Roger & Judy

As I listened to the VOCM open line with Randy Simms this morning, Judy began telling her story of pain and despair, that stories ending will leave a her with a life full of changes and negative impact for both her and her family. "Judy said it should not be like this" as she described the story of her late husband Roger.

Roger had taken ill the latter part of January 2009, and generally speaking, felt almost symptomatic of a flu. After a sudden turn for the worse he decided it would be best to go to a local health care facility to be examined. During his visit, Judy said "they ran several blood, urine and other tests and found nothing". The end result was Roger being sent home!

At that very sad whim of Eastern Health, this man was sent home with what was later found to be a sever infection, that would a few days later take Rogers life.

Roger was a victim of a common medical condition known as gall stones, and Judy says "they missed that, oh dear god she sobbed, this should not have happened". Apparently several stones had moved and created a situation that caused a severe infection that entered his blood stream, causing his death.

What can be said of this very terrible incident? Is our system getting worse or are more people simply opening up and telling these horrific stories? Do we really have the best health care system in Canada or have we been able to blind site the rest of the nation into believing a great untruth.

Take a close look at this blog alone, I reveal far to many horror stories out of just the Eastern Health Authority alone. Maybe we have been living a lie for years in regard to health care for many years.

Whatever the logic, our people are in danger, people simply do not die as a result of gall bladder infections in 2009. Maybe we need much more than a Cameron inquiry, we need a system where the human rights of individuals always prevail. Let me search a resolve, this is a sad day for NL health care.


Brudder