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Old 09-04-2014, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by aephi alum View Post
I saw yesterday that she was moved out of the ICU. I imagine she was placed in the palliative care unit. The PCU is where a patient is placed when the doctors have given up and they want to make the patient as comfortable as possible because the patient is going to die. Family members can visit 24/7 and even sleep in a recliner in the PCU (at least that was the setup at the hospital where my mother died).
That's what I thought. Thanks for explaining. The media presented it like her condition was improving. It turns out, she was still on life support and they just took her off life support because they knew her condition would not improve.
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