BURNABY, B.C. — Florence Girard's caregiver has told a British Columbia coroner's inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to death by policies about respecting the rights of people living under their home-sharing arrangement.
BURNABY, B.C. — Florence Girard's caregiver has told a British Columbia coroner's inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to death by policies about respecting the rights of people living under their home-sharing arrangement.
But she says Girard would go into"meltdown" every time she was supposed to go to the doctor or receive medical care, and this influenced Dahl's decision to keep Girard at home instead of taking her to hospital as her condition worsened. "I've had time to think these things and what could I have done differently for a long time, and there's many things I could have done differently," she said."And that would be one of them."
"Because of her hatred of hospitals and doctors, I just thought if I could take care of her, she would bounce back," Dahl testified on Tuesday.Dahl said she decided as Girard's condition worsened that it was better to keep her at home instead of letting her die alone in hospice, because of the distress medical settings caused Girard.
"She was asked if she wanted to come and live with me, and she said yes," Dahl testified."So she'd known my family for the whole time I'd work there, and she'd known my son. He'd grown up with her. So we were all tight-knit, if you will."
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