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9 years ago
Damn, what another downer of a week...
This one has some background info that needs to be shared.
One of my Aunts was born with mental handicaps and was considered legally retarded (Back in the day. Nowadays would be considered borderline) and as such wasn't able to be self sufficient, but she had enough competence to have an actual conversation with (albeit slow). she had a sense of right and wrong too.
On May 15th, My mentally handicapped aunt is in the hospital's ICU with a real serious infection (they wouldn't give me more detail on that). Her kidneys were quite weak from kidney stone surgeries, and the strong antibiotics would have shut her kidneys down, so they gave her a lesser-strength antibiotic to help treat the infection and save her kidneys, but this antibiotic has a rare side effect of cardiac arrest.... She flatlined... it took them 8 minutes of resuscitation to get her heart beating again, and brain damage starts around the 5 minute mark; and because she's legally retarded, her brain suffered greatly... The hospital called my Mom and asked for her permission to put a DNR on my aunt...
We haven't heard anything until the 18th, when a close family friend of my Mom and Aunt's called the hospital and told us that she was moved out of the ICU and is doing okay, despite that she suffered a lot of brain damage.
We didn't hear anything until the 21st, and said family friend called the hospital again. My aunt was missing.... MISSING...! Further investigation showed that Aunt was discharged. We were not informed. The family friend was not informed. The residential facility that was taking care of my Aunt was not informed. We were in a panic
Today, on the 22nd, the family friend called, saying that my Aunt has been found... in the hospital's morgue.
The Hospital's. MORGUE
My Aunt has been dead for a couple days already, the hospital told no one, and they were going to ship her to the Downtown Chicago Morgue.
We caught them in time to keep her from being sent to that bureaucratic nightmare, but still... I've just gotten over Dad's death and burial...
Nothing can be done now, although hugs would be nice. I just gotta get through this...
She was one of the nicest, sweetest people around, even if her special needs got in the way. Never held a grudge against anyone.
R.I.P my sweet Aunt, an Original Special Olympian.
(April 3, 1952 - May 19, 2016)
This one has some background info that needs to be shared.
One of my Aunts was born with mental handicaps and was considered legally retarded (Back in the day. Nowadays would be considered borderline) and as such wasn't able to be self sufficient, but she had enough competence to have an actual conversation with (albeit slow). she had a sense of right and wrong too.
On May 15th, My mentally handicapped aunt is in the hospital's ICU with a real serious infection (they wouldn't give me more detail on that). Her kidneys were quite weak from kidney stone surgeries, and the strong antibiotics would have shut her kidneys down, so they gave her a lesser-strength antibiotic to help treat the infection and save her kidneys, but this antibiotic has a rare side effect of cardiac arrest.... She flatlined... it took them 8 minutes of resuscitation to get her heart beating again, and brain damage starts around the 5 minute mark; and because she's legally retarded, her brain suffered greatly... The hospital called my Mom and asked for her permission to put a DNR on my aunt...
We haven't heard anything until the 18th, when a close family friend of my Mom and Aunt's called the hospital and told us that she was moved out of the ICU and is doing okay, despite that she suffered a lot of brain damage.
We didn't hear anything until the 21st, and said family friend called the hospital again. My aunt was missing.... MISSING...! Further investigation showed that Aunt was discharged. We were not informed. The family friend was not informed. The residential facility that was taking care of my Aunt was not informed. We were in a panic
Today, on the 22nd, the family friend called, saying that my Aunt has been found... in the hospital's morgue.
The Hospital's. MORGUE
My Aunt has been dead for a couple days already, the hospital told no one, and they were going to ship her to the Downtown Chicago Morgue.
We caught them in time to keep her from being sent to that bureaucratic nightmare, but still... I've just gotten over Dad's death and burial...
Nothing can be done now, although hugs would be nice. I just gotta get through this...
She was one of the nicest, sweetest people around, even if her special needs got in the way. Never held a grudge against anyone.
R.I.P my sweet Aunt, an Original Special Olympian.
(April 3, 1952 - May 19, 2016)
I'm terribly sorry for your loss and for the suffering your family went through from this. That is ludicrous that such a thing could happen.
*hugs tight*