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In the Nursing Home with Grandpa

January 10, 2023

JEFF GREEN describes the final weeks of his 98-year-old grandfather’s life:

He practically begged me to call the ambulance. I knew what this would mean. He would now be subjected to dangerous medical treatments that would very likely damage or kill him. When the EMTs arrived, they picked him up and he stood up with their help. One of the EMTs said, “If his hip is broken, I would be very surprised.” He turned out to be partially right.

In the ER, he was initially asked if he had been vaccinated for ‘COVID’, tetanus, and so forth. I told them no. In fact, he had not been vaccinated in nearly 25+ years or so. The nurse informed me of the dangers of tetanus complications from surgery, but I continued to reaffirm to her that he did not need any vaccines.

He had to be transferred to the ER in a larger hospital out of town, about 25 miles away. They did not do such procedures here locally. Once we arrived there, one of the head doctors there described to us that he would need surgery. I asked, “Is surgery absolutely necessary for him?” She described to me that he would need a rod placed into his femur. After the initial x-rays of the leg, I found out that he merely had a hairline fracture, not a complete break, which I had suspected all along. The surgeon came into the room. He described the hip surgery process and told me that my grandpa would be out of surgery and walking the next day. Of course, this was something that I didn’t believe, and indeed, that never transpired. In fact, my grandpa was never able to take another step after surgery.

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