DOCTORS OFFER VENTILATOR AS ONLY TREATMENT STATING THAT IT MAY MAKE HIM WORSE

Hospital’s Lack of Compassion Denies Daughter the Decency and Dignity to Pay Last Respects or Even to be in the Room to Touch Her Father, Hold Him One Last Time, or Tell Him She Loves Him

My dad was a fighter. He wasn’t one to give up or give in. None of his family was there with him. I cannot even imagine being all alone in the hospital and not being able to see your loved ones. That will make someone lose hope and feel like they have to agree to what they want to do with you.

He fell sick around the last two weeks of December 2021. It appeared to be like a cold, but then it wasn’t going away. He already had health issues and also did not have the Covid vaccination. My mom took him the morning of January 3, 2022, to get tested. They stated the results would not be available for 24-48 hours.

My mom tried to get him to go to the hospital after that test but he did not want to go. So later that night he was getting worse, weaker and harder to breathe so we called the ambulance and they came around 2:00 AM and took him to Kaiser Riverside. We were told that he tested positive for Covid.

They later admitted him and placed him in the Intensive Care Unit. They were pumping him with oxygen. He did not have a good pair of lungs or kidneys prior to all of this so we were all so worried and praying hard for positive updates of his condition.

We could not see him because we were not vaccinated and we had to wait 72 hours after our negative result to go in. My brother was the only one who was vaccinated. My dad did call us two or three times that evening. We were happy to hear his voice. The calls were short and it was hard to hear him because of the oxygen machine.

I was able to go in and drop off his cell phone the next day. He called me a few times as I had to wait for the nurse to come outside to retrieve it from me. That took a while. When I got the text from him that he got his phone, I was still waiting outside the hospital to make sure.

I got a call from my mom that they were putting him on the ventilator. So, he never got to use his phone now that he finally had it. Prior to that, the doctors were telling us that placing him on the ventilator was in the plan. They even told us that, with his condition it may worsen, which made me think, then why would you decide to do that. However, they made it sound like that was the only option.

With my dad medicated and not being 100% coherent, I am sure that whatever they said sounded convincing to him and he would want to do whatever it took for him to survive and get out of the hospital. But after he was placed on the ventilator, it seemed that there wasn’t much progression.

We had minor positive updates but he was still in critical condition. Not being able to physically see him and be with him was hard and we were only going by what they were saying. When we finally got to see him, it was only through the door window for 15-20 minutes, and he was also in a room with another Covid patient.

Seeing him like that was so hard and through a window, I felt helpless that I couldn’t be there to comfort him, be with him and see what his care was actually like. He was alone and that broke my heart. The night before his death, the update we had was positive and we were all finally able to rest a little better.

However, the next morning we got the call that we had to go in as soon as possible and that his organs were failing and he was slowly dying. We were all so in shock. Like what the hell happened?! So, we rushed there and we again could only see him through the door window. They explained that his lungs were so inflamed, his kidneys had stopped working and he was not urinating anymore. My dad is a fighter and I feel like how he went is not how he would want to go. He had a new grandson on the way that he was ecstatic to meet and the baby arrived three weeks after his passing. He had so much to look forward to.

My brother and I got to look in through the door window to see him go, but it wasn’t right - to not be by his side, touch and hold him one last time. To say I love you and thank him for all he had done in person is not right or fair and makes me so mad. How can anyone have closure? To see him like that and that be the last image of him is horribly sad and no one should ever have to go through that. He did not have to be another victim or another number to this evil mess.

They weren’t treating him and many others like they should be. I believe he could have been here still if the care and treatment was done right and not evil and greed taken over. They took a great man who was grateful for his life on this earth, a great husband, the best father, best grandfather, and good friend away from all of us.

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