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A mom on deciding this time NOT to treat. “When its disease progression, forward doesn’t look the same.”

We were so caught up in having a new baby, and having this new life at home with the two of them

This is How We Live: This Thing Called Baseline

A Mom reflects on when quality of life bumped into quantity: We asked, “What are we doing?”

Intractable problems regulated by the CNS: Fix vs Modify. Asking to understand “I can’t make it better.”

The Conversation and Advance Care Planning: “As Baseline moved, we’d make a new plan”

Problems of the CNS: Is this a new acute problem OR a change in Baseline

Problems of the CNS: What are family’s expectations: ‘Fix’ vs Accepting a change in baseline.

Intractable problems and a new Baseline: When the hospital can’t change the outcome

I need his life to be good NOW.

We never held anything back from them.
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