Ashley M.
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My father has been in and out of Simcoe hospital probably about 10-15 times in the last 6-7 years. He is only 63 years old, and has had some pretty serious health concerns. His health started to decline about 15 years ago, when he got a small cut on the bottom of his foot, that wouldn’t heal properly, antibiotics did nothing for him, but that’s all Drs would give him. A year later that small cut is now a hole about as round as a pencil and about 2 inches deep. He had nurses coming once a week to check it and clean it and bandage it. (This continues for another year) each day it’s getting worse. Drs still just giving him antibiotics. But the antibiotics aren’t working because now he’s immune to them. Fast forward 2022, the hole is now the size of a golf ball and his heal bone is now protruding from the hole in his foot, the bone is cracked and literally breaking apart (sorry for the vivid details), his whole leg has changed colour and now purple with more sores developing, as well as the other foot and leg are starting to do the same thing. Year 2023, since my dad has now suffered in agonizing pain for the past 13 years (with no pain medication) it’s time to amputate the leg. My dad has the surgery to remove the 1 leg up past the knee. Other foot and leg are now starting to flare up almost as bad as the one they took off. Year 2024 he is now suffering from blood infections (sepsis) and c-diff and has a blood transfusion at NGH. They send him home within a week. This continues to happen throughout 2024 multiple times. They keep pumping him full of antibiotics that will not work for him. Now March 2025, A lump develops in his neck! He starts having the odd hallucination and incoherent. My brother calls 911 sends him back to the hospital yet again. Again, sepsis, and c-diff. Dr. Ickibal decides, let’s cut this lump open and see what’s going on! (WHY?!!) what if it’s cancer? Actually let’s cut it open and drain it 3 more times!! He is in hospital March-June, having frequent (daily) hallucinations, but seems okay let’s send him home. 4 days later he is completely out of it, shaking, can’t talk, incoherent, hallucinations are extreme, we call 911, he looks like he’s had a stroke, (all signs are telling me he’s had a stroke) they take him back to NGH, he’s in ICU for 2 days and then transferred back up to 3E where he always gets moved to. I went up to see him, they won’t tell me much accept they are pretty sure he Overdosed on one of his medications. My dad looks terrified, his eyes were so big, he thinks my brother has died in an accident, he can’t see me, then he can and then he can’t. This goes on for 3 days, the hallucinations come on even stronger every day. He thinks my Gram is still here and she’s passed on, and his one sister. He thinks the nurses and Drs are trying to kill him, and everyday it just gets worse. My brother and I asked for a psychiatric evaluation to be done and a sit down with the social worker and Drs. I got a phone this past Monday morning from the social worker at NGH saying Dr. White wants to send your dad home, he has an appt as an out patient with a psychiatrist on Friday morning. I asked to speak with Dr. White, I asked him why he thinks it’s okay to send my dad home. He says “there is no medical reason to keep him in the hospital”. I said “Really? So these hallucinations and how bad they are and the things he’s saying, that’s just normal to you?” His answer was “there is people who live in the community who deal with these things everyday”…ohhh, okay then!! I said “well I’m sure you will see him back here within a week!” My dad is now home and hasn’t gotten out of bed in 3 days. He is still hallucinating and out of it. We’re terrified he’s going to die. We just don’t know what to do anymore! We need help. I understand that people can’t comment back here, but if anyone has any advice and wants to look me up on FB please feel free to! Thank you! 🙏🏻
