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Canadians NEED to read this and know YES It does happen in Canada and now consider this context in terms of #BillC7 https://twitter.com/ConnConnection/status/1338616344716083200
"He said intubating her was a matter of risk versus quality of life," Conger recalls. "I was like, 'But she has quality of life.' And he looked at me and goes, 'Oh, she can walk? And talk?'"
"The doctor lifted his index and middle fingers and moved them in a walking motion, like in the old advertisements for the Yellow Pages."
"Conger pushed back: "And I said 'Well, no, but there's a lot of people who don't walk who have full quality of life.' And he gets kind of irritated with me and left the room at that point."
Gawd this sounds familiar. They get irritated when you refuse to die.
Gawd this sounds familiar. They get irritated when you refuse to die.
"When the doctor walked out, Conger and Barnett understood that they had failed to change the medical team's negative view of McSweeney."
"A "vast majority" of doctors say people with a significant disability have a worse quality of life, according to a recent poll by Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, a Harvard Medical School professor and physician who studies health care disparities for people with disabilities."
"Her research will be published in the journal Health Affairs in early 2021."
This will be helpful for those of us who live that long.
This will be helpful for those of us who live that long.
"But Iezzoni says, they often hold a bias — often an unconscious bias — about people who won't be cured and as a result "do not make the same effort to restore patients to their baseline health."
You've heard me say this if you follow me. Maybe now some of you will believe me
You've heard me say this if you follow me. Maybe now some of you will believe me
"McSweeney's advocates at CAS and The Arc Oregon saw their job differently. It was to help the disabled woman live as full a life as possible, according to her wishes."
We're discussing this woman in past tense. Sarah McSweeney is the disabled woman who died.
We're discussing this woman in past tense. Sarah McSweeney is the disabled woman who died.
"McSweeney wasn't afraid of being on a ventilator, for example. She'd been ventilated before — in 2017 when she was hospitalized for pneumonia."
"But mostly she wasn't afraid because, as Gustavson explained, "Sarah has friends who are vent dependent, 24 hours a day, with traches," a reference to a tracheostomy, a surgical opening in the windpipe to insert a breathing tube."
"These folks were her friends," says Gustavson. "They participate in the same community activities together. They hang out.
They went to the mall and to the movies."
They went to the mall and to the movies."
If you're disabled you know how this story ends. If you're not you should read this and for the luv of G_d if you have an ounce of anything human in you, you should feel rage. If you're Canadian use that rage to help us stop #BillC7
I am so filled with rage and hate and pain and grief reading this.
I know it. I've lived it. And it never doesn't make me want to scream. And cry.
I know it. I've lived it. And it never doesn't make me want to scream. And cry.
For the luv of life Canada don't give these people the legal right to kill us.
"McSweeney didn't die of COVID-19."
She was a victim of hate. Legalized hate.
She was a victim of hate. Legalized hate.
