I found Ray. It wasn't that difficult. I went up to the PAU (Psych Assessment Unit) at Vancouver General Hospital. I introduced myself explaining that I would like to visit him.
Upon visiting Ray he said that he wanted me to phone legal aid as he wanted out of the PSU and he gave me a phone number. The phone number was incorrect. I then went to the nurses station to ask them for a phone number for a mental health advocate.
The three nurses there explained that Ray did not need a lawyer as he was not CERTIFIED and he was there of his own free will and he could leave at any time..
I asked Ray did he know this and he said NO.
I do not understand Vancouver Coastal Health.
George Pearson Centre won't give out his forwarding address/location after he was abruptly moved from his bed two weeks ago Friday as reported to me by other residents at GPC.(it is the policy of VCH not to tell anyone any new location and that includes other residents) and yet Ray's liberty and security of person was taken away from him as he was imprisoned in a ward under lock at VGH and that violation of Ray's human rights by VCH seems to be okay.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Where is Ray
The same thing that happened to me when Randy was transferred to George Pearson Centre in 2011 has now happened to Ray, a resident at GPC. No one know where he is. On Friday I was told he was carted out in an ambulance to VGH. On Sunday I went to VGH to visit him and was told that he wasn't there. I then asked the social worker at GPC and he said it was against the law for him to give out any information on anyone.
I just talked to a religious minister, a priest not associated with GPC, and he said it was just as bad for him. He can't even say hi to residents/patients in the hallway for fear he will lose his visiting privileges. He can only see residents/patients if they ask for him.
So it is true when Nurse Rachet told me so many years ago that I was not allowed to speak to anyone unless I was spoken to first. What a sick sick environment VCH is. They are doing everything to make people isolated and alone. What is the point of caring when you are not allowed to care.
When I said how is Ray suppose to know if I want to visit him if I can't ask him because I do not know where he is. The social worker said it was the law. There are ways of interpreting the law and VCH has done it to save money and maintain the status quo. I am currently waiting for a copy of the law I asked him to give to me.
I am very worried about Ray. He was telling me for weeks that he was being given meds that made him think crazy. If he has gone crazy and he does not want to see me okay but if he has gone crazy and he wants to see me then that is something else.
When Randy disappeared in 2010 I was devastated. It doesn't matter if you are family, friend or foe. VGH will tell no one where they move you. You are just gone.
An argument can be made that everyone's "security of person" is taken away when hospitals hide behind privacy. How can anyone be secure in a hospital setting that hides (imprisons) patients.
If a visitor harasses a resident/patient then there are criminal sanctions. When did VCH decide to separate friends and family from visiting patients by making contact so difficult that a caring person gives to frustration and a sense of helplessness. And the patient/resident thinks that no one cares and not even knowing a no contact order has been placed on him and all mail is returned to sender. What of the pyschological pain this is causing. Who is responsible for that.
Remember Policeman Dave Dixon who told the sister of one of Pickton's victims for the sister not to worry because the sister was in rehab and didn't want anyone to visit. This went on for two years. If the police can lie so can VCH.
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I just talked to a religious minister, a priest not associated with GPC, and he said it was just as bad for him. He can't even say hi to residents/patients in the hallway for fear he will lose his visiting privileges. He can only see residents/patients if they ask for him.
So it is true when Nurse Rachet told me so many years ago that I was not allowed to speak to anyone unless I was spoken to first. What a sick sick environment VCH is. They are doing everything to make people isolated and alone. What is the point of caring when you are not allowed to care.
When I said how is Ray suppose to know if I want to visit him if I can't ask him because I do not know where he is. The social worker said it was the law. There are ways of interpreting the law and VCH has done it to save money and maintain the status quo. I am currently waiting for a copy of the law I asked him to give to me.
I am very worried about Ray. He was telling me for weeks that he was being given meds that made him think crazy. If he has gone crazy and he does not want to see me okay but if he has gone crazy and he wants to see me then that is something else.
