Aggers wrote:I put two and two together and came to the conclusion that a massive cover- up of organised and deliberate
murder was taking place.
I've been thinking about this too Aggers. I recall my MIL who was basically shrinking from osteoporosis and the fact that they had given her steroids for arthritis without ever checking her bone mass. She was in a post hospital care home and the nurses were extremely annoyed that we came to visit that night. She'd just had her "morphine". We had to wake her up, she was sitting in a chair with a foot stool, fast asleep. When we woke her up she was totally spaced but started to come around a bit during the hour we were there. I eyeballed the nurses really hard that night and gave them my "not amused" military stare.
Something I'm very aware of due to my military first aid training is the impact of too much morphine. We had to know as we were expected to administer it under battlefield conditions, where things might be a bit "rushed". The patient basically goes to sleep and then stops breathing followed by cardiac arrest. If you have nothing to counteract the drug you just have to keep the person awake and as active as possible. Normally if the pain levels are high enough, the stupor doesn't happen as they are in too much pain.
It didn't happen again but I'm sure they were just trying to "send her off peacefully". She finally died, a year later, of "overwhelming sepsis", whilst in hospital. You can imagine the levels of confidence in the NHs in my family....
Also, just recently, we have a friend who's mother fell and broke her hip. She was in her 90's and was never going to recover again. After 6 months of hosptialisation, this very alert and aware woman was finally diagnosed as bedridden. She would never exit medical care. When her daughter asked what the prognosis was for her life under care, the doctor told her that she had an exceptionally strong and vital heart, she could live to over 100 easily.
Six weeks later, in hospital, she died.
I was aware of pathway by this time and, I must admit, I'm suspicious.
Yes it is a great relief for her children and a burden off the family. She did not want to live in care but there was no option to end her life. I must admit, I would rather the option to end my life cleanly than spend weeks spiralling into dementia and death through lack of care. I thought torture was illegal in the UK....
As for the SS.... Mrs S had an experience where a Social worker interviewed her children during her breakup with her ex. The report she wrote was a complete fabrication of lies. So much so that #1 daughter, at 13, insisted on being present at the court of session so that she could tell the Law Lord that the woman had lied and she had no intention of visiting her father, Ever. As she was over 10 he could not make her.
In Mrs S personal and professional life, her experience is that the only good Social Workers don't work there any more because they can't get on with those who are useless.
