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Thank FSM for you, Wolf.

I wonder when hospital staff started thinking about patients as units, as opposed to people? I'm not blaming individuals, just the whole healthcare culture, regardless of who foots the bill.

The care team trying to decide on Grandad's future placed most weight on the opinion of nurses on the ward. Mum of course demanded to be involved and certain things were brought to light. The nurses had no idea Grandad had been delusional (thinking he was on a film set, or that his long dead friend had been to visit, or that he was going to be able to drive home). Because he wasn't screaming and moaning and he said please and thank you.

They also didn't realise he is officially classed as visually impaired, because every time they spoke to him they were already at his bedside and he could work out that what he was seeing was probably a face. They assumed he could see perfectly well.

Thank goodness for people who can intercede, who listen and who realise that things cannot be taken at face value when it comes to health.

And for people like you who care enough to be there.