Health Care Directive
Tonight, after much avoidance and stalling, I have updated my health care directive. I was smart enough to have created one sometime during my mid-thirties. I wanted to be sure that my wishes were carried out in the event that I was incapacitated. It was hard to go through the various scenarios in WillMaker and decide what I did and didn’t want done to sustain my life. Yet I completed the document, had it witnessed, and sent copies off to my doctor, my mother, aunt, and best friend. I think I freaked people out by deciding to do this at that time in my life, but it is something most people don’t consider at all.
I don’t know why it took me so many years to update my previous directive so that my husband is the one who has power of attorney for my health care instead of my mother. Perhaps I just didn’t want to go back to looking at the document again. But tonight, since I have to get papers notarized tomorrow for the sale of the house, I decided to update my Advanced Directive. I’m glad I did.
My husband still has not created his, though he has access to the same program. I think he is being avoidant. This is hard stuff. But look at the Terri Schiavo situation. The matter could have been settled with an Advance Directive. I am not completely clear on what he wants. And the last thing I want to get into is a fight with his family members if, God forbid, something happens to him and I have no clear directive of his wishes.
Have you created your own directive as yet? Hope so.
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