'I don’t know where I got the strength,' says St. John's widow who found she was following advice of N.L. Health Accord before it was written
When they arrived back in Peter’s room, they were told the antibiotic that had been hung to treat the infection had done nothing. Now, he was dealing with a life-threatening medical emergency called urosepsis.By that time, they had discovered it wasn’t Parkinson’s, but multiple systems atrophy , a diagnosis Fisher, who worked as a nurse for much of her life, feared even more.
“So, I looked at them and I said, ‘You could be right, maybe I won’t be able to do it. But there’s one thing I know for sure, I have to try.’”When Peter left the hospital in January 2020, the delirium began to clear, and he started to improve. “It is meant for patients who have completed acute care treatment and no longer need 24-hour attention in hospital, patients who can heal safely at home with the right kinds of support,” the Health Accord says. “This approach should be advanced into formal policy for the health system in our province.”
“It’s going to be an interesting conversation if it does occur,” Fisher said of the possibility of provincial funding for home care. “If you're freeing up a really expensive acute care bed, that should be in the equation as well.”— FisherBut Fisher found many of them, mostly post-secondary students, hadn’t been trained in basic care.