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Friday, October 6, 2017

How stupid is VCHA





How stupid is VCHA...

What did I do that caused VCHA to ask the Supreme Court of British Columbia on 2 April 2014 to ban me for life from attending VCHA facilities including GPC except when Walker's physician deemed Walker's condition as "imminently terminal." The same doctor who put an illegal DNR on my husband.  Imminently terminal means certain death.  What kind of sick perverted person is VCHA.  And I am still banned to this day. And my husband is dead.

I asked the lawyers for VCHA a few months ago what terrible thing did I do for this continuing drastic measure. I was told that I knew what I did.  I said no I did not.  Tell me.  They refused to tell me. There must be some dreadful thing I did and VCHA does not want me to know.


In my banning letter of 29 January 2014 VCHA wrote that it was necessary that I be banned because my conduct was not respectful:

1.  called VCHA idiots  TRUE  Bullies run VCHA  FAIR COMMENT
2.  called VCHA "trio of death"  TRUE  VCHA used a trio of physicians to solicit DNRs
3.  swearing in emails  NOT SURE
4.  sending emails to staff  TRUE  How else can you communicate with staff
5.  sending emails to the Chairman of the Board  TRUE  The boss should know what is going on
6.  threatening staff by saying that I will get them and I know what car they drive  NEVER HAPPENED

This banning letter is a matter of public record that VCHA used to apply for a restraining order 2 April 2014 to ban me from all VCHA properties.

What egregious thing did I do.  Maybe someone should ask the new Attorney General of British Columbia.  He should know. He is the one at the top of the food chain.  The buck stops with him. VCHA is a creation of the government and it is responsible to British Columbia.

david.eby.mla@leg.bc.ca
AG.Minister@gov.bc.ca  1-250-387-1866
2909 West Broadway V6K 2G6 604-660-1297


This past week I had occasion to speak to a health professional and also a lawyer.  Like always, neither wanted to truly hear what I had to say.  They rushed me from their offices. They did not what to know the details of what really happened because then they would have to do something about it.   Don't Ask; Don't Tell.  There is a saying, evil is caused by good people doing nothing. And in this case not wanting to know.

voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com
6 October 2017
604.321.2276

I was talking to a gent this afternoon (15 October 2017).  He said that he experienced much like what I did.  He was concerned about his mother who was in care.  He saved her life twice by taking her from her care faclity to emerg.  He complained.  He was visited by the mental health police.  During this same period, his name became associated with a few internet sites discrediting him.  He was convinced that Fraser Health was behind it.  I gave him my contact number.  I hope he calls me.    





Sunday, October 1, 2017

Diana Pepin banned from seeing mother. Doctors speak too soon.



I must be in good company.  Diana Pepin was also banned.  Her from seeing her mother.  Me from seeing my husband.  And Diana is a nurse.


https://ca.yahoo.com/news/apos-why-taking-long-die-223813654.html

'WHY IS IT TAKING YOU SO LONG TO DIE?': LONG-TERM CARE HOME TREATMENT
HORRIFIES FAMILY
  CBC Fri, Sep 29 4:38 PM MDT

A year ago, Diana Pepin installed a video camera in her disabled
mother's room after she said she had a bad feeling about the long-term
care facility.

Her 85-year-old mother can't walk and can't talk, so Pepin felt after
witnessing incidents she said put her mother at risk, she needed to be
her protection.

"I had to replace my eyes with other eyes, and the camera is eyes."

Pepin's instincts culminated Thursday when the City of Ottawa fired
three workers at the municipally run Peter D. Clark Long Term Care
Centre over incidents of verbal abuse described as "disturbing and
offensive" were captured on video.

It was the culmination of a three-year battle Pepin had been fighting
with the long-term care home, including a no trespassing order filed
against her, she said.

But Pepin said she was never prepared for what that camera would
capture in late August and early September.

"I saw the [personal support worker] leaning over my mom … but then I
heard words that just crushed me," she said, close to tears.

"'Why is it taking you so long to die?'" she said the worker said.

In another video, Pepin said a worker looked directly into the camera
and said "watch, bitch."

In total, Pepin caught three instances of abuse on camera. When she
reported them to the city, the workers were fired and another worker
was put on notice.

"Trust is broken," Pepin said.

"It's my word against [their] word, but with the camera and pictures
you have your witness with you."

Mayor 'outraged' by video

This was the sixth serious allegation of abuse against a city-run care
home since 2015.