When Randy disappeared in 2010 I was devastated. It doesn't matter if you are family, friend or foe. VGH will tell no one where they move you. You are just gone.
An argument can be made that everyone's "security of person" is taken away when hospitals hide behind privacy. How can anyone be secure in a hospital setting that hides (imprisons) patients.
If a visitor harasses a resident/patient then there are criminal sanctions. When did VCH decide to separate friends and family from visiting patients by making contact so difficult that a caring person gives to frustration and a sense of helplessness. And the patient/resident thinks that no one cares and not even knowing a no contact order has been placed on him and all mail is returned to sender. What of the pyschological pain this is causing. Who is responsible for that.
Remember Policeman Dave Dixon who told the sister of one of Pickton's victims for the sister not to worry because the sister was in rehab and didn't want anyone to visit. This went on for two years. If the police can lie so can VCH.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Fall is here
I returned Randy to GPC and he did not resist which relieved me. We earlier ventured to Hastings and Nanaimo area where we used to live. After buying marrow bones for the doggies we came back here and Randy sat outside as he hates being inside until 6:00 p.m. We then watched a documentary about garbage mostly plastics in the oceans. It was very disturbing.
Yesterday being Sunday Randy and I went to Vancouver General Hospital to visit Rod, one of the residents from Ward 2, who was there post operation. Randy could not remember the six months he spent there. I suspect it was because he never left his room. After that we found our way to the Holiday Inn on Broadway and upon purchasing a sandwich in its lounge Randy watched the ending segment of a NFL football game and I read the Georgia Straight. When we got to my place he sat outside until about 6:00 and then we watched a documentary on science. It started to rain and I had to return him to GPC in yellow plastic as I did not have a rain coat for him here. It must be very difficult for him being cared for like a baby and wheeled up and down in a yellow baby carriage.
I am distressed over an email I received from Lois of SeniorsatRisk.org. I emailed her and said that I had mentioned her blog in my blog and she swiftly emailed me back threatening me with legal action. No good deed goes unpunished.
I am really upset about my site meter. About a month ago, the count disappeared. It was ocwe 110,000 and now nothing. Now I feel that I do not have an audience and it is difficult to post to nothingness.
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Yesterday being Sunday Randy and I went to Vancouver General Hospital to visit Rod, one of the residents from Ward 2, who was there post operation. Randy could not remember the six months he spent there. I suspect it was because he never left his room. After that we found our way to the Holiday Inn on Broadway and upon purchasing a sandwich in its lounge Randy watched the ending segment of a NFL football game and I read the Georgia Straight. When we got to my place he sat outside until about 6:00 and then we watched a documentary on science. It started to rain and I had to return him to GPC in yellow plastic as I did not have a rain coat for him here. It must be very difficult for him being cared for like a baby and wheeled up and down in a yellow baby carriage.
I am distressed over an email I received from Lois of SeniorsatRisk.org. I emailed her and said that I had mentioned her blog in my blog and she swiftly emailed me back threatening me with legal action. No good deed goes unpunished.
I am really upset about my site meter. About a month ago, the count disappeared. It was ocwe 110,000 and now nothing. Now I feel that I do not have an audience and it is difficult to post to nothingness.
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Seniorsatrisk.org
I had occasion to speak with Risk Management this past week and the knowledge that this bureaucracy did not know of Seniors at Risk disquieted me. How could it not know. Randy always said that the Internet would cause the end of society. And he is right. Society as we know it now. The medical system is going to change and it will do so rapidly. The Arab Spring is near but VCH is not aware of it. How can such an important message found in Seniors at Risk not even interest top management.
