Grandma, 93, died after care home staff ‘served her washing up liquid instead of juice’

Metro U.K. ^ | 8/30/2022 | Siba Jackson

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A 93-year-old grandmother with dementia died after being ‘accidentally poisoned’ when care home staff served her washing up liquid instead of juice.

Gertrude Elizabeth Murison Maxwell suffered ‘severe blistering of her mouth, throat and oesophagus’ after she was fed the corrosive liquid, reports suggest.

The mother-of-eight, who had 20 grandchildren, is one of three residents at Atria Park Senior Living Facility in San Mateo, California who were mistakenly given the ‘caustic’ liquid instead of grape juice and rushed to hospital, according to NBC.

Staff have been suspended while police investigate the tragedy, which happened on Saturday.

According to the New York Post, Ms Maxwell’s daughter, Marcia Cutchin, said the substance was an ‘alkaline solution that eats protein’.

‘Many people, like my mother, you have to hold a cup to her mouth and tip it into her mouth,’ she told local network KRON-TV.

The care home confirmed three residents were transported to hospital after ‘mistakenly being served dishwashing liquid as drinking juice’ and offered ‘sincerest condolences’ to the family of Ms Maxwell.

[RoosterRedux]

BTW, thank you for responding. It is brave of you for even touching upon this potentially explosive issue.

But as I said above...we have to parse this delicate issue because it is being used against us relentlessly by the Left.

The Left is shoving us into a corner using our own language. And if we don't fight back (sometimes just by being outrageous in using the language they have stolen from us), we will lose.

[Jamestown1630]

CRT is promoting the idea of seeing everyone and everything through a lens of ‘race’, instead of seeing and celebrating the *individual*.

When we make snide, blanket comments that effectively lump all Black people in one basket - without recognizing that there are excellent, conscientious caregivers among them - we’re doing the same damn thing.

Unfortunately, some Freepers exhibit their own brand of hive-mind ‘virtue signalling’.

[RoosterRedux]

Very true about CRT trying to destroy the individual in favor of the collective.

But we play into their hands if we insist that we only recognize the "individual" and refuse to acknowledge groups--even races.

There's nothing inherently wrong with discussing Black people as though they are in one basket. Because they often are...and they see themselves as such. Of course, the Leftists try to put a stop to this by saying the intent is either racist or at the very least, it is cultural appropriation (such that only someone in that group is permitted to speak of that group).

It is the Leftists who refuse to let us see the "individual" but then refuse to let us discuss "groups" lest we be racist."

The Leftists are basically saying, "you conservatives can't speak about anything. You can't speak about the individual, because the "individual" is anti-Marxist (i.e., fascist). You can't speak about the groups because that is "racist." It's better that you don't speak at all."

And that's where I was coming out on the use of "amish."

It is better to say something outrageous than nothing at all.

As an old friend of mine once told me (he was a Black man from Atlanta who was hired by my Wall St firm), "I like White Southerners because they are honest and direct...you know where you stand with them." "I don't trust Yankees, because they don't tell you anything and, when they do, I don't believe they are telling me the truth."

Now, this was told to me, a Southerner in NYC, over cocktails--lots of cocktails--but I knew what he meant.

I still think it is better to speak the truth (whatever it is) than to pretend the truth doesn't exist.