Post by el Gusano on Dec 10, 2010 21:28:37 GMT -5
Surgeons had to remove three feet of dead tissue from a colon cancer patient’s small bowel after staff at a Canadian hospital waited seven days for life-saving surgery, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Jill Hoskyn, a 56-year-old North Delta resident, spent a month in the Surrey Memorial Hospital in British Columbia, recovering from the April 1 surgery, which doctors delayed in favor of watchful monitoring for a few days. Although she agreed to wait, Hoskyn began begging for surgery when the pain became too much.
"Our kids are always our kids,” Marjorie Robinson, Hoskyn’s mother and a retired nurse, said. “I was there sitting with her every day and she was in so much pain, and hallucinating from the morphine drugs, and she was desperate to get the surgery."
Hoskyn could not eat solid food for weeks before, then after the surgery, and lost nearly 25 percent of her weight. She also had to stop radiation and chemotherapy treatments because of her weak physical state, making her prognosis uncertain.
Jill Hoskyn, a 56-year-old North Delta resident, spent a month in the Surrey Memorial Hospital in British Columbia, recovering from the April 1 surgery, which doctors delayed in favor of watchful monitoring for a few days. Although she agreed to wait, Hoskyn began begging for surgery when the pain became too much.
"Our kids are always our kids,” Marjorie Robinson, Hoskyn’s mother and a retired nurse, said. “I was there sitting with her every day and she was in so much pain, and hallucinating from the morphine drugs, and she was desperate to get the surgery."
Hoskyn could not eat solid food for weeks before, then after the surgery, and lost nearly 25 percent of her weight. She also had to stop radiation and chemotherapy treatments because of her weak physical state, making her prognosis uncertain.
Woman Rushed to Hospital Waits 7 Days for Life-Saving Surgery