Two cases reported in Seniors at Risk recanted the ordeal of two women, both doctors, who were banned from hospitals because they questioned the standard of care their loved ones were getting got me to thinking about the standard of care Randy is getting. And I am now afraid. Up until now not being a medical person I never really questioned what they were doing. It was the bullying that distracted me. I just thought a red robin was a bird not a crucial aid in Randy's life. In August 2011 Randy had a Code Blue and I still haven't been told what caused it. I think it was the lack of a red robin. And there are still other incidents that I think about.
I had occasion to be in a public forum on Thursday and I introduced myself as being a "comfort advocate" for Randy Michael Walker. Now I have an identity albeit one I created.
Two cases reported in Seniors at Risk recanted the ordeal of two women, both doctors, who were banned from hospitals because they questioned the standard of care their loved ones were getting got me to thinking about the standard of care Randy is getting. And I am now afraid. Up until now not being a medical person I never really questioned what they were doing. It was the bullying that distracted me. I just thought a red robin was a bird not a crucial aid in Randy's life. In August 2011 Randy had a Code Blue and I still haven't been told what caused it. I think it was the lack of a red robin. And there are still other incidents that I think about.
I had occasion to be in a public forum on Thursday and I introduced myself as being a "comfort advocate" for Randy Michael Walker. Now I have an identity albeit one I created.
Friday, August 31, 2012
the PNE
On Wednesday Randy and I and a few residents went to the Pacific National Exhibition. It was an all day affair and I was very impressed. The last time I was at the PNE it must have been ten years ago and I was not impressed. It was tacky and nothing to see. Even the barns were upgraded for fairgoers to enjoy as well as the faciliites in the Collisium. And the best part of the day was that nothing went wrong with Randy's care and I had a volunteer help me with pushing Randy's wheelchair. The only unfortunate thing happen was I got lost. I stopped to purchase a drink and when I looked up the convey of wheelchairs were not to be seen.
During our lunch break one of the residents attempted to pull out his stomach feeding tube as he wanted real food. The incident went back to my wanting Willey the ten-year visitor at Ward 2 to stop cooking in Ward 2. He then went on a hate to discredit me because now things were not the way they always were. He cooked his gourmet meals every day as he was there every day in the common kitchen so that Randy and others who cannot eat except by a feeding tube would be tormented by the smell of the food. No one on the Ward did anything. If you are immobile and can't talk you can be subjected to psyschological pain and you have no voice and if you did have a family member say something he would be ignorned.. Meet Willey on the YouTube video: Envisioning home. Who would dare tell the poster child for GPC to cease such cruelty. And he did not and for two years he did not stop. Only recently his right to do as he wants has been subdued.
There is a cafeteria at GPC which is there for visitors to eat. But it wasn't only him CARMA a mentors group meet every Tuesday in Ward 2 and they did the same thing. A group of residents being equally cruel.
This was a no brainer and yet Nurse Ratched did nothing. All through my ordeal with GPC I have never heard one iota of criticism of Tanu. It is surreal. That place is out of a Stephen King novel.
I was recently talking to an academic within the medical field and I was told that I should negotiate with GPC. Where is it that it says that when VCH abuses/bullies you you are forced to befriend VCH for a piece of rice. I know of no one who had dealing with VCH that ever went away satisfied. They will humiliate you to the very end.
I am past trying to negotiate. VCH refuses to follow its own policies. I asked from the beginning that I be able to speak to those that found me offensive and I also asked for independent counsellors to come into GPC and talk to these people to calm their fears if they even had any. I have yet to come across anyone from Ward 2 who even knows of my restrictions except for Rod, Patricia and Whilley. Three of the poster childlren in the video mentioned above. And those who were involved along with the floor staff in putting a petition together to get me banned. Whilley said that things were not the same since I was allowed to visit Randy, that he didn't lke me; that I smelled, that I was a thief, and that I wasn't good for Randy. Although this was relayed to VCH by me VCH allowed the bullying and lies to continue causing me acute stress. VCH's easy solution was to ban me a week later. VCH did it so seamlessless I countered at that time VCH must do this all the time.
