tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post7491475564154898348..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: A Response to The Nation: Legal Assisted Suicide is a Recipe for Abuse; Health Care Providers are Empowered to Steer Patients to SuicideAlex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-67829181537342791162011-12-18T08:30:40.307-05:002011-12-18T08:30:40.307-05:00I was just going back through some recent articles...I was just going back through some recent articles and blog posts, and noticed this comment from Saskatchewan.<br /><br />I'm a long-term care patient for chronic-COPD patients. Due to aging-related birth-defects, I have needed people's help to do basic everyday routines.<br /><br />Since home-care workers are the same as hospital and institutional workers, I had to move into long-term in 2000. Home-care workers were no more reliable than on-site workers.--So, in the process, I was stranded several times by workers who never turned-up, and never called their agencies to send a replacement. As a result, I had a respiratory-failure, and had to close my apartment.<br /><br />For about two years, a guy next to me was transferred from the Montreal-Neurological Institute ( 1 of 5 MUHC sites).<br /><br />I was in a crisis myself, in partial respiratory-failure, and fighting to breathe.--A total insomniac. When this guy from Pakistan was transferred next to me, the first time I heard him yell, totally freaked-me-out.<br /><br />He was so loud, PA's were there faster than usual (first day or two). When a nurse would give him his morphine, it would help him for around 3 hours.<br /><br />This poor guy has to be the absolute ultimate example, of a patient in real intolerable pain. It was ear-shattering, when nurses would drag their butts down the hall.--And different times PA's and nurses yelling at me for ringing the bell for him.<br /><br />Doctors never seemed to get a diagnosis on hiis root-cause of pain, and he did not seem to understand much French or English.<br /><br />During this time, I was doing anything I could to crush Francine Lalonde's three euthanasia/assisted-suicide Bills, and trying to recover from my respiratory-failure caused from a gnupagen drug and starvation from a new kitchen-manager.--Who cut the food supply in half, soon after she became manager.<br /><br />Several times this patient went to appointments and tests at the Neuro, and they were able at different stages to regulate his meds. enough, so he could attend patient activities.<br /><br />Eventually, his pain level progressed to where he required higher doses. When it got to the stage he required more morphine, I think he chose palliative-sedation. This way, he could receive pain-relief before becoming fully awake.<br /><br />In the end, he died, which was inevitable. <br /><br />However, he died from natural causes.--And he assured me that ne did not want to be killed, and was against legalizing euthanasia/assisted-suicide.<br /><br />One thing I mentioned to him a few times, was that addiction itself creates pain from all pain-killer drugs. I encouraged him a few times before they moved him to a private-room, to try going longer periods without his next injection.<br /><br />Anyway, he required extreme measures to manage his pain, and when his pain was intolerable, he chose palliative-sedation.<br /><br />If the lady in Saskatchewan's friend was not receiving an adequate level of pain-management, doctors need training.<br /><br />One thing people in Saskatchewan need to realize, however, is that most people out there seem to have made a hero out of Robert Latimer.<br /><br />There is no need to "legalize" killing--period!<br /><br />Before these KILL-SOCIETIES got on stage, and get constant media-coverage to LIE about their "safeguards" working so well, doctors never had the fear they have to treat patients.<br /><br />Instead of supporting and advertising for these health-care industry "experts" to scare the population about things they know very little about, they should support the doctors and lawyers who reject legalized killings.<br /><br />Then, patients will be treated properly, and have their choices honoured and respected.--At the same time, targeted disposables will not be killed without needed prosecution, including Yves Robert.<br /><br />What he did within the past two years, is make clear threats against patients. Death-threats in this country is a serious crime, and I do not understand why nobody ever picked-up on it, and pressed-charges against him.Ironsideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17859574716267489609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-88785771683128192202011-06-22T20:55:20.858-04:002011-06-22T20:55:20.858-04:00Hi, this comment comes from Regina,Sask.; I am inv...Hi, this comment comes from Regina,Sask.; I am involved with the last days and continual suffering of my friend Rose. I interviewed the Priest, the Nurse, and care worker; as well as her 5 nieces. They were all in agreement that Morphine doesn't always work in the most painful cases of Cancer. They agreed that a drip would regulate her ease but caused other complications such as difficulty swallowing and drinking. She is now resting comfortably but with day to live.<br />My heart is broken because at 84 she still could have a life. She herself wanted a DNR on her file.Comments please.AnneMarie Florizone-Sawkanoreply@blogger.com