Dear Editor,
Well all I have to say about this is the nurses need to respect the elderly people. If it wasn’t for the old people, Maple Creek wouldn’t even exist.
I have two old and dear friends that the nurses made them feel like Mr. Nobodies. One is in his 80s and the other was close to 80. The nurses told the old fellow in his 80s to go home and take care of himself, there was no reason he couldn’t. Yet he had a stroke, paralyzed on one side.
The nurses told the other gentleman they didn’t run a hotel at the hospital. He was brought in by ambulance, he never got to see a doctor. The next day the nurses sent him home and told him to go to the clinic and see a doctor. He was too weak to take himself. He was taken to Medicine Hat a few days later, was told he had lung cancer. The nurses sure were not in his good book. He wouldn’t even come home to die with his old friends in Maple Creek. But in Medicine Hat they let him die with dignity. You nurses know who you are. Don’t forget one day you will be old. Let’s hope you are treated better than these gentlemen. A new hospital will never solve this problem.
Loretta Chichenko
Maple Creek