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[–]hamamaha 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I feel this post so keenly man :/ I am a care worker and there was a lady who was always a little bit mentally unstable and would often hallucinate if she did not get stimulation. At first she was able to walk from one room to another to go to bed, they refused to give her cortisone injections to her knees as they were 'non essential' - she was unable to walk, got a stand hoist, then was unable to even use that and became bedbound. Nobody would come out to assess her for a hoist (covid) and she lay in bed 24 hours a day for 12 days and went insane.

After 12 days in bed she 2 days crying because she thought she had been left by the side of a road and called the police. After they came to find her in bed they sent her to hospital where they gave her covid. She spent her last days in hospital alone and crying and left to die in the ICU. All because cortisone injections are 'non essential' - but they got their covid death in the end.

[–]coffee_addict[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This story made me tear up. Especially because I know there are many more out there who are just like her. :(