The hospital said it made a humane decision to end treatment. But Melissa Hickson says her husband, a quadriplegic who’d contracted COVID-19, was denied life-saving treatment because of his disabilities.
"They chattered. Very chattery," she recalls with a laugh."And so I could see him just kind of shaking his head" and smiling.
That day at St. David's hospital, on June 5, the medical staff had something to tell Melissa Hickson. They were going to stop treating her husband. And move him from the ICU to hospice care.The recording is hard to hear, the doctor's voice a bit distant. But he tells Hickson:"The decision is: Do we want to be extremely aggressive with his care or do we feel like this would be futile?"Hickson challenges the doctor."What do you mean?" she asks.
Anderson says Michael Hickson was much sicker than his wife may have realized: He had sepsis, pneumonia in both lungs and that his organs were shutting down. It's not unusual for caregivers and medical staff to fight. It's unusual, though, that a probate court would step in.
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