The Gray Zone: When Life Support No Longer Supports Life - Softcover

Laxson, Deborah Day

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592989802 ISBN 13: 9781592989805

Publisher: Bookhouse Fulfillment, 2013

Synopsis

The patient is no longer able to speak, and you're responsible for making medical decisions..... It's that fuzzy place where it's not clear if life-support measures are really supporting life and allowing the body to heal, or only masking the reality that death is inevitable. The medical staff gives you options and possible treatments, and then they look expectantly to you. When do you let go and stop? When is enough, enough? You make decisions based on what you know from your medical team and what you know about your loved one's definition of quality of life. You do the best you can. You're in The Gray Zone. It's a really lonely place to be.

About this title

About the Author:

Deborah Day Laxson has held professional positions in the banking and healthcare related industries for the last 30 years. She and her late husband are blessed with 6 children, 12 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. She devotes her time giving back to the community and speaking to groups and organizations near her home in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bookhouse Fulfillment
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1592989802
• ISBN 13: 9781592989805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 65