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Relative has terminal skin cancer of the face/head. Under hospice care. Yesterday we could not get a blood pressure reading on left arm or wrist using 2 different monitors. Hospice nurse felt very weak pulse in foot as well. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Blood clot, stroke, no circulation to left side? Also, left arm is tingling and cannot use arm to lift herself from chair.
Thank you for info. She has refused morphine thus far. Was left for her to use for pain and breathing, but she won't use it.
Morphine slows down your respiratory system and in large enough doses, stops the breathing all together. - learned this from experience with my sister who was signed up with hospice.
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