Posted on 07/09/2018 2:18:07 PM PDT by BBell
A 68-year-old New Jersey grandmother died last week after a company shut off her electricity because of an overdue bill -- which cut off the oxygen tank she relied on to keep breathing, a family member said.
Linda Daniels, who is in hospice care, was in her Newark home on Thursday for hours after her oxygen tank and air-conditioning were shut off around 10 a.m., NJ.com reported. Her family said they were with Daniels pleading with PSE&G to turn on the electricity until the 68-year-old died just before 4:30 p.m. from heart failure.
"She was trying to catch her breath — she was gasping for air," Daniels’ granddaughter, Mia, 28, told the news site Sunday. "She suffered and she passed right in front of us. She was gasping until the time she died."
Desiree Washington, Daniels’ daughter, added that the family made “numerous calls” to the utility company, but its response came too late.
"They told us they would be rolling a truck. The truck did not come until the next day,” Washington said.
Mia added: "They started getting nasty after awhile, telling us they had too many tickets out on this.”
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He added that PSE&G did not know about Daniels’ medical condition until after the power was shut off.
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Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.
I detect a ghetto lottery scheme.
I agree. Poor planning by the family.
Good grief, go to the neighbors, use an extension cord
How about taking her to emergency????? Hello
family is seeing dollar signs.
No, they exist. My father-in-law, God rest his soul, had one in his last days. Unlike oxygen tanks, they don’t run out of oxygen - I think it processes the air or something.
Yep. may be a conspiracy to profit off Grandma.
What you said, yes.
Why did the family not pay? Why did the family not move her to one of their places?
” for hours after”
Never heard of an ambulance? 911? Something missing here.
“Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.”
Must have been quite a big tank too, if it took a week before it emptied.
“She was just starting to turn her life around...”
That is an oxygen concentrator, or generator. No tank involved.
The media calls it a tank but it’s probably a small oxygen generator with a small reserve...not a big tank.
I’m bad. I shouldn’t think this.
But I wonder if the family withheld Grandma’s condition knowing that if PG&E cut off the power, and she died - they would win the lawsuit lottery.
I mean, what other reason could their be for this info to be undisclosed?
Oxygen generators are powered by electricity.
Probably an oxygen concentrator.
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