When is abuse and neglect so commonplace that it isn't abuse or neglect anymore. I suspect it is when you become so battered that you don't care any more.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Letter to Worksafe and Union December 15 2011
In my quest to have an independent investigation by an outside party into the allegations that infringed on Randy's rights to associate with me as well as my access to him, I sent the below worded letter to Work Safe and to the Employees Union to investigate the bullying which I was subjected to as it involved safe practices. Nothing came of the two letters. Since then the young man who incessantly rang his call bell has died and I wasn't even afforded the opportunity to attend his memorial service although I was but a few hundred feet away. I will never forgive GPC for this.
15 December 2011
Contents of email to jacqueline.dulac@worksafebc.com
Subject: George Pearson Centre
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My name is Audrey Jane Laferriere.
For the past ten months I have been constructively banned from George Pearson Centre because I was a safety issue for the residents, staff and visitors of GPC. The hours I am allowed to see Randy are during the day from 2:00 to 4:00 sometimes to 4:30 pm from MtoF. These hours are very difficult for me and I have had to change my life to accommodate and forgo other commitments. I am not allowed to visit Randy on weekends, holidays or weekends that are the usual hours for friends and visitors. I am not allowed to see Randy in his ward (his home for the next fifteen years) so I cannot attend to his personal comfort like using his remote to find tv channels he would enjoy. I can only see him if he is feeling up to it and then it is in the piano room across from security. Randy has very little mobility and cannot speak.
Although I tried to adhere to the written policies of VCH to appeal this banning, I was not afforded the opportunity to talk to those that accused me nor was I allowed an independent investigation into the incident(s).
The tipping point for my constructive banning was when I went into a resident's room and gave him a plush toy in February 2011 and a LPN followed me into the resident's room, grabbed the plush toy from my hand, said the resident didn't need the toy, and told me that I wasn't allowed in his room. The plush toy wasn't returned to me; it landed up in the nurses’ station in full view. Up until that time I was friendly with the resident and the week prior I had given him another plush toy. Plush toys are necessary for residents so they have something soft and cuddly to touch; a substitute for human contact. And this young man had a habit of incessantly using his call bell to call nursing staff because he was lonely.
This whole incident is about bullying by a few staff, a few residents, and one visitor which bullying is still continuing. My reputation has been damaged beyond repair. Since bullying can be dangerous, it must fall under your purview.
If you could investigate the incidents I would appreciate it.
Audrey Laferriere
audreyjlaferriere@gmail.com
604-321-2276
http://voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com
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15 December 2011
Contents of email to jacqueline.dulac@worksafebc.com
Subject: George Pearson Centre
___________________________________________________________________
My name is Audrey Jane Laferriere.
For the past ten months I have been constructively banned from George Pearson Centre because I was a safety issue for the residents, staff and visitors of GPC. The hours I am allowed to see Randy are during the day from 2:00 to 4:00 sometimes to 4:30 pm from MtoF. These hours are very difficult for me and I have had to change my life to accommodate and forgo other commitments. I am not allowed to visit Randy on weekends, holidays or weekends that are the usual hours for friends and visitors. I am not allowed to see Randy in his ward (his home for the next fifteen years) so I cannot attend to his personal comfort like using his remote to find tv channels he would enjoy. I can only see him if he is feeling up to it and then it is in the piano room across from security. Randy has very little mobility and cannot speak.
Although I tried to adhere to the written policies of VCH to appeal this banning, I was not afforded the opportunity to talk to those that accused me nor was I allowed an independent investigation into the incident(s).
The tipping point for my constructive banning was when I went into a resident's room and gave him a plush toy in February 2011 and a LPN followed me into the resident's room, grabbed the plush toy from my hand, said the resident didn't need the toy, and told me that I wasn't allowed in his room. The plush toy wasn't returned to me; it landed up in the nurses’ station in full view. Up until that time I was friendly with the resident and the week prior I had given him another plush toy. Plush toys are necessary for residents so they have something soft and cuddly to touch; a substitute for human contact. And this young man had a habit of incessantly using his call bell to call nursing staff because he was lonely.