Mayor Jim Watson found out about the video on Wednesday, after city
staff were alerted to the abuse allegation.

He said he has not seen the video but was provided a transcript by his staff.

"I was sickened to see someone in their golden years, their dying
days, being treated so disrespectfully and bullied and threatened by
someone who was put in a position of trust," Watson said.

The mayor said he was outraged by the abuse in the video, but
maintained the city's long term care homes are "very well run."

The city has ordered a third-party independent investigation of the
city's four homes. The recommendations from that investigation will be
made public.


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By Anita Cameron
OCTOBER 20, 2017
I will never forget it. I answered the phone one June morning in 2009.
The voice on the phone said, “If you want to see your mother alive,
you will come see her in the next few days.”

A doctor was calling from Washington state and explained that my
mother, who was in her 60s, was in the final stages of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease. He gave her literally days to live.

Two days later, I was on a plane from New York to Tacoma. I went to
see my mom, who was still in her apartment, since she said she wanted
to die at home. She rallied while I was there, and was almost her
normal self. A few days later, I went home, but asked her doctor and
home health agency to keep in close contact with me.

About a month later, her health took a downward spiral. Her doctor was
convinced she was definitely in the process of dying, so we agreed to
put her in a hospice facility, since she could not receive hospice
care in her own place. Mom was put on painkillers to make her
comfortable. I expected that she would be there for a short time, then
die peacefully.

That did not happen. Each time her grandchildren came to see her or I
called and talked with her, she rallied again. Staff were amazed.
Still, after six months, mom’s health did indeed take a turn for the
worse and the doctor again said her body had begun the process of
dying. My mother decided to go back home to Colorado to die. With
agency help, we found her a place and she took the train, which is
amazing given how ill she was.

Back in Denver, mom settled in and waited to die. But an odd and
wonderful thing happened — she did not die. She eventually found a
doctor who adjusted her medications and oxygen and took her off of all
of the heavy pain meds. She got a new wheelchair and began to venture
out into the community. Before long, she was back doing what she
loved—volunteering to advocate for people with disabilities. Weeks
after her return home, she traveled to Washington DC to help fight for
disability rights.

Terminal Illness Diagnoses Are Sometimes a Mistake
My mother’s story illustrates how doctors can and do make mistakes
when they determine that someone is terminally ill. More than seven
years have passed since that morning in June when I was first told my
mom was dying. Happily, she is still alive. Her health isn’t the best,
but she is still in her own place and still reasonably active in the
community.

What happened to my mom happens far more often then we realize. It’s
one reason assisted-suicide laws are so dangerous. Eligibility for
assisted suicide typically depends on a doctor’s prediction of death
within six months. Distress over receiving that kind of bad news could
lead someone to make a hasty exit and, potentially, miss good years of
life.

Fortunately, my mother, who often jokes that she’s too ornery to die,
wasn’t the kind to contemplate checking out early. But when she lived
in Washington state, all she would have had to do was ask and sign a
form and she would have been given lethal drugs.

Some people say that’s her choice. If they were talking about suicide,
that’s true. But they’re talking about doctor-assisted suicide, and
that’s the doctor’s choice, along with any others who may be involved,
whatever their reasons may be. That’s where there’s plenty of room for
concern.

These Laws Particularly Prey on the Vulnerable
Most people of color are against doctor-assisted suicide. Studies show
that blacks are treated differently than white patients and receive
inferior care, particularly in cardiac care, diabetes, and pain
management. Blacks are more likely to die because doctors have
overlooked something critical or will not listen to or believe what we
have to say about our health and pain. Also, because we’re more likely
to be poor, we are at greater risk of being persuaded or coerced by
doctors into assisted suicide, citing the financial burden we’d be to
our family.

Data from Oregon and Washington shows that people request assisted
suicide mainly for psychological and social reasons. Healthy,
nondisabled people get support to live when they express suicidal
feelings, while people who are sick and disabled, particularly those
deemed terminally ill, get suicide medication. Why not suicide
prevention, pain relief, and home care? Would that be so difficult?

Or is the difficulty and cost of quality care the real issue? A
particularly frightening reality is that some insurance companies in
Oregon and California, where doctor-assisted suicide is legal, have
begun denying cancer treatment to patients, opting instead to pay for
lethal drugs. This is not the way society should respond to human
beings’ needs for health care.

Assisted suicide laws are a bad prescription. We shouldn’t take it.

Anita Cameron is director of minority outreach at Not Dead Yet and a
disability rights activist with ADAPT.





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