Dear Minister of Health Hon. Sylvia Jones, and LHSC Patient Relations,
Roger Foley has not eaten since May 7, 2025. Roger needs to be fed.
Roger Foley has been living at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) for more than nine years. He lives with Spino cerebellar ataxia type 14, a degenerative neurological condition. This condition causes Roger to have severe photo sensitivity (photophobia) to regular lighting, forcing him to keep his hospital room light off. Several years ago, the hospital provided him with special lighting but in early May (2025) the hospital refused to feed Roger unless the regular lighting was turned on. Since Roger requires his room to have limited lighting the hospital staff decided that they could not safely feed Roger. In response, Roger has agreed to have intravenous (IV) feeding while continuing to low-intensity amber-spectrum lighting.
IV feeding is not a long-term solution since it does not provide adequate nutrition and his veins may eventually collapse. He has already had problems with the IV line.
Roger purchased a pair of goggles to protect his eyes from the light and enable suitable lighting for him to be fed. The goggles have not been an adequate solution to his problem.
On June 8, 2025, Barbara Kay reported in the National Post that Roger,
“…filed a complaint against the LHSC with Ontario’s human rights tribunal because his hospital replaced the special lighting in his room, which he needs because his disease causes extreme photo sensitivity, with ordinary lighting.” (1)
Roger Foley is the same man who was pressured to consider MAiD. On August 11, 2022, Maria Cheng reported the following for The Associated Press:
“In one recording obtained by the AP, the hospital’s director of ethics told Foley that for him to remain in the hospital, it would cost ‘north of $1,500 a day.’ Foley replied that mentioning fees felt like coercion and asked what plan there was for his long-term care. ‘Roger, this is not my show,’ the ethicist responded.
‘My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.’” (2)
Roger wants to leave the hospital but the Ministry of Health has not approved him for self-directed funding for home care. Self-directed funding for home care is a program that exists in Ontario whereby a person hires their own caregivers rather than a business providing them. Self-directed funding for home care is the least expensive and most effective way to provide care.
Roger has not been fed since May 7.
We, the undersigned, request that Roger receive the necessary accommodation for room lighting to enable him to be fed while protecting him from his severe photo sensitivity.
Sign and share the Petition: Roger Foley needs to be fed (Petition Link).
Contact person: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (info@epcc.ca)
(1) https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-a-disabled-mans-fight-for-life-in-an-age-of-maid
(2) https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867
17 comments:
This is a disgrace! When doctors are asking if Mr. Foley would be interested in MAID instead of providing the simple, life sustaining care that he’s asking for and we should be providing. This is NOT a third world nation, is it- it is it?? The Cdn gov’t has a million and one ways to waste taxpayers money every single day, and yet, it seems to be hard-pressed to provide the proper care this gentleman needs!! Shame on Canada and shame on Canadians who aren’t screaming from the rafters about this great atrocity that has now shrouded our Mefical system here in Canada! Wake up Canadians!!!!
I am a retired nurse and so sad for my profession . We are supposed to help people not kill them . I would never had dream’t this would ever be possible . It is demonic . I pray that the killing stops . No peace in the world until this scourge ends. Thank you for your hard work
Maybe Mr. Foley could close his eyes while eating until Canada gets its act together.
He cannot eat on his own. He needs to be fed. The nurses say that it isn't safe to feed him without more light. But he has extreme sensitivity to the light.
From Helene Ryles. I sign the petition. If his eye muscles won’t stay closed could he get a mindfold for now? I have on occasion. Now I just keep my eyes shut except in really dim light So regularly that I spend most of my life as blind even though I am actually partially sighted in optimum lighting. Anyway I will also pass on this article and hope it brings more signitures
With extreme light sensitivity, closing the eyes is not enough
The problem is that he needs the staff to feed him and they say that they need more light. The hospital gave him a light in his room that he used for 5 years but then they decided to remove the light.
Thank you for your service as a nurse providing exceptional care. It is demonic indeed! My prayers are for Roger as well. As well as complete expose to the wicked agenda of this death culture.
Why are we not seeing media coverage of these stories. Canadians need the wake up call of having this right in their faces. Health care is being restricted to push people to chose death, or to bring them closer to death. Why else would they remove lighting that allowed this man to be fed?
This is horrific and reminds me of what happened to Terri Schiavo. I pray it doesn't end that way for Roger.
Could someone buy an appropriate lamp for the room? It might be easier to find the right bulbs for a lamp than for overhead lighting.
He had a lamp for 5 years until it was removed from the room in early May.
Fact check: a person can survive on IV feeds, but not feeding someone at all is totally unacceptable., but that seems to be the country we live in. It's near impossible to convince doctors that you need tube feed let alone IV feeds. To acknowledge Mr Foley's need while refusing to provide it seems almost worse somehow. Maria
Roger Foley is receiving an IV feed and yes he can survive, but he is not receiving any real nutrition from the IV feed. Further to that, he cannot receive medications if he is not being fed because he is unable to tolerate his medications without first eating.
So, WHY did the hospital remove the type of light that Roger had successfully used for five years; this article does not explain the reasoning behind this and why the hospital was allowed to do this. His caregivers at the hospital must have known what the results of removing this light from him would be.
I speak to Roger nearly every day. It seems crazy but it is true. The first time I visited him he had a special light in his room based on his sensitivity. I cannot share certain things with you based on Roger's privacy but I think I can safefly say that the relationship break-down at the hospital has led to a toxic situation. Roger's disability puts him in a very bad place because he cannot physically leave on his own.
Meghan Schrader's article is actually very accurate. Because of what is happening, the hospital is now abusing Roger. I continue to say, he has to get out of there. https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-hospital-in-canada-is-slowly-starving.html
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