During our lunch break one of the residents attempted to pull out his stomach feeding tube as he wanted real food. The incident went back to my wanting Willey the ten-year visitor at Ward 2 to stop cooking in Ward 2. He then went on a hate to discredit me because now things were not the way they always were. He cooked his gourmet meals every day as he was there every day in the common kitchen so that Randy and others who cannot eat except by a feeding tube would be tormented by the smell of the food. No one on the Ward did anything. If you are immobile and can't talk you can be subjected to psyschological pain and you have no voice and if you did have a family member say something he would be ignorned.. Meet Willey on the YouTube video: Envisioning home. Who would dare tell the poster child for GPC to cease such cruelty. And he did not and for two years he did not stop. Only recently his right to do as he wants has been subdued.
There is a cafeteria at GPC which is there for visitors to eat. But it wasn't only him CARMA a mentors group meet every Tuesday in Ward 2 and they did the same thing. A group of residents being equally cruel.
This was a no brainer and yet Nurse Ratched did nothing. All through my ordeal with GPC I have never heard one iota of criticism of Tanu. It is surreal. That place is out of a Stephen King novel.
I was recently talking to an academic within the medical field and I was told that I should negotiate with GPC. Where is it that it says that when VCH abuses/bullies you you are forced to befriend VCH for a piece of rice. I know of no one who had dealing with VCH that ever went away satisfied. They will humiliate you to the very end.
I am past trying to negotiate. VCH refuses to follow its own policies. I asked from the beginning that I be able to speak to those that found me offensive and I also asked for independent counsellors to come into GPC and talk to these people to calm their fears if they even had any. I have yet to come across anyone from Ward 2 who even knows of my restrictions except for Rod, Patricia and Whilley. Three of the poster childlren in the video mentioned above. And those who were involved along with the floor staff in putting a petition together to get me banned. Whilley said that things were not the same since I was allowed to visit Randy, that he didn't lke me; that I smelled, that I was a thief, and that I wasn't good for Randy. Although this was relayed to VCH by me VCH allowed the bullying and lies to continue causing me acute stress. VCH's easy solution was to ban me a week later. VCH did it so seamlessless I countered at that time VCH must do this all the time.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Another Week
The woman neighbour of mine who doesn't like to look at wheelchair bound people spent last weekend painting the new cement steps (blockage) red. I get to admire her paint job each day. She like GPC is putting me in my place. To bully, to bully, to bully. All you have to do is to end being bullied is to become part of their mob and then find another target for group cohesion. It seems to be a well-known fact within the medical community that the nurses eat their own (i.e. rule by bullying) and that is why we have a nursing shortage. It only takes a short time after a new novice realizes this and she quickly exits leaving the nursing profession to those that bully rather than care.
And as for George Pearson Centre, the gentleman (Bob Chapman) who signed my banning letter in February 2011 is going on holidays for three weeks. Although he is entitled to holidays I do not know how he can afford to take the time away from Vancouver Coastal Health as as he is the
Director of Client Relations;
Director of Risk Management;
Director of Patient Care Quality;
Acting Director of At Home Support;
Acting Director of Complex Care.
There is no law that says he can't forfeit his holidays for the greater good like the 1,000,000 people he should be answering to.
Watch what will happen. A new VCH policy will be put in place saying that management will no long tell anyone that they are going on holidays as it would destablize the public's faith in what is going on by their extensive leaves. When they are on holidays the public will just be told that the person is not available.