This whole incident is about bullying by a few staff, a few residents, and one visitor which bullying is still continuing. My reputation has been damaged beyond repair. Since bullying can be dangerous, it must fall under your purview.
If you could investigate the incidents I would appreciate it.
Audrey Laferriere
audreyjlaferriere@gmail.com
604-321-2276
http://voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com
110,314
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Too Good to be true
For the past few days, everything was going okay, and this morning I awoke with a sense of foreboding around me and sure enough Marion reminded me of my unrealistic restrictions to visit Randy. I am only allowed to visit Randy and not allowed to attend any GPC activities -- those activities that are used to normalize the residents and their significant others are invited like church, like residents council meetings, like the garden club, like the canteen, like bingo.
My presence is apparently upsetting Rod and Willy in Ward 2. After a year I tried to be pleasant to Rod a few days ago and he like a spoilt child runs off behind my back saying I invaded his space because I stood in his doorway and asked how was he feeling as his brother recently died and Rod was in VGH for a few weeks. During the Christmas we were talking about his life so I assumed that things were okay between us. He complained about me a year ago so he might have decided again to paint me. If not he can get in touch with me and I will apologize because maybe someone else saw us.
And then there is Willy, the resident bully. The resident bully who buys bulk food at Costco and stores it in his resident-wife's cupboard and cooks his meals in the common kitchen although it is said in the GPC Residents Manual that visitors are allowed only tea and a cookie sometimes. I have asked that his cooking cease but no. There is avery large cafeteria where food can be purchased reasonably from the kitchen. Both of these caring persons are featured in the You Tube video Envisioning Home. How can these giants be afraid of a 70 year old woman weighing 100 pounds.
This has been going on for close to two years and it is going to continue like Linda Rose said until Randy dies and even on his death bed I would not be allowed into Ward 2. GPC does not have to have a reason to expel anyone. And what can I do: nothing. I have no money for lawyers and GPC is private property owned by the taxpayers so maybe it can. So much for the myth that GPC is a home for the incurables.
For the past few days I have been asking residents what they thought of someone cooking fresh fried food in a ward. Would it cause a resident to become upset especially if he is on tube feed or even on hospital food. I could not find one resident who thought it was appropriate. One of the comments I heard was that it was torture. And Willy is still cooking there. Randy is a quad in a bed close to the common kitchen, he can't talk, he can't walk, he can't eat. Even if he was in a position to object staff would still allow Willey to cook and eat there because Willey has positioned himself to be well liked by the staff. In January when Randy was refusing his feed I asked management to stop the process as Randy only wanted real food to eat and the smell of food cooking could cause that craving.
As for Willy he lets it be known that if you say anything about him no one will believe you. And it is true. Through the years residents have complained about Willy and he is still entrenched there. Doesn't he have a life besides becoming friendly with the nurses in Ward 2 and other female residents in plain view of his wife and everyone else. I would look at this scenario and I would become nauseous. His wife is in the latter stages of Lou Gehrig's disease. I remember on New Year's day I was at GPC and saw his wife being sent to VGH and rather than accompany her he went to the GPC New Years Day party.
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My presence is apparently upsetting Rod and Willy in Ward 2. After a year I tried to be pleasant to Rod a few days ago and he like a spoilt child runs off behind my back saying I invaded his space because I stood in his doorway and asked how was he feeling as his brother recently died and Rod was in VGH for a few weeks. During the Christmas we were talking about his life so I assumed that things were okay between us. He complained about me a year ago so he might have decided again to paint me. If not he can get in touch with me and I will apologize because maybe someone else saw us.
And then there is Willy, the resident bully. The resident bully who buys bulk food at Costco and stores it in his resident-wife's cupboard and cooks his meals in the common kitchen although it is said in the GPC Residents Manual that visitors are allowed only tea and a cookie sometimes. I have asked that his cooking cease but no. There is avery large cafeteria where food can be purchased reasonably from the kitchen. Both of these caring persons are featured in the You Tube video Envisioning Home. How can these giants be afraid of a 70 year old woman weighing 100 pounds.
