see if he would responde, and he finally responded, " WHAAAATT!!" She based her assessment that death wasn't imminent on that, but true to his nature of not wanting to be predictable, the hospice nurse didn't get a quarter of a mile down the road before he passed. Stinker. 😢

[AnntWoods]

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING WHAT I WITNESSED WITH MY SISTER.😊

[simplyblessed]

❤Julie I appreciate you so very much! God bless you! ❤🦋

[lexileffingwell]

As a paramedic this type of breathing gives me nightmares!

[karenflynn]

Cheyne-Stokes breathing also happens in some people with untreated sleep apnea.

[afrogirl]

Julie, my dear husband took those deep breaths and then didn't breathe for over a minute. I thought that he had passed. And then he took a loud deep breath again and I almost screamed. Then he took a couple more breaths and then he was gone. It was scary. But later learned what had happened. Thanks so much for your vids.

[kennethdingler]

You take my breath away every time I listen to your videos !!🤜🏻🤛🏻🇺🇸👍🏻💕💕💕

[orachandler]

Your videos are great! No one talks about these things and I think it’s a good thing to understand what is happening to your loved one I was lucky to be able to tell my man of 21 yrs goodbye it was a beautiful moment when he looked in my eyes I know he heard me and understood I was able to say goodbye and tell him I loved him because I knew he was passing

[susanweiss]

I have called it stair step breathing, aside you are walking down a flight of stairs, deep breaths, tha get shallower and shallower until it stops. DEEP BREATH, and slows again - steps down- until it stops, and the cycle begins again.

[seldatamara]

I witnessed this twice. First was a friend that only lasted an hour but with my sister it lasted 16 hours it was the hardest thing I had to witness.