They're Not Always Right!

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How It All Started - The Email
Stand with me in prayer for my dad.
I am asking those that will, can, and are called with a pure heart and a right spirit, in the Name of Jesus to stand with me in prayer. The word of God tells us that the prayers of the righteous avail much.

Most of you have been with us when my dad had a stroke 2.5 years ago. Well we are on that journey again. We notice a change in my dad a few weeks ago, and we told his visiting doctor and she just wrote it off and cleared him from the stroke, as if nothing was wrong. But we knew something was wrong, and even the other health care providers that came out to the house knew that my dad was not the same.

Seeing the change in my dad and him not being able to eat his food, drink his coffee which he loves to drink, not being able to drink it. When we would give him his meds it took him a while to swallow. I went into prayer and ask God to guide me. I knew my dad needed a second opinion, so I called another hospital and was able to get a doctor's appointment the same day. This doctor took care of seniors.

To Move Forward.

When me and my mom took my dad to this new doctor, come to find out, my dad did have a stroke. That was why we saw the change. So from that day forward me and my mom was taking my dad back and forth for his doctor appointments. By Friday when my dad's home health care nurse came to visit him, she told us that my dad needed to go to the hospital because he was dehydrated. I hated to hear that because I don't like hospitals. It's ok for outpatients, but not to stay any length of time. That's just how I feel.

Me and my mom took my dad to ER and sure enough he was dehydrated, but not only that, he also had a UTI, Urinary Tract Infection.  That infection was not detected by his previous doctor and to tell you the truth, not even by the new doctor. As soon as the ER gave my dad fluids he perked right up. But the ER doctor told us that my dad would be staying in the hospital.

That is not something that I wanted to hear. But because my dad was not able to do his swallow test in outpatient, because he was dehydrated and had a Urinary Tract Infection. All of this in an elderly person causes other problems if not addressed, and even death.

Thank God for the Holy Ghost! Now while in the hospital Fri, and Sat, I was told that my dad would have a swallow test.  But that didn't happen, you know why, because I was told by one of the doctors that there was no doctor working on the weekend to give the test. Then this doctor went on to say, "Doctors need a day off"!

You know what, even though she was thinking that, she should have kept that to herself. Here, my dad is in the hospital and a doctor tells me there is no one working to take care for my dad, because it’s the weekend, and doctors need a day off!

What was told to me was, don't get sick on the weekend!  Are they serious....and since that time, it has been so many things said by these so called health care providers.  Not living up to the hospital mission statement that states, “Everyone receives excellent care”… Help them Jesus! Right now!

So, my dad was supposed to come home, and I get a call from the doctor telling me that things have changed. But you know what, my dad is a fighter and if he is a fighter, so are we....I am asking you to come in agreement with me, binding your faith with my faith in the name of Jesus!

Why Awarding-Winning Author, Angela Boone Made A Conscience Decision To Pen, "My Father's Keeper: Speak Up, They're Not Always Right!

After months of unethical hospital and nursing home drama, her dad was left in a feces and urine undergarment for 3 days, and was discharged from the hospital with a life threating disease that was untreated, and known to medical staff. “This book will share with you how age discrimination is playing a major role in how most people receive medical treatment, and how baby boomers are now becoming a part of this group of individuals.


Author Angela Boone asked the question, “Could it be that history is repeating itself. In 1999 the Kaiser Family Foundation along with Princeton survey research associates, surveyed a nationally representative sample of Caucasian, African Americans, and Latinos, and found that the majority of Americans are uninformed about health care disparities, Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 57 Supplement, (2000) 218-235, copyright 2000 Sage Publication, Inc.

            In the medical profession, from research, and racism of the Tuskegee Experiment, and now to, age discrimination? For forty years, doctors and public officials stood by and watched as 399 black men from Macon County, Alabama die, and how physicians who could have prevented death in the lives of these men deliberately withheld treatment that could cure them.

            “My Father’s Keeper: Speak Up, They’re Not Always Right” pens a heartfelt story of how most patients are being treated unethical in the 21st century. You or a loved one could be a part of an “unknown experiment” when admitted into a hospital for something minor and something major happens. This book also tells you what to look out for when seeking treatment and a medical professional. “My Father’s Keeper: Speak Up, They’re Not Always Right” will share with you how becoming an advocate and speaking up can save a life, and this life could be your own.