Posted on 11/04/2005 3:24:09 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Family members are investigating what they consider to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a nursing home patient at the center of a life and death tug-of-war reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
Seventy-nine-year-old Jimmy Chambers died in the early morning hours of Oct. 24 after the tracheotomy tubes that deliver oxygen from a ventilator to a hole in his neck became unhooked. Family members were told Chambers, a resident of the Anne Maria Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in North Augusta, S.C., apparently pulled the interlocking tubes apart.
"We're having it investigated. We're just incredulous," Chambers' daughter, Deanna Potter, told WND in reference to her siblings. "The last time I saw dad he was blowing me a kiss. I blew him one and he blew one back."
The retired dispatcher for Holland Motor Express died approximately 10 hours later. His death certificate indicates he died of "natural causes."
"Apparently, suffocation is a 'natural cause' when you're on a ventilator. We're contesting that," said Potter. "He suffocated. He didn't just pass away. He struggled and fought. And I'm just so angry."
Potter estimates it would have taken 10 to 14 minutes for her father, deprived of oxygen, to fall unconscious, and questions why the nursing home staff didn't come to his aid.
"The oxygen-saturation meter and his ventilator both would have had alarms going off. Four-thirty, five o'clock in the morning you'd think someone would hear this," she added. "That's the thing that really bothers me and makes me suspicious."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
The State Office for the Aging (SOFA) employs a representative in each county of New York State to work on behalf of nursing home residents to prevent problems and help solve them when they arise. The representative, or ombudsman, that works with this nursing home is listed below. The SOFA can be reached at 1-800-342-9871.
Schoharie County Judith Sherman 518-234-4219 schofa@telenet.net notice the 1-800 # too!
Any good talkers might want to consider calling a talk show in the Glens Falls area. Ed Martin in a pro-life talk show host (wgy.com) and you can call his show from 10:00 a.m. until 1 p.m. to talk about June Maxam's dad, and ask listeners to call the nursing home.
The call-in number for the talk show is: 1-800-talk-wgy.
yall see this onhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520733/posts
Perfect example of how ALL common sense and decency has left the building in some people's biological high-rise.
Hard to make room for such things though when the the images of dollar signs take up soooooo much space......
I agree money probably behind this but is it just a 1st step? Next will they say she doesn't want to live? Then, will they go after the unborn babies? Other disabled adults? This needs to be throw out of court and stopped right here but unfortuately some doctors insurance companty will probably settle.
Please pray. My Sunday school teacher's mil was a an accident yesterday and has bleeding on the brain. She's in her 80's , they're going to do surgery tomorrow to stop the bleeding unless her condition warrants it today. Already my friend is facing the battle that the mil's insurance does not want to pay for rehab.
Bless you! I will be praying...
Yeah, I saw it, bit my tongue and did not say the things I would like to say.
8mm
Also ping to tutstar's thread on brain injured. Mothers Against Brain Injury
8mm
Thanks for your prayers!
Very true, and I would take him out of there before the Felosian death mongers sent armed guards over to his bedside.
I first found it and posted it right away on #164. Discovered it in the North Country Gazette early yesterday morning.
I summarized a lot of the links on #212 and another link on #219. It just started unfolding, hit me like a ton of bricks. Interestingly and ironically, I could not get the link to work, which you posted.
8mm
THANKS FOR POSTING ABOUT THIS!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
The link works for me.... It is a link to The Empire Journal from Sept. 5th.
Give me a few minutes and I will try to help you find that article....
Maybe Jay Sekulow (aclj.org) could help June out:
To ask Jay a question please call
1-800-684-3110 between the hours of
12:00 and 12:30 P.M. EST.
ADDITIONALLY, there is also Pastor Mahoney who went to D.C. to get Greer's Subpoena enforced and they snubbed him in D.C. I don't have his contact information.
The nursing home is freaking out from all the calls from bloggers is what the NH called them.
BREAKING NEWS ON BAD BOY JIM KING: FLA SENATE PRESIDENT TOM LEE IS GOING TO LECTURE Senator Jim King and his gang who went on the unauthorized vacation to Toronto.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051110/LOCAL/51110004/1078/news
Put that on the back burner to hold a demonstration for Gerald. For those who can be there and only with JM's express permission.
YOU ROCK!
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People with strokes need rehab, not a terminal label and shipment via the death care system straight into hospice's waiting clutches.
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