After spending 2.5 weeks in an Ontario GTA hospital with my 93-year-old mother-n-law, I can say this with absolute certainty:
Today, she passed away with the best doctor and nursing care any person in any country could hope to receive.
The doctors and nurses caring for her were nothing short of phenomenal compassionate, skilled, and deeply human.
Today, her nurse stepped back into the room and said:
“It’s beautiful to see a family gathered around a dying loved one. We don’t get to see that enough.”
Let that sink in.
The only issue I had through this experience was private retirement-home marketing being pushed early on, pamphlets from companies like Chartwell Retirement Residences being handed out while our family was still processing what was happening.
Anyone pushing private healthcare should spend two weeks watching Ontario’s frontline healthcare workers care for someone they love.
Our healthcare workers are not the problem. Public healthcare is not the problem.
Governments starving the system and mismanaging it like Doug Ford’s government, are the problem.
I will never support privatized healthcare after what we witnessed and experienced.
RIP 🙏