Tracy Jackson messaged Carers Want Competence to ask if we would share her concerns about her Mothers’ care at UHCW University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire – who amongst other despicable acts, actually forced Brenda Jackson (who had capacity) to have a catheter inserted against her will.
“Hi there I wonder if u could post this on my behalf as I feel that this info needs to be out there as painful as it is. This is about my lovely mum who passed away on Boxing Day due to mistreatment and hospital neglect
So I thought I’d post on here it’s difficult because feelings are still so raw I lost my mum on Boxing Day 2020 she went into hospital on Tuesday, the 22nd of December she was taken in by paramedics with a suspected chest infection she was coughing up green mucus had a temperature of over 40 I was struggling to breathe. My mum is 71 and has a history of asthma and also in 2017 she had a massive heart attack. On the Tuesday she was assessed in A&E and I decided to do A Covid swab this test later came back negative she was treated for a chest infection by intravenous antibiotics and also as she was dehydrated she was given IV fluids. She was then transferred to a ward .
On the Tuesday afternoon she rang me a few times from her mobile phone and said that she started to feel better and she had. She didn’t sound as wheezy and she said that she was able to breathe better. She was eating and drinking without any problem. On the Wednesday she called me and she sounded a little bit worse than the day before she was still able to talk and eat and drink. She was in a side room by herself. The doctor rang me During the day on Wednesday to say that she had seen a cardiologist and although they didn’t think that she’d had a heart attack because she presented as being very breathless with her last heart-attack that they were going to start some precautionary medication to help her heart. On Thursday 24th of December Christmas Eve we had a phone call from a different doctor on the ward saying that they wanted to discuss something called a respect form. I’ve never heard about this so I asked what it was and what it meant I said it was a form that they filled in about decisions and steps will be made should my mum‘s heart stop and I said so you’re telling me that it’s a DNR order then. I asked if they needed my consent because if they did I would be giving it and I asked if they need my moms consent they said that they needed nobody‘s consent because it was a clinical decision that had been made at hospital level.
They then said that a decision had been made that it wouldn’t be in my mums best interests to restart her heart. We then went in to see my mum in Xmas eve in the evening and to find out what was going on when we got there my mum was still able to talk but she was still very breathless, she asked about how our day at Been and as it was my daughters 18th birthday said happy birthday to her. She then went on to tell us about something that she termed as having been awful that day and said that she’d had a catheter bag fitted against her well and without her consent. Now my mum was a very proud lady and she was absolutely mortified that they’ve actually done this she said that she told them that she felt that she didn’t need it and that she’d actually got out of bed that morning and use the bathroom on her own. She said that she told the nurses she didn’t use the catheter bag but they insisted on doing it . Now the other thing to consider when it comes to my mum is that she was actually registered blind and she could only see outlines and shadows, she was also very hard of hearing and usually wore to hearing aids however the paramedics only took her in with one hearing aid. We didn’t know that until that point because up until then we hadn’t been allowed to visit. So it boils down to assault because my mum told them during the process of the catheter bag procedure just stop that she didn’t want it but she didn’t need it she told them that they were hurting her, they knew that she was having problems with her breathing yet they kept repositioning her on the bed at one point she said they laid a completely flat and she couldn’t breathe and felt like she was passing out.
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