Indigenous man furious after mother put in ‘storage room’ after being discharged from Calgary hospital
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Bradford Mistakenchief's mother was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and was only given 18 months to live.
An Indigenous man is furious after his mother was put in a “storage room” after she was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.
Bradford Mistakenchief’s mother was only given 18 months to live with the diagnosis. She was immediately put into palliative care at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, where he visited her regularly.
“I was seeing her every other day when she first came in. I was rubbing her feet and cleaning her room, just to make sure she is loved,” Mistakenchief told Global News.
“She did that her whole life, so it’s easy to return the favour.”
But when Mistakenchief came to visit on Monday, he immediately knew something was not right.
At first, he couldn’t find her in her usual room on the fourth floor of the cancer centre. After asking the nurses where she was, he found her in a nurse’s station “storage room.”
He then found out that she had been discharged by her doctor and had been waiting in the room for almost three hours. There was an unused tub in one corner and towels hanging from a gurney in another, he said.
Mistakenchief also said medical staff were walking in and out of the room to grab stuff.