This has been going on for close to two years and it is going to continue like Linda Rose said until Randy dies and even on his death bed I would not be allowed into Ward 2. GPC does not have to have a reason to expel anyone. And what can I do: nothing. I have no money for lawyers and GPC is private property owned by the taxpayers so maybe it can. So much for the myth that GPC is a home for the incurables.
For the past few days I have been asking residents what they thought of someone cooking fresh fried food in a ward. Would it cause a resident to become upset especially if he is on tube feed or even on hospital food. I could not find one resident who thought it was appropriate. One of the comments I heard was that it was torture. And Willy is still cooking there. Randy is a quad in a bed close to the common kitchen, he can't talk, he can't walk, he can't eat. Even if he was in a position to object staff would still allow Willey to cook and eat there because Willey has positioned himself to be well liked by the staff. In January when Randy was refusing his feed I asked management to stop the process as Randy only wanted real food to eat and the smell of food cooking could cause that craving.
As for Willy he lets it be known that if you say anything about him no one will believe you. And it is true. Through the years residents have complained about Willy and he is still entrenched there. Doesn't he have a life besides becoming friendly with the nurses in Ward 2 and other female residents in plain view of his wife and everyone else. I would look at this scenario and I would become nauseous. His wife is in the latter stages of Lou Gehrig's disease. I remember on New Year's day I was at GPC and saw his wife being sent to VGH and rather than accompany her he went to the GPC New Years Day party.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Another Week also see new paragraph
It has been an interesting week. I am totally exhausted. I have been taking Randy home for the past few weeks and it is proving too much for me. He can't be or he doesn't want to be alone for a minute. For the most part he is manic as he is tries to talk to me and he can't. He makes gestures and I do not understand him and then he gets more and more frustrated. I am at a lose. At the moment he wants me to buy him a walker. He wants to walk but GPC says he is not ready but then if you depend on GPC he will never be ready. For the past year all I have heard is he isn't ready to talk, to eat, to walk. I still do not understand why he wasn't sent to GF Strong as he was originally destined to go. Maybe it had something to do with his later reassessment in that he was never going to be a high wage earner (taxpayer). GPC is only a maintenance hospital (residential care facility). No one gets better. When you are sent to GPC you are told that the resident is as good as he will ever get and GPC makes sure that that status quo remains as stated. This is where VCH $cuts and $cuts and $cuts. We all know that money is joyful and that the lack of such must be the reason GPC is unjoyful.
more musings to follow ... re death of a resident (fond memories of and regrets), re reports of a Ward 2 visitor who is still cooking food in the common area of Ward 2; a nurse telling me that she couldn't talk to me as she was on her break as if she was afraid to be seen talking to me (this could also explain the fact when I leave a message for someone to telephone me no one returns by call: I tested this on the evening shift on Friday, Saturday and Sunday: I phoned and left a message for someone from Ward 2 to call me: no one called); no rental eviction notice but the neighbours are still vindictive as I just received a ticket for a dog not leashed on a date so long ago I do not remember, etc... a week in the life of a woman close to 70. I am near the end of my life and my time is precious and I do not have time to be confronted with these things every single day since Randy arrived at GPC. What bullying; what craziness. And the obvious as stated in an article about bullying I recently read: bullies always win.
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more musings to follow ... re death of a resident (fond memories of and regrets), re reports of a Ward 2 visitor who is still cooking food in the common area of Ward 2; a nurse telling me that she couldn't talk to me as she was on her break as if she was afraid to be seen talking to me (this could also explain the fact when I leave a message for someone to telephone me no one returns by call: I tested this on the evening shift on Friday, Saturday and Sunday: I phoned and left a message for someone from Ward 2 to call me: no one called); no rental eviction notice but the neighbours are still vindictive as I just received a ticket for a dog not leashed on a date so long ago I do not remember, etc... a week in the life of a woman close to 70. I am near the end of my life and my time is precious and I do not have time to be confronted with these things every single day since Randy arrived at GPC. What bullying; what craziness. And the obvious as stated in an article about bullying I recently read: bullies always win.
