"End of life care"

My parent was admitted back into Bentley hospital for progressive rehab recently. The following day they were sent to Royal Perth Hospital AMU ward where they were found to have fluid build up around the heart and lungs with an infection.

My parent was seen by a respiratory Dr who was going to treat them but couldn’t do anything until the next day as my parent had been given blood thinner medication.

The next day the doctor came along and decided no treatment was going to be done for my parent as their condition wasn’t good. So I understand it was decided an antibiotic drip would be put in and if it fell out overnight, it wouldn’t be put back in.

It was a long weekend so couldn’t be transferred to palliative care. I believe the Dr proceeded to tell my elderly parent with depression and severe anxiety that they wouldn’t be treating them and they were going to die.

The following day, a relative turned up and found my parent, I believe, very distressed and trying to vomit in a bag and trying to move in their bed but had no strength. The room was absolutely freezing and my parent had a thin sheet and a thin hospital gown and unable to do anything for themselves, also, they were in a very distressed state. The relative was with a friend who is a nurse and they had to go ask for medication to help with nausea and then go back and ask for a Dr to come and sedate my parent.

I understand my relative's friend also had to help clean up another patient across from my parent as they were vomiting over themselves and I believe distressed too.

My parent died a few hours later. I didn’t make it in time to see them. I’m haunted by imagining how distressed my parent was and I believe they were just left there to I felt die like a dog. I find that this treatment of my parent was absolutely disgusting.

I had to spend 2 days on the phone with Bentley and Royal Perth Hospital trying to find where my parent's mobile phone and glasses were. My parent was sitting up eating their tea one night and was dead three days later. There’s so much more to this story, this was their 3rd admittance between Bentley and RPH and the neglect I feel they had was appalling.