I was absolutely amazed on Friday. I had Randy with me at my place. When it is hot I make sure that he is always in a cool place away from the sun and now that I cannot have access to the shade which my neighbour has blocked with her red cement blocks, Randy was inside. He was acting very combatively. He kept pointing randomly around my one-room residence. I was beginning to think he had no more brain cells. I finally gave him a pointer so he could point better than with his hand. He kept pointing everywhere. He was manic. He was pointing at the floor area. Then I realized what he wanted. He wanted me to unclutter my living space. Do you want me to cleanup my apartment, I asked, and he nodded yes. It is rather hard to unclutter a 450 square foot apartment that is the home to two doggies who like to play/distribute all my things. It would be a lot easier if the agent for the property would force the lady with the red steps to give up some of her storage space as she has a crawl space, two storage lockers, a extra small room that used to be for caretakers equipment, and a garage for her new black convertible (MB) but that will never happen. The lady with the red steps lives in a two bedroom duplex by herself and I stress by herself. And she isn't even a pack rat, she is very very neat and orderly to the point of it from my observation being an obsession. What she claims is hers is hers. No sharing allowed. Same rational as the head nurse from George Person Centre. I am engulfed by these mindsets.
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And as for George Pearson Centre, the gentleman (Bob Chapman) who signed my banning letter in February 2011 is going on holidays for three weeks. Although he is entitled to holidays I do not know how he can afford to take the time away from Vancouver Coastal Health as as he is the
Director of Client Relations;
Director of Risk Management;
Director of Patient Care Quality;
Acting Director of At Home Support;
Acting Director of Complex Care.
There is no law that says he can't forfeit his holidays for the greater good like the 1,000,000 people he should be answering to.
Watch what will happen. A new VCH policy will be put in place saying that management will no long tell anyone that they are going on holidays as it would destablize the public's faith in what is going on by their extensive leaves. When they are on holidays the public will just be told that the person is not available.
I was absolutely amazed on Friday. I had Randy with me at my place. When it is hot I make sure that he is always in a cool place away from the sun and now that I cannot have access to the shade which my neighbour has blocked with her red cement blocks, Randy was inside. He was acting very combatively. He kept pointing randomly around my one-room residence. I was beginning to think he had no more brain cells. I finally gave him a pointer so he could point better than with his hand. He kept pointing everywhere. He was manic. He was pointing at the floor area. Then I realized what he wanted. He wanted me to unclutter my living space. Do you want me to cleanup my apartment, I asked, and he nodded yes. It is rather hard to unclutter a 450 square foot apartment that is the home to two doggies who like to play/distribute all my things. It would be a lot easier if the agent for the property would force the lady with the red steps to give up some of her storage space as she has a crawl space, two storage lockers, a extra small room that used to be for caretakers equipment, and a garage for her new black convertible (MB) but that will never happen. The lady with the red steps lives in a two bedroom duplex by herself and I stress by herself. And she isn't even a pack rat, she is very very neat and orderly to the point of it from my observation being an obsession. What she claims is hers is hers. No sharing allowed. Same rational as the head nurse from George Person Centre. I am engulfed by these mindsets.
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Vancouver Police Department
Attention: Steve Eely, District Commander,
VPD, District 4
I have been accused of threatening someone with a knife at George Pearson Centre. I want it investigated as if I did this I want to know about it. Vancouver Coastal Health was made aware of this threat months ago and it has done nothing. It has resurfaced and it is causing me much discomfort. If I did this I want to be charged as this is a serious criminal matter.
In reality I want you investigate this matter and charge the person responsible with criminal mischief or criminal harassment. Maybe you can charge Vancouver Coastal Health as they are so good at doing police work and not telling you about it.
My name is Audrey Jane Laferriere. 604-321-2276
Date of incident: not known
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VPD, District 4
I have been accused of threatening someone with a knife at George Pearson Centre. I want it investigated as if I did this I want to know about it. Vancouver Coastal Health was made aware of this threat months ago and it has done nothing. It has resurfaced and it is causing me much discomfort. If I did this I want to be charged as this is a serious criminal matter.
In reality I want you investigate this matter and charge the person responsible with criminal mischief or criminal harassment. Maybe you can charge Vancouver Coastal Health as they are so good at doing police work and not telling you about it.
My name is Audrey Jane Laferriere. 604-321-2276
Date of incident: not known
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