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Geraldine Kijowski, 62, of Millville, N.J., is in charge and doesn't like it one bit. For the past 10 years, the retired secretary has had sole responsibility for her bedridden mother, including home care, emergency hospital stays, hospice visits and now daily trips to a nursing home. Geraldine says her only sister hasn't visited for years and doesn't participate in any aspect of their mother's care. The roller coaster of emergencies and emotions that she has experienced over the years has been almost more than Geraldine can bear alone. "Now that I'm losing my mother...
...before a Dignitas member actually comes to Zurich to die. During that time, Minelli sometimes travels to meet the person and his or her family in their home country in order to establish the personal connection that he considers essential. "If somebody asks me to come because they are bedridden and can't travel, I always go," he says. "Sometimes one of the doctors goes with me, to make an initial assessment of the client's condition." Once in Zurich, Dignitas members are taken by Minelli to a simply furnished apartment, where they are provided with the barbiturates. To avoid...
...arrested in the exile of a Gstaad hotel. The French legal system finally put him in jail; now it has sprung him after he served barely a third of his 10-year sentence. Medical experts solicited by his lawyers said age and illness had left the 92-year-old "bedridden" and decrepit, but Papon exited prison without assistance and grinned as he climbed into a waiting car. Denunciations of the ruling were immediate, and the Justice Ministry has promised an appeal - though it's unlikely to succeed since the ruling is in line with the new law. Not only does...
...away at my father’s kidneys until they finally gave out in a Chicago hotel room. Miraculously, doctors were able to regain his pulse and sustain his life in the nearby Northwestern Hospital. Though he needed two years of dialysis, a procedure where my dad was bedridden and attached to a machine for four hours, three times a week, he ultimately emerged with a kidney transplant in 1993, returning to a normal life against the odds...
...read in the paper that the City University of New York (CUNY) had an elder-law clinic. "They came here to my home to help me," she says, still amazed. "The professor was very concerned about me, that I couldn't get to my phone, that I was bedridden. He came back with a long extension wire and put it on the phone." They also took care of her legal problems. Admits Michaels: "I was very, very skeptical and pessimistic about lawyers, and I still am for the most part. But I've been well taken care...