Originally Posted by Trsnrtr

I’ll never forget when my sister first went on hospice and was in a care facility, the hospice nurse asked her what she could do to make her more comfortable, happier in her last days, etc. and she wanted two things: the first was tomato soup and the second was access to the smoking area more than once a day. The hospice nurse asked the facility nurse why she couldn’t have tomato soup and the nurse said it was because she was on a low sodium diet. As for smoking, it was a rule that clients only had smoking access once a day no matter who they were. My sister was in her last couple months of life and in fact, lived about a month after going on hospice.

The hospice nurse got her orders changed to 24 hour access to tomato soup and/or tomato juice and was given the door code to the smoking area.