Posted on 02/08/2025 2:10:53 AM PST by RandFan
"I feel very angry, upset, worthless, and like my mental health and my life does not matter," says Jessie, propped up in a hospital bed.
She is recording this in a video diary. Blue NHS curtains are drawn around the bed and all her possessions are stacked up in the tiny chaotic space this creates.
Among the piles of boxes and bags sit the dolls she holds to keep her calm.
Thirty-five-year-old Jessie spent 550 days in Northampton General Hospital. For nearly all that time, she was medically fit to leave but finding her a suitable place to go to was difficult.
The BBC has followed her story for more than five months as the NHS trust took costly High Court action against her, to have her evicted from the hospital bed she was occupying.
Jessie was eventually arrested and taken to a care home where she says she feels anxious.
Her story is an extreme example, but it demonstrates the acute pressures faced by a care system coping with more complex cases, the knock-on effect to the NHS, and how the person at the heart of it can feel lost.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
This is absolutely insane. Something has got to change.
She was there for 550 days. Is the NHS responsible for her living arrangements, or is she? And if she needs public assistance for her living arrangements the NHS is certainly not the agency to assist her.
CC
Isn’t it all free over there? Could charge for rent.
And this is the British NHS system.
Just another step up the ladder from Medicare. Or maybe a few steps.
But there is Nowhere in Britain that can care for a lady confined to a bed?
Or is the problem paying for it?
P.S.- She was offered a couple of options for assisted living facilities and she turned them down.
CC
Seems she was using it as a hotel with no intention of leaving, so why not?
Maybe the NHS can do another creepy dance to “Tubular Bells” from “The Exorcist” at the Olympics - How CREEPY is that?
The “health service” advertises nationally using such a song?
hat tip to 444flyer for the find - hope she sees this - I can’t find my copy of the video at the moment
Another huge clue to how the West continues to decline (sadly)
Pagan 2012 Olympics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzX1t3MHSpM
She has complex needs that’s why the Command and control system cannot respond adequately I dont think!
So what happens? They spend nearly half a million dollars on keeping her where she is and then legal action to evict her
Crazy as I said. They can put her somewhere for that money... surely?
In fact, I could do it for HALF of that. Adapt a bungalow or something. Maybe Not in the best area of the country but it can be done
Sometimes these gov’t agencies need to think creatively.
I have very little patience for people who believe their problems outweigh 1000's of others right to go on living without putting up with your " feelings" crap.
She has complex ISSUES, and based on the many small incidences in the article itself, she is 35 years old, problematic, obese, deemed mentally stable and busy with her video diary, and "not in need of acute medical care".
It comes down to the basic question of an individual in a society. Where does responsibility lie, first and foremost? The article closes with....
" 'They don't know what to do with me,' she says."It may well be that SHE doesn't know what to do with HER. Though Adam Eley and Alison Holt for the BBC wrote this, it is likely they wouldn't give us their jobs to be her "caregivers." And the NHS seems to have had enough of a situation which is, according to the article. not "acute."
The parable of the good Samaritan includes aiding the victim, but imagine extending that parable into over a year's long-term, expensive care. Probably not But there are notions of "take up your bed and walk." She is in need of a miracle, but it is likely that miracle needs to start with her.
If the image of this woman is as summarized in the article, she needs to be weaned from others being expected to take care of her "complex needs."
Society -- they, as above -- are not and cannot be her parents, providers, and caregivers in perpetuity. All things do come to an end. Moral hazards abound in this. For her as for "they."
In the UK they have Barcalounger suicide chairs. You settle in and get comfy, then they
fit a mask over your face and turn on the suicide gas. Neat and assisted!
The NHS wasn’t great, but it was good enough for the UK, UNTIL the ‘conservative’-led Repopulation Program got into full swing. Exactly the same for housing in UK, and also Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and to a lesser extent, the US.
For people to claim that there’s no ‘conspiracy’ to put a permanent end to White-dominated countries is simply flat-out LYING, at least by those running the Repopulation Programs.
If she were in the US, she definitely would vote Democrat!
Is she a microcosm of Britian as a whole?
“She was there for 550 days. Is the NHS responsible for her living arrangements, or is she? And if she needs public assistance for her living arrangements the NHS is certainly not the agency to assist her.”
I agree with you.
I know of a similar situation in the US. Almost 9 months hospitalized. Slow progress for most of this period. But rapid changes lately. Insurance just ended so the hospital wants a discharge. There is no safe discharge home, hospital did little to nothing to find a safe discharge. Patient in limbo but hospital wants to start charging ridiculous fees. It is actually more complicated than this. But it is the US Medical Complex at its worse.
The problems that pop up in socialist countries never ends.
When you run out of other peoples money everyone feel is.
“Is she a microcosm of Britian as a whole?”
In today’s “Trans World,” it gives new meaning to the old psychiatric phrase “Show them you’re NUTS!”
Taking up a bed that was needed for someone who did need medical treatment and supervision.
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