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To: Elyse; SheLion; Raycpa

Treu. My aunt died in a nursing home that was so clean and looked like a frikkin' swanky hotel. She dies because she had some food hidden (she weighed 80 lbs when she does BTW) and aspirated it at night and choked to death because the little CNA thought she had a DNR and she and an RN did nothing to clear her airway - she lay there for some while choking to death on her won vomit according to the autopsy. Had myself and my sister not badgered my mother to get an autopsy done before she was cremated, the nursing home would have gotten by scot free. Her estate won a large lawsuit against them (Round Rock TX), the cna was fired and the nursing home was cited big time by the state. When you have older people and are taking care of them, as in a nursing home, you have to be vigilant. The people who were burned per Raycpa's post were not supervised as they should have been. Aunt Bert was on oxygen and the nurses certainly made sure she did not have the oxygen on when she smoked.


77 posted on 09/26/2006 9:36:51 AM PDT by gopheraj
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I'm so sorry for your loss and God bless her. She is in a much better place now, but I feel sorry that she had to go through that hell on earth. How horrible!


87 posted on 09/26/2006 10:51:30 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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