ZANNA ~ did I miss something???

October 18, 2002

How sickening!! I'm horrified at this story. Poor, poor woman. Even a

dog deserves better care than that!!

Dawn

anzavic@... wrote:

> Hi Zanna....

>

> The gal was talking about was one of my original members. Helen

> was born and raised in Australia but had moved to Hawaii some 20 yrs

> earlier. She was diagnosed with DM. At one time the MAA had a

> picture of her sitting on an exam table posted on there web site. One

> day she started getting sick with a chest cold. She kept calling her

> doctor and he kept telling her to try the over the counter cold

> medications. Three weeks into it her friend took her to the ER. She

> was asperating food into her lungs and she had pneumonia. By then she

> was very weak so they put in a feeding tube. Eventually that failed and

> the hospital removed the feeding tube and decided to put her in another

> wing where there was less traffic... the doctors did nothing after that

> to help her. I believe she passed one week later. She was just 41

> yrs old. The worst part of all of this is when she got sick with the

> DM they wanted to deport her back to Australia. She had lived in

> Hawaii for 20 yrs and she loved it there so she didn't want to leave.

> Once she was admitted into the hospital her family alerted the hospital

> in Sydney and the doctors were waiting for her arrival. If only she

> had left that hospital she would still be alive today. Her best

> friend Greg flew in a couple of times to visit with her and he said that

> he really felt they put her in that wing so they wouldn't have to take

> care of her. It was just such a senseless waste.

>

October 18, 2002

Yep, you got it correct. I finally went to sleep around 2 am.

~ Vicki ~ Myositis Info Links

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