29 November 2013

... Yesterday, 29 November 2013, when I told Randy that VGH was going to send him back to George Pearson Centre, he started crying, holding my hand, and I saw him slowly slip into a catatonic depression.


On 18 November 2013, Randy was sent to VGH, VCH had orders not to accept Randy as GPC had put a DNR/DNT on him. Randy nearly died.  Randy knew if he were to be returned to GPC he would face the same faith again, another DNR, but next time there would be no one to overrule the Order and make sure that he was sent to VGH Emergency. A short ambulance ride away.

In George Pearson Centre, a DNR/DNT is understood by staff not to treat. How can you treat a patient who needs agressive treatment if you cannot transfer him.  DNT Orders are only put on patients that are chronic. Although Randy was chronic that did not mean he was going to die soon.  But if he did not get serious medical treatment, when needed, he would die.

Those that want euthanasia is good but those who are forced to die is bad.

I often think of the staff there. They were all complicit. There is no trust.

Catherine Romanko, the PGT, knew of the hastening of death Order, but she did nothing.
I asked the PGT to move Randy to another hospital.  No reply.

Randy did not know of the DNR/DNT/CCO Orders; nor did I.  And if he did, he had the right to change his mind.

Using your hands to speak.....

If a visitor did this to a nurse at VGH, VCHA would ban her.  There is a case in Alberta where a visitor was using her hands to speak and she was banned. There was also a case in Victoria where a visitor touched a nurse to get her attention, and she was banned.  Another retired woman who was a medical doctor also was banned. And if you dare say anything to the media,you will never see your loved one again. In my case, Randy died five years ago, and the banning is still in effect. 

 

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E-mail to Kip Woodward

In an email to Kip Woodward, Chairman of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, I said that I was tired of being told that I wanting Randy to live is not in Randy's best interest.

This e-mail was written on July 27 2013.

The day before when his DNR was changed to FULL CODE, Randy lived for a further nine months. If he had a DNR, he would have died, as he could not have accessed the intensive care unit that saved his life.

If I was not banned from seeing Randy, he might have lived longer. 

31 August 2013 ... e-mail

He is demanding that I spend more and more time with him as he is afraid.  I do nothing except sit there and hold his hand which ends his anxiety.

And then they ban me 24/7.  Whose best interest are they protecting.

Justice McEwan

Mr. Justice McEwan.... A society that is governed by demoncratic principles is a society governed by the rule of law, the principle that the law applies to every person including the government and its agents ... the court is a public form in which individuals may call the powerful including government, to account, compelling them to meet as equals.


Physicians are agents of the government, through its College, as is the Public Guardian and Trustee, and Vancouver Coastal Health.

Dr. Joseph Tham, neuropsychiarist

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHHXgzCOp0w

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