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
From being honeyed to being hated
Being honeyed has transcended to being hated. My neighbours have decided that I am a danger to them and an email received from the landlord has agreed so it looks like an eviction will be forthcoming. I told one of my neighbours about Randy and he even went to GPC to visit Randy but only to be told that I am honeyed and the feedback I got from him was totally false like I had spent eight years locked up in a mental health facility. Not true but he believed it and soon all the neighbours believed it. One of the tenants here put a notice on my door that I was a safety hazard because of Randy's oxygen tank (it might explode). And when the police arrived he concurred with her. Oxygen is not combustible and more importantly an Oxygen tank must be turned ON before it can help an existing flame to burn faster and the flame has to be within five feet of the oxygen. And I was told by one of the tenants that she was going to phone 911 as Randy was not allowed here as he did not live here and should be in a hospital (hidden from view). And please do not tell me to go to the Residential Tenancy Act. I know of NO ONE who has gone that route that has been successful. The RTA is a joke. It was legislated (downloaded) so landlords police tenants, When you own a home no one tells you want to do but when you rent one you are faced with eviction if a tenant/neighbour doesn't want to see a handicapped person.
I am still a danger to the vulnerable residents at GPC and now I am a danger to the tenants here. Funny, I just realized this afternoon (Sunday) as I attended religious services (Joy Fellowship) with Randy at GPC with those residents that are totally the most vulnerable and no one is afraid of me. They welcome me. Those that run around in $30,000 motor wheelchairs are not all vulnerable. Most of them are quite capable of looking after themselves and creating havoc. See Paul Caine's website "Civil Rights Now." They should direct their energies to some worthwhile project like campaigning the government to give them more than $95 a month for spending money instead of panhandling or get them to campaign that all renters in BC can have pets if their doctors feel it would help them against depression and loneliness especially for seniors. There is so much human capital at GPC wasted...Like Paul Caine said GPC is a warehouse for the incurables in BC so why give them a will to live.
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I am still a danger to the vulnerable residents at GPC and now I am a danger to the tenants here. Funny, I just realized this afternoon (Sunday) as I attended religious services (Joy Fellowship) with Randy at GPC with those residents that are totally the most vulnerable and no one is afraid of me. They welcome me. Those that run around in $30,000 motor wheelchairs are not all vulnerable. Most of them are quite capable of looking after themselves and creating havoc. See Paul Caine's website "Civil Rights Now." They should direct their energies to some worthwhile project like campaigning the government to give them more than $95 a month for spending money instead of panhandling or get them to campaign that all renters in BC can have pets if their doctors feel it would help them against depression and loneliness especially for seniors. There is so much human capital at GPC wasted...Like Paul Caine said GPC is a warehouse for the incurables in BC so why give them a will to live.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Do No Harm
Blogger has gone crazy on me. I can't read the dashboard as it is in Spanish or some other similar language and I can't change it to English. So I do not even know if this will be published.
The question I am pondering now is: DO NO HARM. What harm did I do vs. what harm VCH has done. VCH is in a position of absolute power and as a result VCH has negatively abused its powers to the point that the general population is or should be in fear of it. VCH is so into proactive measures that they cause excessive harm to the ridiculous (eg. schools banning swings and baseball).
And now they are talking of euthanasia. If euthanasia is illegal why is VCH even discussing the topic in their ethics (management) committees and how easy it would be to create a culture of death as who would oppose CEO Napolean. Look up Holland and its new deathmobiles....six of them. see http://www.epcc.ca/
In Oregon in 2011 only 1 of the 71 people who died by assisted suicide was referred for a psy assessment. The slippery slope sold to the public as a safeguard to protect the depressed and others.
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The question I am pondering now is: DO NO HARM. What harm did I do vs. what harm VCH has done. VCH is in a position of absolute power and as a result VCH has negatively abused its powers to the point that the general population is or should be in fear of it. VCH is so into proactive measures that they cause excessive harm to the ridiculous (eg. schools banning swings and baseball).
And now they are talking of euthanasia. If euthanasia is illegal why is VCH even discussing the topic in their ethics (management) committees and how easy it would be to create a culture of death as who would oppose CEO Napolean. Look up Holland and its new deathmobiles....six of them. see http://www.epcc.ca/
In Oregon in 2011 only 1 of the 71 people who died by assisted suicide was referred for a psy assessment. The slippery slope sold to the public as a safeguard to protect the depressed and others.
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