hi, I am pretty new here but need a bit of advice before I take things further if need be. My mum is bed ridden she has stage 4 lung cancer and even though she is telling us that it has not went to the bones we know different as her spine is the reason for her being bed ridden as she has got fractures all the way through it. Any ways long story short I live a few hours away from her but have family members keeping me up to date, yesterday my brother who lives at home with mum sent me a message saying that the nurses said that they would train him on how to inject my mum with her morphine and her midazolam, this has struck me as very weird as it was the community nurses that said this to him surely they can not do this esp when my mum is on a driver that is giving her the said medication so why would she need more injected in. I am hoping someone can help me with this as I don't want to be phoning and putting in complaints with out being 100% sure that this is wrong.
Thank you all in advance for any help given
Hi Debbie, this sounds very strange to me. When my mum was terminal, she had a Macmillan nurse coming in every day to give her the morphine injection. When the pain got severe and mum was struggling, the nurse said she could not give her anymore morphine, there was a legal amount that she was allowed to administer at home herself, and that if she wanted something stronger she would have to got the hospice.
I would definitely call your mums GP and find out about this. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable giving someone a morphine injection myself.
