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Due to negligence, my grandma inhaled barium into her lungs from tubes they had in her while she was half-conscious recovering from surgery (one that she would have recovered from and went home in a few days.) Because of this tragedy to her lungs, a trach had to be put into her throat, and she had to be in the hospital for 5 months on a respirator in critical condition before getting lung function back (even longer before she could talk and eat again.)
On top of this, while she was under their care during this ordeal (before we transfered her out) they routinely jabbed unnecessary needles in her for constant bloodwork which left wounds, which they never cleaned, and never changed bandages. She would get infected patches, and my dad would clean her wounds. None of the nurses did anything but flirt with the doctors.
To top THAT off, the head nurse pulled my mother aside during these awful times, and told her that she should not have consented to put in a trach -- that it was a waste of time, she'd never recover, so this was just unnecessary suffering -- that we should euthanate her instead with a morphine drip. Yes, she pushed us to consent to morphine overdose. She made my mother cry, and guilt-trip for months over her decision to place the trach.
My grandmother recovered in a rehab center months later, and lived over a year before dying at age 94 in her sleep.
I'm very disgusted by the way they handled the whole situation.
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