Reading on Kevmath's twitter that he's not doing well at all

Let's hope he makes it

Gl to him, but do people ever survive hospice?

All the best to Slim and his family.

in before all the people that turned turned their backs on him talk about how great he was. Hope he is ok though even though a hospice is pretty much the last stop.

sigh god bless him and his family.. one last one time to much to ask?

Praying for slim...

Why? So he can keep suffering?

+1. I can't imagine that eating through a feeding tube is any way to go through life.

Where is it stated he's eating through a feeding tube? My grandma spent her last month in a hospice and ate with a fork and knife til her last day.

why's that?

Probably should have said, hopefully whatever happens he's not in pain

Lived a long damn time, gg Slim.

Ahhh the south

This may be a bad time to ask this but, isn't he a child molester?

He says he's not, but I remember some video of describing what happened and it still sounded kind of creepy.

Anyway, like others I just hope he's not in pain.

Yes. Amongst hospice practitioners, it is often called "graduating" from hospice.

Following is a TLDR ramble about hospice, with no Amarillo Slim content at all.

In order to be eligible for hospice (in the US, where hospice is more of a philosophy than a place and is also a Medicare benefit), one must be likely to have a life expectancy of less than six months according to two docs. Sometimes after you admit someone to hospice, it becomes pretty clear that they have improved and no longer meet criteria. You don't automatically get kicked out just because you live longer, but you have to be recertified. In three month intervals, a doc has to recertify that AT THIS TIME, the patient has likely less than six month life expectancy. Most hospices of any size will have at least a couple of patients who have been enrolled for 2+ years.

Dementia or adult failure to thrive are diagnoses where you can see this with some frequency. They are my most common discharge.

It can also come about because of a change of heart regarding goals of care. Had a Lou Gehrig's Disease patient who was enrolled because he had decided that he absolutely didn't want to ever been on a breathing machine or have a feeding tube. (Feeding tubes are unfortunately often placed in situations where they won't help, but ALS is one of the instances where they can clearly prolong patient survival.) We could justify meeting admission criteria based on expected progression of disease. Did aggressive symptom management, and he started to feel much better. He reconsidered his thoughts about a ventilator or a feeding tube based on his improved quality of life. We got him a referral to have a feeding tube placed preemptively (while his lungs could still handle the operation done in a low-risk manner). Then we had to discharge him from hospice, because his life expectancy was greater than six months at that point.

Also, it is possible to be enrolled in hospice while on an organ transplant list. If your name comes up on the list, you discharge from hospice.

What mistakes he may have made in life, I hope he goes peacefully and wish his family the best during the grieving process.

Does that include child molestation?

Interesting interview with him here -> http://www.pokerlistings.com/a-legen...nce-pt-1-38457

He was never convicted, although he did plead no contest in a plea bargain...

IF he really didnt really touch his grandbabies, then i hope he somehow makes a remarkable recovery, since he is a legend. But if he(or anyone harms a child) I think they deserve a slow painful death.

We'll never know what happened though so we'll just leave it in gods hands.

Who cares what you think?

In before all the people who will blindly forget what happened like with Michael Jackson.

Hospice is most frequently used to ease end-of-live. However, that can
be a very long term process. an example, someone with severe multiple
sclerosis, or very severe heart failure.
there are times a patient is accepted by hospice, but improves significantly,
and is removed due to "good health".