Especially due to "hospital error"?
Do we sit back and accept this senseless death and if we decide to fight back, what do you really get in the end except reliving the horror, loads of stress, tons of lies and no one accepting responsibility.... and you are still missing this one very important human being in your life and in this world.
Tonight we buried an amazing 54 year-young man. He went into Olathe (Kansas) Medical Center for a knee replacement surgery early last week and passed away Sunday afternoon. He had been up walking around after the surgery, then the "nurses" found him wandering around "confused" so they put him back to bed.... with no monitors. At some point they returned to check on him and he had coded, it took them 17 minutes to bring him back. He went into a coma and never came out.
Joe and my hubby had been friends since high school but I have only known him for 20 years. Joe was a Vietnam Veteran, he was a musician who could play any instrument including the sitar. He owned and rode a Norton Commodore which he bought in 1971, it is bright yellow. He could make wonderful creations from stained glass and I know a little known secret about him.... he was also a weaver. He was a man of many talents and few words. He was a gentle soul but when many first met him they were often intimidated by him appearance. He leaves an adoring wife and soul-mate of 29 years.
My life and that of the many people who know and love him will be a little less full with his passing. He surrounded himself with only folks he truly enjoyed and I feel very privileged to have been counted among them.
I will cherish the time that he was with us and a pox on those that did this to such an amazing soul.
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