You may have missed last week’s story about Torron Eeles, a UK citizen who has been out of work for so long he may lose his house. It isn’t the economy that’s keeping the plumber from work, it’s his mangled arm - painful, twisted, and hanging from his body. Surgery to correct his problem has been cancelled several times. To top it off, he was even denied incapacity (disability) benefits.
He said: ‘This whole situation is absolutely disgusting. I have never heard of anyone else having a broken arm for ten months.
‘It’s been so long the bones have knitted back together. Sleeping is really uncomfortable because whenever I roll over my arm gets in the way.
‘I’m a kitchen fitter and plumber by trade but I can’t even slice a loaf of bread let alone work.
‘This has been going on and on and it’s a complete nightmare.’
Mr Eeles fractured his arm on December 3 and was rushed straight to casualty where doctors put his arm in plaster.But within a few weeks a specialist said the bones were too far apart and that surgeons would have to insert a metal plate because there was too much movement in the arm.
Mr Eeles claims his first two operations at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, were cancelled due to a lack of beds and operating time respectively.
His third operation in February was postponed after he was found to have high blood pressure, while the fourth, scheduled for May, was abandoned because of concerns about his smoking.
I suppose things could be worse for Mr. Eeles. It’s not like he was left to starve, other than being denied disability benefits and surgery to correct his mangled arm. (Via Gateway Pundit)
[Hazel] Fenton was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Although [Christine] Ball acknowledged that her mother was very ill she was astonished when a junior doctor told her she was going to be placed on the plan to “make her more comfortable” in her last days.
Ball insisted that her mother was not dying but her objections were ignored. A nurse even approached her to say: “What do you want done with your mother’s body?”
On January 19, Fenton’s 80th birthday, Ball says her mother was feeling better and chatting to her family, but it took another four days to persuade doctors to give her artificial feeding.
Fenton is now being looked after in a nursing home five minutes from where her daughter lives.
Eeles can also be thankful he wasn’t the recipient of a cancerous lung transplant.
Cpl [Matthew] Millington [31] joined the army on his 16th birthday and rose to become a corporal in what was later to become the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
He served as a tank crewman in Cyprus, Germany and Bosnia among other countries.
After leaving the Army in 2001, he was employed in a number of jobs, including installation engineer, factory worker and builder’s labourer.
He was recalled in October 2005 and it was as he was serving in Iraq with the Queen’s Royal Lancers at Christmas that year he was diagnosed with a lung illness.
He was told that he had only two years to live unless action was taken and in April 2007 received a double lung transplant.
But he died ten months later as a result of damage caused by disseminated lung cancer.
A lack of communication between radiographers and consultants meant it was not until October 2007 that a tumour, which had grown from eight mm to 13mm between June and August 2007 was detected.
Its’ growth was accelerated by the immunosuppressive drugs Cpl Millington was taking to prevent his body rejecting the transplanted organ.
He died on February 8, 2008 at his family home in Stoke, Staffs, leaving behind wife Siobhan.
All of these stories are sad, and tragedy occurs every day in every corner of this earth. I don’t care where you live or your socioeconomic status, bad things happen to good people. But the socialized medicine horror stories should not be ignored.
But hey, don’t worry Americans. We’re so much better here at socialism than the rest of the world. Democrat and RINO politicians tell us so regularly. You know, people who have never read an X-ray, never performed surgery, or figured out the medical reserve on an insured or claimant. But trust them, they know better than physicians and the private sector how to take care of the ill and finance their treatment. You know, because they say so. You’re in good hands with professional demagoguing bureaucrats.
