What would you do????

If you had a heart condition (atrial fibrillation) that required you to be on blood thinners to prevent you from forming clots to prevent you from having a heart attack or a stroke but were causing you to have a GI bleed which required you to receive blood transfusions only to lose blood again, what would you do?

1. Continue to take your blood thinners and continue to bleed and receive transfusions

2. Stop the thinners and greatly increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke

In addition would you want to be a full code where we would do everything we could to save your life should your lungs or heart stop working or......

Would you ask to be a DNR (Do not Resuscitate) or a DNRCC (Do not Resuscitate Comfort Care) in which we would just keep you comfortable or a DNRCC (Do not Resuscitate Comfort Care Arrest) in which we would do everything for you up until the point your heart stopped and then all efforts would be terminated?

Id stop taking the pills...if god wants me then theres nothing i could do about it...i believe that everything has a reason..and i would ask to be DNRCC

I don't think anyone truly knows what they would do until they are placed in that situation. they might say they do but most people, whether they realize it or not, are just saying what they hope/would like to think that they would do. if this is about you i'm sorry. i don't think this is the best place for advice though. if this isn't about you, then that last bit is irrelevant.

No, it is not about me personally but I have ran across this scenario several times in my line of work. That is true that you probably don't know what you'd do unless it happened to you, but I just wanted to get some first instinct responses.

Well Rachel, my instinctive response is that i would probably start on the thinners, then after a time become disgusted with myself and stop taking them.

As to your next question i'm not sure. I know that i wouldn't want to be trapped in a vegetated state for years. i would want people to let me go. in my opinion that isn't really even living. i also wouldn't want to be kept in that state as it doesn't allow any of my family or friends to move on. Now if i was injured and being cared for there is a point where i would rather be let go. where that point is i couldn't tell you. at least not at this point in my life.

Quality not quantity, well put sherry.