I am simply unable presently to carefully read and digest your superlative report. My dear friend has been whisked away after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, and her estranged sister across the continent has attained PoA. Her sister reached out to me after I was unable to find my friend, and told me that a code had been put on her preventing the hospital from admitting she was a patient there, and for two weeks my friend has been isolated from her entire social network, and even the rest of her family. The only reason her sister reached out to me was to try to convince me to help prevent my friend from escaping the hospital to find me.
She then moved my friend into a hospice where she is held in captivity, with held medical treatment for her cancer, heavily sedated, her phone calls are recorded, she cannot receive food from outside the facility, her packages are opened by staff before she is allowed to receive them, and visitors can only see her in a room where staff is physically present and under observation at all times. She is literally a prisoner sentenced to die of cancer, and has begged and pleaded with me to get her out of there so she can get treatment she wants. Her sister told me my friend wanted to die, but I was able to visit her personally a week ago, and she signed a statement that began 'I want to live', and that she wanted her sister removed from PoA and control of her and assign it to me.
I spend almost every minute of every day trying to find legal counsel that will help me to get her out of captivity so my friend can live and die as she prefers. I will try my best to get back to this well researched report when I can.
Thanks!
Thank you kindly my friend. I am very sorry to hear about your friend. It sounds like an inhumane and very difficult situation. Sadly its a reflection of the inhumanity that resides in the institutions that are meant to offer us care and compassion - especially at the end of our lives. To that end, she is blessed to have your friendship and help at this difficult moment in time. I have faith in your ability to find a way through all this - and I wish you all the best in doing so. Thanks again.
I sure hope so. It's been extremely frustrating trying to figure out how to put a stop to this utterly unlawful incarceration and slow killing by medical neglect. She did absolutely nothing wrong but get an highly lucrative disease, and I still don't have legal counsel. It's infuriating, and I do hope I manage to enable her to live - and die - as she prefers, not locked in a cage.