Obituary:
It is with a heavy heart that I have to
inform you all that Sylvia Veronica Snape, aged 95 years, passed
away, peacefully on Tuesday 7th November. RIP. We will
celebrate her life and she will be laid to rest with her father and
her brother on Tuesday 21st November. Service 10am at St
Mary's Church in Chorley. All welcome.
James, her son, had been caring for
Sylvia at home with support from Lancashire County Social Care
Services and the District nurses. Whilst Jim was grateful for this
support he was still extremely frustrated that they still refused to
let him take any part in the treatment of her arm.
Between the two of us we had managed to
get her eating again and she was slowly putting on weight but caring
for her was taking a heavy toll on Jim's physical and mental
well-being and the Social Worker had suggested that Sylvia be placed
in respite care, temporarily, to give him time to recuperate. It was
a difficult decision for him to make as he had always promised her
that he would never put her into a nursing home, but he eventually
agreed that it would be for the best and arrangements were made for
her to go into a home for a period of one month.(Read Part 4 here)
She went into the nursing home on
Monday 23rd October. During the first week, despite being
very weak and totally dependent, she was eating well and everything seemed to
be going to plan. At the beginning of the second week the home's
doctor telephoned to discuss her medication and suggested that she
was in a lot of pain and that he was considering increasing the
dosage of the pain medication patches from 10mg to 12mg. We explained
that when on higher doses of medication, Sylvia's cognitive abilities
were significantly reduced and he agreed to monitor her closely.
At the end of week two, we were advised
that she had stopped eating and that she was staying in bed instead
of getting up. We went to the nursing home to visit her on Monday 6th
November and it was obvious that she was on the increased pain patch
and we were advised that she was also on morphine as her pain had
increased to an intolerable level. She was very agitated and unable
to communicate but managed to tell Jim that she loved him. Jim
suggested to the nursing staff that the reason she had stopped
eating was probably because she was on high doses of medication due
to the pain in her arm caused by the extremely tight dressing on it,
but they said that, in their opinion, it was best to keep her on it.
They advised us that she was at the end of life stage and would
probably die within a few days. Jim was devastated! We called her
family members in so that they could say their goodbyes.
On the Tuesday wes received a call from
the nursing home suggesting that we go over quickly because her
condition had deteriorated. She was very still and appeared to be quite
peaceful but it seemed that she didn't know we were there. Jim spent
over an hour holding her and talking to her and then she suddenly
smiled and shortly afterwards she took her last breath.
She is now resting in the funeral home
and we are making the necessary arrangements, amongst which was to
pick up the medical notice for the death cert. It stated that she had
died from the sarcoma on her arm – not natural causes, which seems
a bit strange when the hosptial consultant had reassured us all that
the cancer would not kill her. Old age, probably, but not the cancer!
What killed Sylvia, in our opinion, was
the unwarranted interference from the local GP surgery, the
unnecessary intervention of the Social Sevices “Safeguarding”
Team, her lack of proper “care” whilst in hospital and finally,
an overdose of pain medication in her final days!
Yes, there is no doubt that Sylvia
wanted to die and had desired this since fist being diagnosed with
the cancer five years ago. She is now out of pain and with her God in
Heaven which is what, as a devout Roman Catholic, she truly believed
in.
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to all of us. Hemp oil is a legal and highly effective nutritional
supplement and it should be recognised as such by the Government and
the NHS. The only reason it is not is because of money and profits.
More research needs to be done into its use as a medicine to ascertain correct dosage levels for specific
illnesses but in honour of his Mum, Jim has vowed to take up the
mantle and fight for the human rights of people like Sylvia to be
treated with this amazing plant and to disseminate the knowledge of
its healing properties.
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